Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-05
my Four Years IN Germany"
Gerard.
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tContinucdD
; The Germans collected all the sol
licr prisoners OF Irish nationality u
me camp ut I.imburg. not far from
T Frankfort q. VI These efforts were
made to induce them to join the Ger
man army The men were well
treated and were often visited by Sir
Roger Easement who. Working vita
he German authorities. tried to gel
these Irishlncn to dcscr, their nag
aud join the Germans \ few weak.
liDgs were persuaded by Sir Roger
who llnally discontinued his visits.
after Obtaining about thirty recruits
because the remaining lr'shmcD
chased him out of camp
Undoubtedly the worst camp which
J | visited in Germany was tina, Of Wit
,enhere. The Russian soldiers ar
riEjns AT Wiiicubcrg were not prop.
ely disiDfected and. IN consequence.
vpbus fever broke out in The camp.
'cndiions IN the camp during tho
fcriod OF ihis epidemic were fright
full. The camp was practically de.
serted by the Germans The Ger.
mans employed a large number Of
pollcc dogs in this camp Many com.
plants we're made 10 me By prisoner
concerning these dogs. stating tina,
mon had been bitten by them VI
cemcd undoubtedly true that the pris-
,ncrs there had been knocked about
nd beaten IN q terrible manner BY
heir guards
As rule our inspectors found lh~
'oapltalS. Nb'ro the prisoners of war
"crc IN rs @o9d condition as could
be expected think this was due
ar@clY 10 the fact that so many doc.
tors In Germany are Jews
As have said many Of HE camp
omrandors IN Germany were mon.
"ycoleni and efficient ami kind.
hc7rted. who did What they could for
hN prisoners II Is pity that these
nen shonld bear The odmm which
attaches Ia Germany because OF the
7enerd bad treatment Of prisoners Of
H9r IN the dr-i DAYS of The war
/ md because commanders OF prison
amps were not fitted for their posi-.
! lem
Under The chapter hcadnc "Dlp.
'"ma'ic negotiations" there is some
interesting material
I'm the autumn Of lal Zimmerman
bowed me II long list sent him bv
Ncrnsiorn showing quantities of sad.
| Hes. atitomobilc9 motor trucks. tires
explosives, fOOdstutis and so on OK.
ported from America to the allies and
minated that this trafVlc had reached
7pch proportions that II should be
"'opped
In February 1915. in The Official
tommiaue Of the day appeared tho
'oloWng. Heavy artillery fire in
certain sections of The wcst front
N'Nuf WIN American dlnnlunlt ION
and IN April in the official Commlnlc
'onething to this effect Captured
Trench artillery officers say that they
pave great stores of American am.
mUnitiou.' | obtained thru the State
Department In Washington q state
mcni from the French Ambassadors
certifying that UP to that time no
hells whatever Of The French artil.
'cry had been furnished from Amer.
leo,
sometime after | had delivered
our Drst IUsltnniH note oI May II.
l?lo. zimmerman was lunching with
U.s. A good looking American woman
married to u German. was also of
the party. and after lunch alho wan
talking 10 some one else overheard
part Of her conversation with Zm.
hermann. When Zimmerman had left
asked her what he had said abou,
America. Germany, Mr.. Bryan and the
'.nstania She then told me that she
bad said to zimmerman that Il wnA
. great pity that We were to leave
Berlin as It looked as IT diplomatic
relations between the two countries
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