Show TALES TALE S THAT ARE TOLD we have before remarked that one does not need to go to germany to find m tales of cruelty barbarism injustice and tyranny have come out of the military service and have been published but these appear abstract because distance and i unfamiliarity make them less vital it is told by boys arriving home from camps and battlefronts and that have come under their own observation that make the blood boil and that are leading to a demand tor for punishment of zed petty officers for instance this story comes to us first handed from a camp within easy reach of this state A young man was taken ill in the night while still at a recruit detachment tach ment two comrades hearing his appeals for foi help went to him and administered such remedies as they could command the young inal man was suffering from what appeared to be cramps in it the abdomen he finally dropped off to sleep his companions having secured for him some relief in an hour or so the pains re kuinca again with increased violence and again his companions went to his aid all that they could do failed to bring relief and one of the boys reported to the company commander comin ander a certain capt captain aill this officer went to the tent of the sufferer and told I 1 him there was nothing the matter with him that he was shamming and lie he had seen such things before ho ordered the other blysto boys to their tents and ordered the suffering soldier to cease his aparis and cries and returned to his quarters next morning the young roan man died from appendicitis while being conveyed to the hospital this story is vouched couched for by a returned soldier who aided the soldier during the night cases of this kind should be investigated vesti gated and it is to bo be hoped that tile tho american bar association and the senate committee on military attain will continue to dig in until the american army Is rid of prussian iced officers |