him for occasional walks in the neighbouring country." "In a lazaret at
Spandau," writes Mr. Jackson, "I sat alone with Captain Coulston in the
good-sized, comfortably furnished room which he occupies by himself....
Recently he had had a conversation with Her Royal Highness the Princess
Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, who visited the lazaret, but ordinarily he
had little opportunity to talk, as he speaks only a few words of German,
French, or Russian. On my speaking of this, I was told that an effort
would be made to have English-speaking German officers call on him from
time to time."

GERMAN PROFESSORS.

Attention is again drawn to the excellent work of Prof. Stange at
Goettingen. "He has an office in the camp at which he is present for two
hours every day, during which time he can be consulted by any prisoner,
and has formed classes of study, which are well attended." At Giessen,
too, "Prof. Gmelin of the local university has taken a great interest in
the prisoners and visits them regularly with a view to providing for
their instruction."

A CONTRADICTION.

The following is important and I quote it in full. _Mr. Osborne to Mr.
Gerard._ (_February 23, 1916_) (l.c. p. 62.):

In accordance with your instructions and with reference to the
article in the London _Times_ of February 7, stating the report
of an exchanged British prisoner of war that two British
prisoners at the detention camp at Guestrow, in Mecklenburg, had
been bayonetted for smoking in a forbidden vicinity, and that
one had died and the other was still in hospital, I have the
honour to inform you that I visited the camp at Guestrow on
February 12, 1916. I did not notify the camp authorities of my
arrival. I was shown every courtesy and received every facility
for speaking to the British prisoners out of earshot of the
Germans. I talked with a large number of British
non-commissioned officers and with some of the men, and all were
unanimous on two points; first, that if such an occurrence as
the one mentioned had taken place, they would certainly have
heard of it; and, second, that they had heard of no such
occurrence. I visited the lazaret, through which I was taken by
a British N.C.O., who is an assistant in caring for the sick,
and spoke to every British patient under treatment there, not
one of whom could possibly have been suffering from a bayonet
wound. It seem