Albuquerque morning journal., 1916-02-25

enforced stay in cur prison camps
more irksomc than social confne-
ment naturally is So we went to the
additional trouble and expense OF
building the barracks for the intelli-
gents.
Excellent gravcl-covered streets run
between the rows Of buildings. and
small army field railway connects
all points needing that means for fac.
ilitating transport. Tho entire camp
Is lighted electrically, has it's own
water supply and sewer system. an
elaborate system for fire protection,
ornamental and vegetable garden',
and resembles generally social set
dement, camp, an Illusion which Is
quickly dispelled however, hy the
presence Of the guards and the ubl-
quitious wire fence.
An officer connected with the fl
nanclal administration was OF the
opinion that SO far the Austrian gov
ernment had dishursed considerably
more than S3.000,000 crowns for the
Klein Muenchen camp. and that the
keeping of Russian prisoners had en-
tailed an expenditure cf approximate
! ly 1,100,0O0.O00 crowns, and in AUS
tria- Mungary there are today thirty
other prison camps,
The recurrency of disease Is said to
| be connected With the failure of many
of the prisoners to do the best for
themselves hygienically. Though re-
cent arrivals Of prisoners showed no
case OF cholera. five cases developed
about two weeks ago. One of the
men has died four are one the road
to recovery. Typhus and tphoid also
appear occasionally and tuberculosis
is ever present because the prisoners
were afflicted with the disease in a
dormant state before they were draft
ed into the Russian army. On jan
! uary l2, camp Klein -Muencllen had
| ;hirty-four patients OF this class.
Wounds Are Treated.
| Very often Russians are brought in
| whose wounds, received in actions
prior TO the one in which they were
captured. need attention on the day
on which The Associated Press cor
! respondent visited the camp close to
| a hundred cf such cases had either
been disposed Of by operations or
were under observation. Usually
| te trouble is due to bullet of small
| fragment of shell in the patients
body, which some Russian surgeon
apparently thought best to leave un-
| disturbed.
| OF 10000 men who have been in
the camp GjO have died. Most OF
| the latter came to the camp sick or
infected. They are buried in a pine
grove. Graves are marked with a
black, wooden cross. bearing a num-
| Der. The cross is later replaced by
| "A headstone cast of concrete. TINS
hcadstonc is given the number for
merly kept carried BY the cross. In
the mortuary chapel erected on the
cemetery book is kept in which by
means of this number the name OF
the dead prisoner may be found.
The cemetery at this camp, shows
| incidentally TO what extent EMMY
may cease once a man has been taken
prisoner. For ornamental purposes
there has just been completed small
| structure 800 feet away from th'
chapel. Between the two buildings
runs an arcade supported on its open
side on arches and closed in on the
other side by wall. On this wall
will be placed tablets bearing the
names of the Russians who have died
| in the camp. The bronze tablets
commemorating thus the fate Of these
unfortunates are now being cast. Te
dcdlcatory inscription on each tabie'
will be: Here died for his father
land and lies buried"--then will come
the names.
Given Good Food.
The food of the Russian prisoners
consists Of soup and bread In the
morning, soup and a meat dish AT