Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-25
INTERNED PRISONERS
WELL TREATED IN CAMP
Secretary of American Embassy a,
Berlin Reports on Conditions
at Ituhleben.
BRITISH SOLDIERS KEPT THERE
New Barracks Erected to Relieve
Overcrowded Conditions, and Spc-
ciaI Convcniences Arranged for
COnvalescent or Delicate Persons.

Correspondence of Associated Press
LONDON, July i5.--Jaraex w. Ger
ard. the American ambassador in Ber-
lin, and Walter Hines Page, the Amer
lean ambassador in London have mass
eel on to the British Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs IA favorable report
made by g. w. Minot, the secretary
or INC American embassy In Berlin on
the conditions existing in the British
c'Fi ihternmcnt camp at Ruhlcben.
Germany.
Mr.. Gerard, in his covering letter.
speaks Of the devotion to duty and
uniform kindness of all the camp au-
thorities" and adds: 1T is impossible
20 conceive of better camp command
erS tnan Graf Schwcrin and Baron
Taube"
Of the $500 British civil prisoners
ihtefned In Germany, all but 500 are
no" in the camp ut Ruhlcben. near
Spandau. according TO Mr.. Minots re-
port. and the German government has
arranged that the others, who are
scattered among other camps. will soon
be removed TO Ruhlebcn.
Although accommodations we're
oEcrcrowded at the beginning OF the
war. eight new barracks have been
erected. with wcll-set floors and larp.
windows. and in one, special convent
enccs have been arranged for the
housing Of convalcsccnt or delicate
the prisoners TO use the ground on
circled by the race track during stated
hours each day, and materials have
been provided for the various spnr,s
including the laying out Of a football
field and a small golf course In an
enclosure beneath the modern grand
stand stage has been erected ana .
complete thcatcr has been couippcd
performances varying from Shake
speare to musical shows are given
practically every night, and at other
times the thcater was used for Ice.
lures and school instruction
PRISONER AT CAMP
COMPOSER OF SONG
AS an exhibit. there was attached
70 the report the words Of a song
which one OF the prisoners at the
camp had written, as follows:
on. were reused up in the morning
when the day is gently dawninr
ana we're put TO bed before the
nights begun.
And for weeks and weeks n, owl az,
nave never seen a friend,
.And we've lost the Job our cnorrv
had won
Yes, were waiting in tho frost. for \
parcel that got lost. FOR letter
that the postmen never bring
And II isn't beer and skittles, doing
work on scanty victuals
Yet every man can still get up and
sing.
So
CHORUS:
Line up boys and sing this chorus:
shout this chorus all you can.
we want the people there. 10 hear in
Leicester Square.
That were the boys that never get
downhcartcd.
Back. back. back again in England.
then well Ill flowing cup.
.ind tell EN- clear and loud OF the
Ruhleben crowd. that always
kept their puckcr up
TREATMENT OF fNVALIDS
WE'LL LOOKED AFTER
Mr. Minor reported that the treat,
nent of invalids at the camp was well
looked after, many OF them being sent
10 an official in!irmary in a sanatoriun
At Charlottcnburg. a suburb of Berlin
system Of relief has been institut-
ed whereby the destitute OF the camp
receive weekly allowance of marks