TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
CONTRAST IN METHODS.
GERMAN HATE EXPRESSED.
BRITISH PRODDED WITH
BAYONETS.
London, September 16.
A thousand German prisoners have been sent to special prison camps at Aldershot, Dorchester, and elsewhere. They are receiving full army rations.
British prisoners in Germany are singled out for excessive humiliations. They are prodded with bayonets for the amusement of the jeering crowds.
The newspapers in Berlin publish a number of letters from the field complaining bitterly of reports that German women and girls received the French and Russian prisoners with kindness, and even gave them small presents of food and tobacco. One German writes:—"ln the name of my comrades shedding their blood for these unnatural women, I express the deepest regret. We are all filled with disgust at such behaviour. Women like this ought to be put in the front of the troops that they might feel in their own bodies what our lot is."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 6
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