HC Deb 09 March 1916 vol 80 cc1682-3
3. Colonel LOCKWOOD

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the fact that war prisoners are employed to clean the streets of Munich, he will consider the advisability of employing our prisoners of war in this country for a similar purpose?

The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Tennant)

Work can be enforced only on combatant prisoners of war. Dorchester and Shrewsbury are the only places of considerable size near which such prisoners are interned, and they have not been employed there in this work; but the matter shall receive consideration.

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