RETURNED PRISONERS.

Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 3

RETURNED PRISONERS.

PICTURE OF GERMANY. A BLIGHTED LAND. LONDON", January 8, Two New Zealanders—'Lieutenant Howard Ellis, of the Royal Flying Corps, and Private V, S. Pace—who were prisoners of •war, have arrived in England, Nineteen other New Zealanders have reached Switzerland. Repatriated Britons from Germany, express the opinion that the whole country is blighted. “ Daring a journey occupying 26 hours,” they stated, “wo passed only two trains and saw only three chim- , neys from which -smoko was coming. Nothing was being sold in the streets, and all life seemed to be suspended. The male population being on the fighting fronts, 'he women and children remain within mfaeated ancPnnlighted houses. “Germany is standing the hanger test atiently, and her endurance may last a mg time yet. There is no doubt that Sermany is short of food. Our guards wold pounce on bits in the swill tubs at hfitiah camps. Many towns were in dark--883, owing to the coal shortage. Women (ere employed on the railways as platety®rs_ and firemen. There is much Socialistic talk among the German sellers, who describe the war as_mcro folly.”