Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-14
n DIT bn 4 E Hn By Lieut.. J. HARVEY DOUGLAS 0 E@ Hw s <
 

German doctor who was attending him said that the reason for the fever was that the hole in his arm was not biz enough to allow the pus to escape. He advised small operation to open and clean out the wound When the officer awoke from the anesthetic he was ly- ing on his back in bed, and uncon-, sciously moved his hand across his chest, where his wounded arm usually lay. The arm was not there. Hs feverishiy felt his body until he came to large dressing over the stump os his arm, which had been amputateds He almost tainted dead away with the shock. He shouted frantically for the nurse and demanded to see the doctor She refused to call him. The officer started to climb out of bed; saying, that he would go to the doctor | if she would not fetch him. Eventual-
 " the doctor appeared and received | the worst abuse he had ever had in
 his life-but it was too iate
 A Cruel Practice.
 l spoke to great number of men who had had limbs amputated, and in
 almost every case the bone was not
 cut far enough back to allow the fles1
 to grow over the end and form cusfs ion for an artificial limb. A friend of mine who had lost a leg in this way told me that he had complained to Herman surgeon about this method of lamputation and asked why it was Gone.
 The Germans reply was: Well. you Ihnow that's what the French and Eng fish are doing to our prisoners''
 A private who had been taken priss oner at Mons told me that, in one camp
 he had been in there were about 300A
 prisoners, mostly Russian and French , The camp was divided by road into !, two separate inclosures. In one oe these inclosures were about 1000 men who had to go to the main camp eve
 cry day for their meals. There were , 1.-two gates side by side-- a small one f reserved for Germans and a larger one for the use of the prisoners. At meal
 times the men used to crowd around the gate, waiting for the order to pass
 through to draw their rations in the ether incfosure. They were always
 hungry and impatient, and one day an
 English sailor and a couple of Tom mics found themselves being forced l through the small gate by the crowd , in the rear The sentry shouted at I them to go back. but they were una l II ble to do so on account of the pressure from behind. Once more the sentry : tshouted "Zuruck!" (Back), and then iran ms DdEOneI through the sailor :. and pulled the trigger to facilitate the withdrawal of the weapon. The bull t let killed one of the English Tommies S and wounded the other.
 = Harsh Punishment.
 Another private who had been talk
 en prisoner at the beginning of the war 2 told me how the men in his camp had n been tied with their backs to a post. n their toes touching the ground, and left f there for hours on end, as a punish r ment for refusing to work. n If one of the men in a hut had com : nitted a trivial crime, such as smok- y ing indoors. and the Germans were un- e able to find out who was the culprit
 every man in that hut would be stood r at attention all day, in bitter weather n with only a single bowl of soup a: tt nourishment. The punishment would e. be repeated day after day until th' e man confessed in order to save hi s comrades.
 c (Continued tonorrow.)