The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-05
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tor state has reasons for refusing to
/ recognize the right to repatriation of
! any person mentioned in the lists the
! captor state shall explicitly Sc forth
| these reasons.
! The punishment for single at
tempt to escape on the part of a
! combatant prisoner of war, even if
repeated, shall not exceed military
confinement for a period of IA days.
| The punishment for such an attempt
TO escape, combined with other pun
! ishable actions consequent upon or
inflicted on c0mbatant and civilian
prisoners of war ON account OF of
for the offense of attempting to es-
cape whether simple or combined
with other offenses previously defin-
ed, shall be at once cancelled.
Punishments To Be RENTED
The execution of all punishments
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country.
fenses and crimes which have been
committed between the date of cap
ture and August | OF this year will
be RENTED until the conclusion OF
peace.
Any prisoner who benefits under
this agreement will be exempt from
any special restrictions other than
those which are applicable to all
prisoners OF war and will be equally
eligible with them for all benefits
they may enjoy including repatria-
ton and internment in neutral
Both military administrations will
use every endeavor to secure the
speedy delivery of all parcels ad-
dressed to prisoners of war, both
eombatant and civilian, and to avoid
With regard to the repatriation of
German civil doctors of medicine and
ministers of religion now in British
hands, the British delegates gave the
following declarations: The British
government cannot undertake to re-
patriate such persons il captured af-
ter the date of the relevant agree.
ment, but will favorably consider the
cases of all those whom ii now holds.
The German delegates declared that,
as far as British civil doctors of med
icine and ministers of religion were
similarly detained in Germany, their
cases would receive similar consid-
GRAFTON.
Gen Friedrich, head of the German
delegates, promised that, subject to
reciprocity, those British subjects
who are youthful and who are cap
tives in German hands, shall be sep
grated from the rest of the prisoners
OF war and put in separate block in
one camp by themselves, They are
to be kept away from all unfavorable
Influences to which they might be
subjected by being brought in contact
with adult prisoners of war. Their
further education and instruction al
so is to be provided for
The British delegates having intim-
ated that information has reached
their government from time to time
that the trial of prisoners of war in
German camps had frequently taken
place only after long delay and that
the prisoners had in the meantime
been kept in custody, Gen. Friedrich
informed the delegates that such oc-.
currences were not In any way in or
der, and he stated that as soon as he
returned to Berlin he would express