The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-10
GERMAN CRUELTY
 SEEN BY GERARD
Prisoners Put in Camps With
 TyphuS Stricken Russians.
CHILDREN MADE SAVAGES

Ambassador Saw Them Shoot Prison
 CTS With Arrows Tipped With NailO.
 Doss Are Trained to Bite All 5ritish
 Troops In Prison camps-Punish
 Those Who Give Food Co Starving.
 James ". Gerard, American ambaR- sador to Germany, told the members and guests Of the Canadian Club of New York at a dinner of inhuman treatment of prisoners of war by the kaiser's military authorities. The 1900 diners received with groans of indigna. ton and shame the former Rmbassa- dor's recitation of how the German au- thorltIes imprisoned townsfolk for g1v- ing food and drink to starving Cana dian prisoners of war, how German sheep hounds were trained to bite Brit ish soldiers, how small German boys were allowed to shoot arrows tipped with nails into the bodies of prisoners and how when typhus broke out in camp of Russian prisoners they sent FrenChmen and EnglIshmen to live with them.
 It was the first time since he re- turned from Germany that he had told of any of these things be had seen. Re saw them on visits to the prison camps in the capacity of the ofacial representative of the British and Ca nadian governments. MT. Gerard be- gan his speech by referring to Ger many aS that country where they were so fond of me that they kept me week after said wanted to go home"
 ''I want to tell you Canadians" he said. some of the things l saw your fellow countrymen endure ln the Ger man prisoner of war camps. You, Sit ting here in this hotel, cannot i'm agIne the horror of living two and half years In Q German prison camp know because l saw.
 To Jail For Giving Food.
 "One day I read h the North Ger man Gazette a paragraph which cold that a number of tho inhabitants of a northern German town had been guilty of improper and unpatrlotic conduct toward prisoners of war and that they had been jailed for varying terms and their names printed ln the North Ger man Gazette, that their names might be exposed to shame and their falsity made known to generations of Ger mans to come.
 "I said to myself: Good! At last some of the Germans are to be pun lshed for maltreatng 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 IL 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 had nothing to drink. The towns peo- pie had given them food and drink, and that was the crime for which they were imprisoned and held up to shame.
 "I had seen small boys, with German simplicity and kindness, march about the prison camps armed with bows and arrows. shoot arrows tipped with nails at prisoners, but l had not before heard of such @ thing as this.
 "I had read in history that at the beginning Of the reformation Martin Luther nailed his thesis to the door of the cathedral. After this you know whom l would like to have nailed to that door.
 Prisoners Put With TyPhus Patients,
 Another time there was typhus fe- yer in camp where Russians were lnterned. 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.
 At another camp visited they had trained German sheep dogs to bite British, and when the guards went through the camp they took the train ed dogs with them, and 1t was seldom that they failed to bite British soldiers I complained to Berlin about the matter, and for long, long time my complaint was unnOtiCed. Nothing was done un- til l told the commaudant that l was a very good pistol shot and that l felt like going out and shooting some train ed dogs and seeing what they would do about 1t. Shortly afterward the commandant was removed"