Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba It f j f to to a t. Manitoba free press s Atud -22, 1918. , probably House. Die of epilepsy in a chapter Xvi working categories. of prisoners in the t Abu Black As categories of prisoners in German a the very severe weather with no _ _ a quate food. The War workers against inter National Ordinary factory employees the wounded a tinder treatment the Paras and the invalids in Central Camps Are All dealt with particularly those unfortunate beings work on munitions to kill their themselves with to Nutter Able loathing and curse the Day that them c. V. Winnipeg rifles. Chapter Xiv. Soon the physically weaker among them to die off like flies in autumn. Others became sick. Tuberculosis to get a and the terrible conditions that had obtained for prisoners in the first Winter of the War began to Manifest themselves. I have known miser Able sick starving shivering wrecks of men to huddle together in one dry Corner of organs and playing Routh in gins the old. Songs to Lister and War work classes 1 is. Systematic of a Ore thought. Any abuse in the other classes is largely a result of individual evil nature. There is naturally a wide latitude allowed Tor Camp command ants in the administration of their charges and this reveals traits of character often unlovely traits in the top it is. True though that the. Prus sians Are the cruellest of the Ger mans. It is equally True that in All Camps except those dealt with above the prussians becoming scarcer due in Jarge part to the need for such men on the front. The commandants who have been keep up their spirits while in the taking their 1915 Are j therae. A Man puts his head out of the door at risk of a or -iybr.se, after that hour. Conceited cub doctors. At the medical attention was decidedly had when i was there. A conceited cub of a medical student had1 charge of the regular Hospital where a brutal horse doctor who hate d All the enemies of the fat h or land with an incredible ferocity had charge of the review in the civil lager. I have seen him pass Down a line of forty Odd. Sick men and. Force All but two of them to. Go to work without doing More than touch them with his walking stick As he passed. He was Tal. It w that they used to have Tourial Par ties each morning for prussians who had overnight. The plight of the russians serbs and romanians in that Camp was pitiful in the sex groups did invaluable , the at then Neutral american a . Made the fatal mistake of trying to minister to the British and germans at the same. Time. The men in therefore came a Cropper and most part prisoners re to have much to do with them. That Ivaa unfortunate As the institution that has Dwrie such Good work on the Fig Hting front surely had a ipacs in German Jara is if it had realized the vital Juji St inaction Between the attitude of a Neutral and a com Ija Tant toward the germans. Early in our incarceration we had it Down As a working principle that we with the walking suck Asne Praseu. Uvo uld to do with the utterly incompetent germans. Is Turany therefore we was. Under has administration refused to stay Jyh a room where treatment of prisoners the commonest question asked of a a stored prisoner War is and How did they treat you those he Nelsn that is precisely the most difficult the War workers men who Are fit to work and forced by Chance usually into mines munition Factor ies onto railroads fortifications military roads Etc. In Defiance of International the Ordinary workers men employed in industries not con by Paile Corner there Lay the dying older Kindlien men of the professional classes engineers judges Etc., Raeen superannuated the most pact these men completed their educations before the universities be came Prussiani Zed and so their characters Are not vitiated by the Doc Trines the War lords i have seen some of them mildly studying classifying and comparing prisoner types . In a harmless Way what Man Ner of men they were. It is usually or dead forms 1 of their. Comrades. I asked some of them in Switzerland later How they came to be singing i in such tragic Cir cd stances and they replied that if they let. Them selves lose courage for instant they Wou certainly suffer the same Cate As the poor dead and dying Fel lows around them. Story of Sublime heroism it is irom Libau that comes tha that is asked a prisoner if nested with winning the War. I wounded under Usu ally newly captured men who have not yet Bee n discharged Pris Oner hospitals. Farm hands those employed in agriculture generally. Permanent invalids men. Through wounds or sickness permanently excused from work. Officers and exempt by special convention. Generally speaking Reav atrocities perpetrated against prisoners Are confined to the Black Lister and War worker which by the Way comprise about forty per cent. Of the British and fifty per of the prisoners of other by his answer he seeks to convey a. Corr act impression As to How Kultur at Home deals with its prisoner victims. I always reply that for myself personally i Lia pc very Little complaint la make. I was an invalid during practically All my incarceration. I was never asked to do a Day s work Tho country and t was left alone -.1 the Large show Carnap and hospitals during Tho whole sixteen months i spent in their hands. Judged of German doctors that. 1 could die any. And to i was not molested. It is for the most part. In the working Camps where maltreated. The German has a Peculiar Psychol Ivy. He has a notion Liat lie can get better work out of prisoners by driving than otherwise. Perhaps he could if All the world were German Tut he cannot get re sults that Way with Anglo saxons. Then is sees that his efforts Are z. Failure he does not give up and try some other Way. He intensifies his cruelties since his Law is a Law of Force. He keens hammering away in is own stupid Way and soon his abuse develops into something of in credible ferocity. Major and minor naturally German discipline Pur. Isis s prisoners for major and minor. t the punishment the offence. Which in fins that it depends on the a cars of the work a prisoner is. Doing what his punishment shall be. This easily the Healthiest safest and. Most comfortable prisoners in Ger Many Are those employed As farm labourers. They Are away from the depressing and sometimes pestilential air of Tho. Camp proper. They get the Best food supplied to anyone by parcels from Home. The life is lantern slides were being shown of British officers on the one hand and of germans on the other with the explanations in English and German. Prisoners Are wholly in favor of sup pressing a the German Lan Gnu age an d they Boycott it wherever they can. A ref Secl to teach German t he efficient especially the. Languages. Department. They were first opened the. One m a Trie a to Force us Germany and that is reinforced but Are. Offir scially listed As invalids. I myself was in that class during practically All my stay in the country. Early Days there was a lot of sick Ness among invalids due mainly to t in fact that the Barracks were badly ventilated. Chapter xvii. At club i of i a Cor five thou Sam Vrap Are direct Hie Brili Shere wore taken to Poland which they Are conf neck and e character Estius of. Fol germ is untied work. All their food parcels were stopped Anri they were forced to March Long distances. They were weak and the est away their heavy Winter the red Cross would soon. Be pending them new supplies. A Jii Ier came in rapidly Atid found Laem in Tho your dainties Blouse Wash it this Way say a gallon of hot water but not hotter thai the bands can be placed in with Comfort. Drop in Jabie spoons of Lux and whisk into a lather. Stir the Blouse about in the solution for a few minutes then squeeze it Well in the hands. Rinse in two or three relays of tepid water and hang to dry. True to of Riby obey. Their orders almost know a a German Suarcz a Man with some de to strike a prisoner butt of his Rice. Arid then of h itself apologize and say he was Only obeying the. Spirit his orders. In these Camps is very a stroke Stab a baby he to a shot a blow Over the head with a Rifle butt or a Long term of confinement in wretched Mili tary prisons 1 or any Man vrho darts pro Tes even by a look against the or Iyih tactics of the Geniv m a slave Dri vers of this Are i mainly that Al turbulence May be in Timic lated. Attiat prisoners i May be Over awed and become slaves in mines and munition fac tories thus releasing German work ers to go and fight in the front i a trenches. The original prussians in these of amps Are kept there and not As. Is the Tase in other places taken out for service in the firing line. Underground farms it is an old Dodge for 2. German cruelties which used to prevail. It is never known in a German Hospital today when a representative of the International bed Cross will and make an inspection. Then again the germans Are by no that they Are going to win , and in consequence they Are preparing to make the accounting As Light As possible. For myself i was always fortunate of in the doctors who had with me net Twenty seven in of these seven were. Regular prussians and the other Twenty varied Fredra the indifferent to the positively . As a Rule the older the doctor the less and. As i explained a Bove the More kindly. But unfortunately there is lass barbed wire madness it was not Many before a i new nervous disease broke out among prisoners this was speedily named barbed wire madness. Men of High nervous were especially prone to it it usually Home sickness and. Chronic melancholia i film this it progressed until there was mental and. Moral deterioration. Then it was not ions before the physical Frame suffered. In conjunction these produced neurasthenia which caused prisoners particularly the Idle ones Noa commissioned officers and invalids to imagine that they were suffering from All the disease s in the Calendar. I myself have con Vinced that i wits . Of half. 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They we re starving and surrounded by infectious disease. The a pretty desirable Telac e . They consented to go and then they found that tie farm was a few Case this very. I remember a party of British had gone out from Giessen 10 of them. They found their farm was . They refused to enter the Gate Lead ing to a Shaft on the morning Cley were supposed to Start work the Gerrman officer came out and ordered they silent he Boca me Power. That accounts for a lot of the. Petty torturing1 3.bout Wultich so Many tales have come out Volji Germany. Cut men s legs off. Then there Are the irredeemable what s the result a shining purely clean garment with and Tufe of newness a shrunk. In and unfazed. Silk crepe de come of any sheer fabric is cleansed with perfect safety. All Tod grocers sell lux., British lever Brothers limited Toronto All Given to Bov girls fairy Palace 3 Beautiful doll sets ring. And Princess Pat doll first big Btu a Fol a Bijj. Juco toss. Room it an i wools "5 turn Tbs a Kun fill a tand Toms is to Irth 5-.il stir Tab 1-Eiuuftl spirt to incl it trial test a tossed 4oll Udor Iiams Hud. Sad sea is to Tela to cd hit. Too away by Bra Coj Paat left. Them to get in. By Sloo d their ground furious and bullied them they still refused with even greater stubborn Ness. He then got out a paper and read out a German army order. Der it All prisoners were in the Germany army. If hey re used to obey orders they could is hot Jor Active in gave them five minute s to think t during the interval this charming Ellow got a machine Sun and Crew in front of the delinquents in he then made them Ace him again and drawing his word he raised it his head. Hepfl Tiem if they were not in the it the enclosure by the time he had ten he would let it fall and that would tie a signal to his machine gunner to wipe them off the map. Began to count slowly 7vrcallecl his Bluff three four five six eight one britishers opened his shirt and stood dare chested. There was no Indica Tori that the British intended to obey and so he lowered his sword without i victims out. The boys had called his thin. But it Loo k a lot of nerve. One youngster lost his courage during the ordeal of the slow counting and dived into the Gate. To okie else moved. The party was then driven into a shed. On the Way a guard kicked the Cockney who had stripped his i Hurt Back in. The rear and knocked him his feet and on to his quarters in a Pool of Muddy water. The Little fellow turned on his Tormentor Savl should like to meet you in old i would you do if asked his Rifle Mena Oins buy you or drink. I Don t Fink. Oor returned the disgusted son a Cockney is m sound of Bowa celebrated Church of 1 i know a Man in a Swiss a. Hopeless Lunatic As of a blow Over the head fri5m a German Rifie. He was in and Ope sick. He asked to was his right. The sitar dry fused Aijo. Ordered him out to Wei k. He would not go so the guard refused and ordered him with the heavy butt of his Rifle. That Day he had fourteen epileptic fits and now after five operations the Swiss doctors can do nothing for him. He prussian doctors. I have known of men with shattered arms or. their care. They would get a helpless prisoner on an operating table and say hauntingly Hay mtg ens Lander i Ami going to take Arm or As the toe and then you again. Russia can. Have peace. England also. Can have peace for five years. Then we will fight her again. Will take her colonies. We will take her Gold. We will take her ships. We will her clean. And you i am mutilating that we May not have to fight you again in that next with which amiable threat he would Gas the victim and take off the limb with no More ado. But if a prisoner is fortunate enough to have Good doctors As i had at Giessen and1 Lichten has a. Great Deal to. Be thankful for. Otherwise the Only ill in Hospital is the close confinement even Iri Sumner time patients must be at s o clock in the evening Corapi the German commandants beg an to encourage Lus in entertaining our selves. It was not very Long Ore the theatre reached huge pro portions. In the Camp a Soltau. Where we had Accomma Dawon for nearly prisoners a great peace time training a Louse Marque was Given Over to theatrical performances that place had a. Seating capacity of prisoners spent Over Marks in. Fax it up. T myself have seen a vaudeville performance there which would rival most of the stuff " on this continent. Profits for Good the Cinema also was run for the common Good. All. 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