The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-08-29

very satisfactory--one English officer
and about ten German ones. They
didn't seem to appreciate the joke.
however. and. indeed. they were ap-
parsntIy too much alarmed at what
was going on overhead to laugh even
at their own jokes Although these
night raids seem to take all the starch
out OF the Germans while they are
going on. the ofncers were usually as
brave ms lions the next day and spoke
contemptuousiy of the raid Of the
night before.
saw thousands OF soldiers In Cour-
trai, and although they did not Inn
press me as having very good or abun-
dant food. they were fairly well
clothed. I do not mean to imply that
conditions pointed Ia 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 beii.. able
to win the war by starving them out
strikes me as ridiculous. This Is
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 cup of coffee and moth
Ing else. II the prisoner had the fore
sight to save some bread from the pre-
yious day. he had bread for breakfast
also. but that never happened in my
case. Sometimes we had two cups of
coffee. that Il, near-coffee. 1t was
really chicory or some cereal prepara-
tion. We hnd no milk or sugar.
For lunch they gave US boiled sugar
beets or some other vegetable, and
once In q while some kind OF picked
meat. hut that happened very seldom.
We also received third of a loaf of
bread-var bread. This war bread
was as heavy ns a brick, black and
sour. II WAS supposed to last us from
noon one day to noon the next. Ex-
cept for some soup. this was the whole
lunch menu.
sometimes had a little jam made out
Of sugar beets. and preparation
called tea. which you had TO shake Wig
crousiy or IL settled In the bottom Of
the cup. and then about all you had
Was hot water. This tea WAS sad
blow ia the Englishmen. II il hadn't
been called tea they wouldn't have felt
SO badly about Ii. perhaps. but IL 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
while We had some kind Of canned
meat.
This comprised the usual run of eat
nhies for the day can eat more than
were to come learned that l WAS to
fare considerably worse.
We were allowed to send out aud
buy a few things. hut as most Of the
prisoners ucre without funds this was
buf an empty privilege. Once I took
advantage of The privilege To send my
shoes Ia a Belgian shoemaker to be
haif-snled. They charged me -
marks-<n, -asaE1E9~ss<S
Once Il n while a Belgian Ladies'
Relief soriety visited the prison and
brought us hsndkerchiefs. American
sosp-which sells st about $50 a
ONr w anu
other little articles. all OF which were
American made. but whether they
w-r. supplied by the American re-
lief committee ar not l don't know.
Al any rate. these gifts were mighty
useful and were very much appre-
cIated. <-.sssaass&a.
One day I offered n button on my
uniform TO one of these Belgian ladies'
rs 9 sonscnir. hui n German guard
saw me aud / wss never allowed to
20 near the visitors Afterwards.
The sanitary conditions In this
prison camp Mere excellent ss a gem
discovered thst 1 had been cap
turcd by Goodies
This was n novel experience to me
and one that l would have been very
willing to have missed. because In
the nying corps our airdrom.s are n
number of miles back of the lines aud
we have good billet~ aud eur acquaint-
ance with such things as "cooties-' and
other unweicome visitors Ii very linz
tied. .--~---.
When l discovered my condition.
made holier and reused the guard,
and right then ! got another example
Of German efficiency.
This guard seemed to be even more
perturbed about my complaint than
myself. evidently fearing that he would
be blamed FOR my condition.
The comma ndant was summoned
and l couid see that Ira was very an
Cry. Someone undoubtedly got a Sc
we're repriruand for Il.