RUHLEBEN CAMP
SYDNEY MERCHANT'S EXPERIENCES. (Australian and N.Z Cable Association.) (Roc. Sept. 7, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. William Simpson, a Sydney merchant, has arrived at New York en route to Australia. He spent 18 months in a prison camp in Ruhleben. When he left a few weeks ago there were still more than four thousand there, many of 65 and even 70 years of age, who had not been released because they had been shipmasters or marine engineers. Mr Simpson travelled from Ruhleben with five others in a horse-box 10 feet square, with damp and filthy straw on the floor. The prisoners were treated harshly, and the fish was often putrid, and other food coarse and unwholesome. "When two patients escaped from the hospital others were forced to walk through the snow to the horse-boxes. Three deaths occurred through exposure.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 7 September 1916, Page 5
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