Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-21
ARKANSAS BOY
 WAS PRISONER
 FOR FIVE MONTHS
Tells of Capture and Suffer ing Experienced While
 Held By Germans.


 Held By Germans.
 Camp Pike, Ark, Feb. 2O.-Enos E. Frazier, believed to. be the only Arkansas boy held a prisoner by the Germans for five months, was dis. charged from the army service today and left immediately for his home al South Fork, Fulton county, where g widowed mother from whom he haC not heard since May, 1918, is waiting to greet her hero son. Discharged with Frazier was E. w. Preston o1 Hoxie. with whom he had "paled' here when both were members of the 153rd infantry, the old First Arkan- sas, They became separated in France and did not meet again until they reached Camp Merritt recently. But both fought in the Chateau Thierry drive, and Preston was wounded on the same day that Frazier was shot and captured. Other members of the old First Arkansas returning to Camp Pike with Frazier and Preston and discharged today are Randolph R. ! Morgan, Hugh A. Dedmon and James J. R1sley, all of them bearing scars of wounds received in the war on the l Huns.
 Had Interesting Experiences. Frazier and Preston have been the center of groups of comrades, in- terested in the recitals of the ex- periences when they could be induced to discuss them. Both displayed won- der at the newspaper references to criticism of the Y. M. c. A. "A " man helped us to get out of Ger many" said Frazier in discussing his capture and release, while Frazier re- marked that We were served by " and Salvation Army canteens all the time. The " was back with us about 300 yards from the front line, and we never were without one or the other. "We were at Crezancy, while Frazier's division was bit farther up."
 Preston lost the first and second fingers of his right hand in the fighting on July 22, when Frazier was shot thru the foot and captured. Both men had been wounded before Frazier by a bomb dropped from an airplane on July 10, when he was slightly hurt in the right knee, and Preston on July IA, when a piece of shrapnel hit his left knee. Preston says he was saved from death on the same day, when shell exploded dir ectly in front of him, a lieutenant who was ahead of him. The lieutenant was killed, his body protecting Preston.
 Saw Friend Killed.
 Frazier tells of the death of two other Arkansas boys, killed in the same fighting-James s. Grover, and James M. Elliott. "They were mem bers by my squad. Grover was killed by machine gun bullet on July 19. l saw him fall. Elliott was shot, on the day was captured. l did not see him killed, but heard about it later"
 "It was on the fifth day of the drive," said Frazier in relating incid- ents of his capture and Imprisonment in prison camps of Germany. "We had gone forward about mile, and another boy and were sent out on patrol duty to guard against a flank attack. We were going forward and shooting, when we ran smack into a machine gun nest. The Germans had been shooting at the company, but when they saw us so near they turn ed the gun on us. got hit in the feet, the bullet tearng a hole as big as a dollar. The other boy got away un- hurt. believe. A shell got stuck in my gun, and I crawled thru wheat field to an apple tree and was poking at the shell when something hit me on the head, turned and saw bunch of Germans who had slipped around and got to me from the: back. tried to fight back, when one of them-an officer. I think-hit me with a club.
 Was Beaten and Kicked.
 "Onr second wave was then coming on and the Germans who caught we were dropping around me. Yelling Swine they beat and kicked me, and when our second wave was near they grabbed me and partly dragged me toward their line, one of them hold ing pistol on me. l knew they'd kill me if I tried to fight longer. When they got me to their line they grabbed my rations, and went for the food as though starved. One of them, a ser geant, probably, put his heavy pack on my bank, and then shot up as l was l had to walk five miles with that pack on my back. tried to walk straight, because when didn't they'd beat me up and kick up. Oh, they had my face looking awful. Then we got to little town, and there l found three other Americans they had taken prisoner. They questioned us, and got the number of my division. They questioned the others more. suppose they didn't question me much because was wounded. They put the four of us in an auto and took us to another town, where they put me in hospital. My foot was not dressed until the next
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