Stobsiade

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Stobsiade was a publication of World War I German prisoners of war interned in the camp located in Stobs, Scotland, near Hawick, and administered from London. Holdings are: no. 1 (5, Sept. 1915)- no. 26 (Jan./Feb. 1919). The newsletter contains poems, puzzles, news reports, short stories, and advertisements from the prisoners. The issues appear to have been printed in Hawick. The title is a pun on the popular 18th-century mock epic poem "Jobsiade" by the German physician and writer, Carl Arnold Kortum. The German prisoners were released around February, 1919.

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    Stobsiade : Stobser zeitung
    (Prisoners of war in the Stobs internment camp, 1915-09-05)
    Publication of World War I German prisoners of war interned in the camp located in Stobs, Scotland, near Hawick, and administered from London. The newsletter contains poems, puzzles, news reports, short stories, and advertisements from the prisoners. The issues appear to have been printed in Hawick. The title is a pun on the popular 18th-century mock epic poem "Jobsiade" by the German physician and writer, Carl Arnold Kortum. The German prisoners were released around February, 1919
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