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Show GIVES EXPERIENCES IN KPIIS Wounded British Captain Tells of Horrible Conditions Con-ditions Encountered. Food Insufficient and Care of Patients a Secondary Consideration. By CAPTAIN J. A. F. OZAJTNE. By Universal Service. LONDON, Nov. 30. The following Is th narrative of a captain in the K. A. At. C who was captured in 1916 during the bat-, tie of the Sonime, where he was wounded in the right arm and left hand. About four weeks after his capture ho was sent to a hospital at Ohrdruf. It was not a pood hospital, and there was no X-ray appliance. Tlie dressing was mainly in the hands of junior doctors or medical students. The chief doctor camo round regularly; he was affable, but did nothing. The principal object seemed to be to act a wound to heal on tho outside regardless of what was going 0:1 underneath. under-neath. The food there was very bad mainly cabbage soup, which, of course, was altogether al-together insufficient for wounded men. The sanitary arrangements wero scanty. Toward the end of September, 191ti, be was sent to llann Munden. where tho prisoners were lodged in a dark, gloomy, badly ventilated oil factory. Tho following fol-lowing November bo was transferred to Constance, and at the end of tho month to Heidelberg, which he describes as tho i best hospital In Gcrmuny. I Men Half -starved. 1 Tn April, 1017. ho was sent to Ocfeld, where he remained for about a molt t h. At Orefeld he saw three cases of men who had come back from working behind the. lines. They wero u n wounded prisoners who had been digging trenches in the shell area. They were weak and emaciated emaci-ated and suffering from chronic diarrhoea. Their daily ration of food had been nothing noth-ing but two bowls of soup. After a month at Crefeld he was moved to Soltau and was put in tho men's la per. It was a big lager with a small hospital for slight cases. Serious oaes were -sent outside. There was a Belgian doctor in charge of tlie hospital, and tho R. A. M. C. captain was put in charge of the ward containing the British prisoners. Thero was a scandalous lack of dressings. At last paper bandages only wcro issued, and these had to be placed in actual contact with the wounds. Tu September, 1917, ho was sent to Holz-minden. Holz-minden. The treatment there was harassing har-assing and vexatious. Officers insufficiently insuffi-ciently clothed -were made to attend frequent fre-quent "appeals" in very bad weather. Fuel Supply Short. Thero was no heating except in the dining din-ing room until at last, owing to the prisoners' pris-oners' , complaints, tho Germans agreed lo let them buy fuel at a high price-. A few days later a representative from I the Dutch embassy came to iuspcet tho camp."' That morning the prisoners were told that for the tutu re the fuel would be fre Tho visitor came and went, and the fuel continued to be charged for aa before. Ultimately the monthly bill per head for food and fuel came to more than a junior 1 officer's pay. ! .So this captain was moved about from camp to camp. In all. he found the same sea ntiness of food, the same callousness and. hardships. Kverywhero the chief object ob-ject of the Germans was to get ny much work as possible out of the prisoners whether they had been wounded or not. Tho men were driven to tho utmost, lindt, half sarvrd, and but half recovered recov-ered from their wounds though they were. |