The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-04-25
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Bisbee Boy, Son of Hon. E. E. EIIinZ Wood, Says American Farmers Would Not Feed Hogs the Food Given Captives by the Huns.

"American farmers wouldn't feed the food we were given to their hogS," according to Ralph E. Ellin- wood, veteran of the German war, who has returned to Bisbee after an absence of two years.
 "It consisted of black bread about two inches in diameter and alleged soup made out of COW beets and cab bage. Oh, it was a lovely menu" He was speaking of the ration bread issued to prisoners in German prison camps.
 'We owe our health and our lives to the American Red Cross work ers," he continued. Each month they woold send us 90 pounds of food per man. We didn't have any trou- ble in getting the food that was sent to us, but over in the prison camp at Cassel, Germany, the men didn't fare as well and there were many reports of food sent them being sto- len by the German guards.
 ''In the Chemin-des-Dames sector where 1 was taken prisoner, 1900 British Tommies were captured and they were put to work behind the German lines building roads and working on dumps. The poor fel- lows were so undernourished that six months later only 187 of them still lived, and they were moved in to one of the prison camps in the interior of Germany.
 "Seventy-five of them died in the first ten days. They were in pit iful plight; American doctors who examined them said that none of the remainder would live more than two years longer, due to undernourish- ment and hard labor A sad looking lot, those Tommies"
 Sailed in June 1917
 MT. Ellinwood sailed for France in June 1917 and served four months on an ammunition truck. On Oct 1 he joined the American army am bulance corps and was attached to the French army which was operat- ing on the Rheims front. Later on his company moved up to the Sois- sons line and it was during an en- gagement on May 28, 1918, that the Chemin-des-Dames line was shattered by the Huns and he was taken pris- oner. On January 1, 1919, he was released from the Hun prison camp and entered the American lines af- ter spending eight months in the prison. \
 When questioned concerning the Y. M. c. A. and the part it played with the American expeditionary forces, Mr. Ellinwood said he be- lieved they did what they had con- tracted for wi tn the evolutionary forces.
 Y. M C. A. Did Good Work
 "They did a lot of good work" he added, Gin simply having huts where men could congregate and have rec reation and write letters and have their entertainments. The organiza- ton dearest to the heart of the doughboy is thes Red Cross and the Salvation Army. They performed extraordinary work"
 According to MT. Ellinwood the German people accepted the terms of the armistice without any concern. They were calm, he said, and seemed to have adapted themselves to the inevitable fate which they knew was in store for them when the French turned them back at the Marne and at Mons in 1914, when Won Kluck hammered his way right to the gates of Paris, only to be turned back by the valiant French and what the Ger mans caled 'tthe contemptible little French army"
 There is only one real country" he said in conclusion, land it's right here in my own United States. I'll say m glad to get back. You bet. foa1c h,111xy ,'