PRISONERS IN GERMANY.
CONDITIONS OFTEN DESPERATE
Australian and N.Z. CabL Association LONDON. March 6. In the House of Lords, replying to Lord Cha's.. Beresford, Lord Newton admitted that the condition of British prisoners employed in Gei man mines was often deplorable. Ihej worked in parties of twos and threes, scattered over a large area, the circumstances allowing them to he treated with great brutality. Germany usually explained that pusoners were not worked harder "than civilians. Representation to Berlin was made whenever a, case was proved. *
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4812, 8 March 1918, Page 5
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85PRISONERS IN GERMANY. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4812, 8 March 1918, Page 5
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