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PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH. 1915.
GERMAN CAMP HORRORS MEN WHO WILL NEVER RETURN.
war,
SALVAGE OPERATIONS. REMARKABLE DEEP WATER
· DIVING MACHINE.
These
a.bolding
The German prison camp authorities
A deep-water diving machine, which is have been trying another method of treat"| ment of prisoners-of-war. They have stated to have passed successfully through installed at certain of the camps Germania preliminary tests, is described" in, a recent issue of Contracting. The ma officers and men who have been exchanged. from England and who act as officers of chine consists of a pear shaped steal shell justice and corporals of justice to the feet long and 7 feet in diameter. In camps. These officials are allowed a free the interior two men aan be accommodat ofed in addition to the machinery for pro hand in the treatment of prior in pelling the machine, and for drilling or
by their and to judge some cases the excellent conditions in doing other work below water. It is pro British prison campe have made little poeed to use the machine for andvige to the operations in deep water, the hull being impression upon them. According sworn statement of a recently repatriated designed to withstand the pressure due Englishman the officer of justice at one to 1,000 feet bend. Air suficient for 21. particular camp has been dealing out bours is carried inside the shell, stored punishment with a very free band. He in bottles under a pressure of 1.780 lbs: publicly announced that some of British prisoners were clever, but that he per square inch. On the outside of the was cleverer still." A favourite prae hull of the machine are mounted. four tice of his was to order a parade of the 3,000 cp. electric lamps in globes fitted camp at 9.30 p.m., and then at one and with strong guards. Windows and bull's two o'clock in the morning give the fire eyes allow the crew to investigate their alarm, following this with a kit inspec surroundings as lighted up by these tion st three in. His sole object seems lamps. The power supply required for to have been to make the prisoners uncom propelling the machine and for other purposes is obtained from a source above fortable.
In the same camp a Garman corporal surface through a flexible cable. By to who had escaped from France was put ingenious arrangementet slectric, mag in charge of the French, and he carried nets the machine can attach itself to the out a programme similar to that adopted side of a annken vessel but can also creep by the officer. When prisoners, complain over the surface of the latter. ed to the camp commandant-whom they magnets, which have each describe as a good man, ready to consider power of et tons, are mounted on pairs. of horizontal or vertical screws. By cut their complaints-the officer of justice
his papers an simply showed
and intimate ting out one set of magnets the remain that he was paramount in the camp. arder can be used as an abutment and the
German ex-prisoners practice of giving of-war a free hand in ill-treating British machine warped backwards or forwards prisoners is typically German, and one or up and down by turning the screws, which would hardly appeal to the subjects and when the latter are at the limit of of Any other country who had themselves their travel the magnets previously cut been in captivity and regained their out are energised again, and when they have attached themselves in turn to the Another ex-prisoner, a Royal Naval hull they serve da an abutment, for an- Division private, in a sworn atatement other movement, those previously in use describes his experiences at the camp at being cut out of action, and their screws Frankfort on the Oder from January,
run back. The amount of motion in any There the com- 1917, to March, 1918. mandant in charge said that he would direction is registered inside the hull. so that holes can be drilled, accurately in fike to shoot every English swing put his foot into the lager. Although desired positions, and then, by warping the machine, as already explained, an there were 20,000 men in the camp, on other tool can be brought to register fifty or sixty were English Some
ck They went," says the accurately with a hole this drilled. never come back! deponent,"before civilian doctora who This tool inserts a special type of expan ordered them for work, totwithstanding sion bolt which when put in place auto- their condition. They were told to work, matically locks itself there. The machine and if unable were liable to be shot by the cap, moreover, it is stated, put a steel
A sentry or killed with the bayonet.
through both plate and hall and crew feger, and prisoners have been killed in in set bolts making an excellent joint. notice to this effect was posted up in the plate over a hole. can drill and tap boles this way. One man of the Royal Naval The preliminary trials of the machine Division was very sick when in the lager. He was ordered to go on commando, and were carried out in New York Harbour reported sick, but was made to go to work in 105 feet of water.
of in a forest felling trees in the depth winter. He had to sleep with eleven others in a civilian prison cell about
He
rick several resorted to at Cassel between May and 9ft. by 6ft.
reported
After detailing his own I heard a times, and, although he was worn out, August 1917. the doctor said that he must work He particular case he goes: on wanted to go to the lager to see the German howling one night when I was in and my cell, and I am sure it was another case man doctor, but was
freedom.
who
one night he allowed cell of flogging, as I heard the blows. "After |
Be
FLOGGING AT CASSEL.
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suicide in
had been onwards 1 beard it was a Frenchman who by cutting his throat. the work for some months. Before he was floggedIt seemed to be almost committed suicide he wrote a letter to his habitual to knock a man about on his wife, but we were not allowed to see the entry to prison. letter. In the lager three men were sent out on commands to work. "The sentry asked them to work harder, but they were unable to, and the sentry then reported them for refusing to work. For ment they had to sleep in the cells victim being a bombardier in the R. G.A eighteen months. They had to work hard during the day and go back to the calls at night
STOLEN PARCELS.
for
Another man of the R.N.V.R. has been Buffering from loss of memory since 1914. He is still in the asylum at Brandenburg
"There was a bad case of flogging at Caesel which occurred after mine, the
fine powerful men who had been a Metropolitan police-constable. I forget his name. He told me that they struck him across the back, and he retaliated and laid out the searcher. Nothing was done to him at the time, but a number of German night, and soldiers came into his cell at
gave him a severe thrashing unless he has been repatriated He is and laid him out. He was, I was told complete wreck, and nearly starved to by him, black and blue all over. This was death,
the German orderlies have taken the talk of the camp among the prisoners, his parcels and eaten the contents them but nothing was done officially about it, salves. I was told this by several of his and no one was punished. There is one comrades.
matter involving great cruelty to prison- A private of the West was made to work whilst in a very baders which I wish to mention, that is the state, and lost his mind as a consequence way in which wounded men are sent into of his treatment. He was put into Brat Germany in trucks without medical atten, I know that there have been several denburg Asylum for three weeks, but was tion.
then sent back to the lager and ordered eases of men dying on the journey to work by the German doctor. The through bleeding to death from want of ander-officer, however, said he was too ill attention.”
In few days
Naval
་་
told the. German and at once, and Camp: from March 30th to April 29th,
and told him to lie in bpital. Asian Another repatriated prisoner afghteen doctor at the hospital asked for him to Englishmen who, while in Heisenhagen be exchanged to
that he could not live more than a month. The German 1917, were act upon by eleven sentries, with the result that his arm was broken doctor would not hear of his being and two other Englishmen were badly In this condi- exchanged, and said he was all right. Ho injured. He goes on
lived two weeks after this only
tion we were each ordered to get on with Another Royal Naval Division man our work, which we were quite unable to has stated on oath that while working in de, and about an hour later wo were taken the firing in February and cat whatever for our injuries. We
on the German-Russian
trea our shed, but did not receive to our
but this March 1917 forty prisoners, died of asked for a doctor to see starvationThe guards," he says had request was absolutely refused. As four orders that if they were seen treating. prisoner leniently they would-be sent to clock the next morning, we were
helpless, but were ordered to parade, and the firing line for a fortnight. The tent were taken to work, but none of us were
to start.
pat a shovel in my
front" near
we lived in was shelled constantly. When Booms to try to work,
we were out at work we have seen the and around the tent,
abells bursting in and and it looked like a pepper-pot afterwards and I pretended to make an effort to save being knocked about again, but I was There was an old barn near the tent, and quite unable to do anything. At nice the Germans had a machine-gan in it, and 'clock.
morning we were taken back
FRENCH LESSONS during one night they played it over the to the shed, and bid to lie down. We
G. MOUSSION,
15. MOXION: HILL EDAD.
tent just to show what they could co to
до
for twelve days but received or attention of any us. The top of the tent was just riddled remain trestinent "outs
kind to our injuries Vse name of the civilian commandant for whom the pri- saders were working was Julius Berger, who was very crual in every way. When he saw my broken sem, he remarked. It would be better, if you were dead!!
Another member of the Royal Division, who was captured on board the Prins Hendrik while going on, leave from an internment camp in Holland to Eng land, describes the flogging of prisoners (Continued nt, foot of nest Column)
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