Republican farmer., 1919-01-31
PVT. TETREAULT SPENT MONTHS
 IN HUN PRISON
Received Horse Meat and Black Bread for Supper
 Menu Never Varied.
NOT COMPELLED
 TO DO ANY WORK
Gives Story of His Experi-
 ences From Time He Went "Over Top" to Release.

War is fun compared to being a prisoner in the hands of the Ger mans," was the manner in which Pri- vate Joseph TetreauIt, Co. E, 106th Infantry, 27th Division, expresse i himself today when he appeared in the common council chambers at city hall to enroll with the Committee to Welcome Home Returning Soldiers ''
 Captured at Cambrai on September 27, after he and II companions haA been cut off from their regiments by g break through the Hindenburg line, Private Tetreault spent two months in the Hun prison camp at Westforde, Germany.
 Questioned about how the Germans treated him in camp the Bridgeport soldier said that he was not compell- ed to work but the food was bad
 A sample of the daily menu handed out to prisoners by the Germans was as follows:
 Breakfast - Coffee, made out of hickory and acorns.
 Lunch-A bowl of soup made from cabbage and turnips.
 Supper Horse meat and black bread.
 According to the ex-prisoner the only variation of this was something worse. He said that the Germans took everything from prisoners but their money. This they were allow ed to keep and could purchase food at canteen maintained at the camp. Tetreault said that the prisoners never knew exactly how much they paid for the articles they purchased at this camp. They just held out the money and a Hun took as much as he wanted.
 Private Tetreault's own story of the Incidents leading up to his being taken prisoner is as follows:
 "On the morning of September 27, 1918, we went over the top. The time was 5:15 a. m. and we had just re- placed the British troops about Cam brai. Our object was to smash through the Hindenbuhg line at this point and to hold our ground at all costs.
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 "We reached our objectives in a grand rush after a three-hour bar
 
 had gained what was said to be our objectives we were ordered to ad- vance still further and occupy the German second line trenches. This we did. at a good cost to the Huns, but in so doing several units of Amer jeans were trapped. It was here that we discovered the Germans had un- derground tunnels leading from their second and third line trenches and out to the listening posts.
 After we had occupied the trenches we were surprised to hear firing from our rear, and turning, discovered that the enemy had made use of the underground passa ges. There was a grand scramble for safe ty and I landed in shell hole with Il others. The funny part of it was that none of us belonged to the same company. A dozen different units were represented in this one hole.
 After laying on our siomachs for five hours. during which time one of our number was killed when he stuck his head above the surface to see what was happening, we were discovered by a Hun aeroplane, who signalled to a German officer. He brought up men and captured us
 we were released from prison on | November 27 and taken to Holland From there we went to England and were later shipped home, It was some experience"
 Private Tetreault lives at 402 Bond street, this city, and his parents live | in Worcester, Mass.