. Industrial Education Magazine . ief instructor in manual train-ing at St. Albans in Hertfordshire, and from 1911 to1915 he was doing similar work and training teachersat Kent. He has taught in the summer schools atBrighton and Yarmouth, and for several years was thesecretary of the National Association of Manual Train-ing Teachers. From 1911 to 1919 he was engaged inwar work—first among the Belgian Refugees as theylanded at Kent, and later with the Friends Emergencyand War Victims Relief Committee, organizing inLondon relief goods for despatch to French, Belgian,Servian and Montenegrin refug
. Industrial Education Magazine . ief instructor in manual train-ing at St. Albans in Hertfordshire, and from 1911 to1915 he was doing similar work and training teachersat Kent. He has taught in the summer schools atBrighton and Yarmouth, and for several years was thesecretary of the National Association of Manual Train-ing Teachers. From 1911 to 1919 he was engaged inwar work—first among the Belgian Refugees as theylanded at Kent, and later with the Friends Emergencyand War Victims Relief Committee, organizing inLondon relief goods for despatch to French, Belgian,Servian and Montenegrin refugees. Then, he be-came industrial adviser to the Society of Friends workamong prisoners of war until appointed by the Govern-ment to take charge of the industrial work a! Knockaloeon the Isle of Man. After completing his work withthe interned men he was sent over into Central Europewith the Firends Emergency and War Victims ReliefCommittee. Last fall he returned to England andbegan his present work at Cheltenham. —The James T. Baily CRAFTSMANSHIP and educationalwork figured prominently in thedetention camps for prisoners of warsituated in the British Isles during theyears, 1914 to 1919. The decision of the British Govern-ment after the outbreak of the war tointern most of the civilians of enemyalien birth living in Great Britain re-sulted in the formation of several deten-tion camps. The largest of these wassituated in the Isle of Man;* one atDouglas for 3,000 men and the other atKnockaloe for 23,000 men. The firstinternments were effected towards theend of 1914, and Knockaloe Camp was not evacuated until October 1919. Forpurposes of administration, KnockaloeCamp was divided into four sub-camps,each of which was sub-divided intobarbed wire compounds to hold 1,000men. Each of these compounds wasprovided with wooden huts in which theinterned ate and slept, a cook house, *The Isle of Man (Manxland) is situated almostin the middle of the Irish Sea to the west of theNor
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