EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS
GOVERNMENT’S REPLY TO
CRITIC'S
Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, May 19. Lord New ton,, interviewed, replied to criticisms on the Government’s attitude concerning the exchange of war prisoners. He said Britain was doing more for war prisoners than any other Government, mentioning that in addition to ordinary allowances the War Office was spending ■fifty thousand pounds sterling monthly for relief of British prisoners in Turkey alone.
He condemned the agitation for retaliation, which should not he adopted except to secure an improvement in the treatment of prisoner.-. The Government was most anxious to adopt action" on similar lines to that of France, but the exchange of war prisoners was most difficult. It would take fifteen months to carry out the Franco-German agrepment, which was a comparatively simple matter compared with what would be necessary concerning British pris oners.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4874, 21 May 1918, Page 5
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