The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-05-20
WOUNOEOCERMAN
PRISONERS LEAVE
RUSSIA FOR HOME
Long Lines of Hopelessly Dis.
abled Men Exchanged
Through Sweden for Cap
tives Taken by the Teutons.

III s''dt '"a's VI Ncst io'ht gray INC
hrSt "t the hopolessly WOUNDED Ger
luah ana Austrian prisoners OF war
10 'uih' "u' VI i'uSS'" 'n's S'"'
passed hroueh sweden u lew days
age in ex'h'nsc I"r the helpless ana
hapl.ss RUSSIANS VINO hau pceh sent
from 'h' 'c'"'"n nVSP''" ''"'Ps'
The Austr'ans u Germans were "
more ch"erf"i Tot IMAM 'ho s'"i''' 81
lent Russlahs ana seemed 70 nave a
NOR" dethl'e lhea OF thelr iuture IRE
t ~ nothing sa'd one young AUS
trian vain ms rIBhl ieH gone ana wv"
iehiful scars on ms tace' ! am y
Jeweler ny traue ana my hahoS are a'
Eo"d az ever
The exchange. Of wounded prison.
crs undertaken by the Swedish Red
Cross is a gigantic affair. Effective
Mas ~ three trains running weekly
i'm each direction from the Finnish
frontier to the southern reaches OF
the Baltic can handle but compare
lively few of tn. men Sc hopcless,y
used up that the warning nations are
glad to be rid uf them. Some statis-
t.clau claiming to have knowledge OF
an. situation has declared that with
trains running daily all the year
round 1t would AXE ten years TO com
pl.,c the transport Of the human
wastage OF var now held IN Russi,
and
ON, of NE wounded Austrians on
tho nr.t train coming from Russia
wa asked how ma.y OF his comradc-
were lcit IA Russia
on he replied. there must De
"a million If them
This prisoner said he had been "all
over hussiu ana that few war pri,-
onors either sounded or whole of
skin and umb. were permitted to re-
main u one camp more than a
month coz tvo lie was wounded In
ADJUST last aud said hc must have
been in every hospital scamp lrom
VIldyustuN To Petrograd
There was one Young s. ldIcr from
Prague. Bohemia. who haG ..ad a ter
rIu., experience. He Was lu the cav
nIi. and Was riding ia a charge
who. a shrtpucl shell burst Just be-
uci.l him The horse was hlli,d aud
tn. rider was wounded twenty -on"
times seven times he was plp ed on
th, operating tall, lie emerged
with one leg gone and the other >"
broken. haut and twisted that u but
.ffIt Tt~pN4n cd human FORM.
And yet thc man had pleaded with
tn. doctors tor that remnant Of =
limb
They wanted To- cut It Off, too. As
wei AS m> right, hand, but / heard
Them talolug and | said. Please, good
Mr.. Doctor. don't cut off my other
leg aui m. hand A. last they let me
90 IA. said.
..AH
places but seemed uthrrwis 90 be
perfectly useful, But IN time OF war
nuput,lnu ia such an effective and
expeditions treatment.
Each man Of Tho ~ on board m"
train from Russia had his own thrill
ing story to tell. Each one had tast-
ed the utmost at the bitterness az
war and some seemed so badly MAIN.
ed and mangl,d that even death had
refused 10 acccp, them.
There was one poor fellow moving
,bou, mo train with sheep.skin pads
ON his knees and both feet gone.
Me no good any more, he smiled
in broken English when he learned
tina, th. Associated Press correspond
en-, on board tn. hospital train was
mn American.
ANA Doom, Doom, btbnl Nv S''Ns
bo added. mlmtckiug the roar OF bat
Il, This man had lain wounded for
DAVIS with his feet IN u half frozen
stream. when found he was more
dead han alive. Up TO the t!me he
lost CONSCIOUSNESS he said ne mus,
have been lying out Of doors for six
at seven days Nj his time he
heard the screench and oar OF shells
ra,siug above his head IND coca
slonally exploding about him. Any
One ~ them. he said. would have
been a welcome end to his agony,
nut nov n. was smiling and cheerful
ON M, wa, home, lie did not know
vh,, n. could do when he got there
Tor IA. had peer a horseshCer by trade
ana a horseshoer without feet is not
of much account
Some OF the prisoners complained
utterly of their treatment AZ the
hands Of the Russians. but the more
Intelligent of the wounded soldiers
declared that while their lots had
boon hard they realized the Russians
had dome ali theN possibly could un-
49, a.. t,,,n,siunp.a There were