All their personal belongings, except arms, horses,
and military papers, remain their property_." Now all the
prisoners held by Germany have, without exception, been
spoiled of their money, of their portfolios, of their rings,
of their jewels, of their eyeglasses.
ARTICLE 6 says that "_the state may employ as workmen the
prisoners of war_," but it is careful in stipulating "_that
the work must not be excessive and must have nothing
whatever to do with operations of war_." ARTICLE 7 says
that "_prisoners of war shall be treated as regards board,
lodging, and clothing on the same footing as the troops of
the Government who captured them_." Each of these two
articles has been violated since the beginning of the war by
the Germans. After the Battle of the Marne, when the
advancing French troops of Joffre arrived on the Aisne they
found French civilians captured by the Germans and compelled
by them to work in the trenches. Moreover, an official
report emanating from Mr. Gustave Ador, President of the
International Red Cross, now member of the Swiss Federal
Council, called the attention of the belligerents as soon as
October, 1914, to the bad treatment of the French prisoners
in Germany.
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