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MY GERMAN PRISONS

CAPTAIN H. G. GILLILAND

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

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From the portrait by C. Percival Small, Esq.

My German Prisons

BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF AN OFFICER
DURING TWO AND A HALF YEARS AS A
PRISONER OF WAR


BY
CAPTAIN H. G. GILLILAND
LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT



HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON   NEW YORK   TORONTO
MCMXVIII


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Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Finey, Ld.,
London and Aylesbury.
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DEDICATED

TO

MR. JAMES W. GERARD
Late U.S.A. Ambassador to the Imperial Court at Berlin

TO WHOM EVERY BRITISH PRISONER
OWES A DEBT OF GRATITUDE WHICH
CAN NEVER BE REPAID

H. G. G.

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PREFACE

The writer has been so constantly and earnestly appealed to to write hisexperiences, and so weary recounting them, that he has at last decidedto put into print a short account of things as they really happenedwithin his own personal knowledge during his two and a half years’imprisonment in Germany. He is also encouraged to do so for other andmore important reasons. There are so many people throughout our Empirewho are unfortunate enough to have intimate friends and relations incaptivity in Germany. In the opinion of the writer these people ought toknow, from one who has had a bitter experience, to which these pageswill testify, the true conditions{10} under which those nearest and dearestto them exist.

To those who are more fortunate, and who may be inclined to be scepticaltowards the newspaper reports of German brutality, it is hoped thisnarrative will come as a revelation.

Further, there must be many who are already feeling war-weary anddespondent, and who consequently may be ready to embrace any opportunityof making peace, even on the basis of the status quo. If therevelations disclosed herein bring home to these a knowledge of theinfamous, relentless, and savage character of the Hun, deliberatelydehumanised by the State for the purposes of the State, the writer willfeel that his labour has not been in vain.{11}

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