The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
KAISER PROMISES

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war. They passed thru four afrplane
attacks on karlsruhe during which
bombs intended for the railroad sta
ton rained on all sides of their camp
To cap the climax they We're ignorant
until the last whether they were pris-
oners of war or neutral detention
whether their government was doing
anything to obtain their release, or
whether the United States had not al
ready entered the war
Prisoners Plight Terrible.
To add to their anxieties their fell
low Americans from the YarrowdaIe
at the time when they left them at
the Neustrelitz camp to be transferred
with other officers from the captured
steamers, were in state of complete
restitution. They were insufficiently
clothed. several having been without
shoes or over clothing during the Sc
we're December cold, and all were
weakening under the effect of these
conditions, altho they were subse-
Quently remedied when Ambassador
Gerard finally succeeded in locating
them in the prison camp. These four
men, however, had escaped the am
bassador's notice on account of having
been transferred to the officers camp
at Karlsruhe.
Doctor Snyder until recently a
member of the health department Of
New York City, was captured aboard
first vessel taken by the raider, while
he was returning to America from
France Mr. Zabrickie was the veter-
marian on the steamship Mount Tenn
pie, a Canadian horse transport, which
lost three men from shell fire. Doctor
Davis and Mr.. McKim were on the
White Star liner Georgia, the most
important bag of the German raider
Under Shell Fire.
The recital of the four Americans
of incidents concerning their capture
and their experiences on board the
raider is one with which American
readers are familiar from the accounts
of the Moewe and the Appam. They
were treated firmly but courteously
by the German officers. They were
confined in the hold during the chase
of each successive prize, wondering
anxiously whether the intended victim
would show fight and perhaps send
the raider to the bottom. Each of the
British ships from which the Ameri-
cans We're taken, was shelled and the
crew was obliged to take to the boats
in high sea.
There was no loss of life except in
the case of Mount Temple, in which
three French-Canadians We're killed.
| Another man was injured, his foot
| being mangled so badly that it was
| amputated on board the raider. Until
! they reached Swinemuende the Amer
4 leans had no idea that they would be
| treated other than as neutrals In
| fact. even the British officers who
were captured signed parole papers
while on the raider, with the under
| standing that they would be placed
on board the first neutral steamer
encountered for trans-shipment to a
home or neutral port. The capture
of the Yarrowdale with her valuable
| cargo, influenced the German com
mander to change his intention and
send the prisoners to a German port
on that vessel.
Run Blockade ON Yarrowdale.
Aided by a heavy storm. the run to
| the entrance of the Baltic was made
lundetected4 Thence they steamed to
swinernuende under German convoy
i After a few days at Swinemuende, the
prisoners were transferred to the
camp at Neustrelitz. where they were
held for a month in quarantine The
lcondition of many of the Americans
including horse handlers from the
Georgia, was deplorable. The horse
handlers had been accustomed &c