Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-03
Germans Whose Caps Bear
Legends Commemorative Of
Waterloo Convoy Captured
English to Prisons,
GREAT CONSIDERATION
IS SHOWN PRISONERS
Germans Extend Best of Care.
to Wounded; All Possible.
Comfort for Those Confined
in Camp.
Nv LANES O'DONNELL BENNETT.

By JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.
Copyright: 1916; by The Chicago Tribune
vaals. Holland, April II. -- If We
watch closely the long lines Of weary
footsore prisoners being marched into
or out of French and Russian towns
one sees many bitter token Of "the
fortunes of warH-those grim. ironlc
touches that imbue with a singular
fascination the shifting pageantry OF
victory and defeat.
The voice of the past seems audibly
10 be mocking the present and new
feuds to be making Il jest of ancient
friendships when you see German sol
diers with Belle alliance" fWater-
loo) on their caps marching a1column
OF English prisoners down the station
platform of Belgian town--Char-
leroi, for oxample-which just CEN
tury ago caught the echo of the ar
tillery fire at Waterloo. Those guards
were drawn from regiment whose
most glorious inheritance is their wa
terloo memory.
once the strange tumble of con-
trasts and iroaies which war creates
offered an. irresistible temptation to
drolI and satirical officer who, in
civil life, is the widely known Dr..
Lieven Of Aachen.
one night he had to go from com
partment to compartment of a train
filled with prisoners. One first class
carriage contained British officers,
among them officers of the Gordon
highlanders.
Gordon Hiehlanders' Record Great.
Now, everybody knows what the
Gordon highlanders did at Waterloo.
There Is, as the London papers are SO
fond OF saving mo moro glorious
page in British annals. 1t was In the
nlnety-second then--may still be for
aught know-and was more fire.
duently spoken of In those times by
the numerals than as THE Gordon
highlanders.'
Or. Iieven speaks excellent English,
and with the lettering infection one
soon acquires in London He swung
open the door of the compartment in
which the officers of the higalanders
cat, and, civilly saluting. said How
many, gentlemen
There was an instant Of surly ST.
lence and then ungracious utterance
of the words.
Thirteen officers of the Gordon
highlanders
ANY wounded2'
"No"-still curtly
The doctor was angry. lie knows
as well as anybody the higlltanders
Quatre Bras and Waterloo record
two days fighting with a loss in killed
aud wounded of one colonel, one ma
jor. six captains, fourteen lieutenants,
six cnsigns, thirteen sergeants and so
on. He looked straight into the eyes
or the surly spokesman of the high
landers and said:
Thirteen officers of the Gordon
highlanders and none wounded. Thank
youi"
The last two words with the up
ward London tilt--and on those words
the doctor slammed the door.
Il shouldn't have said it, he re-
marked to me, but their stupid SUI
perciliousness to a man whose only
Wish was to help them was more than
could let pass
Kindly Feeling Everywhere.
For one thrust like that YOU see
numberless instances Of the most
kindly feeling, as when long train
load of prisoners WAS held for ten
minutes while nauseated and cruelty |
wounded Frenchman was lifted out
Of a freight car and carried by two
French and one German soldier to a |
sheltered place fifty feet away where |
le could he aiclS without shame
Most or tba hardshins prisoners
havo IN endure arc confined to the
hours immediatelv following their
cantnre ~. - M stnef,y da,s of fran
sit from Tho front to The military pris-
ons IN Germanv
The eonfinement nending the ar
rival ~ tha traia., a. WHEN tbev ara
to make the ionrnev n the hardest
nart ond d,,tt,,a 49,, ~ 4hosa v,o,ts . |