Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1916-12-01

Jolueu our Toes, nut / am gla1 10 ID
able to tell you that German-Bnlgarl
ans under Field Marshal Won Macken
sen are advancing VIGOROUSLY in tn
Dobrudja. In telephone conversation
With his majesty the kaiser last night
his majesty ordered me to tell yot
that a decisive victory had been wor
over the Roumanian and Russian
armies" This announcement of Rou
manian defeat moved the cripples and
consuinptives to pathetically weak
"Hurrah." which strengthened as the
aged prince called for three cheers for
Kaiser Wilhelm and Kaiser Franz Jo-
seph.
Then they were allowed TO come
ashore. With the neatness Of long
practiced military evolution, German
ambulance men swarmed up the gang
plank, and two and two they led, more
often carried, the released prisoner
off the ship, set them on their feet anu
led them to be presented to the prince
and his encourage, after which they
were placed in chairs about the tables
in the long dining sheds. Cigars,
cigarettes, picture postal cards and
German newspapers were distributed
among them; punches of oak leaves
were fastened on them by enthusiastic
women; they were dined and wined
and beered to the limit, and enjoyed the
process hugely, but they were also re-
quired to do some work. Soldiers of
the local garrison passed from table to
table, submitting printed lists and
photographs of missing German sol
diers and officers to them, which they
were asked to examine and, if they
could identify any of the names or
photographs, give any information pos
sible regarding the missing.
Then one at time, the exchanged
German prisoners were led out of the
dining room to a nearby dressing room |
and there stripped of their worn uni
new equipment. The pride on their
faces as they limped back looking like |
real soldiers again was worth noting, |
and more than one looked as If he still
had lot of fight left in him. 1t was
one of the most remarkable lightning
changes had seen in the course of the
war.
The Landsturm band never stopped
playing during these proceedings, dis
chiefly military marches, with
native dances thrown in for the benefit
If the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Germans
vnll lynnxtriper| nd % |
he tonic effect of brass band music;
md it was worth while watching the
apid reaction of the liberated prison
rs to 1t.
Returned Prisoners Guaranteed.
Three hours later all were loaded
nto waiting hospital trains, the Ger |
1ans to be transported to quarantine ,
ospital in Bremen, the Austro-Hun- 7
arians to quarantine stations on the {
border, where they
I'LL be detained for an observation a
eriod of II days. Then they will be i
llowed to return to their homes. I
These occasional little war canoes
ring home to you the seamy side OF
lie war as no great battle picture can;
OH realize what the war means to the n
Inocent individual, and not field of n
thousand dead will fill you with such a
)rror and repugnance to the whole n
lsiness as this prisoner ship film n
nd just as moving as the return of c,
lie Austro-Germans was the depar- N
re of the Russian exchange prisoners n
rly this morning.
The local stages that had carried
MINER guests between the station and
e hotels, these coughing consump- p
res were brought from town down
the waterfront where they (deleted
the censor) were led or carried by -.
,rman ambulance men on to the AGO. -
5 and technically Swedish soil. p
ley were free men, but they didn't ~
TX it. They dropped in steamer chairs %
d on the benches that paralieled the VI
,amer rails like a lot of very wet
ckens. They looked broken In body
d spirit, but this appearance was in
TT deceptive. Swedish nurses circu- lie
ed among them and gave each Rus er
n paper bag containing a first We
'akfast-a white roll sausage sand Co
III. The released prisoners bright pc
ID up and proceeded to take new ce
crest in life. of
Swedes Feed the Russians. las
wen before the Aeolus sailed, imme-
tely after the first, a second break
was served to the Russians by the
d-headed Swedes, who went on the wa
sible theory that the best cure for yes
ancholy is full stomach. Swedish les
Cross nurses now distributed AID
les heaped with boiled sausages and the
itoes, with knife, fork and spoon. tee
Zach Russian prisoner, TO the great
element of not few of them. One
sian. whom / watched carefully. A
Sed the knife in his boot top and LIE,
on the plated fork and spoon, then VIII,
fortably ate boiled potatoes and SAT,
up the sausage with his fingers. GOV
of the Young Swedish girls pave Tho