BRITISH INTERNEES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 8

BRITISH INTERNEES

FIRST NEWS OF CIVILIANS

IN GERMANY

, LONDON, January 31. The first news of ,1143 British subjects who have been arreted by the Gestapo ih bccupied areas, of Europe, comes from a correspondent of the Associated Press ot Great Britain who „was permitted tc ■ visit an internment camp in Upper Silesia. ; The camp was iormciy an asylum, 'in' spite of the blackcut it was floodlighted, the correspondent says. The .camp commands: '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 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 fori breakfast, and -bread, cheese, and coffee for the evening meal. .The International Red Cross at '.Geneva announced that 1000 British women, children, and elderly men have been "released from the Besancon concentration camp in France, and the release of 600 others is expected.