... little railway station of F——g. The German officer who is going to be our guide politely ushers us into a military car. He speaks excellent French and English and shows a keen personal interest in the recreational and educational welfare of the prisoners ...

... whole social problem : inextricably bound up with the question of wages, of housing, and access to the countryside, not to speak of the films, the press and the publishers. These last three—though with notable exceptionsexist to-day to make money for someone ...

... would not have called us rich : but the folk were well fed, well housed, well and gaily clothed : and they were free men, speaking their minds to king or lord or bishop, and afraid of nobody unless their wives, whom a Spaniard describes as being both chaste ...

... one year an old Hanoverian Colonel taught me most of what I know to-day. A prisoner should be able to learn very quickly to speak German and to read it with ease. At Salzburg the view, the Palace, the whole of the miniature city breathe flowers of German ...

... about the condition of German prison camps, both Stalags and Oflags, shows that our prisoners are well housed and, generally speaking, well treated. Yet even under the best possible conditions they can never become reconciled to the lack of news from home ...

... am sure, will also tell you that their parcels reach the camps. Ido so hope your friends will not lose interest, as 1 can speak from personal experience about the splendid moral effect on our prisoners of all individual effort on their behalf, and the ...

... succeed in realising its ideal,” he is making a particular accusation of what is only a truism applicable to any age. Generally speaking, the later half of the century meets with more of Mr. Kronenberger’s approval than the earlier, but nowhere does he seem ...

... novels of the last twenty years have either been concerned with character, and offered the reader no plot or incident worth speaking of ; or they have had a gripping story, and no interest in character at all. An overdose of the first kind of novel brings ...

... deeper sympathy than others by his countrymen, they are those in which the author, in sight of the mountains of the Tyrol, speaks of the * inward vision of Suffolk marshes drowsing in the peaceful afterglow.” The reader closes these pages with the hope ...

... had borne her full share of finding this great sum, and over 22 million parcels had been sent to the camps. In addition to speaking of all that the Red Cross had done for the physical side of the welfare of our prisoners, Colonel Paterson went on to describe ...

... food parcels, some 500 yards of it being triple plaited and then sewn on to a canvas backing—no light job I may say—l know, speaking from ...

... rather suddenly with our heads and were both knocked out for about ten seconds. I still have a slight headache but nothing to speak of, anyway I have not been admitted to the sick-ward ! We have changed our team name from the ‘Gordons’ to the ‘Old Crocks ...