THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
GERMAN 4 BRUTALITY. REPRISALS DEMANDED. (By Cable.—Press Aesoci^ion.— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 30. In thor -Houso of Commons, Sir George Cave, speaking on the maltreatment of prisoners, said: We ask for nothing, which a civilised Government would not give without being asked. If our demands are not granted, tho Government will endeavour to give our gallant men in Germany the best possible •protection and avenge their sufferings. Colonel Craig said ho regretted that his first act since his return from Germany was to make the strongest indictment against the Government on the question of the treatment of prisoners ' of war. His experience showed that if 1 the Government had done its_ duty the i lives of thousands of men might have been made easy, instead of unutterably miserable. Germany only understood 1 the argument of the big stick. Prisoners complained that that argument was never used in their interests. "We must make.it clear that the fullest justice will bo done to all these inhuman wretches who treated their prisoners vilely and barbarously, and that we will take reprisals and carry them out." ' L
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16358, 1 November 1918, Page 7
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