GERMAN PRISONERS ESCAPE
Three German prisoners of a gang of ten lent from Badsey Camp to Mr H Patten, of Kite’s Nest, Broadway, escaped on Thursday evening and are still at large. The police and military authorities have issued descriptions of the missing men, and will be grateful for any information which will lead to their capture.
The men are described as:
OFFICIAL NOTICES TO FARMERS
GERMAN PRISONERS AND LAND WOMEN
INFLUENZA
Evesham and the whole district is like the rest of the country, suffering from a very severe influenza epidemic. There are hundreds of cases in the borough itself, and during the last ten days or so no fewer than nine deaths, directly attributable to the scourge, have occurred. The villages are suffering equally and numerous deaths are reported. From what we can gather Badsey appears to be the greatest sufferer, and at one time this week there were no fewer than five persons awaiting burial in this village.
AGRICULTURE AND RECRUITING
THE DEMEANOUR OF GERMAN PRISONERS
MORE GERMAN PRISONERS ARRIVE
A hundred more German prisoners for work on the land in the Evesham district arrived on Thursday afternoon, and they are housed at Hampton House, which has been prepared for their accommodation. An additional hundred are shortly expected to be housed at Badsey Manor house and eighty more will be accommodated at Craycombe. When these contingents have some there will be five hundred prisoners employed on the land in and around Evesham.
Evesham Journal Saturday 2nd February 1918
GERMAN PRISONERS
GENEROUS FOOD SCALE FOR GERMAN PRISONERS
MORE BREAD, MEAT AND TEA THAN BRITISH CIVILIANS
A revised scale of rations for prisoners of war has been circulated with a Parliamentary reply to Sir Arthur Bell. The daily scale shows:
WHAT THE PRISONERS ARE PAID
MILITARY TRIBUNAL
Mrs E Hall & Sons, market gardeners, of Badsey, appealed for Lawrence Richard Knight (18), Badsey, in their employ. Mr Hall said they had 10 acres of land. His mother was too old to do anything on the land. There were also 2 acres of orchard. In reply to Lieutenant Shelmerdine, he said the German prisoners had not arrived at Badsey yet, and then there would be a difficulty for anyone in a small way getting them, and if they did it would be only one or two occasionally. – Adjourned for the reply from the War Agricultural Committee.
