The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-08-22

10 several SIhrfter srSuIn"iits On ilie
subject Of the war. which he kecnIy
enjoyed One little incident he related
revealed the remarkable TACT which
our enemy displayed In his assoeia-
tions at sea, which no doubt resulted
.iivantageonsly for him. AS he ex-
pressed 1t. ne made u hit one evenin:
when the crowd has assembled for a
ittle music by suggesting that they
sing -God Save the King Thereafter
his popularity WAS assured and the de-
sired effect accomplished, for very
soon a French officer came up 10 him
and said, Its too bad that England
and ourselves haven't men in our army
Ike you" 1t WAS too bad, he agreed.
In telling me about il. because he was
confident he could have dome whole
lot more for Germany If he had been
in the English army. In spite OF his
apparent loyalty. however. the maD
didn'f seem very enthusiastic over the
war and frankly admitted one day that
the old political battles waged in Cali
fornia were much more to his liking
than the battles be had gone through
over here On second Thought he
laughed as though it were q good joke,
but he evidently intended me to Infer
thar he had taken a keen interest in
politics in San Francisco.
when my ''chunmy enemy first
started his conversation with me. the
German doctor in charge reprimanded
him for talking 10 me, but he paid no
attention 10 the doctor, showing that
some real AmericaDisn had soaked
into his system while he had been in
the L. :. A. l asked him one day what
he thought the German people would
do after the war: il he thousht they
would make Germany $ republic and
much 10 my surprise he said very bit
terly. III I had my way about IL.
would make her republic today and
. hang the id kaiser in the bar
gain" And yet he was considered an
excellent soldier. ! concluded. how
ever that he must have been Ger
man socialist. though he never told me
50. ON one occasion | asked him for
his name, but he said that would
probably never see him again and IL
didn't matter what his name was.
dld not know whether he meant that
the Germans would starve NE out. or
just what was on his mind. for NJ that
tine | am sure he did not figure on
ii, ius. The first two or three days
] ras in the hospital i thought surely
ie would be up and gone long before
was, hut blood poisoning set In
about that time. and just a few hours
before left for Courtrai he died.
One of those days, while my Wound
I
given an apple: whether II was Just to
torment me. knowing that / could not
eat II, or whether for some other rea-
son. | do not know. But anyway a
German flying officer there had several
in his pockets and gave me nice one
or course there was no chance Of my
eating IL. 50 when the officer had gone
and | discovered this San Francisco
fellow hooking at II rather longinsly.
l picked II up. Intending ~ toss il
over 10 him. But he shook his head
and said. III this was San Francisco
] would take h. hut cannot take 1t
from you here" / was never able to
understand just why he refused the
apple. fer he was usually soeiahle and
good fellow To talk 10. but appar-
emily he could not forget that was
his eremy. However. that did not step
one OF the ordcrlies from eating the
apple.
One practice about the hospital I'M
pressed me particularly. That was.
If n German soldier did not stand
much chance OF recovering sufficiently
to take his place again in the war, the
doctors did not exert themselves to see
that he got well. But IL a man had
u rairty good chance of recovering and
they thought he might be of some fur
ther use. everything that medical skill
could possibly do was done for him.
don't know whether this was done
under orders or whether the doctors
just followed their own inciinations
in such cases.
My teeth had been badly Jared up
from the shot. and hoped that might
have chance to have them fixed
when reached Courtrai. the prison
where was to be taken. So 1 asked
the doctor II 1t would be possible for
me to have this work done there. but
he very curtly told me that, although
there were several dentists at Cour-
trni. they were busy enough fixing the
teeth OF their own men without both
ering about mine. He also added that
would not have to worry about my
teeth; that 1 wouldn't be getting so
much food that they would be put out
OF commission by working overtime. l