PRISONERS OF WAR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 557, 22 November 1915, Page 7

PRISONERS OF WAR.

BAD TREATMENT IN GERMANY. AUTHORITIES ADOPT A REGIME OF FEAB. I ■ " ' '■' s 9 " (Received November 22, 8.50 a.m.) ' LONDON, November 21. The Press Bureau publishes a report by Mr Osborne* of the I American Embassy, concerning the Wittenberg Gamp, where j there are 400 English, including 34 civilians. - I Clothing is the chief source of trouble; and the prisoners have L no overcoats.. ! A watchman took a fierce dog to the barracks, and it attacked several of the prisoners, tearing their; clothes. - A soldier in the bath house struck, with his closed fist; several prisoners, one who was crippled in the right arm, for, [i i®essarig slowly; > - " : -v .V"" . ' 'Mr "-"Osborne says that his impression of the authorities at - Wittenberg is utterly unlike that which he formed at the other camps he has visited. Instead of regarding their charges as j honourable prisoners of war, the authorities appeared to regard them as criminals, for whom a regime of fear alone would suffice. All evidence of kindly, and humane feeling between authorities and prisoners, is lacking. . . ;