1 MAY 1915, Page 3

The papers of Monday published a list of thirty-nine British

officers who have been placed under arrest as a reprisal for the treatment of German submarine crews in England. The names, which were ascertained by the American Ambassador in Berlin, belong meetly to well- known families or famous regiments. The evident intention of the German Government was to pick the officers so as to make the reprisal as impressive and as deeply felt as possible. Captain Robin Grey, for example, is a relation of Sir Edward Grey, and Second Lieutenant G. G. Gosehen is a son of the late British Ambassador in Berlin. Some reports speak of the officers as being placed in solitary confinement, but others say that only eleven of them have been subjected to this punishment.