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Show YXHKS WAR PRISIONERS BBBW I MMaMHWHMi B ' WITB THE AMERICAN ARMY i IN FRANCE. Two hundred tod (IN i m teen American soldiers who had been R held pstsoners of war by the Ger- nana were brought into the town ot Revlgay early thla moraine jR , "Tou ought to hare heard ua give m them Helntea the old raepberry-whea i we left up yonder," ( aald .Sergeant .Walter Sampson of .Chicago, who , was one ot the. two (men left ot hia J) platoon ot E company, 136th. Infantry Infan-try after a charge. "They had us at Montmedy first" I aald Sampson, "but . ou"r bombers came over and bombed hell out ot I the place, so we went on strikeand refused to- work around a railroad that bombers were Vlmlng at. So they took us to Gorcy. That's where we were when the fighting storTped. "We knew the finish was In sight because the German privates kept v telling us what was going' on outside - , t- Ererv day they'd be around savin - the war was going to end next day; they were tickled to death about it, too. "There was an ornery Prussian sergeant a little short guy who . was always yelling at us 'raua Am- erikaner,' and we started a song for his benefit. "I wish I had that son of a gun at the end of a bayonet right now," , interrupted Fred Sona of New York, M who was with tho 113th infantry. m "Ho was certalnlv oruwy. ' W DAN PATCH STEW WAS m common DihT M "They dldn havo much to eat W themselves them Dutchmen didn't," H said John Powell of Campbellsvllle, , ff Ohio, the only man from tho first X division in the party which represent B fld about fifteen Americans divisions W which were on the line In the Argon- ne-Meuse drive. "I'm going to dream M About Dan Patch stew and barley loup as long as I live-Dan Patch I itew is horsemeat," he explained, "It i was meat from horses that had been' killed in battle.. You could see how lt.ha been torn by shells." "They treated us better than they treated the Russians or French," said 8ergent Herbert Btrchard ot 209 South Twentieth street, Omaha, who was a member of the eighty-ninth division. "They had about a thusand Russians Rus-sians there. They booted them around arou-nd pretty fierce all the time, even though Russia was supposed to he at peace with them. .. How was I captured?" Btrchard grinned. "Well I strayed over Into the. Germans lines one night. I saw a lot ot guys' laying on' the ground sleeping and I thought they were our men; so I went around shaking them and telling them to wake up. Finally I heard one ttuy say ""Vot isar" The next thing I knew about forty Dutchmen were arount mo". Russians Get the Worst of Deal. '"Those Russians certainly got a rough deal," eaid Corporal E. 'Jar-foot 'Jar-foot of Richmond, Va., from tho 116 th lnfrantry, t . -i "When we refused to work around tho rail head where tho bombers were dropping explosives tho French prlBloners also struck, so the Russ-elans Russ-elans had to do all the work there. They worked us on the roads and when they did work us they paid us six cents a day. ' "None of them liked our Bongs very, much, but the sergeant hated it most ot all,"- Sampson went on, ; "so wo sang It whenever he came . around. We sang it when they march , ed us out of Gorcy down the road-' road-' ways toward tho American lines and turned us loose. Here.I'll ging It for you. It goes like this. "Raus rait him. Just .hear that funny noise; Raus mlt htm, just let him rave it boys, We'll turn the old place inside out; We'll turn it Inside" in". Treat every Dutchman just alike, And raus mlt him." Flags Betoken End of Warfare. "You could hear us whooping and hollering for1 a mile all right." Milton Horter, of Malta, Montana, who comes from the 90th division, said: "We knew it was over, because the flags we're flying all over Gorcy when we went out. They certainly looked great." "Yes, If It hadn't bean for the' people of Gorcy," said Lewis Morris of Barnesxllle, Ohh, who comes from the. 26th Division, "we would have gone hungry. They gave us lots of bread. What the Germans Issued to us wouldn't have lasted long. "You worked a week , for one mark then they charged your four marks for a loaf of bread. Wo did not liavo any blankets until a couple ot days beforo wo left. Wo elopt. In a church on tho concrete floor. That Is, we tried to Bleep there. Generally Gener-ally we sat up all night. Tho cooties coot-ies would not let us sleep much." "Them German cooties are terrible," terri-ble," said Frank Kocurek of 236 South Halstcd street, Chicago. "They can bite worse than any I ever saw. Wo had no stovo In tho church, so It was awful cold there. I worked In the kitchen myself. "I guess I'm tho only cook In this outfit," ho added proudly. I managed man-aged one of John Thompson's joints and who do you think I found in that prison camp when I got there? Why this fellow here one of my old customers.' He dragged forth Jack Morton Senman, ot 1443 Van Burcn street, Chicago. GERMAN TROPHIES ARE PROUDLY EXHIBITED Sanford R. Howton of John, Ala., just outside ot Dlrmlngham, who belongs to the 29th division, wore a German cap cocked stylishly on tho side of his head. He had a pair of German eagles, taken from a Prussian Prus-sian helmet pinned on his breast. 8omo of the. others wore the helmet hel-met themselves. They are the most prized ot all war souvenirs. Several had Belgian caps glvon to them by the people of Gorcy which Is not far from the Belgian border. "They asked us all many a question ques-tion when they first got us," sold Howton, who Is a tall, angling, serious ser-ious looking chap. "They woutd take us beforo tho German officer, who would try to get Information out of us about the army. "He asked' us how many men we had over here. I said I wasn't sure i but thought about flv.e million. Then he got out his note book and said, .'you have a little over two million men.' "He showed mo maps ot our lines that showed just what American divisions div-isions were In tho lino anl whoro they wcro. He told mo tho nnmo ot my battalion copimnndcr wan named Major1 Kirk. Ho wasn't correct about that, however. Major Kirk had boon away, several days." "Yes, ono of them told mo what date our division had sailed from America and snld we'd been attacked attack-ed by a submarine, giving tho dnto, said another man. "I don't know whether ho was right about tho dato or not becau&o I don't remember It myself, Ho had tho rost down pnt, though. I caught tho dnto of our landing and arrival In lino." HUNS TAKE'ALL THAT THE PRISONERS OWN "Yes," said Sanford Howton again "when they told me how much they knew about us, I ask 1 thorn what in hall they were asking me for. Ono guy said I was a great man." "They took everything off us wo had," said Corporal James Valodls- ka of 3007 South Trumbull avenue, Chicago, who comes from tho 78th division. "They took any jewelry we had and our knives and everything else. They snatched a wrist watch oft me. They even grabbed our rain coats." "Thoy were pretty much scared of tho Americans," said Sergeant Pat J. Long of Reading, Mass., who was taken from the 26th division In tho bitter fight. In Bellcau wood. It took fifty Germans to capture Long, who Jsa serious, efficient looking middle tiled chap. "They said, 'you Americans are wicked fellows,' " ho continued. "They were all mighty glad the war was ending. We bad three American Ututenants with us whom we marched march-ed out. They wore James Sweeney of the 36th division; Charles Hurley Pt Boston, from the 79 th, and Leary Fowler-of Dallas, Texas. MORE REMINISCENCES I WITH REAL FLAVOR "I don't know how long they had been prisoners. There was also an aviator named Kelton. Thoy took I command of us and got us back to the American lines. We marched I fifty kilometers ono day. Wa wore finally picked up byk ambulances. I "Tho civilians of Gorcy treated us I wonderfully well. Wo went wlth-I wlth-I ouj. food ono day bo wo could hnvo I 'enough. IJown at Montinody wo V were under shell flra fp'r fh-.o days. I fWb were always" trying to, signal our I aviators when they flew over tho I 'town, hut I guess wa didn't sue-I sue-I ceed. I "Tho most fun wa had was when we found a German spy dressed up like a French prisoner," said Charles M. Tlcer, ot Albert, Oklahoma, another an-other 90th division man. "Say! Wo led htm the life ot Riley. Even tho French threw bricks at htm and everything ev-erything else." "And wo certainly gave them tho raspberry going out' put in Sergeant Ser-geant Sampson. "All together now, boys, let's sing 'raus mlt him,' just for old times sake." |