GERMAN AND BRITISH PRISONERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 7

GERMAN AND BRITISH PRISONERS

U.S. AMBASSADOR'S REPORT. (Received May 5, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 4th May. Tho Press Bureau states that the American Embassy in Berlin reports that British officers are imprisoned at Burg and Magdeburg in separate cells. They are allowed only two hours' exercise in the prison yard daily, when they are permitted to converse. Germany declared that she would afford them tho same treatment as submarine prisoners captured from German submarines when Mr. Page. U.S. Ambassador to Britain, was able to report. Mr. Page now reports that there is no solitary confinement of the submarines' crews) but that the men have separate bedrooms, that the officers mess together, and the men similarly. The officers have servants, and there are a gymnasium and outdoor and indoor recreation quarters. The accommodation is excellent. The report adds: "Britain and Germany allow the prisoners books and tobacco. The food is good. Britain also provides money." The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON 4th May, 1.15 p.m. Tlirough the American Ambassador, the Germans have promised for arrested officers tho same treatment as German submarine crews received in England. A CENSOR ENLISTS. (Received May 5, 10.15 a.m.) PERTH, Thi B Day. * SJajfJP: Bavie^ Chief West Australian'

Cenpor, has enlisted and has been appointed to the command of a battalion.