gh,
I am afraid, _tant mal que bien_. One of the officials here
used to be a professor, and is very kind trying to teach us.
Thanks for the warm underclothes, and most awfully for the
footballs. We have quite good matches.... It is better not to
try to send any public news of any kind from England; people
having been stupid trying to smuggle letters in cakes and
things, and it only makes trouble for everyone.

A Captain writes:

For dinner at 1 p.m. we are given soup, meat and vegetables....
Supper takes place at 7 o'clock and consists of tea, sausages or
meat and potatoes.... We receive L5 a month as pay, of which 1s.
6d. is deducted for food each day. We have a canteen here at
which we can buy everything we want, ... so there is no need to
send me anything at all, except perhaps those small 7d. editions
of novels.

An English lady wrote early in 1915 from Munich:

I must tell you I had permission to visit a wounded English
officer, a cousin, and I think it would reassure many people at
home to know how warmly he speaks of the great kindness that has
been shown him now for five months, as well as the skill and
attention of the doctors.--(_Times_, March 17, 1915.)

Here, too, is a letter from Lieut.-Observer J. E. P. Harvey, an officer
of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry, and attached to the Royal Flying Corps:

I met one of the pilots of the German machines that had attacked
us. He could speak English well and we shook hands after a most
thrilling fight. I had brought down his machine with my
machine-gun, and he had to land quite close to where I landed.
He had a bullet through his radiator and petrol tank, but
neither he nor his observer was touched. I met two German
officers that knew several people that I knew, and they were
most awfully kind to me. They gave me a very good dinner of
champagne and oysters, etc., and I was treated like an honoured
guest. I then came by train the next day to Mainz, where I was
confined in a room by myself for two days. I have now been moved
into a general room with eight other English officers, where we
sleep and eat. We are treated very well, and play hockey and
tennis in the prison yard.--(_News of the World_, February 27,
1916.)

Miss Colenso gives the following account, which appeared in the _Daily
News_ of June 28, 1918:

A minister frie