WITH THE ENEMY.

North Otago Times, 20 July 1917, Page 6

WITH THE ENEMY.

TREATMENT OP PRISONERS, . . r ' ' ' ; . AUSTRALIAN'S STORY OF HUN Methods, (AustralianamlN.Z, Cable Association j , ; , VANCOUVER, VJuly W. Mr E. Grimwadc, of Melbourne, who is returning from Switzerland', where his son is interned, discovered that his son, after being woxiniled in an air battle in France, remained without sueeour in a German hflspital. When hprefused to afford information as to the whereabouts of the British (lee;, telling the Germans to go out and look for themselves, tlifc son was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in a fortress on a charge of calling the Germans cowards. He served four months, and was then released and sent to Switzerland, lame and partly deal 1 . Grinnvade asserts that Britishers have suffered terribly at the Huns' hands, A LOOTER OF ROYAL BLOOD. ' PROTEST BY GERMAN PBisS. PRINCE EITEL FRIEDRICTI CHARGED WITH THEFT, - (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) NEW YORK, July IS, ' Tlip Paris correspondent of the New York Herald has evidence that Prince Eitel Friedrich looted the furniture and I hen blew up the chateau 'of Comte Rainy, on the Oise, in which lie lived. Ho spent most or Ins time in a sliellproof dug-out connected with the chateau bv a subterranean passage. Tie transported numerous waggon-loads of furniture to Germany The owner has lodged with the French authorities a formal charge of theft against Eitel. The Herald comments that the spectacle of a prince of the royal'blood commit,ing theft has invoiced a protest and criticism from the German press, and indicates the depths to which; the Germans have fallen." GERMANY'S AGENT FOR THE DLUTSCHLAND. i I ESCAPE FROM AMERICA * ' [Aiifitralian and N.Z, Cable Associatoin) WASHINGTON, July .18, Captain Hinscli, who acted as American agent for the Deutschland, is reported to have reached Germany, • Itis believed Ihat he sailed from America | in a schooner and was picked 1 up by a I submarine and taken to Germany,

MUNITION FACTORY EXPLOSION. GIIEAT DAMAGE AT STUTTGABT. ~ ' ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) AMSTERDAM, July IS. There was a groat explosion in a munition factory in the neighbourhood of Stuttgart, a great portion of which was destroyed, All the windows in the surrounding villages were shattered,