HOW HUN PRISONERS FARE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 7

HOW HUN PRISONERS FARE.

MAYING TFE J'EOPLE'S MOUTHS WAISR.

A. correspondent sends cae "Jfcvert-y Bay Herald" three letters written by G-srmah prisoners of war to their friends' in- Germany and apparently taken from a Hun soldier captured by the New Zealanders. The translation of these is interesting as -showing how

eager the Germans are to inform their people at home of the luxuries they enjoy in Britain. The letters read as follow:— .

No. I.—"Very pleased to get three letters—two from mother and one from Hose. I am pleased to get them and to learn that things are going well with you. You need not bother about me —have plenty of underclothes—will not freeze to death. Hope .•war will • not fast .long.—-English' tre:it r,s w.elL—Had two -teeth extracted.--Had tree in camp.—-Every Saturday. free.—Two ■ days off; at Christmas.—Do not need money as allowance: is enough." No. 2.—'"'Your turn for a letter" this time—last week I wrote to the Club.— Have gcod food; coffee, lovely white bread, .sardines, butter, cheese., .Today/s dinner was a treat; rice, meat, potatoes, marmalade. So you see 1 can 3tkk it out well enough. —Anything new in Hamburg? Soon I shall light ;up my cigarette and go for a. stroll in camp. Greetings, etc." No. 3.—"Had.a lovely Christmas— sugared coffee, piece of cake, enough to satisfy anybody. For dinner potatoes, roast meat; and in evening cheese, marmalade, butter, coffe-o, lovely Christmas .tree, and our boys acted in a play at .which English captain with present."