LACK IN GERMANY
PROPER ATTENTION PRISONERS OF WAR CONVENTION OBLIGATIONS (Rritiah Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.15 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 18. The German Government’s discharge of its obligations under the prisoners of war convention was described by the .War Secretary, Captain H. D. Margesson, in the House of Commons as not having been satisfactory in certain respects. In particular no information had yet been furnished as to the rations of German troops, and he was not satisfied that British prisoners were receiving the full scale of clothes to which they were entitled. A few cases of overcrowding had been reported and there had been one or two cases of action by the German authorities which appeared to be in contravention of the convention relating to collective punishment. If he received information that the Germans were not carrying out their obligations he at once informed the protecting Power in Germany and tried to get the matter rectified.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20618, 20 November 1941, Page 9
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