Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-29

no other protection from cold and
rain than a lean-to roof Here they
are kept without blankets day or
night Their food consists of prison
bread and water.
To keep from perishing of cold and
hunger they have to tramp around
this cage like Enclosure day and night.
The Germans think that this treat
ment will prevent the Americans
from trying to escape any more. But
from what one escaped American
said the result is very different, FOR
man who has undergone this bru-
tality for a couple of days gets des-
perate and spends his time planning
new ways of escape.
Besides punishment, the Germans
use "a preventive, which has nothing
to do with the electrified wires which
surround the cage-like camps and
kill many a man making dash for
freedom. They SNIFF the men about
all the time. Neither men nor OFFICE
ers are allowed to stay long enough
in one camp to get familiar with the
surroundings or with the people lN-
ling near tho camps.
Guards are changed very frequent
". too, lest the bribe of American
canned beef or pork tempt them TO
connive Guards caught helping prl-
soners to escape are flogged unmerc-
ifullv and kept in the open on bread
/ and water. The American prisoners
| food rations are q great temptation
| to these men, who get starvation RAJ
lions as soon as they leave the front
to do prison camp duty, and only
very severe punishment deters them
| from helping prisoner for good
American army rations.
a! Forced to Give False Addresses.
One of the most outrageous things
which the Germans are doing now,
and have done for a long time, is to
| make prisoners put false addresses
on the card they are allowed to send
! home or to the Red Cross, after their
| capture. In fact there is no guar
antec that the boys are really writ
| ing from the camps indicated as their
address This is apparent not only
| from the testimony of men VINO have
| escaped, but also from what neu-
| trail doctor told.
! of note and whose name | shall not
This gentleman, who is person
| give. because the publication of
names has always reflected back
| against the future activity and use
| fulness of neutral visitors, assured
me that when he recently visited
Mannheim camp he asked to see the
Americans. The German officer VINO
was taking him around said:
would gladly let you see Americans
but we have none in this camp.
| The doctor was very mlcn sur
prised at this piece of news ana sara
eBut you must lie mistaken, because
| / know on the authority Of the amer
| lean Red Cross in Berne that you
have Americans in this camp. II,
| fact the Red Cross sends them food
| parcels every week.
The officer looked still more sur
prised and said coldly: II repeat Her
| Doktor, that we have no Americans II
! this camp And the doctor wa
1 obliged to desist.
/ / asked the doctor what interpreta
\ ton he put upon this refusal
4 "One Of two things" he repileo
EITHER there are really no American
\ in that camp or else the camp author
/ ties knew that they would make some
serious and Just complaints about tn
4 treatment they are getting. But yol
| must not imagine that we neutral
| when we go to visit a camp see VIVA
we should like to see. In many case
! we are Just taken to the compounds, o.
! shown hut turned into a readini
| room We see the s@azarets more often
| but we get very few chances of talking
When one of the Officers in charg'
of the camp is standing near you cal
imagine that | cannot ask the pris
| oner the sort Of questions | wan t
| ask and that the prisoner cannc
answer my questions frankly. Their
have been so many cases OF punish