d suffered far more, this officer considered.
This is somewhat at variance with the extract last cited. The writer
continues:

But the lot of the prisoners in the permanent camps in Baden was
much brighter. My authority for saying so is an old Roman
Catholic priest, Father Nugent, a native of Lancashire, I
believe, who was in Southern Germany when the war broke out. He
had free access to all prison camps and hospitals in Baden, and
had no stories of harsh and brutal treatment to tell. Two
American doctors were allowed to visit the hospitals in Rastatt,
Lazaret 4, and the Russenlager Hospital. They said that the
patients were comfortable and well looked after, in spite of the
great shortage of medical supplies in Germany.

Some of the soldiers had a good time working on the Baden farms.
One orderly at our camp, who was away for a fortnight in the
fruit season, picking plums, told me that he had met one of his
old regiment working on a farm. This man had just driven in to
the railway station for the Red Cross parcels, and told him that
they were working with an old German and his wife. They shared
rations with each other, and once a week the whole household
visited the cinema.

Delay in repatriation occurred owing to disorganisation.

But there is no ill feeling towards the prisoners in Baden.
After the armistice we wandered at will round Freiburg and in
the Black Forest; and everyone was treated with civility. There
were no cases of open hostility at all.

(_Daily News_, Dec. 18, 1918.)

Mr. G. G. Desmond volunteered at the age of 46. He was taken prisoner
and gave (_Daily News_, Dec. 10, 1918) some account of his general
outlook after his imprisonment. Unlike some of the stay-at-homes he can
still believe in the German people, as the following concluding
paragraphs of his article show:

The soldiers and the country people round Duelmen, and afterwards
everybody we met in those parts, expressed no sense of rancour
at their defeat, and simply leapt over it all to the prime,
joyful fact that the _Krieg_ was _fertig_. Everybody greeted you
with that, and covered his face with smiles thereby. Some said
that the terms were very hard, but agreed with me when I told
them that they were made hard in order to defeat thoroughly the
old gang and ensure a lasting peace. I wish