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

him to go on chopping wood. Nun
70 told him that he couldn't. The
guard hit him in the jaw with his
fist, knocking out five of his teeth
and decorating his cheek badly. Or
the day that Lord Kitchener was
drowned, all the prisoners were Civ.
en- a double portion of everything.
| For four months, Munro was with
three hundred and fifty Russians
The Germans made practice of put.
ting the prisoners with men of anoth.
er nationality, thus adding to their
Loneliness and torturing them men
tally as we'll as physically. Down
the center of the camp was long
line of strong poles. On the slight
est provocation, and sometimes nc
provocation at all, the guards would
tie man to one of these poles. The
method was as follows The man to
be tortured was placed upon box
which was lying at the foot of the
pole: his hands were tied behind
him; rope was then tied tightly
around his ankles, knees and waist
and tied to the pole. The box was
then removed, leaving the men sup
ported by the ropes only. The ropes
cut into his flesh terribly. Sergeant
Munro was suspended that way for
four hours for telling one of the
guards that he did not have enough
to eat The prisoners had to pick
up their clothes just wherever they
could. For eight months all the
clothes Sergeant Munro had, we're:
a German soldiers cap, a union-suit,
an old. well-worn pair of German
soldiers pants, pair of Belgian
wooden shoes and a ladies' night.
gown cut off at the waist for shirt
The prisoners could not get any to-
bacco and made cigarettes as fol-
lows:
There were some trees inside of
the barbed-wire fence. The soldiers
cut the bark off of these and ground
it fine between two stones. They
then took piece of newspaper, plac-
ed the ground bark in it and rolled
1t up. 1t made cigarette about ten
inshes long. Each man took a cou-
pie of puffs and passed it along to
the next man. But after a while, the
bark was all gone and the prisoners
had no chance to smoke. The guards
who were plentifully supplied with
cigarettes, would smoke and then
blow the smoke in the prisoners fac
es, to tantalize them.
After being in the camp for about
eight months, the doctors said that
Munro was dying of consumption. He
was taken to hospital in Berlin,
where he stayed two weeks. The
doctors, after an examination, said |
that there was no chance for him. He
was then taken to the prison-camp at
where he was put in
he camp hospital. The dirty little
tut called the hospital was also cali.
ID the death-house as no man who
'ver went into it, came out alive. But
Munro refused to die. After being
n the death-house for seven months
lie was exchanged. Five hundred Ca
adams and Eng1ishmen were loaded
nto cattle-cars and sent TO the Dor.
er of Switzerland. At the border Il
n equal number of German prison,
RS who had been released. by tho
British, got into the train and went
ack to Germany. When Munro got
D Switzerland, he weighed just nine
y-five pounds. When he entered
he army in 1914, he weighed one hun
red and eighty. Most of the prison.
RS, after a month in England were
ent back to the firing-line. But
lunro's lungs were in terrible con-
ition from the small rations. the
ard work and the exposure, 50 he
'as ordered to go to hospital at
'erne, Switzerland. For ten months.
e had the best of care at the Swiss
ospital, all expenses being paid for
y the British government, but his
ealth did not improve. He was then
rdered to come back to England
or two months, he was at a conva-
sscent hospital at Liverpool. The
British authorities saw that he could
ever fight again, so he was senr
ack to Canada and honorably dis
harged from the service. He now
cts pension from the British gov
In the dry, bracine air of
orthwestern Canada, his lungs i'm
roved a little, but he still has some
ifficulty in breathing when it is
amp or when he exerts himself
Sergeant Munro wears number of
Insignia of different kinds. He wears
Tue epaluets on his shoulders IN.