Show French Soldier in German Prison Gives H Harrowing Details of Life Underfed Packages of Preserves f aJ and d' d Chocolate Sent Chocolate Sept Sent From V Home Taken From Prom Th Them m N Newspapers Newspapers- rs V VV V and arid B Books V Stopped PARIS May 6 Harrowing 6 details of Ufo life In a German prison hospital are given by Charles in a volume volume vol vol- vol- vol ume nine entitled In Iii the Hands of Germany Germany Ger Ocr many the Diary of a Wounded Pris Pris- oner A few extracts culled from It show what the majority of wounded Frenchmen have to endure when they fall Into the hands of their opponents who seem to have no conception of the rights rights' of ot a a. prisoner nor tion for the wounded The happenIngs happenings happen- happen Ings of two days clays tell the whole tale It Is Js as follows p November 21 ew New restrictions on our right to write we can now only write one letter at a time The food tood was bad buta but a healthy man could di digest digest digest di- di gest it Now it is cut down suddenly The bread Is worm eaten We are no longer allowed owed to purchase in the town I I Surveillance severe gloomy gloom cious Searches in our possessions every da day We Ve are forbidden to re receive receive receive re- re packages from France rance We Ve try to let our friends know but our letters ar are are forwarded so tardily that many are still on the way Will VIll we get the packages now bound boum to us We are soon put at rest on the matter Those for whom parcels arrive are ara banded handed the wrappers and have to pay a tax taxat of at 80 a kilogramme for preserves preserves preserves pre pre- serves and chocolate And then the contents are seized Everything goes into strange hands and and lt It is a gracious gift that the French wounded make to their German friends the Roche chaplain tells us Now the Gazette de Lorraine a special edition printed In horrible I French rench is interdicted to us It is not much of a loss What hat villainies that sheet contained What insults to good Frenchmen An insert In a great German German German Ger Ger- man daily It was the for tor all aU the absurd rumors that German minds could think of But this Interdiction carries with it ita ita ita a grave graye deprivation No more French books fiction or otherwise no more 1 I I German dictionaries nor even the old old I II illustrated papers that the prisoners I had thumbed over mer We are prisoners and prison means silence solitude To read would be to think To read of France even France even evil would evil would be to exalt In us a latent tenderness to blow to life the embers embers embers' of blackened enthusiasm The shadow of Germany has come between us and our beloved au au- au I thors thora I had th the Demon de Midi of or orI Bourget so interesting It was seized at once And I have had to conceal I my notes In my bed I White paper in a drawer attracted attention The rhe Prussian soldier who wh found It w was s exasperated I this paper for Where did it come from l' l To study German My response response was very calm He showed his hatred You Tou will wUl h have ve time to do that when it Is la spoken in your of a country it is spoken in your of ofa a country Never I 1 exclaim He raises his fist over my bed then he laughs brutally brutally brutally bru bru- tally Insultingly He left but I Iwas was vas crying with rage white as a a. sheet in inI my l' l weakened al ened condition I Oh how horrible to be only an in invalid invalid in- in valid In this bed of ot pain on on stained sheets unable to smash that barbarian In the eye to thrust his insults down I his lila throat Nov November 24 After After the interdiction interdiction interdiction tion confiscation By order this morning morning morn morn- ing the searching was begun again We had postal cards for which we paid dearly when we bought them They are seized from our hands The brutal order came suddenly without warning And with them went our to tobacco tobacco tobacco to- to bacco supply Adieu the cigarettes No more mOle pipes s |