Lord Newton told the House of Lords on Wednesday that
the details of the recent agreement with Germany for the exchange of prisoners would require much consideration by both Govern- ments. The Agreement, which he could not describe, was of a very far-reaching character, and had been arrived at with great difficulty. He warned the House that a German reservation, which is said to relate to the case of the Germans in China, "might occasion very serious trouble." Lord Newton admitted that our prisoners in Turkey were suffering greatly, but he said that the Turkish Govern- ment cared nothing for the twenty thousand Turkish prisoners in our hands, and showed no desire to effect an exchange. Austria had stopped our parcels for prisoners in Turkey, and we had stopped the parcels sent to Austrian prisoners.
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