Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-05-18
GERMANY AND RUSSIA WILL
 EXCHANGE HELPLESS PRISONERS

could not be helped, the poor field ac- commodations for the wounded, who had to be cared for in far greater num- bers than anyone had ever anticipated, and the hours of neglect due to the fact that the doctors had more work than they could possibly handle.
 One prisoner said he lay on the floor of a house or stable for two days and the only soft thing about him was his own blood His uniform had been entirely shot away by the ex- plosives which had cost him his leg. Some of the soldiers said they had been robbed by Cossacks as they lay wounded in the field, money and little trinketS of jewelry being ruthlessly snatched from them. It became a GUS tom, the Austrians said, for the wounded to turn their pockets inside out as they lay upon the frozen ground to show that they had nothing and thus escape bayonet prod.
 The Swedish doctors in charge of the hospital trains listen to these stories with indulgent smiles. They say undoubtedly there ahve been 7ases of great hardship. but the wounded soldier as a rule is very keen for sympathy and talks accordingly.
 There were two pitiful cases of tu- berculosis on the train. The sands of fife were fast running out of the glass for one of these, but he seemed to grow bit stronger as the train near ed Trelleborg where the prisoners were to be transferred to a German hospital transport
 Tt will be so good to get home," he sighed.
 But the poor devil will never get shere," said the doctor, for the pri- soners coming from Russia are kept outside of Hamburg for month as 'ule to guard against the importation of any infectious disease. They are not taken to Berlin, for it is said here he Germans do not wish wounded men on the streets of the capital.
 The other prisoner far along in the relentless grip of consumption, had also suffeerd the loss of a leg. He said he had wife and three children 1t home and he did not know how he could ever provide for them.
 The invalid transport trains passing through Sweden do not crce to the city of Stockholm, and the Swedish people as a whole see very little of the wounded men. The nearest ap- proach to Stockholm is Halsberg, where the men detrain for dinner As he first train from Russia came into 4alsberg, the military attache of the Austrian legation in Stockholm was at the station. The train platforms were crowded with soldiers on their crutches and with arms torn away It vas pitiful to see the poor cripples 3traighten up and salute with such hands as they had left when they
 aught sight of the officer in full uni form
 The attache and representative of he German legation distributed cigar cites, cigars. newspapers and German weeklies to the men on the train.
 And to each an envelope was hand ed with especial ceremony, These en- velopes were found to contain picture postcards of Emperor William, of Ger. many Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, and Field Marshal von Hin- denberg.
 After dinner there were songs of the Fatherland, sung with lusty Ger man voices. When the singing first began the maimed soldiers came hop ing to the song-circle as fast as the crutches and heavy canes could help them. They gave cheers for the em- perOrs and stood with heads uncover ed as they chorused Die Yacht om Rhine"
 The Swedish Red Cross has splen- didly orvanized the arduous work of transporting the prisoners between Russia and Germany and every pri- 3oner who has made the journey across las been warm in his praise of the comforts provided for him. Each train is in charge Of the surgeon o. he Swedish army and there are espe- ;ial nurses and orderlies. Each train is provided with an operating room and whenever a serious operation is deemed necessary the train is stopped whiel it is performed. The govern ments of Russia and Germany pay for 5he expenses of the transport of the prisoners, the Red Cross handling all the accounts. The journey is a long one and the work of exchange is eX-