GERMAN PRISONERS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 146, 17 December 1915, Page 8

GERMAN PRISONERS

HOW THEY ARE TREATED IN ■» ENGLAND

A VISIT BY JOURNALISTS.

(Received December 17, 2.40 p.m.)

LONDON, 16th December.

A number of the Australian Press Association, accompanied by African, Dutch, and Scandinavian journalists, made an inspection of the prisoners' camps at Dorchester Barracks. Khaki figures were perched on scaffoldings and sheltering in the sentry-boxes from a drizzling rain. Network's of barbed wire were the only signs of imprisonment. Some of these 3408 men had been in England for a year; others were captured at Loos. They are quartered in long dormitories, some holding a hundred men, smaller ones accommodating six or eight, and in huts each holding thirty. The rooms are heated by stoves and coal fires. The prisoners receive four blankets each, and have a liberal diet, including half a pound of fresh beef daily. They are not compelled to work, volunteers for necessary work being paid. Except for parades at 10 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon for the counting of the prisoners, the men are. unrestrained.