Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-13
North Dakota's Greatest
C1assifiedaSection

nl8nt," ne SAID, some OF the things
I saw your fellow-countrymen endure
In the German prisoner Of war camps.
You. sitting here in the Biltmore. can
and a half years in a German prison
camp. I know. because I saw.
!, To Jail for Giving Food.
zone day I read in the North Ger
mar Gazette a paragraph which told
that a number Of the Inhabitants of a
northern German town had been
guilty Of improper and unpatriotic
conduct toward prisoners Of war, and
that they had been Jailed for varying
terms and their anne printed in the
North German Gazette. that their
names might be exposed to shame
and their falsity made known to gen.
era at OF Germans to come.
some Of these Germans are to be pun
ished o m~altreating prisoners of
war I directed the American consul
there to make a report on the matter.
He sent back word that a trainload of
Canadian prisoners Of war was being
taken through the town when it was
necessary to put the train on a siding.
Some Of the prisoners communicated
to curious townsfolk gathered about
the train that they were starving and
Ass~N AAOtAAAA!6 " uTlHk. Inc ~tOWnSpeO-
pie had given them food and drink
and that was the crime for which
they were imprisoned and held UP to
shame.
II had seen small boys, with Ger
man simplicity and kindness, march
about the prison camps armed with
bows and arrows. shoot arrows tipped
with nails at prisoners, but I had not
before heard of such a thing as this.
7 had read in history that at the
beginning Of the Reformation Martin
OF the cathedral. After this you know
who I would like to have nailed to
that door.
Prisoners Put With Typhus Patients.
Another time there was typhus
fever in a camp where Russians were
.tnterned. Saying that all the Allies
should stick together. the Germans
placed English and French prisoners
with the Germans in the typhus camp.
thus condemning numbers Of them
to certain death.
had trained German sheep dogs to
bite British. and when the guards
went through the camp they took the
trained dogs with them, and it was
seldom that they failed to bite British
soldiers. I complained to Berlin
about the matter. and for a long, long
time my complaint was unnoticed.
Nothing was done until I told the
commandant that I was a very good
pistol shot. and that / felt like GO
ing out and shooting some trained
dogs and seeing what they would do
about 1t. Shortly afterward the COM
mandant was removed"
Mr.. Gerard said that in visiting
some Of the prison camps he found
that many of the Canadians talked
with an accent that sounded like New
York. He said day a Highlander
approached him and said:
"Hello, Judge"
What sort Of a Highlander are
your" he said he asked.
From the Orange Highlands-of
New Jersey" was the reply.
Major Gen. Leonard Wood, the next
speaker, was enthusiastically received.
1--WE Of the United States and Can
ada" he said, "are now together for
a great effort. 1t is an effort which
we are going to carry through sue
cessfu1ly. It's going to mean sacri-
nee, sacrifice other than money. It's
going to mean the sacrifice Of life
In large numbers. 1t is a sacrifice we
shall make cheerfully because it Is a
sacrifice for a principle.