The Glenwood post., 1917-12-01
MOVE FOR AGREEMENT ON
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

officially announced here that through
neutral agencies the United States is
going to make arrangements, if posi-
Bile, with Germany for a mutual plan
of treatment of war prisoners.
1t is well the government is going to
be forehanded. Otherwise the 'gentle'
Germans may try upon our men some
of the methods they perfected on the
French. l have had access to the per-
sonal sworn narrative of French SOL
diers, and tabloid version of of these
may prove Illuminating:
Charles Petit, 40, artilleryman, was
sent to Munster camp, where prisoners
numbered 24,OOO- In the beginning they
had no shelter and dug holes in the
ground. covering themselves with grass.
Later he was sent to Beckum where
they were forced to make munitions to
be used against their countrymen. Some
revolted. They were forced to stand
upright at attention for "a hours with
out drinking or eating. Those suspect
ed of being leaders were beaten and
kicked until they fell.
Emile Lame, 80, infantryman, wa
sent to Saxon prison camp, the .ioul-
ney taking five days and nights in
cattle car with so other men and hardly
any food He was transferred to Gas
sci camp where everything was swarm
ing with vermin. There were 10000
prisoners, of whom 10000 got typhus.
He was sent to two different munitions
factories near Cologne. He refused to
work there and was put at other jobs.
Paul -Metra, 3s, Eighteenth Territor-
ials, was sent to the mines of Neu-
muehl in Westphalia, where he and his
companions were beaten if they did not
do their stint.
Louis Goupil, "a, infantryman, was
sent to Wittenberg camp, where out of
$4,000 prisoners 5000 had typhus and
1000 died. When the epidemic broke
out palisades were built around the
camp, the German officers and doctors
left, and everything inside the camp
was done by the prisoners. Food and
coffins were passed over the inclosure
to them. The unfortunates had to fill
one graveyard for typhus victims and
start another. On the day Italy entered
the war, the enraged sentinels fired a.
the prisoners and killed seven, wound
ing eight others.
Sergeant Raymond lie Souchu of the
Nineteenth infantry, tells of Cottbus
camp, where out of $4,000 prisoners,
5000 died of typhus and exposure. He
told some Brittany soldiers not to work
in munitions factories near Berlin.
This was found out and despite the
fact that he was i'll and with a high
fever, he was dragged from his bed,
Kicked and cuffed and started for Ber-
lin, where they told him they would
make him do the work he had told the
Britons not to do
Francis Martin, %, officer of cus-
toms, was sent to the camp at Alten-
Grabow, where he not only saw soldiers
kicked and cuffed, but saw old civilians
He was afterwards sent tn
the salt mines at Salzdefurth in Han
over, where the hard work, the dark.
the damp and the poor food gave him
Louis Guinet, 27, sergeant l34th n.
fantry, was sent to Meyeuburg camp,
near Bremen. He was employed in
making earth terraces 10 hours day.
The food was insufficient and the bread
They found straw and saw.
dust in it. The men slept above each
other in three tiers on straw sacks.
Punishments were inflicted for the
slightest offense, one of the fayorites
being to tie man to a post for hours
until he tainted from exhaustion
Gabriel Lc Bihra'., 's, adiutant Nine
teenth infantry, was FOR time at Cot.
'Anseh camp. Here h. saw ar English
prisoner killed with a poin.bleris &c.
r"'r e1 shot because h. did not Instantly
stop on the order of sentinel. He
saw another English soldier killed nv a
sentinel with whom he had a discussion.
The German shot the unarmed man in
the jaw. He died after lingering agony.
Pierre Brasaud, 23, Fifteenth caval-
ry, was sent to Alien -Grabow camp.
When he asked for shelter during
snow storm he was struck with the butt
end of a gun. One Of his comrades
was wounded by sword blow. He was
sent to Wittenberg and forced to work
in munitions factory, although suffer
ing from pulmonary congestion.