GERMAN SECRETS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 92, 1 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 Www who has just returned from uhleben Camp after being a prisoner there since November G, 1914. With him camo Mrs Shaw and their three children, who had been 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. "He spent," he said, "more than tin) ourselves to provide decent sanitary arrangements in the camp, and later we built washhouses and six or eight showerbaths with money sent from England. When I left the remaining prisoners were laying plans for plan£ rag the camp grounds in the spring seed having teen received from friends in England. "Of the 3500 prisoners still remaining many are weak and ill. When the age of oo is readied prisoners are allowed to return to their former place of residence in Germany. This, however, does not apply to the many seafaring prisoners, some of whom are 60 years old All are bearing their trials staunchly. It was a surprise to me when I was included in the list for exchange. Mv wife and children had been informed and they were allowed to leave the country with me on condition that they first lived for three months 20 miles away from Hamburg, so as to mako it impossible for them to convey up-to-date information from Hamburg. Food is very scarce in North Germany; much more so, I 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 flays is one pound."