GERMAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
SUCCESS OF 'REPRISAL THREAT. (ACS. A!tD N. 2. CABLE ASSN. AND REOTER.) LONDON, llth March. The Press Bureau , reports that the War Prisoners' Department was informed to-day that Captain Scholtz and SubLioutenant Wookey will be released and •returned to the camps. The month's notice of intended reprisals ;would have expired to-morrow. [Captain ■ Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey, two British aviatore captured in Germany, were court-martialled and ' sentenced to penal servitude on a. oharge t of dropping hostile proclamations in Germany. Subsequently the-British.Foreign Office informed Germany, through Holland, that unless Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey were released from penal servitude immediately, and fiven proper treatment, reprisals would c taken.] (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND' CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, llth March. M. Abel Ferry, a French deputy, writing in the Petit Journal, urges the i Government to expose the German nobility and bourgeoise prisoners in, French hands to the same perils as the French women and children suffer.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 62, 13 March 1918, Page 5
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