CRUELTIES TO PRISONERS.
DEMAND FOR REPRISALS. FIRM ACTION NEEDED. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Oct. 30. Speaking in the House of Commons, Sir George Cave, after describing the maltreatment of prisoners, added: i' We ask nothing which a civilised Government would not give without being asked. If our-demands are not granted the Government will endeavour to give our gallant men in Germany the best possible protection and avenge their sufferings. Captain ('. C. Craig regretted that Sir George Cave's first act since his return from the conference with Germany was to make a very strong indictment against the German Government for its treatment of prisoners of war His experience showed that if the Government had done its duty the lives of thousands of men might have been made easy instead of unutterably miserable. Germany only understood the argument of the big stick. Prisoners complained that that argument was never used in their interests. We must make it clear that the fullest justice would he rViie to ill these inhuman wretches wh ■ treated prisoners vile);; and barbarously, We must make reprisals, and firmly carry them out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16996, 1 November 1918, Page 5
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