SCOTS NURSES PRISONERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11669, 8 April 1916, Page 5

SCOTS NURSES PRISONERS.

ROUTED THE GUARDS. ZURICH, February 24. After more than two months' internment as common military prisoners of war at Kevavara, in Hungary, Dr Alic® Hutchinson and l thirty members of tha Second Scottish Women's Hospital Unit arrived at Zurich from Vienna and proceeded to Berne for London. With them are thirty other British women, including nineteen members of til® First Scottish Unit, and nearly a hundred more women brought together from various parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Austria and Hungary are expected to arrive to-morrow. The Hutchinson party bear traco3 of the hardships they have undergone, bufi all are well and in excellent spirits. They were interned in a schoolhousa and treated as common soldier prisoners. They were given only straw to sleep upon and no beds or bedding. The daily faro consisted of black coffee without milk in the morning and evening, and half a loaf of black bread at noon, with watery soup in a bucket. The building wa,s watched day and night, and a soldier at first remained) inside, but the women made him so uncomfortable that he was forced to flee. When Dr Hutchinson demanded that they, should, under the Geneva Convention, be treated as members of the Red Cross with the rank of officers, the Austrian commander answered that the Geneva Convention no longer existed, j as England had torn it to shreds. j