WAR PRISONERS

Evening Star, Issue 16514, 28 August 1917, Page 6

WAR PRISONERS

AX AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY. The military authorities hava mode available the full text of the agreement rooantJy ratified by Germany regarding the treatment of prisoners 01 war. The punishment inflicted upon prisoners attempting to escape will, as a result of tho acmcement, be reduced to fourteen days' apeoui.l confinement for a simple offence, or two months' oonfinement if aggravated by an offonoe against property. It has r,]eo been provided that all cfliii-h-atant prisoners undergoing punishment for swob offences shall be released to or-diaaa-y captivity at iatast by Augfiwt 1. N<j future reprisals _are to take place except on tour weeks' notice, and the execution of all sentences for offences committed by combatants or civilians between the date of capture and August 1 are to stand over until the conclusion of peace. The qualification on medical grounds, bobh for repatriation and interment in a neutral country of combatant prisoners is to be road© more lenier-i, and th.6 mote severely wounded, ot seriously ill among the prisoners in. fiwiierland are to be sent hack to thaix own countries. In addition, arrangements are being made to select for internment in Holland '7,500 sick and wounded of all ranks, both German and British, irrespective of the officers and N.C.O.'Sj viha, as previously announced, ore to be interned by the Dutch Government.