, we shall, in many cases, say exactly the same thing about
the German authorities. In Germany the one outstanding question is food,
otherwise, as M.M. de Marval and Eugster state in a joint report issued
in May: "We fully recognise the excellent arrangement and perfect
organisation, thought out to the smallest detail, and the admirable
administration of the Camps."

LATER U.S. REPORTS.

It is allowed by all investigators that camps almost everywhere have
been improved as the war went on. Mr. Gerard himself writes, under date
June 10, 1915: "It is generally admitted that conditions in the camps
are constantly improving, and no good can be attained by the
investigations of complaints based upon reports of conditions as they
are supposed to have been several months ago." In citing the _earlier_
U.S. and Swiss reports I have therefore by no means exaggerated the
facts favourable to German treatment. There have been many later
reports, but it will be impossible and unnecessary to give more than a
few references:

The reports in Miscel. No. 15 (1915) give a quite favourable account of
the German efforts on behalf of the prisoners. Canadian officers at
Bischofswerda, however, complained of their treatment on the way from
the front. They said that "they were at first compelled to share their
compartments with French Algerian (black) soldiers, but that other
arrangements were made by a German officer in the course of their
journey." Some may consider this an interesting comment on the
employment of Algerian and other native troops.

HUNGER DURING TRANSPORT.

The Canadian officers also said "that while on the road they had
received but little food, their treatment not differing, however, from
that of other prisoners." On reading this I could not help recalling a
_Daily News_ interview headed "The Blue Ladies: Good work at the Free
Buffet at Euston." (June 24, 1916.) "We have just had the escort of some
German prisoners in," said one of the ladies. "We do not give anything
to the prisoners. We have enough to do to look after our own men." I
recalled, too, the British nurse who said in my presence, with a snap of
her fingers, "We have not _that_ much sympathy with the German wounded."
I want to believe that in the great majority of cases the attitude on
both sides is very different; but what a sundering influence war-like
patriotism is! We must surely reach brotherhood by some other way.

FRIEDRICHSFELD.

Mr. Michel