Show JUSTIfiES TREATMENT Or OF SUBMARINE CREWS British Reply to German Note Calls Them Offenders A Against g Humanity London April 2 A A German protest and threat of reprisals on account ot or the treatment by ly Great Britain of the prisoners taken on board German submarines was waH made public hero here to to- to day This protest was transmitted by Germany to Great Britain through the tho United States The reply of oC Great Britain also was made public The German government in its pro protest protest test asked whether Great Britain In Intended intended In- In tended to accord less hess favorable treatment treat treat- mont ment to captured ed German submarine crews than to other war var prisoners and If It so what hat form torm this discrimination 1 would take talc Germany stated that If I Great Britain adopted such a course COUlSO a I British arm army held prisoner in Germany would receive correspondingly corresponding corresponding- I ly 13 harsh treatment for each member I I Io o of a German captured submarine crew Foreign Secretary Grey Gley in his reply said that the prisoners prisoner from German submarines had been beci placed d In na naval d detention e t en t 0 il ba barracks r rae Ic s a and ii d segregated from Crom other war var prisoners but were being treated humanely and permitted to take exercise Furthermore the foreign secretary said German prisoners prison ers lu In England land aro are better fed and clothed than are aio prisoners of ot equal rank In Germany Gorman aul and the Germans arc are not subjected to tu forced labor As tho the submarine crews crew have been engaged In iii sinking neutral merchant ships and unarmed British vessels Sir Edward Grey said they the could not riot b be regarded d as ns honorable opponents but Avory offenders against the thc 13 laws lau ws of nations and common humanity The foreign n secretary sold said that 1000 officers and men of ot the German nR mia navy had been roscue rescued luring during th the war wal hut but that none from Crom the tho British na navy had been rescued b by th the Germans However however How How- ever e he made mado no suggestion for a change chang |