| Show lla iia lil ill I 1 hoard board one day daythan that as many of these R russian u asian fick pick as could be were at once to be sent seat to kulch I 1 saw the them M being carried down to the pier for the vi 1 ett eif fit att T Y f H fr r ose on ai stretchers r eiert on n th the e shoulders 0 of U ta m 1 nr ih hs soldiers idlers ii no 0 0 one ode no with iari thein them to keb aeb see thai that thy they were ra at all ill protected d from the insults to w btuch hichi this was was sure to expose them 1 I 1 at once gotmer Max maxwell ivell one of the duke ruke bf New castles casties cmil commissioners ners to come with me to do what he could to secure the poor creatures from ill lii treat ment I 1 think he will not forget our work that afternoon I 1 had in one instance to take the law into my own hand bands wilh with a brutal turkish soldier one of four bearers who had put the stretcher down on the ground and was evidently grossly insulting the unfortunate being beings who lay helpless before him the boats sent to take them to the steamer were so narrow that the few stretchers we could put on board overlapped their edges we were obliged to take a great many who had only lately lost arms or legs and who were otherwise maimed off t their air stretchers and huddle them in one wretched heap at the bottom of the boat this too lill in the a middle of a moh mob of turks insulting bevery them in a every way no soul in authority not one single officer of the establishment being thre there to protect or to see zee any one precaution taken to save them wern from needless pain since I 1 have bee been in england I 1 have entreated the secretary of war to endeavor to secure the humane treatment of othe the russian war prisoners from Os bornes and its Hospi hospitals I 1 |
