HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-10-31, Page 7GERMANS TORTURE
WAR CAPTIVES
PRISONERS LABORING IN SALT
MINES DIE
60,000 Teti t on Soldiers, Refusing To
Go to the Front, Are Held In
Camp Near Berlin.
Ten liritielt including live
stretcher (Macs, eul 120
Maned officere end imee ineeeling
thirty-ni no stret ehev hoe e
rived from Germany in Itotterken,
where 1k Faccl 1 ii. r,Aitee a Britih
war eorrespondent free' the Hague.
Theme premiere :ill are severly woun-
ded. In convereation with many of
them I learned they did not know
until they arrived at the Dutch fron-
tier of the Bulgarian collapse or of
the latest, brilliant suceceetes by the
Entente armies, they being, as far as
possible. kept from the public of Ger,
ninny. They give unnnimons testi-
mony of Germany's war wearinese.
Several men told ue that ot
Chapelle flue, were begged by a guard
from Gulem give him eome of their
fool derived from Englieh parcels. lie
said h h.I einhi daysleave iri go
to Perlia his parent,,, bat re-
meined only two daye, ns they were
unable to prte:ide him with feud and t
he did' no. weh to rob them of what
they needed thenhadves. They said al. e
most all the Germans with whom they r
Came in contnet expressed the firm 4
resolve to go to England immediately
lifter the war, as they considered
England would be the country par
excellence f'n' deetitute Germans
when Germany \MS unable to support
her own population Geeing to the
heavy burden of taxation and econ-
omic difficulties.
Some of our men told me that Bri-
tish prisoners who had been in Ber-
lin for court-martial appeals recently
stated on their return to camp that
the German civilians of herlin bad
assured them there were 60,000 Ger-
man soldiers in camp near Berlin
owing to their refusal to go to the
front, while there were three other
camps filled with men under arrest
for a similar reason.
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tee:ell:et
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4" -ere
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he young girl. This semi -tailored
alt has peplumwhish may be worn
ither double or single. McCall Pat.
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sizes, 14 to 20 years. Price, 25
cote.
'Wounded Prisoner Tortured.
I heard many stories of brutality
to our prisoners. One was from a
British officer with a Paralyzed hand,
who said a German doctor who dres-
sed his arm told his assistant when
he touched a certain part of the arm:
"That is a nerve." This British offi-
cer, who speaks German, said; "Yes,
that is -a nerve." Whereupon the Ger-
man doctor said to the assistant:
"Here is an Englishman who under-
stands German. Now shall we see
how the Englishman can scream."
Thereupon ho had the prisoner's
arm put over the assistant's shoulder
and bound to his bark, and gave it
Rh: excruciating jabs with an instru-
ment.
A third officer from Skalmerschutz,
province of Posen, fully confirmed a
story of the shocking conditions pre-
vniling emong our 111011 who reached
there from behind the German lines.
Other returning prisoners told me of
harrowing stories of cases within
their personal knowledge. Havoc
worked among our fellow country-
men, but they were forced to labor
in coal and salt mines and stone (mar-
ries. They declare these cruelties
cannot be known to our authorities
er steps would be taken to prevent
their recurrence.
Ono man from Aix-la-Chapelle said
he personally knew of six cases of
British prisoners who Were sent to
work in the cool mines Near there
who'returned to camp mere shadows,
their bones sticking through their
skin. The men died.
Prison Camp Secrets Iteedaled. -
enterer -
The Amsterdam Telegreaf
es. additional details of the secret of
the German camp at Liehtenherst.
The paper says it received a letter
6(0111 two leetchmen who passed time
tims in the notorious Lichtenhorst
camp. In this letter also is described
the secret of the camp and the picture
given of the beastly treatment to
which Hollanders there were subject -
cal completely corroborates what al-
ready has been published.
The paper Hoye its fellow countrye
men who fortumitely escaped write
that their night quarters consisted of
a cell containing nothing but a wood-
en couch and two tablecloths given
to them to sleep under,
"The find night we attempted to do
our best to sleep, but we beard enp-
preseed weeping in the cell next to
us," the letter reads. "We learned a
Dutchman lay Dieu who, having been
caught while attempting to escape
Was handled in the cruelest way with
a bayonet, so he loot censclousness.
He was put on breed end water, and
had to try to sleep on the hard
venud without blankets. The Duteh.
men are by far the worst treated.
"Whet we saw there was almost
incredible. We SSW wrecks of men,
clad In rags, with the upper poets of
their bodice naked. Some were bite
with welts on the back in consequence
06 111 -treatment.
"We saw great Mee in the feet Of
those obliged to Work in the dolt
Millea 'barefooted. When they, wore
unable to work 16nger beetebse of 0115-
8 116 el:int:tuition they were driven
forward with thebutts of rifles. At
first we Were unable to believe the
terrible stories, lint Camp NO. 8, as
the churchyard is railed., was shown
to tie. There forty (TOMS eland as
dumb witnesses tds Cerman cruelty,
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Ladies' Cost In 6 sizes, 84 to 44
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Ladies' Three -Piece Skirt. In 7
sizes, 22 to 34 Rtil-iSt. Price, 20
cents.
These patterns may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer, 00
from the McCall Co., 70 13ond St.,
Toronto, Dept. W.
Save scraped eche of corn for use
as fuel.
A plentiful supply of green food
is necessary for hens and should be
given while it is fres,h.
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OF THEALLIE 1ES
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An immence 11, A, F. machine
really to slart with Ito load of bombs
for Germany.
TIIEY aro cutting spruce in Brit-
ish Columbia. The silver spruce
forests, long negleeted because
of lack of market and transportation,
have found their place. The straight,
Aneegrained, tough wood is the ideal
material for (ho manufacture of aero.
plane parts. The silver spruce grows
only on the islands and ocean coast
of British Colombia and the north-
west United States. The American
timber of this species Is being used
exclusively for war purposes of the
States, the needs of the other allies in
(lie great war ars eupplied by the
v .
A Sitke. (silver) PUTLICe log cut on
the Queen Charlotte Islands off the
coast of British Columbia for the Im-
perial Munttfons Board.
wonderful forests of 13. C.', this sup-
ply being made possible through a
splendid organization perfected der.
nig the poet ten months by Major
Austin 0, Tarlo, director et the
Acronantteal Department of the Ire,
perial Munitions Board. lineolrede
ef camps, scores of tug-boatn, thou
-
sande of men are at work on the
forests, while scores of tains cut the
logs. Canadian Pacific Railway Coln.
pany tugs haul great rafts assess the
waters of the Pacific Coast and din.
charge the cargo at the mills and
terminals. Hundreds and hundreds
of Canadian Pacifie Railway ears roll
eastward monthly loaded with prime
aeroplane lumber, bound for the
aeroplane factories in the east. Ths
wants of France and England. Canada
and Italy are filled by the loggere of
British Columbia, and the Industry
will grow even beyond its preeend
tremendous volurae,—L. V. K. •
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STORY OF FRENCH
HEROISM AT SEA
ENCOUNTER wall A U-BOAT
OFF COAST OF BRITTANY
Plucky Fight Against Tremendous
Odds For Which All the Sur.
vivors Received Decoration.
There is the story of a sailing ship's
combat with a U-boat which is a stir-
ring example of French heroism and
shows the value of efficient anti-sub-
marine training . Having left a Bri-
tish port with a cargo of coal for
La Rochelle, the sailing ship Kleber
(227 tons), carrying a crew of twelve,
was making way before the wind, and
one afternoon, when off the coast of
Brittany, a big U-boat appeared in
' the distance and opened fire.
The skipper of the Kleber, "Maitre-
' au -Cabotage" Le Fauvre, proceeded
landward and the II,hoat manoeuvred
to get the advantage of the sun, keep-
ing up a running tire, which was
answered by the French hoat. Several
big shells struck the Kleber, one of
which killed the captain and stunned
for a few minute e the head gunner,
a lad of nineteen, Darned Jain. The
'nate, Plessis, retaining sufficient men
to man the gun, ordered the rest of
the crew, six in all, to take to the
boats, and then fell mortally wound-
ed.
"A person you. can laugh at and
with, is inexhamitible."—George
Meredith.
Ceylon produces nearly every preci-
ous stone known except diamonds,
emeralds, opals and turquoises.
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A FOOD
Savin Sug6r
and vat
is comfortably
done when one
Uses
raelilltS
This cereal food
ts composed part-
ly of barley and
contains its own
pugar made from
its own Iroins.
Atruly wonder-
ful rood, ready
to eat.
Oman Food Board License lie 2.026
Deeds of Plucky Sailors.
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PAIN? NOT A BIT'
LIFT YOUR CORNS
OR CALLUSES OFF
No humbug( Apply few drops e
then Just Ilft them away c,
with fingers.
o--o—o—o--0.—o—o—o—o
This new drug is an ether com-
pound discovered by a Cincinnati
chemist. It is called
freezone, and can now
be obtained in tiny bot-
tles as here shown at
very little coat from any
drug store. Just ask
for freezone. Apply a
drop or two directly
upon a tender corn or
callus and instantly the
soreness disappears.
Shortly you will find
the corn or callus so
loose that you can lift it
off, root and all, with
the fingers.
Not a twinge of pain,
soreness or irritation;
not even the slightest
smarting, either when
applying freezone or
afterwards.
Tbie drug doesn't eat
up the corn or callus,
but shrivels them so
they loosen and come right out. It is
no humbug! It works like a charm.
For a few cents you can get rid or
every hard corn, soft corn or corn be-
tween the toes, as well as pednful
calluses on bottom of your feet. It
11)
Monnier, the boatswain, succeeded never disappoints and never burns,
to the command. Of the six men who bites or infitunes. If your druggist
hasn't any freezone yet, tell him to
get a little bottle for you from his
wholesale honso.
THE BREAD TUNNEL el
left the vessel, four, one of them
wounded, were in ho lifeboat, and
two in the .dory. The submarine
steered for the lifeboat, and ordered
the four occupants to get on her deck,
took the lifeboat in tow and proceed-
ed toward the Kleber, assorted pre-
eumably that only dead or dying were
on board.
But there were three plucky
Frenchmen —Monnier, the boatswain,
Jain, the gunner and Brazile, a deck
hatd, and wounded, who had taken
the place of Jain when tetworarily
stunned. Nearing the Kleber, the U-
boat opened fire and was iiiromptly
answered by the Kleber. Brazil was
again struck, and his place was taken
by Monnier, who dontinued firing. The
commander of the U-boat was evi-
dently nonpulssed by the defence, for
suddenly ho gave orders to submerge,
and his boat went under so rapidly
that not 'only were the four men of
the Kleber on her deck thrown into
the water, but also one of the crow
1141•••••••••
One of the Most ingenious Devices
Ever Made by War Prisoners.
There is certainly more tragedy
than comedy in the cruel disappoint.
ment of unhappy prisoners thwarted
in a promising and almost successful
effort to escape; nevertheless, the
gallant gayety that has marked so
many of the allied fighting men does
not fail them wholly even in such cir-
cumstances. Lance Corp. Charles W.
Baker, who recently recounted hie
prison experiences, wastes no pathos
on himself or on his fellow sufferers
when they failed to get Safe away
through their ingenious tunnel, and
can even see a funny side to the af-
fair.
Some of the other prisoners had be -
of the submarine. All five managed gun the tunnel and had worked upon
to sceamblo into the lifeboat. it daily for a month before they let
Night closed and the Kleber van- him intol'the secret, which finally be.
ished into the dark, making for the came known to Several hundred of the
Isle of Croix, front which the moving rapti
Nouns of the lighthouse were seen,
4.11e safely entered port at 1 a.m. The
lifeboat picked up the dory, and both
crews pulled toward the Isle of Croix.
Daring the night the U-boat again
oppeared, The commander ordered
the lifeboat alongside and took off
the member of his crow. eIle then
ordered the lifeboat away and disap-
peared, Later the lifeboat, and the
dory arrrived in port,
The Minister of Merino cited in an
order not only the captain, but the
vessel itself, and all the survivors
were decorated. "The crew of the
Maher, by their sealant behavior,
fighting against. tremendous oda.
It opened from the last hut at the
end of the back row and was headed
for the only clump of bushesany-
where) near the camp. The soil was
so sandy that it was impossible to
make a tunnel in the ordinary way; a
long time passed before. the boys hit
on a plan. After our own packages
had begun to come and we had white
bread to eat, says the eorporal, some
genius had a happy thought of using
war bread for bricks. The war bread
113 111; tough and us hard as rubber
and of about the :dee and shape of a
small Aorta block that you use for
paving streets, We kept the broad
boried midi night. Then eve piled it
Lave SaVefl their ship and given an up in a kind of crate, and when the
example of which the whole French sentries were eat, of sight we rnshed
navy can well be proud" ---A0 runs the it over to the tunnel, 11 was the most
special order.beautiful tunnel you ever saw. Tho
. .
sides were built up like brick
and the roof was a perfect arch. The
sand that wee took out was the same
color as the sand of the eamp, and as
the ground was almost a ways
The Menace of the Hun.
Four years we have beep fighting
The Hun in all his might,
But now the day la dawning
For the triumph of the right.
The enemy is fleeing,
We muat keep him on the run.
Till we rid the world forever
From the 00011500 of the Ilun.
The world is steeped in sorrow,
Om beet blood has flowed in streams
To gay a vain usurper
Azul dispel his world -power dreams.
Bet the dey of retribution
Is at bend, end mire to enme,
Wher Cod'e men tword of justice
Will descend 031(11 the Hun.
To those whose deerly loved onez
Will no more return again,
'Tie a gllo
eros eoneolation
nt they bays not died in Vein.
They un the field of battle
Fa( 0,1 6,1(11111 (0,1 14111 2(1111
To save their homes and country
From 11,,, menace of the Hun.
The dark clouds now ere rifted
And icon the etrife will 1001(23,Soon ours will Lc the victory
And ours the terms ,,r
So ,till we'll bravely "Carr/ On"
'Till 111 the war have won,
And the e0er1,1 is sere forever
1"1'1m the menace of the lieo.
LEMON JUICE
FRECKLE REMOVER
Alrls1 Make this ch.top beauty lotion
to clear and whiten your skin.
Squeeze the juice of two lentons Into
a bottle containing three minces of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have It quarter pint of lite best freckle
end Ian lotion, and complexion beauti..
tier, ttt very. very small cost.
Your grocer has the 10111,1013 and any
drug store or toilet counter will sup-
ply three ounces of orchard white for
a few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, necic,
arms and hands each day and see hew
freckles and blemishes disappear and
how clear, soft and white the elan be-
comes. Yes! It is harmless.
Soon after the war broke out Ger-
„,*,, many lost her only active volcane,
C.EANS-IiisiNpuTS—USED FOR
OFTENINO WATER—FOR MAKING
tiAND AND SOFTSci_P±P,_=rt.
:DIRLCI:ON5 WITH EACH CAN.
1.m:smear
111r. E. IlleCalev, who Purehneed the
Spencer Fain', near Wei:Mgt:in, in
Prince -Edward county, laz.t spring,
thrmited 970 bu.,-bels of oats Trion 34
acres, a yield of over 8i3 itualte4a to
the are.
The Falkland islands ere believed to
he 1 he win.11(el. platy in the world and
tree gr le prneeleelly impossible
thef'n.
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'Minaret's; Zinhnent for idle eVerYwhare.
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ron mann
if 12.L. 1(2 L. 11 1.2..0 WSPAPIDEt
V 13 nd lob (noting plant to Eastern
U rf 0. 1,uea eri,,d 31 02', Will
so for 1(1.2os 111 nnfolt 'tog 69.
Wiloon 1'I:1,11,13ne Ltd.. Toronto.
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.n tmtatto. Owner going to
nor -co. XL ill sey 1320(0. S\,o!.th double
that amount Arndt .I. 11, 00'Nue=
rublishing Co.. Limi,ed, Toronto.
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.111: 3.2221'SiloWING
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MISCELL5IrS0170
Germany's Lost *Volcano.
you couldn't tell the difference. We which is situated on the Wand of
would take it out in small tinfuls and Savaii in Samoa.
scatter it all over the place, and with Samoa is a considerable archipel-
several thousand men walking round ago, but only four of the islands are I
there was no way of detecting is big enough to be of any importanee.
Of course it was slow work making
the tunnel, for we had to accumulate
war bread, and so, to amuse our-
selves, we fixed it all up. We stuck
pictures from newspapers on the wall
and we even ran a wire dowm from
the cookhonse and lighted it up with
electricity. We took some of the
lamps, and when the guard wanted to
know where they wore we said they
had got broken.
A hundred and twenty yards had
been built out of the hundred and fif-
ty that the tunnel had to go when a
miserable Frenchman, to curry favor
with his captors. betrayed the secret.
The other French prisoners concern-.
ed were wild with rage and shame;
and when th whole camp was lined
up for investigation and punishment
the French nocommissionecl officers
stepped forward and begged "for the
honor of the French army” to be al-
lowed to take not only their own
share of punishment bo that of all
the others.
But, of course, says Corp. Baker,
the British wouldn't have that, and
the noncommissioned British officers
gave themselves up. It was a regular
bowing and scraping, "You -first -my -
dear -Alphonse" sort of proceeding. A
few of the men were given five
months in solitary, but most of them
got off pretty easy, because the Ger-
man officers were much amused. They
thought they had taken away every
conceivable thing that could be used
for tunnel building, but they never
thought of the war bread. German
officers mune for miles round to see
the tunnel. They wouldn't let us
destroy it but kept 1( 1(8 a curiosity.
Even the general of a division near
by came in to see it. He said it was
the finest piece of sapping he had
over seen.
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a\ We believe MINATIITS LINIMENT
is the best:
Mathias Foley, 011,0117, Ont.
Joseph Snow, Norway, Me.
Charles Whooten, Mulgrave, N.S.
Rev. It, 0. Armstrong, Mnlgrave, N.S.
Pierre Landers, Sen., Pokomouche,
N. II.
1Vonten Make Tanks.
British women aro now making
tanks for the army, In one factory
every operation in the whole process
of construction is carried on by wo-
men, and in many others they are
employed on various parts. They are
also making good in many varieties of
shipyard work and in blast furnaces,
brickyards and spelter works. A fore-
man charge of a blast :furnace is
quoted as saying that he would be
willing to undertake auy form of
ferrottontrete work with only women
as his assistents.
atinizewo idatittent mires Sena. Site.
It boiling meat is izie;•;lited to be
tough, add a teaspoonful of baking
soda.
ISSUE No.
Two of them (Tutuila and Manua)
belong to the United States, The I
other two, which are much larger
(Saved' and Upolu, were German pro-
perty until four years ago the British
took them over.
It is safe to say the Germans will
never get those islands back. But
Savaii is not of meeh account, being
mostly desert. The volcano, how-
ever, is a fine specimen. What 13
jolly idea it would be to drop the 1
Kaiser into It:
*nerd's Minims= ogres Madras!.
At the evening meal Willie was dis-
posing of his soup with speed and
noise. "Willie!" suiti his mother, in
a reprimanding tone. Willie knew
immediately what his mother meant,
senouell,datrni
assuming en injured air, replied:
"I wasn't goini half a:, fast as
MONEY ORDERS
A Dominion Express Money Order
for five dollars costs three cents,
"I grovel hero before you in the
.dust!" observed the impassioned
youth, as he eeenk on the parlor floor.
"I don't know what you mean by
dust!" replied she coolly. "I look after
this room carefully myself every
morning l"
allssrffis Sdatxnene nefitaves Iceuralgte.
Don't hang your herbs up to dre.
This causes them to lose a large per
cenbage of their virtue. Instead,
spread them out thinly, shaded from
the sun, on a dry shelf. 'When dry,
put them Into paper bag's.
Headers were used this season in
southern Alberta to save the ehort
wheat icrop, with the result that the
grain as cut on many fields where
otherwise nothing would have been
secured,
feepyourshoes ilea/
OE POLISHES
iukulDS and_PAS
DARK BROWN
OR OX -BLOOD SHOES
PRESERVE the LEATHER
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ADIES WANTED To DO PLAIN
.
and light sewing at home. whole or
ruare time. good pay. work sent any Cis -
once, charges paid. Send stamp for par-
ticulars. National manufacturing Com-
pany. Montreal.
CIANciza, TUMORS, LUMPS, ETO.,
Intornal and eXternal, cured with-
out pain by our home treatment. Writs
us before too late Dr. Denman Medical
Co.. Limited. Collingwood. Ont,
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0
2 HOW to Purify
, the Blood
;
., "Fifteen to thirty drops .of i
a Extract of Root., comnaenly 44
• called Mother Seigel's Curative
e
S, be ,meaalybet
. andaaisteainwaterdtime,for
the cure of indigestion, conett.
op pation and bad blood. Pend:st-
ip ence in this treatment will effect
t, a cure in nearly every case."
Get the genuine et druggists.
ACHES AID PAINS
QUICKLY RELIEVED
You'll find Sloan's Liniment -
softens the severe
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Put it on freely. Don't rub it ht.
just let it pcnetrat.0 naturally.- What a
sense of soothing relief soon follows!
External aches,-stiffness'002(11000,,
cramped muscles, strained sinews,
bade "ericks"--ohose ailments can't
fight elf the relieving qualities of
Sloan's Liniment. Clean, convenient,
economical. mate in Canada. Ask,
any druggist for it...
Let Cr. Care
for Baby's Skin
It's really wonderful how ziesieldy
hot bath with Cuticura Soap followed
by a gentle anointing with Cotieura
Ointment relieves edit irritations
which keep baby wakeful ad rest-
less, permits sleep for infant and rest
f.ir mother, and points to healment in
most eases when it seems nothing
would help.
Stang!. FACh Free bY M.V. Address OW!
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Sold by dealers throughout the world.
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