GERMAN SECRETS.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 4 June 1917, Page 3

GERMAN SECRETS.

Details of the conditions in Germany were given to a representative of the 'Daily Mail' 'by Mr Arthur James Shaw, who has ■ just returned from Huhleben Camp after being a prisoner there since November 6, 1914, With him came Mrs Shaw and their three children, who had ken allowed to live unmolested in Hamburg during his internment. Ho had lived at Hamburg since 1891, engaged in the herring business with Lowestoft and Grimsby. t "We spent," he said, "more than £475 ourselves to provide decent sanitary arrangements in the and later we built washhouses and six or eight showerbaths with money sent from iSJngland. . When I left the remaining prisoners were laying plans for planting the camp grounds in the spring, seed having been received from friends in England. "Of the-3500 prisoners still remaining many aro weak and ill. When the age of 55 is reached prisoners are allowed to return to their former place of residence in Gormany. This, however, does not" apply to the many seafaring prisoners, some of whom are 60 years old: All are bearing their trials staunchly. 'lt was a surprise to me when I was included in the list for exchange. My wife and children had been informed and they were allowed to leave the j country with me. on condition that they first lived for .three" months 20 miles away from Hamburg, so as to make it impossible for *ihem to convey up-to-date information from Hamburg. "Food is very scarce in North Germany ; much more so, 1 believe, than in Bavaria and elsewhere in the south. Cocoa is 18s and bacon 6s a lb in Hamburg. Prunes cost 3s a lb. The allowance of meat for four persons for 14 days is one pound."