TREATMENT Of PRISONERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 5

TREATMENT Of PRISONERS

THE TRANSYLVANIA'S VOYAGE

COMMONWEALTH ITEMS

NEW §tl NEA NOT ANNEXED

... ~,. l6n#ON,. May 19. The American; Cpiisul visaed thirteen British reprisal prisoners a# Cologne. All were m excellent health', and tieconditions hare been improved. They are confined in an old military prison used for delinquent German commissioned and non-commissioned officers It is a gloonry and forbidding place but approximately clean. The cells are small and dark. The officers are supplied with the same food as other interned officers, and they have reading and writing materials and a, bathroom, and are treated courteously by the warders.

i i The Transylvania sighted a submarine astern on Sunday evening. The Transylvania zig-zagged and altered her course.

SYDNEY, May 19. Lolonel Holmes, giving evidence in the court-martial case, stated that he received specific instructions to merely occupy and not to annex New Guinea which was «jfcill German and under the -Kaiser's jurisdiction.

' Harvey; in the Equity v<>UTt,,decided that no one can legally hold and execute-th6 poiver of attorney for an enemy subject. Any person making a payment of money on behalf of an enemy subject is really trading with the enemy.