PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14025, 17 January 1918, Page 6

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

■CONDITIONS WORSE. . LONDON, January 1. A message from Berne, Switzerland, stales that a traiuload of British soldiers who were prisoners of war has arrived there from Germany. Many Australians'were included in the party. There were some pathetic sights. Many of the "men, though young, are already greyheaded, and others are lamed or without their legs. Each received a poeketbook and tetter-pad, inscribed with the words "Good Luck," from the Queen. Red (.'loss letters from internees in Switzerland show that the treatment of prisoners' by Germany is growing worse. Their parcels are rilled. Sometimes SftoA, soap, and cigarette's arc dropped, up .together before being handed over. The/guards kick.and rise the butt-end of the rille. At Sc'hiieidenmuhl, Prussia, the doctor frequently hits the prisoners with his sword. Conditions at Ihe qllicers' camp at Clanslhal, Prussia, are disgraceful. A French doctor is compelled to operate with rough and rusty knives, The letters breathe hatred ill: Germany and gratitude to the Red Cross. ,