THE PRISONERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 9

THE PRISONERS.

BRITISH JUSTICE. By Telepiaph—Press Association —Copyright. ' PETROGRAD, April 26. The newspapers eulogise Britain'* unvarying justice in the treatment of German prisoners, notwithstanding the fact that Britishers are suffering in Germany.

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

VISITED BY NEUTRAL AMBASSADORS.

According to the _" North German Gazette" the American and Spanish Ambassadors visited the prisoners' camps and found the British and other prisoners well cared for and humanely treated.

"WORSE THAN HELL."

PRISON CAMPS IN GERMANY. " Times " and Sydn»y " Sun " Services. LONDON, April. 2b-

A epeaker at a recruiting meeting in Fulham read an authenticated letter describing the treatment of British prisoners in Germany. It states: "We are being starved here: our rations are rice, water and horse beans. The only solid food is one loaf of bread every sis days. The guard bayoneted several of us. Others were flogged and tied with barbed wiro to posts"for six hours, with their toes jus-t touching the ground. We have liardlv anything to wear—our captors have'taken everything. It is worse than being in hell."