FAVOURED TREATMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13824, 20 July 1915, Page 5

FAVOURED TREATMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS.

(Received July 19, 9.10 p.m.)

Sydney, July 19

At the' Liverpool camp inquiry Major Sands, commandant of the German concentration camp, gave evidence that the latter was situated on high ground, while tho military camp was lowlying and subject to flooding and fogs. There had been no illness in the German camp, which was provided with many conveniences, including unlimited hot water and food, mosquito nets, electric lighting, and plenty of warm clothing, which were chiefly resultant from the profits of the canteen. Though they were provided with the same rations the Germans got twenty per cent, more value than the Australians out of food-: