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Show GERMAN PRISONERS GET GOOD RATIONS Conditions Are Shown at WorkJiouso at Essox, England, "Where Men Are Interned. Ky Internationa1. News Service. rfV. LONDON",- P'ec.U. During a meeting 'i Ty?r t,1(i Koch ford (Emsox) board of guar-9 guar-9 lans the question of the food allowance P for German prisoners at the workhouse I was raised. i Tho commandant of rc camp last night told tho Pally Mail thai the facta wore: "At tho hoard of guardians on Thursday I It was proposed to increase the strength of the ca.mp. I suggested that the camp ' should be increased to 100. Then I pointed i out that if they wanted 100 men to work ' they should ask for 1 20, because of tho number of men who fell sick. "Thereupon 1 said, 'If we had 1.0 pris- , otters probably out of the number who fell sick and those on duty there would i le 100 nt work." I said thai these men! were falling sick because they were overeating. over-eating. I "A lady guardian protested, and then ! I ald that if a man was expected to work he must he well fed. whether an Englishman or a German, and those Ger- ", mans hud immensely good appetites..'' A t 1 .auncoton (Cornwall- board of guardians it was reported that 1 1 to work-bouse work-bouse Inmates wpre keening well within the food controller's rations, the consumption con-sumption per head per week lunim: Meat, L pound, UHj ounces; bread, X pounds. S'fc ounces; sugar, ii ounces. The avuiagc cost a week is Cs 10d. |