IS BRITAIN TOO SOFT?
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS Recd. 5.5 p.m. London, Apr 1 23. Commenting upon the picture of three British prisoners of war in an advanced state of malnutrition, the Daily Mail says: “While this cruelty is practised on good humoured soldiers of the British race. German prisoners of war in Britain are being fed twice as well as British civilians and infinitely better than the people in liberated countries. It is an appalling contrast, which hss aroused the just anger of the British people.” ‘‘The Daily Mail” recalls the provisions of the Geneva convention for fowling prisoners, and adds: “These could be accepted if the Germans played fair, but their deliberate hunger policy was the last straw. No comment we could moke, however savage, could approach the bitter irony of the facts.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 5
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134IS BRITAIN TOO SOFT? Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 5
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