. 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. ive report was filed at i The American ambassador asked me to-day whether theAmerican Embassy would be allowed, as reports were being madein Germany about the treatment of German civilians in England,to send some one to visit the Germans interned in Newbury andNewcastle. The ambassador also said that he had received specific com-plaints from Germans interned in Queensferry. He has given me the following copy of a letter from the A
. 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. ive report was filed at i The American ambassador asked me to-day whether theAmerican Embassy would be allowed, as reports were being madein Germany about the treatment of German civilians in England,to send some one to visit the Germans interned in Newbury andNewcastle. The ambassador also said that he had received specific com-plaints from Germans interned in Queensferry. He has given me the following copy of a letter from the Ameri-can ambassador in Berlin. The object of the Ambassadors enquiry is simply, by bringingout the facts, to prevent false statements from doing harm inGermany, and at the same time, I assume, to contribute to theremedying of any grievances that may exist. The American Ambassador in Berlin is, I know, doing all inhis power to secure good treatment for British subjects in Ger-many and I think that it would be desirable to let the AmericanEmbassy here have full information as to our treatment of Ger-mans. I have, etc., Foreign Office, November 13, 1914. E* GbeT. PROBLEM OF THE PRISONER OF !WAR 5 the Embassy in Berlin on February 27, 1915, andtransmitted to the German Government. In the meantime the German public became verymuch concerned over the internment of Germancivilians in England and While reprisal action was immediately takenin Germany the force of public opinion and thevery large numbers of German civilians involved,unquestionably influenced the German Govern-ment to accept the British proposition for a recip- i MR. GERARD TO MR. PAGE American Embassy, Berlin, November 8, : Although it may already be too late to be of much practicaleffect, I feel it my duty, in the interest of humanity, to urgeyou to obtain some formal declaration on the part of the BritishGovernment as to its purpose in ordering the wholesale concentra-tion of Germans in Great Britain
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