"ELASTIC" CHEESE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3144, 24 July 1917, Page 8

"ELASTIC" CHEESE

lITSTERY RATJ.OKS AT 'L'HK JJL'HLKBEN CAM , . A British pi'ot'e&siqnul man Irom South Africa, who had been interned at Ruhleben since August, 191 i, and who reached England, with the last number oi" excliaiiged civilian prisonuis, describes the conditions at Kuhlebeii as being considerably improved. "Bread, he saya, is now being received in the camp fron'i Donmark' within three weeks of baking, instear ofgwithiii six weeks', as was the case when 3 came from .Switzerland. 'The finality is much better than Swiss bread. Were" it not, . however, fur the British food parcels, he says, the prisoners wouldiiii([U,sstionably starve They are given one loaf of black bread—not the black bread of pre-war days, but a mixture of old pieces of bread rebated and pota-toes-to last them for five days. It is absolutely uneatable, but is not Jounii so by .the prisoners' guards, who eagerly compete for it. TJie official diet he describes as follows:— Breakfast.—.Dark, greyish liquid called cofi'p'e. without, sugar or in ilk. (At the besinuing it .was made of burnt acorns; Uwlav it would lA"difficult tor the most skilfjil analyst to I determine the substitute.) ' , , , Dinner.-Bowl of soup, nn meat, but a small portion of iindefinable vegetable; occasionally a..fe\v bits of potato. Supper.-ColVec-. .sometimes a small bloator or a cheese suhstiluto '-.hi-li ha-: net Uie appearance, taste, or :>ciiri-linwnt of cheese and can be pulled oul like ehstic T-'oi- n change blood sausage is occasioimlly supplied. Tt <l«es not contain anv meat— only blood «"un .some filling matter impassible : for ever, the most'- hungry person to cat. "The treatment of prisoner? has improved ronsiderablv within thr last year. Thcv fire now content, to, leave us soverelv alone and not to go out of their wny o lonic for faults for wind, wo can be runislwl Stock medicine- predominate in liie hosiiital. and a prescriptioi. lia-j 1 c HC.t t<. R<"-H» •<• be disnensed i.nd , m 4be paid for by the nrisouer. Nowhere in the hospital is there -.. sinsle ni low or ii hot-water bottle. Snap and nUa,,ts a,, badly .tanred «.;< should be sent by friends lo the cnnta.n :r.f hV hospital, Mr. Lane, olio ot the BriU Sending *lo h. arn also biltllv needed. :>s them is a si cat deficiency'of all doth jn-Germany. t!\FFf'ITATTIS TUT; rniT,DT!P.N. TAKE NOTlfir. OF TITEIR Cni,T)R. It is only -a littln cold, you say; still, il often means a lot of sufievinc tor the littlo folk and worry for mother, so bu wi'B Mild got, the best, that can lie had. Dr Sheldon's New Discovery is a wonflovful remedy for all Coughs, preventing InfluenM, Pneumonia, nn ( l Bronchitis. It is the satemird of many a hom?. See that, your children keep bright, healthv e.nd rosy with the hcli> of Dr. Sheldon's i New Discovci-.y." Price, Is. 6d. and 3s.— I Advt. '■