New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-08-16

going on. the officers were usually as
brave as lions the next day and spoke
contemptuOusly Of Tho raid Of the
night before.
/ saw thousands of soldiers In COur-
trail, and although they did not i'm
press me as having very good or abat-
dant food, they were fairly well
clothed. I do no mean to imply that
conditions pointed to an early end of
the war. On the contrary, from what
l was able to observe on that point,
unless the Huns have an absolute crop
failure they can. In my opinion, go on
for years! The idea of our being able
to win the war by starving them out
strikes me as ridiculous. This Is q
war that must be won by fighting, and
the sooner we realize that fact the
sooner it will be over.
Rising hour In the prison was seven
O'Clock. Breakfast came at eight. This
consisted of a cup of coffee and moth
Ing else. If the prisoner had the fore
sight to save some bread from the pre-.
vious day, he had bread for breakfast
also. but that never happened in my
case. sometimes we had two cups of
coffee, that is. n~ear-cOffee.
For lunch they gave us boiled sugar
beets or some other vegetable, and
once In a while some kind of picked
meat, but that happened very seldom.
We also received a third of a loaf Of
bread-war bread. This war bread
was as heavy rs a brick. black and
sour. 1t was supposed to last us from
noon one day to noon the next. Ex-
cept for some soup, this was the whole
lunch menu.
Dinner came at $3.50 p. M, when we
sometimes had a little jam made out
OF sugar beets. and a preparation
called tea, which you had to shake Wig
orously or 1t settled In the bottom of
the cup, and then about all you had
was hot water. This tea" was a sad
blow to the Englishmen. If it hadn't
been called tea they wouldn't have felt
SO badly about 1t. perhaps, but 1t was
adding Insult to injury to call that
stun "tea," which with them Is almost
a national institution.
Sometimes with this meal they gave
us butter instead of jam, and once In
a while we had some kind of canned |
meat.
This comprised the usual run of eat.
ables for the day. can eat more than
h a for breakfast! In the days that
Were to come l learned that l was to
fare considerably worse.
We were allowed to send out and
buy n few things, but as most of the
prisoners were without funds this was
an empty privilege. Once l took
advantage of the privilege to send my
shoes to a Belgian shoemaker to be
half-soled. They charged me 20
markS-$5!
Once In a while a Belgian Ladies'
Relief society visited the prison and
brought us handkerchiefs, American
sells at about $3.50 q
'ar In Observation-Disclosures and
'ther little articles. all Of which were
American made. but whether they
supplied by the American re-
ief committee or not 1 don't know.
1t any rate, these gifts were mighty
Useful and were very much appre-
One day I offered a button off nv
to one of these Belgian ladies'
s a souvenir, but a German guard
aw me and / was never allowed to
% near the visitors afterwards.
The sanitary conditions In this
'rison camp were excellent as a rem
raj proposition. One night, however.
discovered that l had been can
ured by Coolies"
This was a novel experience to me
n that l would have been very
Filling to have missed, because in
flying corps our airdromes are q
umber of miles back Of the lines and
e have good billets and our %acquaint-
nee with such things as "coOties" and
Their unwelcome visitors is very lin
ed.
When I discovered my condition, l !