Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-27

Int.iE loSa! 10 the American flag, and
ready TO serve IL again a; any time
It's merely that the fob IS done now
and they want TO take up the new
job
camps was not, in the majority OF
cases, sufficient to maintain life.
In this connection" remarked Mr..
Agnew. Il should like TO acknowledge
the hearty cooperation and the valu-
a"lc assistance which we have received
from the American Red Cross. which.
among other things. furnished sup
plies for the camps in Austria. which
in time. l paid a visit to Switzerland
some time ago and met several Of the
heads Of your Red Cross organization
there. Messrs. bennett, Levy and Stew
art, and found them awfully good fell
lows"
The headquarters of the central
Tnu-!oe Place. kensington, and the
work that. for the past Two years. has
been carried on there. is impressive
something like 100, 600 parcels OF food
have been dispatched by the organiza-
ton, as a whole representing a money
roughly. :32,5oc.co. OF these parcels
the Red Cross itself dispatched about
one third. the other iwo-thirds being
sent by The various care committees
and associations. From beginning to
end, many thousands OF persons took
imdso IN r me packns and dispateh Of
tinuouElE employed at the Thurioc
Place headquarters alone.
Cruelty False Hopes.
Cruelty false hopes have recently
British prisoners who have been miss
INK for months or years" said the ON
clal OF the central committee already
quoted, by unauthorized reports in the
press here based partially on the sup
posed existence OF prison camps in
GERMANY whose existence has until
fact that the total OF Hritish prison
crs In German hands as returned. from
time to time. by the Germans them
selves. is somewhat in excess OF those
as shown by our own records
AS matter OF fact. there have
been no secret camps in Germany,
and no concealment o: prisoners. Wilde
the disparity between the Official Ger
man and British figures is simply due
20 the tact that the German records
Of prisoners were kept somewhat care
less!y and on a different system from
our own. For this reason, IL is greatly
70 be feared that the repatriation OF
British prisoners, which is now taking
place, VIII result in the return OF COM
paratiNcly few VINO have been OIL
cialiy notified as missing for more
than few months) and il is very re-
large numbers o! men might thus re-
turn from the dead has recently been
iosIered by section of the press here.
Repatriation is now nearly COM
pletc. the total of men. officers. pri-
Yates and civilians already brought
PACK to England being in the neigh
Dorhood OF $4,000. In all probability
there are not more than 10000 still TO
come"
There are many curious lelics and
souvenirs III the museum" of the Cen
trail British Prisoners committee
headquarters, and many picturesque
triated men who have visited the Of
fees in Thurloe Place.
Iiindenbmrs Statue.
We have all heard of the famous
wooden iiindenburg statue in Berlin,
and of the thousands of golden, silver
copper and iron nails that were driven
according TO the metal. Probably most
newspaper readers pictured these nails
as sizeaole spikes that would take
some hammering in. but. on be-
Gently bten received at the head
OF war committee headquarters.
were tiny little things hardly bigger
than far-sized carpet-tacks. The
largest one / saw. a silver nail, could
not have been an inch in length, and
the copper nails We're still timer Any
one of them could have been driven in
with an ordinary tack hammer and i
was told that those | saw were repre-
Absolutely Unique Books.
1 was also SHOWN little book, made |
by British prisoner at Ruhleben, !
which must be absolutely unique. The |
pages of this little volume are made |
out OF the paper that .cncircled |
cigarettes and represent every brand |
Of flag" smoked in the famous camp. |
These papers number 500 different |
Iiinds-British. French, Russian. Ger |
man, American. etc. The binding of the |
book is as unique as its contents" 1t |
consists of an old leather glove with .
the fingers stretched right across the
front cover OF the book. one word of
the title being on each finger point.
The interstices between the fingers
were filled in with pieces Of an old
loeskin waistcoast!
Glove OF Kniserin.
Other relics include n glove formerly
belonging to the Kaiserin, which a re-
leased British prisoner picked up i'm
the royal palace al Berlin, n number
of revolutionary cockades, and SOL
iiers' proclamations. Among the
civilian prisoners recently repatriated
rom Ruhleben is one In particular who
must be given credit for uncommon
grit and persistence. He is an aero
BAT named Costing, who was perform
ng Germany when war was declared.
rhe Germans took away his table and
his Snring mattress, and sent him to
In spite OF the lack of this
however, he has sue
ceeded, In spite OF the fact that he has
been prisoner for four years, In keen.
ing his muscles In such n state OF sun
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