Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-24
GERMAN PRISONERS
ARE FINELY TREATED

London, September 23.-There are at
the present time about 5000 German sus-
poets and prisoners of war in the concen-
tration camps Of Great Britain.
These amp are located at Aldershot,
Newbury, Dorchester, Queensberry, Lam
caster, Edinburgh and Templemore. Ire
land. The Aldershot camp is at Firth
Till. At Dorchester the n are in bar
racks. The Newbury camp is on the ia
nous race course, and two disused fac
tories are being used at Queensber1y and
similar accommodations have been se7
cured at Lancaster. The Irish station at
Templemore is using the military bar
racks for the housing Of these prisoners,
and Edinburgh has a large camp in the
open. Dyfrim Hall is a large country
mansion and has been given to the use
of officers. If another camp is needed it
will be located probably at Salisbury
Plain, the famous military center.
The Aldershot camp, like others in the
lopen, is surrounded by a barbed wire
fence 10 feet high around which and at
a distance of about 20 feet there's is q ring
of wire entanglements 5 feet Broad. The
prisoners here are all men WHO, Would be
serving in the German army If they could
get out Of the country, together with men
suspected of spying. They are all hous-
ed in tents with board floors.
An official of the Wa Office, follow
ing an inspection of these prisoners, has
made a report in which he says they
seem to be happy and comfortable. The
rations served them are based on the
German army scale, and are as follows:
Bread, n pound and ~eight9ounces, or
biscuit, one pound; meat, fresh or froz-
en-, eight ounces, or pressed meat, one.
half pound; tea, half an ounce, or COT
fee, n ounce; condensed milk, one
pound; vegetables, fresh, eight ounces:
salt, half an ounce sugar, two ounces;
pepper, one-thirty-sixth of an ounce, and
butter or margarin, one ounce.
The men cook their own meals and
keep their tents in order. They are d.
vlded into squads Of twenty each, and
each squad elects its own captain who
is responsible for the good behavior Of
his men and the tidiness Of their section
OF the camp. All needed clothing is sup
piled by the Commandant, who has or
ders to purchase what is necessary from
local shops. The men sleep on straw
mattresses n are supplied with blank
cts. This is better treatment in the
matter of sleeping facilities than is giv-t
en- the British soldiers; they have to
sleep on bare boards. The English troops
on guard at the camp have no floors to
their tents as have the prisoners. The
prisoners are allowed to amuse them
selves as they please. They are given
candles, soap and towels and must, an
'swer a daily roll call. The camps are
brightly lighted with electricity at night
to prevent escape, and are at all time
surrounded. by armed guards. If the
prisoners are given special work, they
are paid for it. Each man Is searched
carefully before being taken into any
of the camps. Every camp is supplied
with a resident medical officer and an
interpreter. Any money or other prop
erty taken from a prisoner is carefully
labeled to be returned to him at the
end Of the war, or when he may be set
at liberty.