Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-27
DECLARE AMERICANS ARE
BADLY TREATED IN SPAIN
l7l-Ycar-Old Boy of Peters
burg Left Behind in Span.
ish Army.
Two AnnIvE IN LONDON
lsEFsfwhilc Comrades Tell Of Ifnrd-
\ ships Suffered by Their stranded
"tslddics"-C"ntrnct Diseases In
b Eilthy Camps.
my Associated Prcssl

SslSs{LoNDoN. Nov. 26.--Twcnty Amcri-
cans, who joined the Spanish forces
last summer. still remain In IA Spanish
sYcamp near Ceuta. Morocco, suffering
ffrom dyscntcry. septic sores and
n termin. according to stories told to-
dsy by two OF their erstwhile com
rades,r members from the contingent
OF thirteen Americans and forty-three
Britishers, who reached London, yes
terday. after seven weeks of cam
+ paisning against the Moors on the
sAIelilla front.
+. These stories OF their stranded
''bnddies' were told by Charles vs.
Brown. e 1G2 81 AIMS Avenue. New
Z York City, and Charles Stephenson. a
native Of New York. whose home now
4 Is In Toronto.
PAS Petersburg hoy Left Behind.
III Among those loft behind in the
4 Spanish camp. they said. are % -.
( Lloyd. of 307 West Washington
4 Street, Petersburg. Va. a younEstcr
aundcr II years II age: Benjamin Mar
COILS. OF Boston, who was Wounded
while on the Tctuau. and George Cor
b bett, OF BROOKLYN. who paid his own
Afare from American when he Joined
the Spanish troops They now are
all destitute. according 10 Brown aud
3 Stephenson. AMI their Suffcrings are
{ bound To become worse, with the
!. rainy season in Morocco just begin
ming.
Brown and stephenson confirmed
& earlier stories Of hariships and cruel
s treatment a; the hands OF Spanish
officers. They said they participated
3 in eleven battles between September
NH 4 al flnGp
of Mount GourouEou. Nador, Tciuan
and Mount Arruit. Both. having
fought with the Canadian army dur.
+ ing the world war. enlisted az Brit
fish subjects. with forty-hve others,
and sailed from Southampton Sep
TENDER ] or the steamship .\lmirante
L0bo to Ccu;a, whence they were
sent to Meliila by way OF Malaga.
Then, after three days. during which
J time they caught snaiches of sleep
along the roadside. they said they
were sent to the front. having been
given a loaf of bread and tin OF
sardnes. Their personal property
had been stolen.
81 -Four OF G.oup Arc Killed.
or their group, they said four had
been Killed and twenty-five wounded.
Being unable TO understand the Span
ish commands led them 10 much II!
treatment, they said. on one &C
casion. they said, they were beaten
and sentenced TO the hard-labor
squad.
At another they were sent 20 the
front with their arms tod behind
their backs as punishment FOR trying
to obtain medicine at M-ii!la
They told the story OF Greek
soldier In the legion. who was SEN
fenced TO be executed, but they said
the Americans III The firing sgIad
purposely damned rher T!Aes.
E"entualiy the Americans w"r+ re-
leased. and rrsy !et. the front Sr-
verlosr & arriving 5arE ~ rsu-,
four days iste- wh.rs trey sad ;-=r
were wei --.z-.-5 tor t.s G-sI ;.u..
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