The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-09
Is L. S. Fliers in British
Corps Reach Paris From
Prison Camp.
203 PRISONERS KILLED
Reports Of Cruelty Told by
Officers Released Without
FOOd-N. Y. Man in Party.
Speriai cable Despatch 10 THE Srs.
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PARIS. Dec. s.-Fifteen young Amer
lean officers who were operating with
the British Flying Force. three OF
whom are from the vicinity OF New
York. arrived In Paris to-day after
spending from three to six months in
German prison. camp at Ntllensen.
Baden. Their stories of their treat
ment at the hands Of the Germans
were repet!tions of the accounts OF
other prisoners Of the cruelties and
hardshirs suffered.
In the party are Capt. Owen Hol-
leron. Atlanta; Lieu.s. David Cleary.
New York city: Ferdinand Edsted OF
Bsyonne. y. j.; r. ]. Morgan. Provi-
dence: John NJ. Dandy, Baltimore
william Kidder, Belmont, Mass; Will
lam ! Carrity. Hihhing, MINI. Rog
ers White. Taunton, Mass; George
Harvey. Everett Mass: Edward p.
I.arrabee. Bellineham. Wash; o. F..
Finenu, Albuquerque, y. NJ; w. w.
Creiman. Minneapolis: G. W. German.
Edmonton. Alberta, and NJ. II. Wink
Ter, Meridian, Miss.
Two Left in Hospital.
Two of the party, Pat Holland. for
nlerly a racing auto driver of Penn
sylvania. and u. A. Martin of BOSTON.
were unable to continue the journey
and were left in a hospital in south
ern France. All in the party said
the Germans left them To sh'et for
themselves the best way they could
after their release. furnishing them
no food. The Swiss, on the contrary
were most hospitable.
An appalling description OF how the
Germans deliberately sacrificed the
men OF one labor battalion. composed
OF British prisoners, was given by one
OF the Americans. He said:
This battalion comprised 900 Brit
ish prisoners who, according to the
German prison reports. were interned
In a camp hundreds of miles from the
front. The fact was they never were
in Germany at all but were kept in the
front line trenches and compelled to
labor under fire in repair and trans
port work until only seven OF the 800
remained alive. When some OF them
fell wounded their German captors
made no effort to rescue them but
either abandoned them or in some
cases deliberately finished them of"
Red Cross as CamOunaRe.
One of the Americans told how when
he was flying over some buildings
marked with the Red Cross, indicating
German hospital. he was attacked
by a burst of fire from a number OF ma
chine and anti-aircraft guns mounted
between the supposed hospital build
| ings. Realizing that the hospital signs
were n trick TO hide a military object,
the American fiier dropped bombs upon
the buildings; they proved TO be an
immense ammunition dump which con-
/ tinued to burn and explode for several
| DAYS.
These Americans were in Villengen
when Lieut.. lsaacs made his escape,
| as has been described in THE SUN.
| Several OF them indeed were among
| those who failed to get away with
| Isaacs.
As illustrating the German inability
to realize that their cruelties. atroci-
! ties and devastations have rendered
impossible the resumption OF such re-
lations as existed with other nations
| before the war the following address
delivered by the commandant at VII
lengen camp to the prisoners when
they were released after the armistice
| Is typical.
As taken down by ono of the Amer
! leans. the Commandant said:
Sooner than you expected your day
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