IN A GERMAN CAMP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 278, 22 November 1915, Page 5

IN A GERMAN CAMP.

WAR PRISONERS MALTREATED AMERICAN DIPLOMAT'S REPORT. REGARDED AS CRIMINALS. (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. The Official Press Bureau publishes the report of Mr. Osborne, of the American Embassy, on the Wittenberg camp, where four hundred English, including thirty-four civilians, are, under guard. Clothing is the chief source of trouble, and the men have no overcoats. A watchman took a fierce dog into the barracks, where it attacked several prisoners, tearing their clothes. A soldier at the bath-house struck with his closed fist several prisoners, including one with a crippled right arm, for dressing slowly. Mr. Osborne says that his impression of the authorities of Wittenberg was utterly unlike that formed of the other camps visited. Instead of regarding their charges as honourable prisoners of war, they appeared to regard them as criminals, for whom a regime of fear would alone suffice. All evidence of kindly human feeling between the authorities and prisoners was lacking.