Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-18
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

GorIitz As Prison camp-"The Greek troops which fell into the hands of the German army when the Teu- tonic allies occupied the Aegean sea- port of Kavala world, under happier auspices then military internment find the Silesian city or Gorlitz, where they are now held one of the most interesting in the German empire" says a war geograph bulletin issued today by the National Geographic So- ciety on the city selected as a psion camp for the 400 officers and 5000 men of King ConstSntine's army.
 Situated on the left bank of the Neissee River which flows northward into the Oder. Gorlitz is, next to Bres- lau, the largest and most flourishing city of Silesia. It is 129 miles south- east of Berlin, 60 miles east of Dres- den and 50 miles west of Liegnitz. It's early prosperity, dating back five or six centuries, was due to its location cn one of the important commercial routes to Poland.
 "The town received it's civic rights as early as the 12th century and it is famous today for it's edifices of the Renaissance period, while perhaps the finest specimen of late-Gothic ee- c1esiasticaI architecture in this section of Germany is it's Church of St. Paul, built in the 18th century. Another re- lisious building of great interest is tue LIoIpSl OL tI1O JIOly OIOSS WHICH contains a 18th century model of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
 Tn proportion to it's population of 85,000, Gorlitz enjoys the reputatioH of being one of the wealthiest munic- qualities of centBl Europe, due large ly to the fact that it owns a magni- fcent forest of 70. 900 acres The old CT portions of the town are quaint and picturesque, while the industrial sec tion is thoroughly modern and pro- gressive. The chief products of it's numerous factories are cloth. linens, toys, gold and silver-ware, leather goods, chemicals, machinery and glass.
 "On the southwest outskirts of the city rises the basaltic hill called Land eskrone, which commands nagnific- ent view of the entire region. It was on this hill that a peasant boy of the 18th century used to tend his fathers sheep and dream of pails of gold and of visits of mysterious strangers. This boy was Jakob Boehme. (also called Beem, Behmen and Behmont), who was pursuing his trade of master shoemaker in Gorlitz when he received his first inspiration to write. This famous mystic, who was consistently assailed by Pastor Richter of Gorlitz throughout his career, is buried in the cemetery of the Chapel of the Holy Cross, and in tIte same Gods Acre Is the. grave of Minna Herzlieb. the or lSlndl OI OIClll6 III NJOeIne El0CtlV6 Affinities' and a woman who left the imprint of her personality on some of the finest sonnets of Germany's great est man of letters.
 'Tn the suburbs of Gorlitz is the battlefield of Moys 175O where the famous Prussian general Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, for 20 years F'reder- ick the Greats most trusted friend and aide. received his first wound in long career as a soldier. wound which proved fatal. Winterfeldt owed his first important advance in mili- tary service to his extraordinary height; he attracted the eye of that eccentric monarch. Frederick William I, and was made a lieutenant in the giants regiment. He was the unfail- ing friend of the crown prince (after Frederick the Great) curing the trou- blous times when the old monarch had his son court-martialed on a charge of desertion and. according to some biographers, stopped short of order ing the inf1iction of the death penalty only at the solicitation of the ambas- sadors of foreign powers.
 "One of the most highly prized Cor litz's possessions is a war monument whose base contains the first cannon captured during the Franco -Prussian war of 1870. It was taken by a com pany of Gorlitz soldiers at Weissen- burg, an Alsatian town where the in- itial major engagement of that strug- gle was fought"