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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY; MAY 21 191G. N, c D M aime d and riDDiea ror Lire Kii ssian and. German jrnsoneis Are Excha: .Red c ross h roil Ofices of we 1 1 n m 1 r Pathetic Stories Told by 0 Pris- oners of War Now on Their Way Home, Wounded 5 TV So Badly That "Jhey Are Forever Unfit for Active Service; Ter- r i " f f-- .Y t . , Y . ,f i.,. ,r? 1 i H ; ' , of Prussia and One Man a Charge Ga-lici- a; " UK i f ;W.tt'V'i 3 Y TfA-- t: 8 r v f v vr t - Sweden, May 20. Clad in preat coats of West Point v ' .i -- u Ji, i. :. ... ; h i rr ;t -tV 4 14 n - t hi 1 -- 1 , - t t x r i . v'.JW;: ft- IT':' S - jVv'. r With All Their Sufferings and O TOCKHOLJf, , t 1 Kill- Hardships the Name of the Kaiser or Francis Joseph Brings a Resounding Cheer s ' - ; When a ShrapneJ ing His Horse and Wounding Him Twenty-on- e Times; Yet - 6 : Vas Leading Burst Underneath Him, S v... ft si vy - r.A rible Experiences Befell Hundreds of Them on the Battlefields V- -- V ST - & ' , V Y-1- 5 - -, v - v r i IM y S ! inere was one poor ieiiow moving. gray, the first of the hopelessly about the train with sheepskin pads wounded German and Austrian pris on his knees and both feet gone. oners of war to come ont of Russia . "Me no good any more," he smiled this year, paed through Sweden a in broken English when he learned is Immediately above the picture that of a large group of prisonfew days ago in exchange for tho that the Associated Press corresponders of war assembled at a German helpless and hapless Russians who ent on board the hospital train was concentration camp to be registered and assigned for detention or had heen sent home from the German an American. " And boom and exchange. no boom, boom, good hospital camps. The Austrians On the right the upper picture he either," lot added, cheerful more & were mimicking the Germans give3 a view of a Red Cross field than the stolid, silent Russians ami roar of battle. This man had lain hospital where a soldier is being treated. jieemed to have a more definite idea wounded for days with lrts feet in a frozen half stream. When found Wounded Russians and Huncf their future life. was more dead than alive. Up garians fraternizing on a hospital "It is nothing," said one young he are shown in the center paneL Austrian with his right leg gone and to the time he lost consciousness he train scene at the bottom is the The two fearful scars on his face; "I am said he mnst have been lying out of dedication of an ambulance for a jeweler by trade and my hands are doors for six or seven days. All this field service. time he heard the screech and roar as good as ever." The exchange of wounded prison- of shells passing above his head and ers undertaken by the SwedisIrRed occasionally . exploding about him. Cross k 4 gigantic affair. Effective Any one of them, he said would have been a welcome end to his agony. rule to guard against the importation May 15 three trains running weekly in each direction from the Finnish But now he was smiling and cheerful of any infectious disease. They are frontier to the southern reaches of on his way "home." He did not not taken to Berlin, for it is said the Baltic can handle but compara- know what he could do when he got here the Germans do not wish woundtively few of the men so hopelessly there for he had been a horseshoer ed men on the streets of the capital. The other prisoner far along in the used up that the warring nations are by trade and a horseshoer without is not of much account. relentless grip of consumption had plad to be rid of them. Some statis- feet Some of the prisoners complained also suffered the loss of a leg. He tician claiming to have knowledge of the situation has declared that with bitterly of their treatment at the said he had a wife and three children trains running daily all the year hands of the Russians, but the more at home and he did not know how round it would take ten yeara to com intelligent of the wounded soldiers he could ever provide for them. declared that while their lots had The invalid transport trains passplete the transport of tho human been hard they realized the Russians ing through 'Sweden do not come to wastrel of war now held in Russia had done all they possibly could un- Stockholm and the Swedish people find Germany. One of the wounded Austrians on der the circumstances. There were the as a whole see very little of the the first train from Russia was asked days of exposure on the battlefields wounded men. The nearest approach how many of his comrades were left which could not be helped, the poor to Stockholm is Halsberg, where the field accommodations for the wound- men detrain for dinner. As the first in Russia. had to be cared for in far train from Russia came into "Ob," he replied, "there must be ed, who numbers Halsberg than anyone had the militarj' attache of the Austrian greater a million of them." This prisoner said he had been "all ever anticipated, and the hours of legation in Stockholm was at the stas, neglect due to the fact that the doc- tion. The train platforms were over Russia" and that few war tors more had work could than whole of crowded they with soldiers 011 crutches or either wounded could handle. and with arms torn away. It was possibly skin and limb, were permitted to repitiful to see the poor cripples Uniform Shot Away. main in one camp more than a month straighten up and salute with such or two. He was wounded in August One prisoner said he lay on the hands as they had left when they last and said he must have been in floor of a house or stable for two caught sight of the officer in full every hospital camp from Vladivos- days and the only soft thing about uniform. The attache and representatives of him was his own blood. His uniform tok to Petrograd. the German legation distributed cigTimes. had been entirely shot away by the arettes, cigars, newspapers and Ger Wounded Twenty-on- e There was one young soldier from explosive which had cost him a leg. man weeklies to the men on the train. And to each an envelope was of the soldiers said they had Prague, Bohemia, who had had a ter- Some handed with especial ceremony. These rible experience. He wa3 in the cav- been robbed by Cossacks as they lay envelopes were found to contain picwounded in the field, money and lit- ture when a in was and charge riding alry postcards of Emperor William tle ruthof trinkets beneath shell being jewelry of burst a shrapnel just Germany, Emperor Francis Joseph beof snatched from them. Austria and Field Marshal von It him. The hor?e was killed and the lessly times. came a custom, the Austrians said, Hindenburg. rider wa3 wounded twenty-on- e After dinner there were songs of Seven times he was placed on the op- for the wounded to turn their pock- the Fatherland, sung with lusty Gererating table. He emerged with one ets inside out as they lay upon the man voices. When the singing first leg gone and the other so broken, frozen ground to show they had noth- began the maimed soldiers came hopas fast as bent and twisted that it but little re- ing and thus escape a bayonet prod. ping to the song-circl- e canes crutches and could help The Swedish doctors in charge of heavy sembled human form. them. They gave cheers for the emAnd yet the man had pleaded with the hospital trains listen to these perors "and stood with heads uncovthe doctors for that remnant of a stories with indulgent smiles. They ered as they chorused "The Watch say undoubtedly there have been on the Rhine." limb. The Swedish Red Cross has splencases of great hardship, but the "They wanted to cut it off, too, as the arduous work of well as my right hand, but I heard wounded soldier as a rule is very didly organized the prisoners between transporting them talking and I said, 'Please, good keen for sympathy and talks accord- Russia and Germany and every prisoner who has made the journey across Mr. Doctor, don't cut off my other ingly. There were two pitiful cases of tu- has been warm in his praise of the leg and my hand!' At last they let berculosis on the train. The sands comforts provided for him. Each me go," he said. train is in of of the The hand was scarred in many of life were fast running out of the the Swedish charge and theresurgeon are espe army places, but seemed otherwise to be glass for one of these, but he seemed cial nurses and orderlies. Each train perfectly useful. But in time of war to giow a bit stronger as the train is provided with an operating room and whenever a serious operation is amputation is such an effective and neared Trelleborg, where the prison- deemed necessary the train is stopped ers were to be transferred to a Gerexpeditious treatment. while it is performed. The 'govern Each man of the 217 on board the man hospital transport. ments of Russia and Germany pay so to will be thrill"It own get good home," ha'd his for the expense of the transport of train from Russia he sighed. the had one prisoners, the Red Cross handling Each to tell. ing story all accounts. The journey is a the devil the will never "But poor get tasted the utmost of the bitterness one and the work of exchange long of war and forae seemed so badly there," said the doctor, for the pris- is expensive. 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