In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners . he poverty and the primi-tive conditions in which they are kept, tomaintain their sports and classes. In the Letters from a Prisoner to his Mother there is not one word which indicates thehardships which the writer was enduring. They are written as if there was no suchthing as a hardship, hardly any such thing ascaptivity, the obvious intentions of the writerbeing to banish all anxiety from his mothersheart and t
In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners . he poverty and the primi-tive conditions in which they are kept, tomaintain their sports and classes. In the Letters from a Prisoner to his Mother there is not one word which indicates thehardships which the writer was enduring. They are written as if there was no suchthing as a hardship, hardly any such thing ascaptivity, the obvious intentions of the writerbeing to banish all anxiety from his mothersheart and to apply the lessons of philosophy,the study of which he had found so enthralling,to their legitimate use, of making him who hadlearned them think it : nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. . Hamlet iii. I Douglas Sladen. The Avenue House,Richmond, Surrey. January 15^, 1917. 19 ?* THE PRISONER AT RUHLEBEN To-day, beneath the foemans frown,He stands in Elgins place,Ambassador from Britains crown,And type of all her race. He only knows, that not through himShall England come to shame. The Private of the Buffs. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle. 20. [Photo by F. A. Swaine. SIR TIMOTHY EDEN. BART. [Facing p. 20. CHAPTER IP CIVILIAN PRISONERS: THE CASE FOR A WHOLESALEEXCHANGE BY Sir Timothy Eden, Bart. TV T OW that we are faced with another winter*? ^ the thoughts of many are naturallyturned to the soldiers in the trenches—and,equally naturally perhaps, comparatively fewpeople are thinking of the prisoners in Germany ;for out of sight is too often out of mind. Thereare two classes of prisoners—military and former are much to be pitied, but at thesame time we must realize that theirs is a recog-nized position. They have been fighting againsta nation, they have been taken by that nation, * Written in the form of a letter to The Times of Nov. 22,1916, and published in full by his permission. 21 In Ruhleben and the inevitable result is intern
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