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Show i ; TUB t Gunner 4 V rl PA JllbcrtV C. ht DcptU) J Chiaf Fatty Officer, ' U. 5. Niir-M-tub aI tfaa Foreign JUfioR at Franca Captain Cun 1 urret. Frcnclr Battlaahin C uurd Winner o lira Cron Ja Caarral t a allllllillUillil.MiLlJilllllllllllillUlillll. L CopjTlfht, 191, hr Bcl.lr and Britton Oo , TteOBJi Special ArranuMBici 1 With tba Gauraa 1 Mauna Jidataa Mamo. I 7 - The following morning we nearly dropped dead w hen, the Hans pulled In a large wagon full of clothing. We g ..j iavfi ' to wenr our liut underclothes. if They Issued to each man a pair of trousers, thin model, .a thin coat I? i - about like the seersucker coats some 1 people wear In the summer, an overi coat about as warm as If It had been made of cigarette papers, a skull cap -.and a pair 'of shoes, Mich were a dayt labor to carry around, Not one u? received socks, shirts or under- -. 4f wear, , toe was cat from the right shoe - of ,I recelvCd, and as my wonnds were in the right thigh and f my leg had stiffened up considerably and got vet) sore, I got pretty enx-tons, because there was nothing but Ij'll - slush underfoot, and I was afraid I might Iqsa my leg. ' So I thought that If I went to the commander and made a kick ! might get a good shoe. I hesit' tated aodjut It at first, hat finally made uB pitnlnd and went Jo see Elm P I told, him that it was slushy outside, and the water ranthronglv the Tfcple 1$ my sEo and made It bad for hmy jwjioje leg, which was wounded. Be examined the shoe, and looked at the open toe for some time, and I thought he ws going to put up an argument, but would give In finally.-The- n he asked me what I wanted. I thought that was plain enough to see, - bat I said Just as easily as 1 could that I wanted a shoe without 'a hole In the toe. - honght-we-never-would finj-fliln- r - lr the-pa- V .TT j tat ;f.vh 1 So n 't 1 r. r-i- ? 4 ' 1 V!- - iAl- - 4 ; T . T' ns water into It. It was very cold. we were weak and sick, so we womu fall one after aoothcr, not raring whether we ever got up or not. Frits would smash those who fell with his rifle butt We asked 'for gloves, our bunds were freezing, bnt all r-- would 'go "Ear'd with TfnyoBe Who Complained much. So most of the men said they were having a great time and were treated very well, and spread It on so thick that their friends would figure they were lying because they had to. One fellow bad an Idea' that was better than that, though. He had been In Jttil In Portsmouth, England, 'for three months, for beating up a constable, and he had had a pretty rough time.. So he wrote a pal of his that he had been captured by the Germans,' but that everything was going - In fact, he said, along- - pretty-wel- l. the' only' other trip he hud ever been on, where he had a better time, was the, three months vacation he had spent in Portsmouth two "years before,' W hlch he thought the friend would S t he said.' Well, roy advice to yon is to get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and let the water out. " All the other swine In the room laughed very loud at this, and I guess this Frits thought he was a great comedian. But somehow or other, It did not strike me so funny that I Just had to laugh, and I was able, after quite a struggle, to keep from even Snickering. It was a harder struggle than that to keep from doing something else, thought 1 Our meals were Just about the same as at Swlnemunde the bread was - just as muddy, the barley coffee Just as rank, and the soup Just as cab--' bageless. The second morning after we had had opr barley coffee, one of the sentries came to our barracks, which was number and gave each of us aa envelope and a sheet of writ mg paper. Then he told us to write T-- FB070 POST a bo-cau- we got was Nlchts. After we had been there for about an hour and a half,' one of our-me- n became very sick, so that I thought he was going to die, and when he fell over, I reported It to a sentry. The sentry came over, saw him lying In the snow, yelled, Schweln, . nlcht krank i grabbed him by the shoulder, and pulled him all the way across the field to the office of the qamp com- -, mander. Then he was "placed in the guard house; where her remained for two days. The next thing we knew, the Euaslans- - had - been -- ordered - to make a box; and were being marched to the guard house to put him in.it and bury bhn. Another thing at Neustreiltz, that was pretty hard to stand, was the pretty habit the Buns had of coming tip to the barbed wlr and teaslng us &f though we were wild animals in a cage. - Sometimes there would - be crowds of people lined along the wire throwing things at us, and spitting, and having a great time generally. It was harder than ever when a family He said that trlp was better than this one, so the Friend could figure out for himself how pleasant this oue was. Everybody thought this was a great Idea, but unfortunately not all of us hud been In jail, so we could not all use It."" Which was Just as well, we thought, because the Germans would be suspicious If all of ns compared this vacation with others. A few of ths men did not have anybody they could Write to, and some did not know their friends addresses, so they would write letters to friends of party-wou- ld arrive, with vater and the other men, and filgQ It With the and , maybe grosvater and mutter, friend's nickname. , grosmutter, gnd all the little Boche As soon as a man bud finished his kinder, because, - aa you probably letter,, hr bad to go out to tbs center know, the Germane take food with of the camp, where they bs4 built them whenever-the- y go on a party, raised platform. There tha.eeptrle &Q what kind, and they would Scatter took the letters, and the men formed Bund tEerd find stare at us like the around the square.-The- re were off- boobs they were, eating fill the tint icers on ud pisiform reading the letso hilt fry that we ' could ters.' We thougET tEey read thefii have eaten? ourselves, almost After there In the open, before us, so that a had stared while, they would they we would know they wery not tamperto feel more at home, and then begin ing with the letters, and we thought WoUld start the throwing and spitting the heaven would fall If they Wfre and the schwelnhund sangerfest, and ' getting so unknltnred as that would have a great time generalthey Finally, all ihr men had finished ly, Probably, When they got home, their letters and turned them over to they wonld strike off i a medal , for the officers,. who read them. -- And then themselves 13 honor of the vlslL44 we aaw why tips sentry laughed. Then, too, thlre were always uun .The officers tore np every one of the soldiers on leave or off duty, who mad letters. They were anxious that, we It a point to pay us a visit, aEd though would see them do it so none of ns I do not think they were as bad as the would have any hope that our friends civvies, especially the women, they would get word. ' f were bad enough. : But we said to our selves that if it We had one bucket In each barracks, was information they wanted, they had and as these buckets were used for as much as ias good for them, which both washing and drinking, they were was none at all, because I do not thlnk boiled the water jbl ways one letter In the bunch hag a single when we washed the clothes, to get word of truth In But we were all rid of the cooties,-an- d that left a very angry and pretty low 'after thqt settling In It that looked Just like red because it showed the Buns still had lend. We bad to get the water from plenty of kultur left after all, and we a hydrant outside of the barracks, and knew there was rough sledding ahead for a while we drank It. Bat after of 'US4AU6, some of the, men were several' qf the boys had gone west sore because they had wasted their and we coold not figure out why, a time thinking np different Ways of tip- man told us he thought the water was ping their friends off to the real state poisoned, and a Russian doctor, who of affairs, and all for. nothing. Why was a prisoner, slipped us word about they should worry about' time. I could It also. So, after that, very few of not see. Time was the only thing we us drank water from the hydrant. I had plenty of, and I for one, thought was scared stiff at first, because I bad we were goldg to have still more of It had some of the water, but afterthat " Going hack to the barracks we tried I did not touch hydrant water. . to sing Pack Up Tour Troubles, but It was a good thing for us that there was not much pep In It We there was always plenty of snow in were not downhearted, though ; - at Germany, and even Jnckler that the least we said we were not Buns did not shoot us for eating It It was about the only thing they did XX. not deprive us of it was not verboten. i I thought I knew what tough cooties Kultuf-- th Real Stuff. were. In the trenches, bnt they were Keustrellti Waa mainly for Russian regular mollycoddles compared to the prisoners, and there were neither Brit- pets we had lp the prison camps. After ish nor French soldiers interned there we boiled onr clothes we would be enly sailors of the merchant marine free from them for not more than two such as the men I was with, j The hours, and then' they would come Russians were given far worse treat- back, with thirsting ment than any other prisoners. This for vengeance. . v was for two reasons, as near aa I could The gamp at KeustreUtx was surrmake out One waa that the Russian ounded by big dogs, which were kept would stand most anything, whereas Just outside the barbed wire.- - We bad the British and French could pnly be them going all the time. Every once goaded tq a certain point end beyond In a while, some fellow would make that lay trouble. The other reason an awfnl racket, and the next thing was that the Russians sent german we knew, there was Frits coming like prisoners to Siberia, or at least so the a shot, with musket at hla hip. Just Buns thought and Frita hates the ns they carry them In a charge, and cold. So, hating thq Russians, and blowing whistles at each other until realizing that they Were, used id be-- , they .''ware-blgg-ing tinder-dog;Frits picked on them they. thought some one was esand bullied hem in a way that the caping, they ran twice as fast as I rest of us, would not have stood. Ws would hare rushed them and gone west with bayonets first xThe barracks were made of spruce, and were shout ninety feet long and twenty-fiv- e feet wide, and you can take it from me that as carpenters, whoever made them were fine farmers. There were cracks In them that you could drive an automobile through. When we were there, each barracks had a stove in the center, a good stove and a big one, but at first it was of no use to us, because the Germans would not give us coal or wood for It But after shivering for a while, we began ripping the boards out of the bar- 4 ... 2 .We it chapter - tn s, ' 4 K 1 J Ll - rY ; 4. 1 Ha Chalked on tha Poor. 1 we4wanted to, after which to anybody he chalked on the door in big letters: 5 4 KltlEGSGEFANGENEXLAGER s ' and told us It was the return address. We were all surprised, and asked each J oter where v,e were,lerause we had V? 7 thought we were in Neustrelitz. After ', i a while, 'we- learned that It means J a Prl so At first, inp. though,' many of us thought It wan the name of the town, and we got to it the Brewery, because, the calling 5:1 name ended In lager. Whatever beer t ,) was brewed there w as' not for us j i - t - J upr-of-- f ' I noticed that all the time he was i writing the word und ghiug us the stationery., the sentry was laughing and having a great time w Lth his own little self, but I figured he was Just acting German, and that nothing was Important about it. )Vq were all tUed to deatfi to get , a chance to let our people know where : we were, -- and each niun thought a long time about what he would say, and who he would write to, before he ever started to write. Each man wanted to say all he could In the small apace he hadend we wanted to lrt our friends know how badly they were treating us without Baying it in so words, because we knew the , many , linns would censor the letter, and It f' r 4 though., r-- , , ' racks, and taking the dividing boards from-th- e benches that ' we'bsed for beds. Later, they gave each of us a mattress filled with wood ahavlngs, and a blanket that was about as warm as a pane of glass. The mattresses were placed on the ground in the barracks, which were very damp, and after three or four days, the ahavlngs would begin to rot and the mattresses to Bmell. In drder to keep warm we slept as close together as we could, which .caused onr various diseases to spread 77. rapidly. When we were receiving onr rations, the sentries would offer us an extra ration If we would take a lash from their belts. We were so hungry that many and many a man would go up and take a swat In any part of his body froid the' heavy let ther belts with brass tongue and buckle, Just get 3 little more Vhadou soup or T We Had Our Choice ef Standing Up and Dying, or Falling Down and Be- ing Killed. ssTked oul of tEs kuche, as we were passing, and we heard a bangl and the Russian keeled over and went west Now-- , we had not done anything and the other Russians said he had behaved himself, worked hard and bad never had any trouble. They Just tilled him, and that Is all there was to it But not one of ns could figure out why, After jw-- had been at Neustrelltz for three weeks, they drilled us out of the camp to a railway station, and stood us In the snow for four hours waiting for the train. - We were exhausted and began falling, one by one, and each time one of us fell, the sentries wonld yell, Nlcht krank I and. give-- us the rifle- - butt- - We had our choice of standing np and dying or falling down and. being killed, and it 'Fas a fine choice to have to make.- - The cars finally pulled In, and as the windows were smashed, the doors open, and the compartments jnst packed with snow. When we saw this, we tnew we were going to get worse treatment, - even, thn we had been getting, and mr.ny of us wanted to die. It had not been unusual for some of the men to tell the Germans to shoot them too, and as thongh it was always a man who wanted to live who did get It und went west. However, all ef us nearly got killed when we reached Wittenberg. When the train stopped there, we saw a big wagonload of slled brand on the station platform hj.ua.jsII Mured at It" We stood It aa long er couldrand then we made a rash for It Bnt when we got nearer, we saw that there were c Groceries of Right Prices 000- -- Fiour Substitutes of All Kinds - - w FARRER & WHITEHEAD c BlankBooks Loose Leaf Ledgers Transfer Fil es 7 Accounting Systems eras 7 - TAYLORPAPERCO -- rr ltand o- in Plenty and Vegetables, Fruits L. ' -- four sentries guardlng ? 00 -- e ToUf women Issuing It out to the German soldiers, JThey would not give us any, pf course. So we stoodaround and watched tha Huns eat while they and the women laughed at ns, and pretended that they were starving and would groan and .rub their stomachs and aay, Nlchts an esaen, to each other, and PROVO STEM! LAUNDRY - it then grab a big' honk of bread and eat it What we did not aay to them was very little Indeed. We were certainly wild If any men ever were. Then some of us said we were going to get some of that breed if we went West for It So we started a fight and prbile they were attending to some of us, the others grabbed and hid all the bread they coaid. They rousted us back into the. cars and we were Just starting to- divide nn the bread when they canght uswtth it and took It away. We were wilder than ever then, but we could not do anythlng. It got colder after we left Wittenberg, and the snow blew into thq cars through the windows and doors Uqtil we uere afraid to sleep for fear Of freezing. It was the worst night I have ever seen, and the coal bunkers on the Yarrowdale seemed like S palace .compared to because we could at least move around In the ship, while In the train we could not move at alU and were packed so close that we coaid not even stretch our legs and arms. Some bf the men did die, but not In my compartment, though most of ns were about the face. We thought that night would, never end, but day came finally; and though it seemed to get coldep and colder, we did not mind it so much. At about eleven that morning, we arrived at a place called kllnden and saw a prison camp there just a stockade near the tracks with the boys out id the open. We waved, to them, and' they waved back and gave a cheer-oor two. Wo felt sorry for them, because we knew we were not going to that camp, and from what little we aaw, we knew we could not be going to a worse place than they were In. I shall never forget Jllnden, because it was here that I received the only cigarette I had while ' I was in Germany. ( Mlnden Is quite a railway center, I guess, and when we palled tntorthe depot, we saw many troops going to the- front .or Coming backTAS &r fill Important German railway stations, there was n Red Cross booth on the platform, with German girls handing out barley coffee and other things to the German soldiers. I saw a large shanty on the platform, with, Bed Cross fainted over the door. I saw the girls giving barley coffee to the soldiers, and I thought I would have a try at It and at least be polite enough- to give- - the girls xchnaee of refusing me. I was refused all right, but they were so nasty about It that I put down my head and let something slip, I do not remember Just what it was, but it was not very complimentary, I guess. Anyhow, I did not think anyone near ' there understood English, but e idently some one heard me Fl0 dltfor I .got an awful boot that landed me ten or twelve feet away. I fell on my hands and knees, and about a yard away I saw a cigarette stub. I diyed for It like a men falling on a football, and when I came up that stub was safely In my pocket. And it stsyed there until I reached Dulmen and bad a chance to light it behind the barracks. 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Mysterious Clock ; t i j (Continued 'f woea 1 n FIMT, COALS, AS FOLLOWS r- - at the la next Issue.) J Bronchial "Trouble. A. .K. 81denberder, Rockfleld, .Mrs. ever snw tbem run, except whet' the For - an attack of Ind.. states:. Foreign Legion was on - their-hee- ls bronchial trouble which usually . ast IWxmude. When they got np to the dogs, they sails me In the spring I find Chamn ien 00 berlains Cough Remedy the only lem- - an(l otter that, they would rest thing that gives me relief. After -- nfvyeH c- - r.-,- i JJrticlrjrtttba on thowlre--n- d using it for a few days all signs of this all We us. 'Zuruck! at ! enjoyed ad vt One morning the sentries picked out bronchial trouble disappears. ten men from our barracks, of which Innocent pastime very much, and we t they had the dogs, I was one, and drilled a field There were some tilings the Iluns near the kuclie. There whs a Inrge Post Want Ads Bring Result tcr-In liio JJel'liin.'J we had ! pump... did, that you Just could not explain. For Instance,- one of the Russians ' : . . , Sayings Bank Guess How it Runs? Provo Commercial . Can You ' -- to-'!- - W : Don t Forget Your W. S. J S. . a .x i t? n I JfK |