Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-25

have. of course, /. being a woman, do
not know. but. from the look of their
mode OF living. / think they cannot
amount to much.
1t made me feel bad to SEQ the
French and italian troops which are
20 dapper and trim on parade. looking
Just like outcast dogs. sinking along,
hoping to escape observation, Those
men were ashamed that l should see
them 90 unkeTnpt and dirty
Many OF the men l saw were bare.
Footed and their clothes were thin.
l learned that the French prisoners
nre the ones chosen to go out and do
the heavy. unpleasant manual labor
for the German soldiers.
or course L could not talk to the
prisoners, but 1 did speak to one
italian. spoke to him In Italian
and he smiled and sand. "Vive Italia"
J would have liked to buy him some
tobacco, but Capt. Tauscher said 1T
would only invite trouble for myself,
ms 1t would cast suspicion on me, and
was trying to be careful not to have
that happen.
The prisoners DO NOT get the
things sent them by relatives. l
learned that positively-no matter
how l learned II. Once In a long
time they will get packages of food,
after the food has spoiled. been
rained on and crushed or become
mouldy or something like that.
The clothes, candy, tobacco and
books are confscated by the Ger
mans 1 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 wRETCHEDNESS.
The wounds the men have when
captured are tended to in only the
EOuRhRSt
bandages on their heads and arms
which evidently had been there for
days-they were dirty and blood
soaked
Oen thing the Germans have oonu
which has embittered the English
prisoners of war more than anything
else-is to 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 to eating and sleeping with
them. just as the East Indians and
Noroccoans object 10 eating and
sleeping with the whites.
The Germans say that the English
fight with the other races, and so can
live with them.
The German soldiers subject the
prisoners to q great deal of humllla-
tion, too, sparing no sneers or slurs
or ridicule. even to men wounded and
helpless.
1t Is no wonder the German women
worry about their missing sons,
fathers, husbands and sweethearts.
They worry more about them than
grieve over tha dead, for, all through
Germany. II is known how the Ger
mans treat the prisoners of war, and
tho German women are afraid that
their own men are being treated the
same.
certainly feel sorry for any
American prisoners OF war that the
Germans get. I advise America to
fight 80 quick and strong that there
will be no chance for Germans to
fHISe them prisoners.
SSe powers that be" IN Germany
Il noticed this in Berlin especially
continually tell the people that the
revenge which the allies will take
on them. in case they (the allies) win
the war, will take the form of hor-
rible, unspeakable outrages against
both men and women. This is one
way they keep tho German nation de-
termined to continue the war to an
ultimate victory.
Tomorrow Marie Brown will write
about "ZeppeIin Raids and the U-
Boats."l