Oct 9.
Burisu Ex-Seavicemax, in his letter published in the correspondence columns yesterday, on the subject of the Anglo-German exchange of seriously wounded war prisoners, was closer to the mark, when he suggested it was a Irlek to obtain a'surcease from British bombing of western Germany, than appeared likely when he frst wrote his letter. The whole episode now stands out quite clearly as another typical piece of Nazi perfidy, and there will be complete agreement with the Secretary of State for War in his declaration that the British Government was not prepared to risk being made the victim of a flagrant breach of faith on the part of the Germans, The negotiations for the exchange were based upon the international convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, which the present German Government has recognized as binding upon it. Article 68 provides that belligerents shall be required to send back to their own country, without regard.to rank or number, after rendering them in ft condition for transport, prisoners of war seriously ill, or seriously wounded.
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