Kelso Chronicle – German Prisoners for Stobs

6 November 1914

Arrangements are being completed for interning a large number of German prisoners at Stobs camp, about four miles south of Hawick. Huts will be erected in the fields which were occupied this summer by the OTC from the Scottish and English Universities and which in some former training seasons were dotted with the tents of the Territorial battalions of the Royal Scots (Queens, Edinburgh etc). It is proposed to erect 40 huts on the south-west of Winningtonrig and 60 to the north east of the other side of the road sleeping accommodation for a total of 600. There will be dining rooms, cook houses, and other accommodation and all these will be enclosed by a “death line” made of barbed wire. Outside the barbed wire there will be the barrack stores, guard room, cells, etc. It is estimated that the cost of the huts will be almost £50,000. It is stated that several of the prisoners may be taken to Stobs immediately in which case they could be accommodated in the huts less than a dozen in number, which are at present at Barnes, overlooking the proposed compound and in other places at the Castle. The first batch of prisoners has now arrived at Stobs.