WOMEN HERDED WITH MEN.

Grey River Argus, 5 March 1918, Page 4

WOMEN HERDED WITH MEN.

At Kilboriana: "Our meals were taken in an open shed ,which was always wet with' the strong mists and rains prevelent at that time of the year. The food was cooked in the small mission church, the altar having been converted by the Germans into a cooking stove. "The condition of life for the pris■>riers was one of extreme misery. There were no separate sanitary arrangements provided for the women. "The prisoners' punishment cell was but a thinly-grassed hut, through which the winds and rain penetrated. One prisoner, M. Ross had just under none three days' punishment for not having raised his hat properly to the German guard Dorendorf . Ross had collapsed under the strain of his punishment and had been compelled to remain in bed. "For a period of about a month that [ was at this camp scarcely a day passed without rain, and the cold was intense. Fires were only allowed in the house by the order and the mood )f Herr Dorendorf. ■ / "Exercising from 4 to 6 p.m. by walking round the house was compulor.» and the Avomen prisoners found his particularly trying, any attempt '•■o sit down resulted in a native askai's interference. "A civil prisoiier named Cui-rie was ordered to the punishment cell by Herr Dorendorf for three (or five) lays for admonishing a native askan whom he had found swearing at one of the mission ladies. "The food of the camp was totally insufficient and of a very inferior quality, so that the prisoners were generally ravenously hungary. Our rations were meat and very indifferent potatoes. "Mweli (a very small millet) was -erved to us from which to make bread Slit owing to the nature of the grain it was not possible to make any substitute for bread from it. "A breakfast cup of coifee beans vas handed out daily, from which -•offoe was served to over 40 persons, md a small quantity of milk was at imos distributed. "We were allowed no news, nor vere we allowed to write or receive letters.