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Show MISTREATMENT OF PRISONERS CHARGED Montreal, Aug. 31. J. T. Armand, a mining broker, arrived here today and told of 'mnny hardships he endured en-dured during the year he said he had been a prisoner in Germany. Armand Ar-mand left here in June, 1914, to visit his parents at Strassburg. Ho was born in Alsatia but is now a British subject Armand said he was held in jail twenty days at Dulathal; tried on a charge of being a spy, and told to "be ready at 6 o'clock the next morning." morn-ing." His relatives and friends had the case reopened and he was later acquitted of the spy charge and sent to an internment camp, at Ruhleben Armand declared tho quarters wore poor. 111 ventilated and the food and .clothing scarce, ' ' |