The Arizona copper camp., 1918-11-09
and not meat-just bread, bread,

and not meat-just bread, bread,
bread"
And when / looked around all the
men were sitting on their beds crying
and tearing their hair and saying,
"bread, bread, bread" over ard over
again. Then each tried to give me
something, as if to say that even if
they did not get out, perhaps their but
ton or belt or skull cap would get back
to civilization.
When l left their barracks I began
to cry, because it did net seem pos
sible that l was going ayAay, and al.
ready l could see them starving slow
ly, just as had been starving.
The next morning a sentry came to
my barracks, called out my name and
took me to the commander Of the
camp. They searched me, and then
drilled me back to barracks again.
Then the men all thought they were
just playing q joke on me, and they
said SO.
The same thing happened the next
day, and when one Of the men said
that probably I would be slammed UP
against wall and shot, I began to feel
ShalSy, can tell you.
But the third morning, after they
had searched me- ,fthe commander said,
''Well, you'u have to have bath be
fore you leave the country" and I
was so glad that did not mind about
the bath, although remembered the
last Cne / had, and it did not agree
very wen with me. After the bath,
they drilled me out into the road.
4 There were four sentri&s with me,
but not Swatts, nor did see him
/ anywhere around, for which I was sor-
ry. But all the boys calde down to
the barbed wire, or to the gate, and
! some were crying, and others were
cheering, and all of them We're very
much excited. But after minute or
two they got together again and the
last thing I heard was the song about
packing UP your old kit bag, and then,
'Are we downhearted?-No! They
we're certainly game lads.
They did not take me straight to
the station, but took me through all
the streets they could find, and as u.s.
ual, the women were there with the
bricks and spit. But 7 did not mind:
4 I was used to it, and besides, it was
the last time. SO / just grinned at
them, and thought that was better
off than they, because they had to stay
4 in the hole called Germany.
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mind the two-hour wait on the station
platform. [ noticed a little sign that
read, "Berlin 25 miles north" and
1 that was the first time had much Of
an idea where Brandenburg was.
When we got into the compartment
and I found that the windows were
not smashed / could not believe it at
first until I remembered that this was
not a prisoner train. We had forty
eight hour ride to Lindau, which is ON
the Lake of Constance, and no food or
water in that time. But still did not
mind it much. At Lindau they drilled
me into a little house and took away
all the addresses that I had, and
then marched me over to the little
boat which crosses the lake.
AS started up the gangway the last
thing I received in Germany reached
me-a crack across the back with a
rifle!
The women and children on the
dock had their fists up and We're yell
ing, "American sWine!'' But l just
laughed at them. And when looked
around the boat and saw no German
soldiers = only Swiss civilians -
rubbed my eyes and could not believe
it. When they gave me bread, which
was what I had decided wanted most
Of ali back in the camp, thought
was in heaven sure enough, and when,
forty-rive minutes later, we arrived at
Rorschach in Switzerland, finally
knew / was free.