Boche and Bolshevik. By Hereward T. Price. (Murray. 68. net.)—The
author of this book is an Englishman by birth who, some years before the war, became naturalized as a German, presumably in order to improve his position as a lecturer at Bonn. He assumed that, as he was over the military age, he would not be called up. Nevertheless, in 1915 he was enlisted and put into an Alsatian battalion for service on the Russian front. There his company was surprised and captured in a night attack. He was sent to a Siberian prison-camp at Stretenak and was liberated last year. He draws an unfavour- able picture of the average German as a prisoner, spying on his comrades and. truckling to his gaolers in order to gain special privileges. He is equally severe on the maladministration of the Russian prison-camps, where the mortality from typhus was heavy. He describes the barbarities and follies of the Bolsheviks when they gained a temporary ascendancy in Eastern Siberia. He assures us that throughout the war the German and Austrian soldiers were on the worst possible terms. It is well to remember this when we are told that Austria wants a union with Germany.
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