The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-31
Captives Of Huns
Endure Cruelties
Toll and Hunger

ture Is not known. The soup is in
tcntionally made Of stinking material
/ ard Intentionally facilitating. Blows
| with the butt lends Of rifles are deal,
| for no reason whatever, and the men
are constantly insulted in the most
outrageous manner. They have to toll
without a moments respite. Under this
treatment they rapidly waste away
| losing from 90 to 40 pounds in few
weeks. and falling ill., Some hold out
for two months. A man named -
OF the 9th Zouaves, from Quadreville
near Cherbourg, more robust than 9TH
ers. was at Teufelmoor two months
without breaking down. but his suf-
| fcriug was so great that he resolved ia
poison himself. So he soaked some
cigar stumps for several days in urine
and then drank the liquor and swal-
lowed the tobacco. He nearly died
and became so i'll that he was reduced
to skin and bones. He was picked out
| by the Swiss commission for intern
ment in Switzerland, and has been
there since the 9th of July.
Huns Rsvsi in Cruelty.
The 'kommando' at Koenigsmoor is
scarcely better 1t is under the super
vision Of Sergeant Major Fourstel
| surnamed the Boxer. He is a perfect
brute. He has square jaw. a mar
| row forehead, a little thick boned skull
| and heavy tread. He performs his
functions with conscientious and UNI
RENTING cruelty. When 1t is known
| that he is coming along a cold shud
der passes over the prisoners. He
strides up. arrogantiy and insultlngly.
his whole manner expressing con-
tempt. He no longer strikes the pris-
| oners himself, but he Is aided by two
soldiers who follow him around and
beat them on the slightest provoca :
| ticn with the butts of their guns. and
always on the head.
! when a prisoner reports himself
as i'll and his claim is disallowed. the
sergeant major condemns him to fill a
200-litre vat (about 200 quarts) with
a sardine box, bring the water from
a pump about so metres (25O feet)
distant. The victim is watched by one
of the guards of whom have just made
mention; If he stops for a moment the
guard runs up and hits him on the
head. and this occurs il he has haG
the misfortune to speak to one of his
comrades in passing. II he carries out
| his task steadily and without error
the guard, irritated at not having rea-
son for striking him. threatens him
and bawls out such expressions as the
following: Take care! II you stop II
hit your Or ne shouts: What! Yo,
are going to quit? Look out, or II
break your head!' One Of my former
comrades at Munsterlager, who wa.
employed for a time in the kitchen a
Koenigsmoor, looked on daily for thre'
f., weeks at scenes like this.
I" .Torture Of Prisoners.~ :
Sometimes. instead of filling this
200-liter vat with a sardine tin. the vic
tim has to fill two immense reservoir!
which supply an electric plant, and us'
buckets Continually logged by one o
the two guards the sufferer Is hal
dead by the end Of the day. He is thel
put into a cell, where he must sleel
on the bare ground, without fire. with
out blanket, even in the depth o
| winter, and when the temperature Il
25 degrees below Cent!grade u3 below
zero Fahrenheit), and they even TAX
away his overcoat and underclothes
Another punishment very frequentl!
employed at Koenigsmoor consists il
making prisoners run at full spec,
around the camp with sacks full o
stones on their heads. Every 20 meter
the victim must stop. put down tn
sack in the mud, then lift 1t to his hea'
l..
lon, over and over.
1T can be seen from the nature O
these punishments that they tend I
take the heart out OF the men, not onl
Those who suffer directly. but also tn
lothers who have to look on helplessl.
knowing that some day they. TOO. wi
be treated in some way. The objec
of the Germans is to abase the pris
oners by huniliating them in ever
possible manner. ....
Three Priests Beaten.
Il saw at Munster three Eelgia
priests, of whom the eldest was owe
80 years old, forced to kneel to receiv
their soup, with the other civilian pris
oners. | saw 10 British soldiers line
up, and non commissioned office
named Pepler give every one of ther
a, hard blow on each cheek. The Brit
ons were big fellows. and Pepler mis-
SHAPE dwarf. l saw Sergeant MajC
. Rodenwald make Britons. Belgians an
French stand for four hours at tim
with their faces to a wall.
Sometimes it happens that when
prisorer is struck he hits back. He
: Immediately committed for trial by
, court martial and put in cell or de
livered over to the punishment sectio
(Straf- Abteilung). At Munsterlager
prisoner named ............................. frol
...........................- in Auvergne, RENAME
thus committed and awaiting trii
from April /, 1916, to October 7 OF II
same year, in a cell l meter SO by
meter SIS (about 6 feet by feeD, whie
ireceiyed only a little light and thu
Through the top. At the same perio
another Frenchman was kept thei
NEARLY the same length Of time. an
also A Belgian. whose name, for sp'
icial reasons, 1 wish not to mention.
Soltau a prisoners named .-..-....--,........-
OF the horse artillery, whose home
in Client, was left in cell more tha
f,ar