The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-14

WIN the sioux VI AlS AAAAS, A'o~N'
ing him out for some time. The Ser
geant still has a long, ugly scar over
his left eye as memento of his cap
ture. When he came to, he was ly'
ing on the ground at the same place
surrounded by large crowd of Ger
mans. AS Munro and his three COM
| rades were the first Canadians tc
be captured on that part of the line
they were a great curiosity. The
! Germans tore their uniforms Off OF
them, tore them into strips and gave
each man a strip. The officers took
the brass buttons and the insignia
F! The Canadians were then taken to
a German dressing-station. Here
after waiting for about two hours
while Germans were being treated,
the Canadians were questioned by
members of the German Intelligence
Department. AS they refused to
answer the questions, the Germans
would not dress their woun ds. They
were then taken to Roulers, Bel
GUM, where some Belgian Nuns
dressed the wounds of these four
suffering, lonely, sore-tired soldiers.
Afterwards, these Nuns got some
terrible treatment for being good to
the enemies of Germany, The Ca
nadians were then loaded into some
cattle-cars with other prisoners and
taken to Magneburg, Germany,
city of about eighty thousand people
and about sixty miles from Berlin.
1t was journey of three days and
nights over rough railroad and in
the dirty cattle-cars. All the food
they got was three small rations of
black bread and dirty water called
coffee. There were a large number
of badly wounded French and
British prisonres on the train
The prisoners were taken to
the large hospital at Magneburg,
where they got passable treatment
as the Germans wanted them to get
well as soon as possible so they
could work. After Munro had beer,
in the hospital for several days, he
began to feel the effects of the gas.
For three weeks, he was totally blind
and almost deaf and his lungs were
so stuffed up that he Gould hardly
breathe. The Sergeant was in the
hospital at Magneburg for seven
weeks. At the end of that time. the
German authorities said mat he was
able to go to the working-camp.
There were about fifty other men
who were-as the German said the,
~ere-ready to go to the working
lamp also. The fifty men were tax
m dowc to the station 70 wat Il,
he train. The entire city was there
o meet them, as they were the first
prisoners to come to that town. The
,uards made the people form into
line and pass the prisoners. AS
'ach person came past, he or she
'ented his or her spite on some par
ocular prisoner by either slapping
is face, pulling his nose, splitting at
i'm or kicking him. Even the little
oys and girls, five and SIX years OLD
pat and kicked at the prisoners.
hose people who have thought that
ne German people were not in SYM
athy with their rulers and the in
uman things that they ordered done. !
lease read those last two sentences r
yer again.
Finally, a little wheezy engine 4
lme up, pulling several cattfe-cars. a
he prisoners were loaded into these e
Id the train started off, amid the
ers and Kisses of the crowd. At b
r a journey of thirty miles, the t.
ain stopped at the town of Alton. t
'asbow. The prisoners were made Il
leave the cars and made to walk d
the working-camp, a distance of e
'out three miles. The working. 8
mp where Sergeant Munro and his
'llow-sufferers were taken had 4
bout fifteen thousand inmates. The h
mp consisted of large piece of '
round enclosed by barbed-wire fen :
IS. These fences were about fif- h
en feet high and were about three h
'et apart. The guards stood out. b
de Of the second fence. The only I,
lelter provided for the men were o
rye pieces of canvass stretched
yer poles. These were called tents. 1
here were sixty men to tent. At T
ght, they would build little fire n
the center of the tent. They were b
ot allowed to have any light. When c
icy were ready to go TO sleep, and g
lat was rather early, they all lay
own with their feet to the center of =
le tent and their heads to the out =
de. Each day they were taken in !,
tile parties RI the curro,oJ;at.