SCOTS IN GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 8

SCOTS IN GERMANY.

The Germans have (telegraphs the Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily News) established farm labor exchanges and. concentration camps in North Schleswig, where the farmers have chosen British prisoners suitable for the cultivation of the land and taken them to their farms, escorted by Landsturm. The imagination reek at" the thought of sturdy Scotch soldiers ploughing the German soil a few miles north of the Kiel Canal. That, however, is the bitter fate of many of the Allies' prisoners. A Dane from Hamburg described to me that he saw from a German mail train a group of cheerful bearded Scotsmen in charge of two fat Landsturm working in the fields.. Many of the young farmers in Schleswig will never return from East Prussia, where they were sent to fight the Russians, or will return too late for the spring cultivation. The German Government accordingly devised a scheme, with the help of Schleswig farmers, whereby nearly all the farm work and land cultivation will be done by, British, French and Russian prisoners. Each farmer is allowed ten prisoners, and the Scottish soldiers from agricultural districts are preferred. The farmer visits the labor exchange every morning if it is near, but lr the farm is more than four miles from the exchange, the soldiers are billeted in the farmhouses with the Landsturm They earn 75 pfennig (y^d) per day. l fo