The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-11
SAILOR BOY FROM
FRISCO" is THERE
Hurried Back to Fatherland When War
Declared; Chef and HeideIburg
Teacher Also in Crowd;Cymnasium
and Hospital Features
By WILBUR s. FORREST.
U. P. staff correspondent.


DORCHESTER, Eng, Jan. 3.-(By
mail. j-"Prisoners of war or not,
they're human" Such is the philoso-
ply of Major w. C. Bulkley, D. S. o.,
British regular army, who commands
England's largest war prison camp
here at Dorchester.
More than 5000 of the Teutons who
fought for the Kaiser on the western
front during the last fourteen months
are reaping the benefit of British
leniency in this model city. built ex-
clusively for their use on the outskirts
of this historic British town. No
other press representative was along
on this trip, today and is it the first
time an outsider has been permitted
to inspect every nook and corner Of
the camp and talk unreservedly to the
prisoners.
Surrounded by a double fence of
American barbed wire flanked by wire
entanglements, hundreds of substan-
tally built, one-story houses, electric
lighted, amply windowed and rooted,
have been built to accommodate the
prisoners. The houses are in rows.
fronted by streets and cross streets
which swarm with German grey-green
uniforms. The main gate opens into
large parade ground surrounded on
three sides by barracks which were
used in peace time by a regiment of
British cavalry. In these barracks
where Hanoverians captured in 1914,
are living today, regiment Of Han
oyerians fighting for England hun
dred years ago, was quartered.
'Pve got an uncle in San Francisco
said one of the prisoners when he
earned that an American was within
earshot.
where does he live in san Franz"
"He lives on Jackson street. used
to visit him often" answered the pris
oner in perfect English. A well built
youth whose counterpart is in every
American city, was leaving the camp
postoffice with a small decorated
Christmas tree sent by his family in
Germany. He had stood in line for
thirty minutes until his name was
called, and he had eagerly grabbed the
tinseled evergreen as an officer, who
first inspected it, handed 1t over. Stop
ping a minute to talk he rushed off
to his hut where the same tree few
minutes later had the place OF honor
on big table in the center of the
room, with forty other prisoners ad-
miringly looking on.
This prisoner used to be sailor on
a Seattle-Frisco steamer. When Ger,
many declared war he hurried back to
the Fatherland
An enormous kettle in one Of the
large camp cookhouses was presided
over by big fellow who used to be
a chef in Germany. lie was making
tea for eight hundred men, but stopped
a moment to explain that he had rela-
tives in Mississippi. Another pris-
oner. nearby, was cutting quarters OF
beef into small cubic hunks for soup.
A crate of cabbages and lentlis was
on hand to flavor the stew.
On the same street with this cook
house was the school building, also
the shower baths and gymnasium. In
the school building, classes are heard
by young men who used to teach a.
Heidelberg. He's a teacher of Ian
guages. The effect of rigid military
discipline imposed by the German
army was manifest in the way the
shower baths, occupying two build
ings, are always in use.
"Turn outl" ordered British
officer conducting the inspection.
Forty German heels clicked. or would
have clicked If shod. as twenty Ger
man youths in altogether" stood
rigidly at attention. The gymnasium
ercloses many appurtenances for