TWO YEARS IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 8

TWO YEARS IN GERMANY.

■■». , ■ NEW ZEALANDER'S TRIALS. An interesting sidelight on the treatment of British prisoners of war in Germany is ' afforded in the case of Lieutenant Max • Juries, of Wellington, formerly of the Royal New Zealand Artillery. Failing to get a commission in the New Zealand Forces, Lieutenant Juriss went to England early in 1916, and obtained a commission In the 7th London Regiment, with which he went to France. In fighting finthe Flanders front Lieutenant Juriss was 1 taken prisoner, and from time to time' letters have been received by his wife in Wellington tailing, with unfailing regu- 1 larity, how well he was being treated, j Lieutenant Juriss was exchanged recently, I and writing free from German censorship,' his letter tells a different story from those posted in Germany The letter was written from near The Hague. " I hardly know," he says, " how to commence this letter, I am too overjoyed to be out of that heathen country (Germany) } in fact, I cannot yet quite realise that it can be true is more like a beautiful dream! Holland is a paradise' to us. _ Just fancy— two years and one' month in that uncivilised country, nothing . but torture and miserable treatment—not to mention our awful surroundings. I just simply hate to think of those monstrous brutes; and as for Clausthal- I where he was last held a prisoner—l would prefer Siberia to it."