PRISONERS RETURN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIVI, Issue 17700, 29 January 1918, Page 4

PRISONERS RETURN.

NEW ZEALANDERS’ EXPERIENCES

TREATMENT IN GERMAN CAMPS

By Telegraph—Prow* Association-—Copyright.

Australian and K.Z. Cablo Association.

(Received January 28, 8.35 p.m.)

LONDON, January 27

New Zealand soldiers from Germany are now interned in Switzerland. They spent much time at Dulmen. Two attempts to escape failed. They say that Allied prisoners were hi'utally treated. Many of our men were, starved at Dulmen, ancl aro in a ful condition- There wero three camps, each holding 900 men, attached to Burgsteiufurt. nicy consisted of underground dungeons in sand. In tho winter t,hey were awful, and in the summer they teemed with fleas. One New Zealander, who spent eight months in one camp, said that a German non-conmiismoned officer treated tho prisoners well, but at Hohenfurst a similar camp was hell upon earth. A New Zealander witnessed an air raid on Mannheim. Ho says that though it failed, it had a considerable effect on the people. Ho was convinced that if tho raids wero continued drastically they would do much to hasten the end of tho war.