The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-06
ENGLAND SOUNDS WARNING TO THE GERMANS FOR MISTREAT-
 MENT OF PRISONERS.
CAREFUL RECORD IS KEPT
Report Still Shows That the Germans Are Making Some Gains, Though the Results Are Disputed in Carps- thians and at the Dardanelles.

London, May 5.-"When the proper time comes due reparatioG will be eX- acted on those-whateyer the.r posi- ton or their antecedents-if it can be shown that they have violated all the rules and usages of civilized war fare, said Premier Asquth in tho house of commons this evening, dur ing d debate on the treatment of British prisoners by Germany.
 lie added that d careful record of events was being kept and of eyi- deuce which could be obtained in or der that when the proper hour came proper punishment m-ht be metod | out
 The premier referred to the ques- tion of the neutral ntsrumeut ot | prisoners which had been cousid red. { Switzerland. he sad was the onl country where 1t could be done and l there were nseparable difficulties in the way of carrying out the pro posaIs. The duty of this couutrN' the premier concluded. lis to ore. serve a clean record"
 The question had been hrought mp by Lord Robert Cecil, who said ne l had received letters from officers who had been subjected TO special ! confinement by Germany because of l the special treatment accorded Ger. man submarine officers by Great 1 Britain. The officers declared chat they were locked up separately in cells ? by feet and were not al- l lowed to smoke.
 Andrew Bouar Law, leader of the op. osition, hoped that the country would no longer pay any attention to | any convention which would prevent | the war from being brought to an end It was worth considering he said whether at the risk of losing an British property in Germany they should confiscate every German article throughout the British empire. 1 The German official report issued this afternoon claims victories both over the Russians in western Galcia and over the British to the east of Ypres in Flanders.
 Field Marshal Sir John French. the | British commandern-chief has ad. mitted that he was compelled 10 re- adjust his lines in the regicn of 1 Ypres, but the French communication is far from confirming a German vie. tory in Belgium and states that the l German attacks were repulsed and that the Germans, being taken on the flank by French artillery suffered very severely
 A late report from the British war office also says that German attacks were repused, although the Germans used aspAyXiating gases, and did get ! a footing by the use of these fumes on Hill No 60, southeast of Ypres, which since the British caJtured it recently has been repeatedly at l tackled.
 There has been fighting all along 1 the rest of the western front in all of which the Germans claim to have been successful The Frencl, how. ever, have another story to tell They insist that their advance continues both along the Yser canal in Elan ders and in Woevre. where battles have been continuous for weeks on end
 Conflicting reports from the bellig. erents in the east make it impossible to quite judge of the position there. The Austrians and Germans tonight say that the Russians nave been badly beaten in western GaHcia, and have commenced 10 retire from the western Carpathiaus. whereas the latest Russian report while admit- ting that the Austro-Germans sue ceeded in getting across the DunaieC river, declares they were checked there.
 The country around the east Prus- sian frontier also has been the scene of battles Of mere or less importance, while pt the other end Of the Russian line id eastern Galicia the Russians are stacking the A1stro-Germans despite their reported defeat or caeck in the western part of that Iproviuce.
 fdheus credits the allies with fur thrr successes in their attack on the 1 Dd 'danelles, and on Smyruia but the Ir rks again report the defeat Of l-