. The prisoner of war in Germany; the care and treatment of the prisoner of war with a history of the development of the principle of neutral inspection and control. but stated thatfull consent to visit the men in the hospital wouldnot be granted until his ecclesiastical credentialshad been submitted and approved. SergeantM—— stated that a certificate as a lay reader hadbeen issued to him by the Bishop of London butthat he did not have it with him. This matter, wehave been informed by the inspector at Munster,was under investigation at the time of our visit. Throughout the inspection of the ab
. The prisoner of war in Germany; the care and treatment of the prisoner of war with a history of the development of the principle of neutral inspection and control. but stated thatfull consent to visit the men in the hospital wouldnot be granted until his ecclesiastical credentialshad been submitted and approved. SergeantM—— stated that a certificate as a lay reader hadbeen issued to him by the Bishop of London butthat he did not have it with him. This matter, wehave been informed by the inspector at Munster,was under investigation at the time of our visit. Throughout the inspection of the above camp weWere accompanied by the commandant and hisstaff, and by a staff officer from the Inspection ofPrisoners of War at the 7th Army Corps at Mun-ster. All of the above matters complained of weretaken up and investigated at the time by the aboveofficers, and the undersigned and the notice herereported taken from this joint investigation. In a letter accompanying this report it is statedin contrasting this camp with the one at Dulmenand Friedrichsfeld that: The camp at Minden could, on the other hand,be used as a model of what a camp for prisoners of. An interesting pair of Serbian prisoners THE CAMP AT MINDEN 89 war ought not to be. It is built in a relatively un-healthy location, of poor general plan, and as ad-ministered, is more of an actual prison for themen, more particularly the non-commissioned offi-cers, than the jail at Cologne, without any of theredeeming features of the latter. The attitude to-wards the prisoners of war it not only not sympa-thetic, but, on the contrary, a hard attitude of sus-picion and repression that appears to us to vergeon real intentional cruelty. The locking up ofthese men in blocks without opportunity for men-tal relaxation, etc., is likely, if persisted in, to haveserious results in the mental tone and attitude ofthese prisoners, and may eventually lead to a mu-tinous attitude on the part of the men, for which ifit should occur, the
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