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Prisoner of War: The term applied to combatants and non-combatants of the enemies' nationality which are either taken in the field of battle or are arrested under various circumstances. A large number of German and many Austrians have been arrested in Great Britain and detained as prisoners of war on the ground that they were reservists about to proceed to join the enemies' forces.[1]
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- ↑ Various contributors (1914). The War Book-of-Facts. 2nd Edition. A.W. Shaw Company, London p.144.
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