New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-22
Lausanne. January m. 70.

Lausanne, January the 49,.
As TO me | don't have 10 Canal,
my wounds are cured, and can't ern..,
be ever better than ! am now Though -,
have bullet in my leg il doesn't ,,o,,,
me. but the nerve has been so badly ,ov., ,
that my heel pains me all the time hu, y.
is nothing and | must consider myself -.
happy to have brought my bones h..
though was always ready to give NV h,
away for our dear France ct for liberty !,
is better to die than 10 become slave 81 !,
Prussians.
have also received your newspapers. vbi,,
! always read with the greatest plea,D,. !.
remembers me the good times that p,s,
New York. How good IL is to me "a -.
what the Americans are doing for Franz.
remember when | came from Germany ~,
Switzerland had no more shirt bu. rae, :.
my back and the first thing that was sv,.
to me was shirt coming from America
When was wounded and picked up by IA.
Germans we were about 25 or 80. They NJ,
us in a train and took as all over Nor,hsr,
France and Belgium to make the people b..
lievc they had taken a thousand train, a,
prisoners. but had a chance TO SEE IA,
Stars and Stripes floating over the Amerie,,
mills. and the people told me how happy The,
were to get their daily bread from Amerie,
because the Germans take their -four. tb.i,
money and everything away from them. \
is no use TO tell you that they even take IA,
people away to enslave them.
am very happy to see how well the Ne.
York papers, and especially The New Yor,
Tribune, understand the situation. | eoulj
not expect less from them. ! knew all IA,
time they would never share the opinion q
the "Staats Zeitung." have read the srti,l,
published on the 18th of December and an.
titled. Russian prisoners in Germany |,
is only the truth, but not all the truth
These poor men are not only unhappy, bu,
never has a slave suffered as they do. No.
body would give to his dog what the Ger.
mans give them to eat The food is not s,y
rotten. but still they don't get half Of vh
they need The French prisoners do 4,
best they can not TO let their poor Ruasr
comrades die of hunger, but it is not sss.
cient, and since the war began many thOs.
sands of Russians have been killed by won.
ing too much, or by want Of food.
In the camp where | was have seen about
300 Of them die in that way IN a couple o.
months. and they were only 5000 in my camp
They are treated like criminals, even worse
They have TO pull carts in the camps ossl
the country and even in towns where ih'
Germans ladies spit on them, eyeryvhsu
they take the place Of horses and oxen
Many are tied to pole for 3 or hours
day even when it freezes, great number hs
died in that position. the Russian is such
good nstured man that he never complains
about anything For the French II is Quit,
a different thing. they play so many trist'
on their goalers that the nice Germans ca
do nothing TO them. All tie court marilal'
are busy trying the Frenchmen who refuse
to work and send Germans TO
, many get ten or even twenty years, but thg
don't care in what kind of a goal they ere
and they all know that they will cone bsci
to France after the war.
Yet the French have theatres, librsh''
schools and everything, and all the theatre
money goes to help the Russians. Win {"
against the will of the Germans every Freeze,
man is becoming an educated man, they
study everything, but especially the EnsAa
language. Kind regards from your
friond &c.