NO BELTS OR BRACES
DEALING WITH PRISONERS LONDON, May 2. A British correspondent in Norway says it is interesting to notice that the British soldiers have begun to imitate the French method of dealing with prisoners. In order to prevent them escaping in the forests, where it is extremely difficult to follow them, the French cut off their trouser buttons and take away their belts and braces so that the prisoners’ trousers fall otT if they try to run away. ’’They bate it,” a British soldier told the correspondent, “but we think it is extremely effective. Since we have done it not a single prisoner has escaped,’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 9
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107NO BELTS OR BRACES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 9
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