Arizona republican., 1919-01-15
CONES HERE To
REST AF TER LIFE
IN HUN PRISON
Private Scott Has Much to
Say, None of it Good,
About His Two and One
Half Years As Captive of
the Germans


the Germans
My TWO and d Han ears III ter
many
Ihat may very pOsSlplH ne me Ctie
o. the pook tnal private Joiln a. 7cott'
fiShth CANADIAN oatlalloh' is Solus ~
write some day about ms experiences III
Germany rs "a prisoner ol war, IN the
days when the Huns thought theN We're
winning ana dld not care whether illelf
prisoners lived or dled-so long as theN
worked as Ions and as hard as they
could.
Private Scott. who Is spending the
winter IN Arizona trying 10 recnpcTdte
from strenuous lie OF i've sedfs as
soldier prisoner speaker in America
for the Committee Of Public lniolma-
ton, and influenza patient promises
hat his book. when he does write 1t,
NlIl be considerably more OF a reNeja-
ION to tn" American people than That
other book, My -Four Years IN Ger
many, by Ambassador Gerard FOR
the ambassador was enabled to live
comfortably in Germany, under the
Lrotecuon o. MS SoVerliillenl-"i me
a q qS II n
=, ela1o
0s'eeu ""uen LOT nea 0rosS
Private Scott has story that eclips-
Is anything Of the kind that Phoenicians
have had chance to hear. Thousands
u Americans have heard his story how
ever ior during the last several months
PRIVATE Scott has been a fully author
.Zed speaker Tor the United States gov
ernrhent and has raised tens OF thou
sands OF dollars for the Red Cross, the
BRUSH recruiting mission and the 9TH
g: various government activities with
ms story, told under the auspices OF
me committee on pubic information
PrlVate Scott has spoken throughout
me mIddle west ranging IN territory
rom Norm DAKOTA 10 Alabama, and
haS peen recognized everywhere as an
ihNdluaole factor IN telllng Americans
some Things about the war that they
mad never before heard.
Frlvate SCOTS story also appeared in
me SATURDAY Evening Post, in the
numbers OF June and 10, last. written
by himself ana ne has told 1t, and parts
OF IT, III some OF the country greatest
papers
First Gas Attack
Private Scott enlisted in the Canadian
army in August 1914 four dave aftor
war was declared and became ono Of
the first members of the BATTALION now
known as the Winniner "RIacl, Devils y
or which only a few of the ORIGINAL
members survive He won't to tho
front with the first Canadian contin~
gents and particinated in some of tho
first fighting of tho yvar when he 81
liant little British Commentaries.
taught the Germans they at 1east knew
how to die.
After the first hitter winter of tho
war when the Germans had haan
stopped for the time. Private Scott sav,
and felt the first gas attack of the var
It was April 25. 1915. and when the
Canadian trooDs saw. tho vaDoroue
clouds of gas rolling toward them from
the German lines they did not know
what sort of torture if was. Absolutely
3 ,uprepared for tho Gas attack pri,,o 70
I Scott describes wildly its horrible eff
feet on its victims. The Canadians for
/ the most part, died as they stood on
/ the line. expiring with the most ter
rible suffering and those who lived
/ through the gas Draved that they might
die 10. Handl1erchiefs were innro,-iSed
as masks. but did little good
Lies On Field Two DAYS
The Canadians were game 10 the end
and held the line as best they could
when the Germans followed mn tbe "a
attack. In this battle after almost
miraculouslv living through the gas
Private Scott received four shranne'
and one bulle wounds. He Law on the
field two days, in agony. before the
Germans picked him up and carried hin
to a hospital. where he was operated or
/ by Benevolent German doctor. with.
out the use of anesthetics.
When Private Scott recovered syf.
ficiently to be taken into Il cattle cal
and moved he was taken to a German
prison camp, where the Canadians ant
British furnished sport for their guard.
and We're regarded as dogs and treated
accordingly. Their rations consisted
mainly of acorn coffe, a thin soup madt
of straw and garbage, and black bread
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