El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-11
By AxEL BRONsTED. ND. ,DnnI.


. about his family He has two
I daughters who married just before
the war, and a third one. little Ro-
setta.
''She looks exactly like her mother
Old when We were married. She
I doesn't know yet that I am out OF
Then there IS his friend. the editor
OF the paper in the little town he
came from
When I get back. 7 shall tell him
things that viii make him open his
eyes-"
There is but one subject which he
refuses TO discuss and this is his
capture. That the Russians could
take him. Stefan, Of the gold medal
That is something he has never been
able TO reconcile himself to.
Sheer At Heroism OF Others.
The comments Of the Prussians IN
the camp regarding Stefan were
caustic.
The pimpled Berlin clerk sneered-
such an Austrian gets a gold
medal for doing once what we do
many times every day"
'Oh, they may be all right those
Austrisns, but soldiers they never
VIII be- declared another IF there
Is real fighting 10 he done. We Prus-
slams have 10 do it,
What VIII happen next on the bat
one Of them fIourished a Berlin
newspaper
Nov Won HinderburE is on ehe
west front and yOu'u see something
happenH' he prophesied-
Ivan. The Russian Prisoner.
Ivan attracted my interest from the
first because OF his unikeness TO the
mass OF Russian soldiers Instead o.
being a six footer. ne was barely five
feet seven inches tail His face
characteristics OF broad flat cheek
bones. eNpressiouless eyes and gen
eral simple. logged appearance
rs hen ] spoke with him. I was
scarcely surprised that he talked
fluently in both French and English.
He had been law student at the
University Of Petro-rad when the
war broke out and he was drafted.
He was captured IN the great battle
OF the Mancnuriau "a kes During that
campaign. his right hand was so
badly frozen that ir had to be aupu-
prison camp after another, and was
finally taken TO Karlsruhe. where he
was confined with French and Eng
llsh Capuves. The camp was sttua ted
I'm a large open space in the center OF !
the city, and had once been used FOR I
TerrOrized By Aviafors-
karlsruhe had several times been I
terrorized by the visits Of allied T.
who dropped bombs into the
city, and the Germans conceived the ]
idea OF erecting miniature city Of
tents for housing the prisoners, ]
which. 20 the enemy sviators. Guild
doubtless look like a German mill
rarv camp and be chosen by them as
a target for their bombs Ivan told
me stories OF fiendish treatment on
the part Of the German jailors and
higher military authorities that 7
could not have credited had 7 not
myself experienced conditions almost
as bad.
T give Ivan's story IN his own
words, just as 7 took II down during
our conversation, which was in
French
eat night We could not sleep" he
said. because Of the vermin that
moved in swarms about the floors. /
We used TO brush masses of them of
our shirts with our hands. It was
January when vas taken there and
J was at once stripped OF my uni
form. and given instead some shoddy
trousers and a brown cotton shirt,
such as most OF my fellow csptives
wore.
OvercOat Taken Away.
MY overcoar had been taken from
me as soon as 7 was captured Every J
morning at half past five We were
given a small piece OF bread and