PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

HUNGRY BRITISH SOLDIERS. AS r indication of the plight of British prisoners of war in Germany is furnished in an original and ingeniour fashion by John Muir, a Girvau Naval Reservist, who was taken prisoner by the Germans' at Antwerp in October, and 'is interned at Doebritz, in a'postcard received by his wife. Between commonplace remarks as to his health and the weather in Germany, Muir writes the following:— " I can't say what I would like to eA% but you can look up Sankey's hymn book, 462. second verse, and see what you think of it." ' ' . > On reference to the second verse of the hymn alluded to', it will be found that the following lines have a peculiar significance ■ - «» * My father's house abounds in bread," While I am starvins here. - Muir'# postcard closes with the appeal: " Send me a parcel of eatables again, especially cocoa." Private Alexander Lees, Ist Seots Guards, who was taken prisoner by the Germans in September, and is a prisoner of war at Gottingen, writes his mother at Tranent ■, "Just a few words to let you know that I am getting on all right ; as well, at all events, as can be expected here. I had the two parcels you sent and was very, very pleased to' see them. Oh! do try and send two parcels a week from among you. Mind, brail v half-loaves and white half-loaves, and a piece of cheap butter, iv anything else you can buy cheap. Tell 3-5 (an' old comrade) I was asking for him; and tell liini— is, if you can— that if he will try and send out a cheap parcel now and again, I will be very, very

A Cameron Highlander, belonging to Ross-shire, who held a position in the insurance world, and who rejoined his regiment on mobilisation, writing home from a German prison camp, states that none of aeveral parcels sent him has reached the destination, and whereas at first his letters did not indicate the conditions to be entirely disagreeable, a complete change has now occurred. He asks lor -parcels of foodstuffs to be sent.