South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-03
The TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY
The ''Show Camp is Cheerful
Place, But Wretchedness
ReignS in the Others

do not know, but, from the look Of
their mode of living, ] think they
cannot amount 10 much
10 made me feel bad 20 see the
French and Italian troops which are
SO dapper and trim on parade. look
ing just like Outcast dogs sinking
along. hoping 10 escape observation.
Those men were ashamed that
should see them so unkempt and
dirty
Many Of the men ] saw were bare
footed and their clothes were thin.
n learned that the French prisoners
are the ones chosen 10 go out and do
the heavy. unpleasant manual Ia Dor
for the German soldiers.
OF course 1 could not talk 10 the
prisoners, but ] did speak 20 one
Italian. / spoke 20 him in Italian
and he smiled and said. '.Vive Ital-
ia. ] would have liked 10 buy him
some tobacco, but Capt Tauscher
said il would only invite trouble for
myself "a it would cast suspicion
on me, and ] was trying 20 be care
ful not 20 have that happen.
The prisoners do not get the
things sent them by relatives.
learned that positively matter
how i learned it. Once in a long
time they will get packages Of food.
after the food has spoiled. been
rained on and crushed or becomes
mouldy or something like that
The clothes. candy. tobacco and
books are cOnfscated by the Ger
mans. I learned. too, that the pris-
oners would give almost anything
for books. Newspapers. of course.
are beyond their widest dreams.
but they do hope for bOoks-which
they do not get.
Misery and NretChedness.
The wounds the men have when
captured are tended 10 in only the
toughest manner. / saw men with
Dandages on their heads and arms
which evidently had been there for
days-they were dirty and blood
! soaked.
one thing the Germans have done
which has mbittered the English
prisoners of war more than anything
else-is 10 compel them TO sleep and
eat and live with East Indian and
Moroccan prisoners.
The English have nothing against
the men OF the other races. but they
do object 10 eating and sleeping with
them, just as the East Indians and
MorOccOans object 10 eating and
sleeping with the whites.
The Germans say that the English
fight with the other races, and so
IAN live with them.
The German soldiers subject the
prisoners 10 a great deal of humilia-
tiCn, too, sparing no sneers or slurs
or ridicuie. even 10 men wounded
and helpless.
Ii is no wonder the German wom-
IN worry about their missing sons.
fathers husbands and sweethearts.
They worry more about them than
grieve over the dead. for all
through Germany. it is known how
the Germans treat the prisoners Of
war. and the German women are
afraid that their own men are being
treated the same.
certainly feel sorry for any
American prisoner of war that the
Germans get. I advise America 10
fight SO quick and strong that there
will be no chance for Germans 10
take them prisoners.
The powers that be- in Germany
Ct noticed this in Berlin especially
continually tell the people that the
revenge which the allies will take
On them, in case they Cthe allies)
win the war will take the form Of
horrible unspeakable outrages
against both men and women. This
is one way they keep the German
nation determined to continue the
war 20 an ultimate victory.
Tomorrow Marie Brown will
write about Zeppelin Raids and the