The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-06
ARKANSAS BOY A
 GERMAN PRISONER
Enos E. Frazier, Held for Five Months, Tells of Brutal Treatment at Capture and Afterward-Wa
 Tortured by Surgeon.

Camp Pike, Feb. 2s.-Enos E. Fra zier, believed to be the only Arkansas boy held a prisoner by the Germans for five months, before his discharge here, revealed another chapter of the story of German brutality toward American prisoners. Frazier fought in the Chateau Thierry drive and now he has just left for his home at South Fork, Fulton county, where widowed mother, from whom he has not heard since May, 1918, is waiting to greet her hero son.
 In relating his experiences to inter- ested groups of listeners at Camp Pike, Frazier displayed wonder at the newspaper references to criticisms of the I. Nj. c. A. "A " man helped to get me out of Germany" he said, in telling of his capture and escape.
 Frazier was captured on the fifth day of the Chateau Therry drive while under an apple tree trying to loosen shell which had got stuck in his gun.
 Something hit me in the head" :" said Frazier. ''I turned and saw a bunch of Germans who had slipped around and got me from the back. I tried to fight back, when one of them, an officer, think, hit me with club. Our second wave was then coming on and the Germans who caught me were dropping around me. Yelling swine, they beat and partly dragged me to- ward their line, one of them holding a pistol on me. knew they'd kill me if l tried to fight longer. When they got me to their line they grabbed my rations, and went for the food as tho starved. One of them, a sergeant probably, put his heavy pack on my back, and then, shot up as I was, had to walk five miles with that pack on my back l tried to walk straight, because when I didn't, they'd beat me up and licked me-"
 Then he and three other Americans were taken to hospital where he suf- fered terribly all night with a wound ed foot, which was not dressed until the next afternoon.
 How inconsiderate the Germans were of their patients was indicated by Frazier when he told of the opera ton by the German surgeon. "He came in and began sharpening his knife, and then began cutting my foot, getting out the broken bone; and just had to sit there. They didn't give an enaesthetic or do anything to stop the pain. wouldn't complain for anything because that was what they wanted; to hear an American cry out. When the surgeon finished he wrapped the foot in paper bandages."
 Frazier was taken thru Berlin to the prison camp for the English at Stargartt, where he was held for three months. He developed lockjaw and was served by an English physi- clan in the hospital Later he was removed to Aldham and finally to Stettin, where he was when the arm istice was signed.
 "They didn't want to give us any clothes" said Frazier. "They said we could go as we had come I had been stripped of my uniform At one place they took my blouse, at another my brooches and my puttees, so that by the time l had reached the hospital 1 didn't have anything. We fussed around with them, and finally they gave us each blouse and thin pair of pants, and we had to go barefoot ed" He says that the German inter preter at the hospital treated him kindly. The interpreter said that he had not gone to the front, and did not intend to do so. He was coming to America, he declared.
 "All we had to eat was bread made of potato peelings and sawdust; and barley water. I nearly starved until we got packages from the Red Cross; and later the Y. M. c. A. sent us pack ages from Copenhagen every month. The Germans did not have any more. They would go out and hunt for pota- to peelings and eat those. They were wearing paper clothes, most of them"
 After being released, Frazier and his companions crossed the Baltic to Copenhagen, whence they went to Leith, Scotland. From there they were taken to England and then to Brest, France. Frazier was mem Der of Company F, 163rd Infantry, and left Camp Beauregard May 29, reaching France in June.
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