REPRISALS PAY.

Evening Star, Issue 16257, 28 October 1916, Page 8

REPRISALS PAY.

FRANCE'S EXPERIMENTS. PARIS, October 27. (Received October 28, at 11.50 a.m.) The French Government have published a report of the treatment of prisoners in France and Germany, showing how reprisals have secured a mitigation of the brutalities practised on prisoners. The French commenced by feeding their German prisoners lavishly, but when detailed reports of the miserable conditions of the German mison cantos arrived

Germany was informed that these methods would bo altered unless she gave bettor treatment. ,

For a fortnight the Germans did nothing, so the allowance of meat to German prisoners in France was reduced from 12oz daily to 4oz, while that of bread was raised from 4oz to lOjOz. ' Typical menus from German camps were .secured and duplicated in France.

When the Germans stopped the delivery of parcels and letters the French did the same, until the Germans altered their conduct. The French, however, did not give decayed food or mix prisoners with others infected with typhus. Tim German commandant of the prisoners’ camp tit Cassel met all protests with the ferocious remark; “I make war in my own way.” •several cases of murder are recorded in the report, including that of a soldier who was bayoneted for misunderstanding an order. The savage tortures inflicted by the Germans included brushing the bare flesh until the blood flowed.

The report includes many photographs and German letters.

KULTUR’S SPREAD.

HYPHENATED PROFESSOR’S DREAM

NEW YORK. October 27. (Received October 28, at 9.20 a.m.) Professor Mimstwherg in the course of an cxtranrdina.lv utterance, said: “ The German :dcal is not individual works, but sen-ice for the whole State. That is the true meaning of kultur.” He predicted an early peace, and. that then German kultur would conquer the (ddbe, spread to all countries, and be the distinctive r-tamp of the next century. There would, lie said, bo Germanisation of tho world after the war.

[Hugo Munsterberg' is Professor of Psychology at Tin ward University. Towards the end of Aupust he published an articV in the 'Xew York Times' entitled. 'The Allies of the Future, - in the course of which ho said :■ " The ultimate outcome of the world-war will he. just what we had hoped before the war—a firm alliance of America, Great Britain, and Germany." HW prophesied that, with the, cigning-'of pace Britain and Russia, would part. •JT.'?n, unless there were an alliance between America, Great Britain, and Germany—one which would enforce peace on the world—he, indicated the possibility of Germany -throwing in her lot with Russia, Japan. Turkey, and Austria., these Powers to form one side in a super-war for India and the East. Haying sketched these posrihilitie.s, he indicated the terms on which Germany is prepared to make peace, in the present wsir—Lorraine to eo to France Peisiii. to RiiKsia. and Poland to he autonomous under Austria, Germany relinnivishinsr Belgium and Northern' France but realising the. Berlin-Bagdad scheme! His article, where not ignored, was treated oy the British Press as a peace kits.]