s to me quite out of the question that the
occurrence mentioned in the English newspaper accounts could
have actually taken place at Guestrow.

In point of fact, instead of complaints at Guestrow, I heard
rather praise of the camp from the British interned there, and
praise of the British prisoners from the camp authorities. The
men were all well fitted out with clothes of all sorts, and
seemed particularly cheerful. The authorities stated that it
had never been necessary, in recent times at least, to place a
British prisoner under arrest. On the whole, the camp struck me
as being as nearly ideal as it is possible for a place of
detention of this kind to be.

The discrepancy between the last sentence in Mr. Osborne's report and
the _Times_ article is a striking one. It should give one pause in
placing too much reliance upon untested accusations, or upon newspaper
articles based upon them. We forget sometimes that all the bias is
_against_ an enemy, and the only stories likely to be free from
exaggeration are those told in his favour.

A MILITARY PRISON.

In the military prison at Cologne (Miscel. 16 [1916] p. 67), "the
prisoners receive the same food and the same general treatment as the
German military prisoners, with whom they are permitted to talk.... The
prisoners are not permitted to receive food from outside sources....
Generally speaking the conditions do not differ materially from those in
an ordinary working camp.... Corporal B. was found guilty of lack of
respect to his British superior, Corporal J. was punished for striking
the French non-commissioned officer in charge of his barrack, and
Corporals O. and S. had trouble with the German Landsturmmann in charge
of a cooking party...." Most of the sentences were for striking work at
various work centres, the men sentenced stating that the conditions were
bad. There was a special complaint against the railway work at
Langen-Halbach b/Haiger, but not all the British joined in the strike.
"I saw the men's midday meal, consisting of a thick porridge which
appeared to be nutritious. One man claimed that it was thicker to-day
than usual, but several of his comrades contradicted this flatly. No
complaints were made to me of any rough treatment in the Gefaengnis
[prison]."

BAVARIAN COURTESY.

The Venerable Archdeacon Wm. E. Nies, who had been given permission to
visit British prisoners of war in Bavaria, writes: "