USE OF HOSTAGES.
As a check upon the submarine campaign against mercKantmen, a content porary proposes that interned Germans should be used as hostages. "Let every unarmed merchant vessel, and especially every liner, trading to European waters have its complement of German hostages taken from the > civilians interned in England, in India, or in other part of the world. Let them be placed on board, treated with mercy, and even with kindness^ but kept under the closest supervision, especially at night time. A sea voyage will do some of them more good than detention. And let Germany be notified that so many of her subjects are allotted as hostages to each of our unarmed liners, and that if she persists in sinking innocent ships she will murder her own subject* as well as ours." It is added that in the war of 1870 the Germans, by using French hostages, put an end to train-wrecking. "Great Britain adopted the practice for a short time in the South African War, but abandoned it."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 16
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171USE OF HOSTAGES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 16
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