The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-02-23

building provide tile space UPON
which tlte straw paIless e emen are
spread out ~ night. Sky men areI
iso accommodated. no Inc feaF pt tic
10 the dining sroQm IN when
the prisonersi gather for social pural
fatigue: or work Is over.
The barracks described are intend
ed for the rdinary Russian the peas
ant; who, as rule, is! wholly Hitter
ate, and with whom the .intelli
does not want to associate. The exs
periencei has been that the two class
es do not mix we'll, and rather than
have constant strife between the pris.
oners, the Austrian government de+
ctded to separate them.
For the .IntelligenZ klasse,5 q diff
ferent sort OF bartack has ben built.
It resembles the common barracks
but instead OF having eight sleepinE
platforms, it has two floors upon
which sort OF wooden tield.bed has
been placed. This arrangement
wastes great deal Of space. Only
fifty "intelligents" can be housed in
q building Of the usual size.
I'VE try to satisfy, SO far as We can,
the wishes Of the prisoners" said
General Notes. "In our own army
We do not know such distinctions. We
have officers and priYates, and no 9TH
er class. But with the Russians 1t
seems to be different. The 'tntelli-
gents, are usually people OF some re-
fnement to whom the constant assoc
iation with the untutored peasant
would undoubtedly be a great hard
ship. One has to bear in mind that
men in prison camps must associate
with one another more closely than
anywhere else. 1t is not our business
to either reform Russia's social struc-
ture, nor to make the enforced stay
In our prison camps more trksome
than confinement naturally is. So we
went to the additional trouble and ex-
pense of building the barracks for the
'intelligents'."
Excellent gravel-covered streets run
between the rows OF buildings, and
a small field railway connects 81 points
needing that means for facilitating
transport. The entire camp Is lighted
electrically, has its own water supply
and sewer system, an elaborate sys-
tenn for fire protection, ornamental
and vegetable gardens, and resem-
bles generally a social settlement
camp, an Illusion which Is quickly
tltspelled, however, by the presence
Of the guards and the ubiquitous wire
fence.
An officer, connected with the tlnan-
cial administration was Of the opinion
that so far the Austrian government
had disbursed considerably more than
SO, 900, 900 crowns for the Klein-Muen-
chen camp, and, that the keeping OF
Russians prisoners had entailegd an ex-
penditure OF approximately 1110,000,-
900 crowns, and in Austria:HungaTy
there are today 80 other prison camps.
The recurrency of diseases is said
10 be connected with the failure of
many OF the prisoners to do the best
for themselves hygientcally. Though
recent arrivals of prisoners showed
no case Of cholera five cases devel-
oped about two weeks ago. One OF
the men has died; four are on the
road to recovery Typhus and typhoid
also appear occasionally. and tuher-
culosis is ever.present, because many
OF the prisoners were afflicted with
the disease in dormant state before
they were drafted into the Russian
army. On January -. Camp Klein
Muenchen had 81 patients Of this
class.
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
hundred OF such cases had either
been disposed OF by operations or were
under observation. Usually, the trou-
BILE is due to bullet Of small frag!
ment OF. shell. in the patients body,
which some Russian surgeon appar-
emily thought best to leave undis-
turhed.
camp, 566 have died. Most Of the
latter came to the camp sick or in
fected. They are buried in pine
grove. Graves are marked with a
black, wooden cross, bearing a mum
Der. The cross is later replaced by
maidstone cast of concrete This
headstone is given the number for
merly carried by the cross. In the
mortuary chapel erected on the ceme-
terry book is kept by in which by
means OF this number the name OF
the dead prisoner may be found
The cemetery at this camp shows