Since my return, so many people have asked me whether prisoners of war had any idea of the turn affairs were taking during the autumn, that it would be as well to state here exactly what our sources of information were. There were only two papers printed in English, the _Anti-Northcliffe Times_ and the _Continental Times_. The former I never saw, and it cannot have had a very large circulation. But the _Continental Times_, which appeared three times a week, was to be found in every room in the camp. It was the most mendacious chronicle. It was printed at Berlin, and was published solely for British prisoners of war; a more foolish production can hardly be imagined. Its views, political and military, changed with each day’s tidings, and its chief object was to impress on British prisoners the relative innocence of Germany and perfidy of the Entente. But it was so badly done that it can never have achieved its ends. It was far too violent, and so obviously partial. Its only interesting features were the reproductions from the English weeklies of articles by men like Ivor Brown and Bertrand Russell; once they even paid me the doubtful honour of a quotation, a tribute considerably enhanced by the appearance of the poem under the name of Siegfried Sassoon. But no one took the _Continental Times_ seriously, and the paper that we relied on for our news was the _Frankfurter Zeitung_, the representative organ of the Rhine towns. There were two issues daily. The morning one contained the Alliance _communiqués_, and the evening one the Entente. Like all other German papers, it was under the strictest censorship of the military bureaucrats, but it maintained nevertheless an extraordinary impartiality. It rarely indulged in heroics, and except for a little “hot air” on March 22nd it kept its head remarkably well. It is, of course, the most moderate paper in the country, and the _Berliner Tageblatt_ is considerably more hectic. But the _Frankfurter Zeitung_ was, certainly during the period of my captivity, more restrained than any British daily publication. It can be most fittingly compared, in tone though not in politics, with our sixpenny weekly papers whose appeal is to the educated classes.