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Show IMPRESSED FOR MANPOWER NEW YORK. April 16. Germany Is so hard pressed for manpower that permanently disabled soldiers are retained re-tained in the army and cripples are called to the colors This statement was made in the r h -t.i - by Iieputy Ryssel. an independent Socialist, on February 23, according to the Berlin Vorwaerts. a copy of which has been received here. Other deputl(3 laid bare sensational conditions prevailing in the German array. The disclosures were made in a debate de-bate which was precipitated by a motion mo-tion request mc the chancellor to see to it that the classes of I860 and ls7n bo discharged from the army as soon as possible and that the men of the landsturm who have been In active service since the beginning of the war and who have been one year in the front line trenches, be permanently trasferred to the home re n vi.- Iiep-uty Iiep-uty Ryssel said it was explained that the men in question could not be withdrawn with-drawn because they could not be re-I re-I placed. He added : j "The resolution adopted by the jroichatag two years ago proving for the discharge of persons permanently sick and unfit for service is not being' acted upon. In the first reserve battalion bat-talion of infantry regiment number 61 i great man cripples have been draft I ed and the same is the case regarding infantry regimen! number 175 at (,rau denz. A man who bad been stricken three times with apoplew v. a- accepted accept-ed without examination as Tit for service ser-vice in the Hussar regiment at Gros-senbayn. Gros-senbayn. "Strikers and such persons as had caused offense politically are put into the army as a punishment. In Rues-trincen. Rues-trincen. twenty men who joined the Socialist party on January 3ft. were drafted into the army on February 14. ' The soldiers in general complain of insufficient and bad food What be-, comes of the food articles which are supplied the army" The non-commissioned officers employed in the, canteens continually take food home. In such manner some individuals en-1 rich themselves by taking what be-! longs to the soldiers. Many officers I eat as much as the like, while the soldiers received bad meat There are J now troops who have been named hunger companies.' " |