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Show SAIS PRISON GAMPS ' German Soldier Complains of Inhuman Treatment in Russia. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Sept. 22. The semi-official Xorddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung publishes pub-lishes a statement of Corporal Emil Lorenz, a crippled war prisoner, who recently re-cently was exchanged by Russia and reached his native town of Krocslin. He was badly wounded and captured October 1, l'U-1. He spent four months in different military hospitals, where one of his legs and his right arm were amputated. am-putated. In January-, IP 15, he was sent to the prison camp of Novo Nilolayovsk, near Gorodok. The conditions there were terrible. The whole camp was indescribably indescrib-ably filthy and disease claimed thirty to 11 fly victims dailv. Met ween March !" and August 2, 191.". 0000 of the 15, HOC prisoners In the camp died. At first the corpses were packed into boxes and buried-jn the snow outside of the camp. Tjater they were thrown into a stable, where they remained until they were half devoured by rats. When the stable wua full quicklime was thrown over the bodies to destroy them. The hones and other u ndest roved parts were j pulled out of the lime with rakes and ' buried. i In the hospitals of the camp the sick-prisoners sick-prisoners had to lay on the hare cement doors, with no covering but their cloaks. Nobody looked after them and they re-' ceived only the food brought to theni bv 1 their stronger comrades. The men had to eat out of buckets which were used as coal hods. On August 2. (he corporal was transferred to Dautya. in Trans-Baikalia. in this camp condit ions were good a nd the commander tolerated no brutalities toward the prisoners. The statement of Corporal T.nrenz is cnniirtred in all details by Sergeant Rudolph Ru-dolph Grundmann, who savs in an affidavit: affi-davit: Shortly after my arrival in Xovo NiloUiyvsk 1 was taken ill with tv-photd. tv-photd. I tried to o to tiie hospital, but dropped exhausted before the door. No- , body paid an af.entinn to me and T was almost de-.id wh-n l.orenz and two other prisoners found me and carried me into tiie iicsnital. There my clothing was taken from me. and 1 hail to lie on : h Tonr naked, a I-though I-though it was hitter cold. Corporal r.orenz and other comrades finally ' manacfd to brine: underclothing, a pair of trousers, an old coal and a ra'-rged hla r iket to me and sa vv me fi om freezing to rip;i!li. Although I was in the hospital six weeks 1 onlv s;i w a doctor once, and 1 nf er vr-ccivM vr-ccivM any medicine, but I rcovered, thanks to my iron constitution. |