BRITISH CIVILIAN INTERNEES

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 7

BRITISH CIVILIAN INTERNEES

First News From Germany (Received February 2, 7 p.m.) LONDON, January 31. The first news of 1143 British subjects who have bceu arrested by the Gestapo in occupied areas of Europe comes from a correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain who was permitted to visit an internment camp in Upper Silesia. The camp was formerly au asylum, In spite of the blackout it was floodlighted, the correspondent says. The camp commander, speaking in stiff English, said that as long as the internees had something to do there would be no worry. He had found a typewriter for the author, Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, and paint for an English artist. The food served is the same as that issued to German civilians. The main meal consists of a kind of Irish stew containing meat and sliced vegetables, and coffee, bread, sausage and jam are provided for breakfast, and bread, cheese and coffee for the evening meal. The International Red Cross at Geneva announced that 1000 Britisb women, children and elderly men have been released from the Besancon concentration camp in France, and the release of another 000 is expected.