Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-06-04
AUS1RIANS ACCUSE
j. 5. AMBASSADOR
OF negligence
Charge That Mr.. Marye
Could Have Prevented
Suffering of Millions.

Vienna, May 4.-Reports arriving
here from many different sources
give terrible picture of the suffer-
iDgs of the hundreds o. thousands OF
unfortunate men, women and chill
dren who have been driven into the
interior of Russia from the Baltic and
eastern provinces, or shipped to
Gibe ria and Turkestan.
Thousands of the civilian prisoners
herded togethe. in the awful .5iber-
ian camps are j WIS and other host
ages who were carried away front
Galicia and the Bukowina when these
Austrian crownlands were in tn }
possession of the Russians.
A Russian deputy recently stated
in the duma that 2,5S9,00O persons
have been sent into the interic~ Of
the empire from Poland alone, and
about two millions more from the
Baltic provinces, Volhynia. Podola,
Lithuania, Bessarabia and Finland
Austrian Investigations show talt
the victims dragged to Siberia from
Galicia and the Bukowina number
about one million.
The Jews form nearly one half of
thousands in misery far from their
homes. The rest is composed Of
Poles, Ruthenians. Germans from the
Baltic provinces, Esthonians, Cour-
landers, Lithuanians, Livlanders, Fin
landers, Little and White Russians,
Roumanians from the Dukowina and
Bessarabia and Mohammedans front
Caucasus. ::
DR.. Philip Menozel, a promin Mt
editor of Czernowitz who was sent
to Siberia with several thousand
other hostages, returned recently and
reports that during the eleven months
he had to spend in camp at Siberia
over 5000 of the civilian prisoners
died. The mortality became appall-
ing in the short summer, when the
temperature rose to 105 degrees in
the shade.
steamers brought more prisoners
every week, but most of them were
eel says. Last July a large boat
reached Harymski Kraj from Tomsk
with '476 Jews, men, women and chill
Gren, from Galicia. Only fifty-two of
nlen walked ashore The others
were dead in the hold of the ship.
They had persisted from hunger, heat.
fever and disease. Among the dad
bodies 4 saw those of a mother and
seven children. Sights almost as ter
rible met our eyes on the arrival Of
every steamer. Seldom one of them
landed more than half of the passen-
gers alive"
Women of the Red Cross who were
sent to Siberia by the Austro-Hun
gaIrian government and returns d
recently state that dysentery and
typhoid fever are killing about forty
per cent of the civilians in the Rus
sian prison camps and that twenty
per cent more die of hunger and ill
treatment. Cruel whippings of men
and women for alleged violations Of
the camp rules are daily occurrences
Tbs number Oh military prisoners
in Eastern Russia and Siberia is
comparatively small. The total num-
Der of German and Hungarian
soldiers captured does not exceed
100000. How many of them are alive
today is impossible to tell. Their
camps are far away from all rail-
road communication, in the wilder
ness of Northern Siberia or in the
steppes of Central Asia.
Only few of the camps could be
reached by the Austro- Hungarian Red
Cross delegation and they were found
to be in a terrible condition.
In three of the camps the dele
cation found Il either hospitals nor
physicians, although fifty per cent OF
the prisoners were wounded or sick.
In one camp there was one physician