"FED LIKE CATTLE."
PRISONERS IN GERMANY-
EXPERIENCES TOLD TO KING. London*. September 1.
The King and' Queen spent two and a-half hours in the Third London General Hospital at- Wandsworth, where 200 wounded men, who recently returned from Germany as being unfit for further service were drawn up in double file, wearing blue hospital uniform. The: King and Queen walked up the lines, speaking to each man. All bore visible evidence of terrible wounds. The King asked one how he was fed in Germany, and the soldier replied: "They fed us like cattle.'" The King * retorted : "Not upon hay, I hope" Later Their Majesties visited and conversed with a number of New |Zealanders and Australians from I the Dardanelles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16013, 3 September 1915, Page 5
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