Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-13

taliation for alleged misdeeds. Mail
was not allowed TO be kept beyond
eight days and if a postcard older
than that was found upon the person
of prisoner he was always rigor-
ously punished There was not
enough clothing to make one COM
Portable. AS We had 10 work out of
doors regardless of weather or sea-
son, our clothing was often wet
through, and the next morning we had
to put ii on while it was still damp
Colds were naturally unavoidable
The medical attention given US was
absurd. The crazy Colonel himself
made point of being present az al
most All medical examinations. and
completelg dominated the physicians.
who cringed before him. He was
fond Of saying that only the lazy ones
pretended 70 be ill. that ire camp
itself was the best sanltarium. anf
hard Work the best care-ail
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visited - Grneral Harhnlsch ard
ather officials. However. thoy neFer
looked af the prisoners quarters. eK-
cepi In TIE most pcrfuncfory way.
They merely strgtted through the bar
racks. watched the iaborers az work.
and then directed all their attention
10 the camp pigs. These pigs. the es-
pecial interest Of Colonel Gallus. were
royalty treated in their pens. and
certainly led a much happier life than
the prisoners, until they were
slaughtered for the officers mess.
Even the women are not spared.
Lately conditions have become still
worse, | am told. The women are
now forced to do all sorts of burden
some things For instance, they are
put at braiding and unbraiding fish
nets, and the only purpose of the
taskmasters seems to be to make their
fingers sore. Every Sunday, a weird
walk is undertaken, to wood about
six kilometers away from which they
bring back wood on their backs. Hun
dreds of men and women are put at
this work every Sunday, although 1t
could easily be done by a wagon and
two horses. In fact, the biggest part
of the labor demanded of the pris-
oners is almost wholly unproductive,
and serves no purpose save to tor
ture. If any of them dare to com
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peculiar punishments, of which the
most frequent is confinement in an
extraordinary cell called the bug
ROOM" place filed with old straw
mattresses and sacks, which simply
swarm with vermin and lice.
Murder of French Lad
For some unknown reason, there
had been no shootings in Camp Holz-
minden when ! last heard. In a
nearby camp at Binerbach, / well
remember the shooting of an eight
een-year old French lad, in the sum
mer of 1917. Because he for an in
slant stopped work, his guard, a stu
pid, half insane fellow, pointed his
weapon at him and fred The whole
garrison was highly incensed by the
killing. But when the General was