LUXURIOUS DURANCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2447, 28 April 1915, Page 9

LUXURIOUS DURANCE

GERMAN OFFICERS IN ENGLAND. .The German newspapers'have been sneering bitterly at the aotion of .this British Government in preparing a mansion for the reception of German officers who have been made prisoners during the war and transported to England for internment. They regard the act as an attempt to "curry favour" with Germany. One German • newspaper, after declaring thit "Germany doesn't want mansions for her officers," adtises the British Government to "look after their own wretched soldiers better." These criticisms are called forth by the. fact that the British Government has spent £20,000 in adapting Donnington Hall Park, in Leicestershire, and one of the finest residences in that county, as a place of detention for German officers. The Government has gone even further than this in its kindly. consideration of the captured enemy, for a number of oaptured German waiters have been transferred from one of the concentration camps to act as valets for tho officers. Tne London "Daily Mail" thus canstioally comments :n the arrival of the first lot of prisoners to this luxurious place of detention: —

"Lolling comfortably back in motorcarß, 22 German officers, the first contingent of a party or 200 or 300, arrived at Donnington Park, Leicestershire, on Saturday afternoon. They had been brought from the south as far as Derby by train. Had they performed tlie rest of the journey ,- n the same way it would have necessitated their walking ' two miles along a country, road from. Castle Donnington station so it was decided to study their comfort by hiring motorcars at Derby, nine miles away. The men who are guarding thorn—National Reservists—had to tramp the samo road earlier in the woek. Most of tlio Gorman officers were in their blue service uniform, with flat caps. They glared haughtily at the few spectators. A score of- interned German waiters, who ars to act as their valets, arrived two or three days previously, and two tr.iif. of p«rfon»l folhwaij the ..eSicm tola Berbjy'; i