CONTENTED WITH THEIR LOT: GERMAN PRISONERS HEDGING AND DITCHING, A CHEERFUL GROUP
… Seventy-five others were sent earlier in the year to orchards near Evesham. A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes: “The prisoners work well, but in characteristic German fashion. Every detail of their labour is performed at the word of command, the men doing very little on their own initiative ….. One can readily understand that the prisoners welcome this life ….. Back to their camp I followed them, and here, more than ever, in spite of the barrier of barbed wire and the sentries, I realised that the Germans must feel that – for prisoners – their lives are cast in pleasant places ….. The prisoners, who are paid in accordance with the terms of the Hague Convention, also enjoy the benefit of the extra allowance of food given to prisoners engaged in manual labour.”