| Show IN I 1 TJ AIL HUN Y x T U r rn PRISON THREE YEAR E doctor beland once canadas postmaster general cannot see dying wife EXCHANGED AFTER DELAY says kaiser envies hindenburg popularity op and tries to appropriate his victories saw cap wre of antwerp an atlantic port after being kept in a gernian german prison for three years dr henri severin beland belan d postmaster gen cral of canada under premier wilfrid laurier Laur ler and who lives at beauce in the province of quebec arrived here accompanied by his daughter miss jeannette annette Jc who was held in belgium by the germans while her father was in germany added to the sufferings of his imprisonment was the death of his wife in belgium after he had been lock locked ed up for 18 months his jailers refused to allow him to go from berlin to see her ter when she was dying the news of his cifes death was withheld from him for 11 days and lie he was only given the date of after ter he had begged to be allowed to go to her funeral to show that it was too late doctor beland was only postmaster general for two months in 1911 when tile the laurier ad ministration administration was defeated over the reciprocity question it was naas because he had held this political appointment that tile nuns huns would voul not permit him to leave germany two years 0 o rs a ago go when arrangements were made between that country and great britain for the exchange of civilian I 1 prisoners more than forty five years old during the three years he lost 20 pounds in weight and ills his luxuriant block black hair became thin and turned gray the only occupations he had were to attend the prisoners and tile the officials chils of the prison when they were ill and to learn to speak read and write german fluently uc he was fin finally illy released in exchange for the brother of prince von bulow billow who was nas the head of the krupp gun company in london before the war the doctor was in fit northern france tit in august 1914 and ills his wife ans a stopping at their estate in Cap cappeller Cappell pellen cn near antwerp uc he promptly offered ills his services as surgeon to the belgian army and was with them in the fighting fit at liege F from rom that city he went to antwerp and was there when the british cx expedition sent out by winston churchill arrived in october of that year lie ile saw the city captured by tile the huns in october doctor beland continued to live with his wife at cap pellen until she converted the house into a red cross closs cl oss hospital and trained herself as a nurse the doctor talked slowly and stopped occasionally to think of his words he explained that like the majority of the prisoners he bad met he was suffering from loss of memory caused by ills his long imprisonment which had interfered with the receptiveness tl ti veness of the organs in the brain up to may 12 1915 11 the doctor said 1 I practiced medicine among the poor in antwerp and my wife carrl carried cd on the red cross hospital at cappel cappai len then the german commandant sent an officer to tell me that I 1 was to bo be interned when I 1 pointed out that physicians practicing as civilians civilian were immune from internment the hun officer replied that I 1 was not receiving fees from my patients I 1 was arrested and taken to the grand hotel wh which I 1 ch was used as a military headquarters and residence of the staff officers in antwerp after three days I 1 was sent to berlin and locked up in I 1 the he stadt vogel prison the prison fare was rough roligh consisting chiefly of black brevil greasy soup and potatoes this did not trouble me its as I 1 received parcels of floo and supplies weekly from london tile the treatment was about as good as it generally is in places of that kind when after two years confinement I 1 was allowed to walk in the park opposite garden strasse in berlin I 1 was not allowed to speak to any person one afternoon I 1 took my escort to luncheon at the hotel bristol on lie he unter den linden which ha not changed its name thi the piccadilly restaurant tau rant I 1 noticed had been converted into the waterland Va terland another time I 1 saw a crowd running g and looking in their direction I 1 saw an automobile go by containing hindenburg and his staff officer ile he Is tile idol of the german people and more popular copti or than the kaiser Luden ladendorff dorff Is regarded as a strong man all over germany but never takes the trouble to make himself popular he does not care aliat v bat the people think about him so long as they do as they are told the kaiser ennies popularity and whenever the huns gain aln a victory lie he hurries to the side of the marshal and issues bulletins and sends telegrams to the kni kal serin so that tile the people believe it Is the aniser who has gained a victory all this time my daughter jeannette Jeannet tc was in belgium liing with the family of my late wife at cappelen and three times I 1 tried to reach her first through the united states minister at brussels Bi Bilis sels and after america entered the lie war through the spanish minister it was w as no use ohp was not molested however blit was allowed to join me iu in Hol holland collatin latin after I 1 aas was free |
