We are glad to say that Mr. Tennant refused absolutely
to yield to the wicked outcry that we should starve and ill-treat German prisoners in our hands because our prisoners are treated inhumanly by the Germans. The prisoners in our hands have done our prisoners no wrong, and are utterly unable to influence the action of the German Government.. Therefore to visit the sins of the Kaiser and the other directors of German policy upon them would be the height of injustice. It cannot even be argued that the threat of reprisals would bring the Germans to a better frame of mind. Experience has shown that if they have an aim to pursue they are quite indifferent to the sufferings of their own soldiers. Till two wrongs make a right we must govern our treatment of German cap- tives by honour and humanity, and not by considerations of policy.
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