Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-05-18
Associated Press)

of the hopelessly wounded German and Austrian prison CTS of war to come out of Russia this year, passed thru Sweden a few days ago in ex- change for the helpless and hapleSS Russians who had been sent home from the big German hospital camps.
 The Austrians and Ger mans were a more cheerful lot than the stolid, silent Rus sians and seemed to have a more definite idea of their future life.
 Tt is nothing," said one young Aus trian with his left leg gone and two fearful scars on his face; q am ieweler by trade and my hands are as good as ever."
 The exchange of wounded prisoners by the Swedish Red Cross is a gigantic affair. Effective May 15, three trains running weekly in each direction from the Finnish frontier to the southern reaches of the Baltic can handle but comparative ly few of the men so hopelessly used up that the warning nations are glad to be rid of them Some statistician, claiming to have knowledge of the situation, ha sdeclared that with the trains running daily all the year round, it would take ten years to com-I plete the transport of the human vast rel of war now held in Russia and Germany,
 One of the wounded Austrians on the first train coming from Russia was asked how many of his comrades were left in Russia.
 "Oh," he replied, there must be a million of them"
 This prisoner said he had been "all over Russia" and that few war prison CTS. either wounded or whole of skin and limb, were permitted to remain in one camp much more than a month or two, He was wounded in August last and said that he must have been in every hospital camp from Vladivos- tok to Petrograd.
 There was one young soldier from Prague, Bohemia, who had had ter ibIe experience, He was in the cav airy and was riding in g charge when shrapnel shell burst just beneath him. The horse was killed and the ider was wounded 21 times. Seven ines he was placed on the operating able He emerged with one leg gone and the other broken, bent and twist ed that it but little resembeld human form.
 And yet the man had pleaded with the doctors for that remnant of a limb.
 "They wanted to cut it off, too, as we'll as my right hand, but l heard hem talking, and 1 said: Please, good Mr. Doctor, don't cut off my ether leg and my hand!' At last they ct me go," he said,
 The hand was scared in many places but seemed otherwise to be perfectly useful. But, in time of war amputation is such an effective and expeditions treatment,
 Each man of the 217 on board the train from Russia had his own thrill ing story to tell. Each one had tasted the utmost of the bitterness of war and some seemed so badly maimed and mangled that even Death ahd re fused to accept them,
 There was one poor fellow moving about the train with sheep-skin pads on his knees and both feet gone.
 Me 10 good any more," he smiled in broken English when he learned that the Associated Press correspond ent on board the hospital train was an American.
 And boom, boom, boom no good, either" he added, mimicking the roar of battle This man had lain wound ed for days with his feet in half frozen stream. When found he was more dead than alive. Up to the time he lost consciousness he said he must have been lying out of doors for six or seven days. All this time he heard the screech and roar of shells passing 4bOve his head and occasionally eX- 5ioding about him. Any one of them, 4e said, would have been a welcome end to his agony. But now he was smiling and cheerful on his way to his home" He did not know what le could do when he got there for he
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