Show BEER EER JAM AND WATER MATER These with Bread Make Lunch for British Pris ners In Pr Pretoria toria NEAR NEAU 1900 OF ell and Welt at and ruin En Officer Now ow York JM Jan dIspatch to tire Herold from ParIs says The Figaro pUblishes a hong letter which an I English a prisoner of af war In Pretoria has written to a of oC his 1 he writer Sll says S SWe We Ve are oro completely cut off act from fram all news of aC the anti and are aro not nil awed to see tilt the We know however Jf bf being bombarded Here we are prisoners ot of war and I assure you ou It Is j jr pitiful condition I feel teel HII as Ii ft I were going mad and wish I had been shot We had hoped we should be exchanged or ar re leased on parole but the Doer Duer authorities tits ties do not appear ar to understand what means and seem to think wo should not keep ketI our word As far as ht goes we are well welland welland and very 01 well vell tren treated ea Wo sometimes receive visits from fram those thase In at secretary of war laId field cornets comets chief C magistrates and others They are nil all very polite but are under the firm firm impression that theIr prisoners ners art are not nat vell ell treated by Uti us arid and they are arl convinced that our troops use dumn dum dum bullets At UraL first we were welO nine pris prisoners onell arid about SO 0 men but the other day our number vas as by 45 5 almost all ot of the Glou ester and royal Irish with Colonel Carleton so that now we weare ore are about 6 54 and 1400 In men en In front of oC the build building In there Is Isn isa n a veranda eranda on which we sit and watch the people go b by The government gives us canned beef bd bread and water to drink and from Cram to ta time line lime Iliac juice Once a week we get potatoes Hap we are now allowed to buy huy what aver we so 80 We have hae been heen able to or n a mess and our menu Is b by bacon porridge pre p served vegetables I meats pickles tine tobacco Each day wo we send out our orders and the things come later Ot Of course hen rhen taken prisoners we had only what was au our persons so we had to purchase necessities such as s sponges soap brushes hair brushes brushM and combs comb The however hat has given clen to ta each of us an Iron bed bedstead stead with mattress amid Ind pillow a suit slippers flannel shirt handkerchief towels socks etc We also receIved readymade suits as our khaki uniforms were too much worn vurn We officers live In a large building tha lint t as formerly used as a school house The men are still kept on time the course We are certainly tar more comfortable than we e were on the race for Cot this Is a stone building while on the race roce course are nothing but zinc It Is not so warm as the race raco courle courie II prison rison Wo are ure not nat so much annOyed b by flies Illes but at there thero are a good many mos I We are guarded night and da day by a stronG force although none nane Jr us hns any intention of to escape Wo We are aro surrounded by br Iron Behind the house there Is III Isa a small grass crass on which a little zinc hut has imas been erected to serve lIS an anit it II Here tents have hwe b been n put up for servants We allowed to bring I tel hm men JOen from the tho race raco course to act for tor us There Thero are itlo tents for Cor the tho guam guaro and a zinc hilt bitt which does t duty ut us liS 4 bath room We rIse nt at halt half past six JIlt and indulge In a cold bath I 1 um am dressel I 1 walk alk around the building eIght times which mak makes a am at m At t lint halt eIght breakfast on par lor rl co bacon Jacon Iet butter Jams tea or cort coffee The They give us time tho ten tea and coffee anti and bread brend and time the rest we buy JU After breakfast Wt read and smoke until lunch time nt at i 1 o 0 Clock when wo we got get beer bread butter and water The Tho afternoon vary AI Ion lone At half past we haVe tea and nt at seven ICIm dinner After dinner seine of oC us ula play whist or chou while others athers rend read I go 10 to bed nt iii bl half C past pine cheeks are provided They are Countr by too the senior lr officers n a J 1 cashed |