"AS HAPPY AS IN DARTMOOR"
HOW 'A BRITISH PRISONER . TRICKED THE CENSOR, V (Reo. March 13, 5.30 p.m.); ' 'London, March 13. Speaking in the House of Commons, • Sir John Dalziel (Liberal , member for ■ 'Kirkcaldy) said that); there was over- • ' whelming evidence at hand of the unr;: satisfactory treatment of, British, pris-. . oners in Germany.' They were not receiving food or money from their ,T6- ' latives, and their letters were strictly censored. One of them wrote: "We are as happy as if we were in Dartmoor." Probably' the censor, thought that "Dartmoor" • was some palace, and did ■ not delete the word from the .message.— '■ {"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2409, 15 March 1915, Page 6
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