Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-07
CHAPTER XxIlI-continued.

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r certainly was hard, when the next
- came. to give up your whole ration
End % without that day. But l never
san man hedge, or even speak of 1T.
"a VIC did not have any food pirates
-.or,o rs either: we were not captains
= industry by any means.
There we're times when some Of US
LID not eat certain of our rations.
r,v Instance, many and many a time
ues as hungry as anybody could be,
IA wanted to eat my bread, but 1t
,.sr.d as If l could not get 1t into
~ month. Then l would trade 1t with
.r,,sa,e else for his shadow soup or
hjz barley coffee.
We we're dying every day In Bran
5enbf,rg and after each death the
.soior men Of that barracks would de-
.,H twelve Of their number to go out
soy half an hour and dig the grave,
,bae others made little crosses, on
rt,rb they wrote or carved the mans
,gr.a when ne was captured, and his
,,cig,nt or ship. In the middle of
,sp cross were always the letters,
RI P.-Rest IN Peace.
One time we were ordered to report
a tire German doctors for serum
treatment Of some kind-tO receive an
in5eefiDn, in other words. There was
40 choice about it this time, as we
we're simply herded together to the
soygItal barracks. Now. / knew what
tbeyp things were like and how brutal
,be German doctors were In giving an
injection. so l wanted to be the very
as, man and not have TO witness the
gtheg men getting theirs.
So I pushed up to the head of the
B,s with the crew of ii. NJ. S. NOmad.
gba had been captured in the Jutland
hsftle and by the time we got to the
hospital was the very first man in line.
gui the sentry threw me back and
shore were several men ahead of me.
Each Of them barred his chest and the
dorfors sIashed them across the breast
nth very thin knife, so you can see
,lal il vas very painful. When it
came 10 my turn they slashed me three
da,ps ia the shape of triangle Just TO
one side of the breast. And that was
au taere was To it-nO injection, moth
m On the knife that / could see.
Now. 7 do not know what the idea
vas. Every man Of us was dizzy for
he rest of the day and could not do
Rnythiug hut lay around the barracks.
And hardly any of US bled drop,
though the gIShes were deep. do not
ihink We had any blood in us to run,
sad that IS the truth Of it. 1t was
Just another German trick that no one
rDaId explain.
One day war correspondent named
Bennett, from q Chicago paper, came
70 The camp and went through all the
barracks. When he came to our bar
ucks / told him I was an American
and asked for the news. Instead of
answering he began to ask all sorts
* questions. Finally. after 1 had told
him I had been In the French service,
! asked him if ne could help me in any
WY. He answered that had only my
self to blame and that 1t served me
right if [ had been in one of the allied
Srmies
/ did not like his looks much and he
seemed unfriendly, but when he began
Knocking cigarette 1t almost drove me
'razy and could not help asking for
enc. He refused me and said | should
have stayed in my own country, where
l could have had plenty of cigarettes
After Il while he threw away a ciga-
fette stub and not only l but three or
four others who were near made dive
ior il. 4 man named Kelley got it
crazy man who went around trying
70 eat wood and cloth and anything
he could find.
tGunner Depew's interview with Mr.
1eFaTu took place at the Dulmen prison
camp on or about February l, 1917. On
February 3, our state department demand
Cd the release OF siXty-two Americans
captured on British vessels and held as
prisoners In Germany. On the same day.
president Wilson severed diplomatic rela-
Mons with Germany Ambassador Gerard
eft Germany exactly one week later The
newspaper that Gunner Depew saw must
gave been issued after February TO- It
vas not until March 9. 1917, however, that
sumner Depew was actually released from
7Fandenhurg.-Editor's Motel
When my three weeks were up and
mad not heard from Mr.. Gerard 1 was
JuSi about ready to go down to the
luke and pick out vacant spot and