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Show FIRST OGDEN BUY, HELD AS h PRISONER IN GERMANY, TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE AT RASTATT Mrs. Emma (' Haley, of 2S2 River I aenuf, had a ran L ) asin2 and dramatic dra-matic experience yesterday when she received a telephone message from her daughter. Mrs. A. M. Tirtel. Jr., of 46 Weal Filth street. Salt Lake City, asking ask-ing her to come to the capital city at once. Mrs Haley lost no time in covering cov-ering the Journey, thinking that sick-1 ness or some other distress occasioned 1 the call. When she entered her daugh- ! tera home, however, distress and; anxiety vanished as she looked upon the countenance of her son, Harvey N. 1 Murdock', who was taken prisoner by 1 j the German forc- on the morning of' ihe 15th of July, 1918. I On that day younc Murdock was one Of a squad oi machine gunners of the; Thirtieth infantry operating on the ! south side of the Marne about seven nilles east of Cbauteau Thiprr". Th. bombardment effected by the German) I troops wa3 a sruelliuc and terrible experience ex-perience and Murdock and his friends.) jvho had reer-iveii orders to hold their1 position at all cost3, retreated to the' rear of a church I'nable to distih-! gulah what troops were on their richf,' the lit lie squad of machine runners suddenly discovered tney were out-! flanked and were called upon to sur- j I render. Only three out 01 the squad was left. Surrendering, they were taken tak-en about four miles back of the Ger-jiuan Ger-jiuan lines on lhe north bank of the 1 Marne and put into service as stretcher bearers of the German wounded. The I next day they were sent to Laon, and jftom Laon they were conveyed in cattle cat-tle cars. In men to a car, to a prison 'camp at Rastatt, Haden, Murdock, speaking of tbf treatment of American prisoners, said that so far as his own experience went it n not bad foi prisoners, but other Ann ; I cans who had been captured in earlier offensives complained bitterly of th t inhumanity or German officers and the I starvation diet, saying thai they had , made strong appeala to the command I that they would sooner die. Marchin-I Marchin-I through German towns, en route to Rastatt, Murdock says the American "ere pa ai d b on the people hu tra : al them nd pelted I b m irith stones None ol his party suffered an) Injurs from Lh tr itmi nt, ho At Rastait. Murdock was put 10 work In a boot, mending shop where be worked from 7 in the morning to r In ihe evening and althouph the) w . re kept very' busy, they were not badlv i treated. It, is possible, Murdock 'l inks, thai as the Germans realised the fishtm Qualitit ol th Americans they called theui wild men" they I made up their minds that If the v Si was to be lost by thf entrance o' the American army into the field, 'i" n Hi- li enemlei the made ol the people with whom the) ultimate!) woU)d make peace, the better for th . 1 to in k ople. j on the fiit day of his Imprison-jment. Imprison-jment. Murdoch says that the only food he r. ct Ived v. b.01 1 meat soup of a r interior QU I Lat December the Americans al Rastatt were placed on Swiss train.-and train.-and th. j rodi from 11 o'i loi h 1 nlgl until s n . lo h the next morning, a bei , 'i train ws - 1 rosains ihi Rhim and wa r paaaing into Swiss lcrrltor'. Every man on beard broke into a wild yell of freedom. During the closing days of the war Ihe allies kept up a constant bombing from the air ol ihe towns in the Rhine valley and Mr. Murdotk says Rastatt frequently was bombed. 00 |