LIES FOR THE ENEMY.
PRISONER'S TRICK FAILS STATE OF DOUGLAS CAMP, Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 31. Herman Blass, an Austrian, who is interned in the detention camp at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, at a court-martial, pleaded gui!ty to writing a letter with lemon juice. When heated, this letter disclosed a statement that the prisoners were treated like pigs, that the food was bad, with worms in the potatoes. It added, "The meat stinks frightfully, and we are driven about with bayonets like convicts." Sentence was deferred.
A member of the American Embassy in London recently forwarded a. report -to Washington eulogising the accommodation,, food, and all other arrangements at tile camp at Douglas, in the Isle of Mao. Conversations with the prisoners, he said, had satisfied him that the recent riot was the work of . agitators.., The prisoners admitted that they had only: themselves to blame. * "=. '■■-'* v..-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15807, 2 January 1915, Page 5
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