Show GERMAN PRISON CRIMES RECITED former royal dublin fusilier tells of tortures undergone by captives NURSE SPITS IN COFFEE torments wounded officer begging for drink travel five days without food or drink Flen fiendish dish forms forma of cruelty Clif chicago eago A tall lull blue eyed fair haired irish boy recently arrived here after spending two years lit in german prison canias tamps and suffering front from horrors such midi us its few men mea survive M 1 I J prendergast Is late of tile the etoyal dublin lin Fu lie ile vita with tile fourth division of the lie contemptible little army arni that fought jt at mons ile iio took part in rear guard notions actions after the retreat began battling with what seemed to ho be innumerable hosts of the eneany until on oil august 27 1011 1014 lie he felt fell in tile lio head somewhere near etreux ho if ns its picked up lip by tile ho enemy and rifled piled into it cattle car nr along with scores of other wounded oun cled prisoners for five lays lio lie traveled north and east on oil tile the way ay to germany without food or water without anny a ny attention ty doctor or lied cross nurse nurse torments officer in ili ills his car bastin ais un officer of the wicks painfully injured at one ot of the many where the train stopped flits man mail begged for some rem k J ilef A elul cross nurse brought a cut cup of coffta con fc field it lit in front of his eyes ait spat in ili it and threw it in his face it was the ho usual whenever they offered us its tiny on thing 0 t drink tor for those gernian german nurses to spit in it first prendergast declare de claret tile tho prisoners were de det trained mined at senne S enne lager bol bel i one of the arst prison arlbon ennies open d 1 I by the enly ealy for 17 dass 11 says the irish boy we lay on oil the bun earth for there was no shelter above us and not even n pullet pallet of oc straw beneath us ua 1 I there hero were bar nud stables feta liles nearby that hint might nil att have boon bon used but we bevo not allowed to enter them most of u ua were cre too leuh ci from froin our wounds rounds and starvation to be able to inov at last they put up it marquis 1 n I 1 im lucio imre re i linns root roof without sides tind we Q were cro permitted to llo lie under it rhe hist first medical I 1 got wits MIS when soine french ili russian doctors prisoners pi arrived nt lit tile ennic they alic irv dr sod iny in hend as lust best they roubil ro tit but they lie ind had no bandage m except bolat ui it they could inako from illy dyrti old army 1 I was ns four foin mouth lit senno seline Il lerer lizer and lit in nil tint that ahne was ns not given even cen tile chance to lo battle bit lit it was here they hati it peculiar form forin of torture two big hi poles were ere erected in III tile the center of abe caell the officers would mould pac pick out it couple of 0 men inen for no tip parent enriqe beyond the fact lint flint they were little hated ors els and have bine them licit tightly to the poles with ropes around their arms and their feet about tilt in inch from the he ground then thoy they would set a bowl bol of shadow soup our only tood food in front of them and leave them there for 18 49 hours three units thues I 1 was given ills flits torture ture or of course ones horid fell forward while in ili this flits position anti and one ans compelled to look tit nt the lie bowl ot of soup that hut could not be ren benched ched while lillo hunger added to tile the vain of the tight ropes anti tile the terrible weariness or of suspension another favorite entertainment for the lie officers wits ns to compel us its to run for hours with ft etli our imro bare foot feet in wooden labots sabots flint chafen chafed every step we would mould run until we vo dropped front from sheer exhaustion front from senne lager I 1 went to allm berg at Lini berr wo were inoculated with some virus which we were wo told wits was to malco make us its immune from the strange tiling thing la Is that soon titter 75 per cent of the itic camp anine down with what they called bronchitis it developed into tuberculosis it la is to this fact I 1 owe my lily freydont froc dom they thought I 1 was dying from froin consumption mul anti they sent tile roo to switzerland to ile ho exchanged exchange I 1 guess they would bo be dis if they could see nio me row now |