Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-09
TRIBUTE PAID GREAT BRITAIN
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He remarked that the present war
indicated that the Revolutionary War
proved to be the best thing for both
England and America, and the indie
~pendence of the United States tolled
the death of the old doctrine of divine
right of kings and preserved Anglo
Saxon ideals, and that this war was
bringing not only a new day of indie
pendence, but a day of inter-independ-
ence between the great nations of the
world.
Mayor TenBroeck introduced Cap
tain Fl. G. Gilliland, of the Royal Lam
cashire Regiment of the British Army,
who has been through a multitude of
the most trying hardships and expert
ences. He was twice wounded n
then taken prisoner by the Huns n
was in a prison camp in Germany for
two and a half years. when he finally
escaped and reached England. Cap
tain Gilliland told his experiences in
the prison camps of Germany. He had
been In fourteen of them during his
two years and a half of imprisonment.
He said that he had come to America
to give the people here the right idea
of Hun kultur. n that the evidence
he gave was the evidence of his own
eyes n ears.
He gave q vivid and graphic descrip-
ton of the despicable and uuspeak-
dtiG alTOClllcS lndl lAlO mini
ted on prisoners. especially to those or
England, as they seemed TO bear them
an uncomfortable hatred. He related
how he was taken prisoner after the
drive on Paris when the Germans had
broken through at LaBasse. His regi-
ment was ordered to capture a series
of trenches n hold them for twenty
four hours, but the captain said that
at the end of twenty-five hours they
.rrn..1 hn1Iinp fhn frannhna and only
three men beside himself were able
to fight and consequently were captur-
ed by the Huns. They were at first
taken to Hanover N then to Saxony;
from there to Prussia and were chang
ed around continually. Captain Gull
liJand was wounded twice just before
his capture and vas refused any at
tention at all and his wounds were not
dressed for a year and eight n
and then he was given no anaesthetic.
AS a result of that inhumane treat
ment he is today minus half of his left
lung.
+ He told a story which showed the
unsanitary conditions in which the
Germans placed the prisoners. Fifty
one wounded men were placed In a
! filthy cattle car, without food and wat
er and were locked in there for three
and a half days without food or drink
! and nobody entered the car except
| civilians, who robbed the men of any
valuables they might possess.
He said that when they finally
! reached the prisons that they were not
! allowed to read or smoke or do any
thing to while away the time. and
were given food that was indigestible.
In one prison they were thirty-five
feet underground for q months
and did not see daylight in all that
time, and were also not provided with
any means of sanitation, even being
submitted to every indignity imagin-
able. He ended his talk by saying that
nothing is too bad for Germany, but
that hi would not grind her down so
that she could not pay an enormous
indemnity, because he want to see her
work and pay for hundreds of years to
come, and that the present day Ger
mans a not be cured. but that We
must see to it that the future genera
ton is not brought up with the same
ideals.
Murdo Buchanan. the piper for the
CALIFORNIAN club, brought the celebra-
ton to a close with a grand finale on
the bag-pipes.
Britain Day was observed in several
of the churches of this city yesterday,
when the pastors delivered sermonS
which were fitting to the occasion,
paying tribute to England for her
many deeds and sacrifices in the world
war.