Tuesday's papers contained a despatch recently received by Sir Edward
Grey from Sir Alan Johnstone, the British Minister at the Hague, describing the shooting of British prisoners of war by German troops. The despatch contains the declarations made on April 23rd and 26th before the British Vice-Consul at Rotterdam by Mr. J. Martin, editor of the Rotterdamschn Nieunnblad, and Mr. N. J. van Ditmar, Press correspondent of Rotterdam. These gentlemen describe inter- views with various German deserters, whose names and regiments are given, and who stated that Prince Ruppreoht of Bavaria had expressly ordered the whole Bavarian Army to take no British prisoners in future, and that all had to be shot They also described many instances in which this order had been carried out on unarmed prisoners, who were shot in batches under the supervision of German officers.
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