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THE DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE

FOR

1918.

AMERICAN LABOUR MISSION.

VISIT TO THE FRONT.

turned to London after an eight or pine

the

ce ust

AUSTRIAN - PRISONS,

A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT OP THE DAILY; TELEORAPH."*]

A

BRITISH REPRISALS:

Lord Newton, speaking at a Conserva tive meeting at Newton, near Warring-

extra things bought at the restaurant TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. were sold at exorbitant prices; for « in- stance, twenty kronen a kilo was charged for butter, although at that time it was The American Labour Delegation ro

plentiful, and cost four krones. In fact, the prisoners were practically starved; et days visit to Franco, imbued with a still

the end of three months, when they were firmer belief, if that were possible, in the Austria, where I spent three years in pll removed to Basks, most of that had ton, recently, said there was a popular cause of the Allies and with a conviction captivity, is, I believe, the only country at 2016 to g5lb in weight. Many mon misconception that the Bxtiish Govern based on what they saw that ti

now at Raabs began their term of im- is bound to prevail. Interviewed, shortly where internment stations exist as well prisonment at a place called Illman, an ment persisted in refusing to trent. Gor atter his return, by a Press representa as camps. The treatemat in them is not part of Englishmen were taken there

old half-ruined

in Lower Austria man prisoners in the same way as the tive, Mr. Joseph W Short, president of

Seattle Federation of Labour, said bad as in camps. I have not heard shortly after they had been arrested in British prisoners were treated in Gors CHINA JAPAN COREA,

they

Wore

taken first of all to see the of any cases of cruelty to prisoners of Vienna, They were marched along for many. There were two classes of critics. German prison canips, They Intor

about twenty kilometres, carrying their Persons who protested violently against INDO - CHINA, BIAN, STRAITS the British base of supplies and the Amecurring, whereas in camps these are very, bage or packages. It was very cold, below retaliation at all, and oharacterised it sa rican base of supplies, and then visited very numerous, and were especially so at freezing point, and when at last they ar- an unchristian act, to which we ought SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, the thousands of troops in the locality the beginning of the war. In a station rived as ilmu at dark they were pushed to be superior. Oriticism of that kind

bosh" "American and British. They

a kind into

of cellar, three or four steps came partly from the Church, but in the there the guests of the Belgian Govern the prisoners are allowed to live in rooms below the level of the ground. A soldier greater part, it came from those persons ment, and met the Americas Ambassador, Mr. Brand Whitlock, who related to the of their own choosing, instead of in bar-locked them in, telling them they could who had hampered our action since the many of the cruelties inflicted by the Ger

indore God die. It was a place with no beginning of the war. Secondly, front windows only a small hole in the door. persons who we always clamouring for mans on the Belginn, people in the occu-

The floor, bare earth, was wet and muddy retaliation. Such persons, as a rule, bad pied territory. After visiting the famous

every two men was one straw sick, also had no relations prisonera in Germany, water trickling down the walls. For no connection with the prisoners at all, Valley of the Marne battlefield Fand kheims, they went on to Verdun

dump, of course, and they were so closely and were in no danger of suffering In Describing his visit to the American lines,

packed they could not lie straight any way themselves. In his opinion the could not see each other's faces. In the served with regard to prisoners was 10 During the day it was so dark that they general priciple which ought to be ob morning they were told that, if they want treat them well, as he boilered it was

NETHERLANDS INDIA, PEILAP-

PINES, BORNEO," E1.

·FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL ISSUE,

Mr. Short said: ---

were

time.

racks, but, of course, paying rent all the Raabs, one of the places where market town, about four hours from the civilians are interned, is quite a small Vienna, in a very poor and thinly populated neighbourhood. Turning this and other similar villages into intern We were taken right into the frontment stations was partly done with the line trenches, going through the com object of giving the inhabitants no op munication trenches from the base, right portunity for carning money up in sight of the German lines. One no control whatever over the charges from which they also got their drinking 800d policy. On the other hand, nothing. Austriana officer pud eight inen had been

somplete în sách case so it can be made, but Government with the Croix de Guerro. onek Colony, Pork or Battlement major took us through the

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told us, that just to nights previousis the Germans had come over and put twenty-seven of their

men, but they left behind sixty-four men as prisoners, which Was a very good exchange. The Ameri ean boys seem to be in excellent spirits, and they are anxious to do a lot more fighting than

There

made by landladies and shopkeepers, and these knew that most of the interned

the on

To

ed to wish, they might go to the

could be more idiotic than to announce water. This pump stood in the middle to the world that under no circumstances Not only is the Directory as full and decorated that morning by the would rather pay all they could afford of manure heap, and could only he would they indulge in retaliation

reached. by wading knee-deepi Thus the wat ne

go into one of these horrible camps id pool surrounding through the mind occasions arose when retaliation Was necessary. It ought to be applied ploited in every way. It is impossible; rather imagined than described. The to amelforake the metenge, but in order the conditions of our own for example, to get accommodation at

a treatment was most rough; the only men.

(Hear, hear.) When once they Raabs for a family of three for is about argument a guard over used was the butt decided upon it they must go on with it. so kronen monthly, which equals about end of his rifle-if not the bayonet. Not and not take it up and drop it. 2450 a year. Most of the houses were

many Word were wasted

It would interest and surprise them to only peasants houses and an Austrian Schweine-Englander" (Swine-English) learn that at this moment retaliation was inspect Illmau, and after they had scen

in one of the military cauips in Great the above ground portion, the English Britain. It was done because the Ger mans had persistently declined to remedy the grievance that existed in respect of a could hear them asking if no one was

number of our men in Germany. The person concerned in Germany was the Commander of the 10th Army Corps, and the conditions for our officers had been rendered almost intolerable done their best to get this grievance

They bud died by representation and ance renzo- methods, but had failed; and they had been obliged to institute reprisals upon German: officers.

packed with facts concisely set ont," and | to do so far, have been privileged pensants' house can only be described as One day, some bigh officials came to in progress with regard to German officers

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but none of us was hibYYY

HATED BRITISHENA,**

they were very much IL bole.

Dirtyno comforts of any elated at the idea that there was a pay description. Added to this one has to Bibility of more fighting for them. We pay for light and for a servant girl 10 were several times under fire during out do the dirty work if one can afford it who were shut up in their cellar, Nothing is free, and nothing is cheap. The general impression of the situn The village shops have two distinct shut up in the cellars, as by rights they tion as we found it is that everything we charges one for the inhabitants, one for ought to inspect the cellais, 100. But the officer assured them on his solemn saw in France and have seen in Great the interned. Britain has served to emphasise the con

Word honour

of

that the collars were adviction we had when we came hore that

empty. And those who were there did not date to call out they knew what their America has to get into this with both At Raabs in 1915 the discipline, hands and fees, to see all the resource especially towards the lated Brius punishment would be stringing-up

at least. This is an old punishment, Boa den the gaual álphabetical List of she hits and to send the most mon she and French were allowed to stay out till backy & cord attached and pussed through

·ENS, was very strict. Whereas Russians where the wrists aro fettered behind the that Germany can be licked, but the soon- eleven p.ni daily our fellow countrymen is capable of sending over. er America sends all her resources over here the sooner the job will be finished It is not going to be finished until that is done, and every day last and every mIAR ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS withheld is merely making unnecessary crifices. That is the message we are going to take back to our own people. "?

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all had to be in their rooms by eighting in the wall over the prisoner's p.m. The others were allowed to enter the man is forced right on to his toes in the troughs, threatening them with head. This cord is then pulled tight, till inns, and have their meals thore, but the

then British were not allowed to set foot in till the tiskop bo for about an hour, or Bxed hayonces all the time and trurit one. This was very hard on mendiang mau. After the Englishmen had been women were lots quiet, aut force of clues

them with coarse jokes. The alone, as very rarely would and fly in their web collar for a wock, and were like this. After the bath was over they cook for her ledger, nor would she allow nearly all ill with the terrible cold, they were shut up in a room crowded with him to cook for himself on a spirit stove were told they coud go into an upstairs people full of vermin. The ladies were in his room. The result was that many room.. These rooms were occupied by always chosen for the dirty work never

side of it

12 sanitary

They have not yet arrived bers of the Government, as well as a great rows were pretty. frequent. At last, after almost one on the top of the other. The them off as they stood, not letting them

bas can be obtained on application at the feedings were marked by the greatest became tired of these daily rows with the consumptives were always expectorating,ith wives or friends or

end of the month.

The OFRONICLE covers the notable avants together with the Texts of all the most important Tresties, concluded with the conutrics of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Cham bera of Commstos, Stales of Commissions Donialar and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp

the mission

Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese by his condemnation of Prussian 'allowed to take a fair number of walks, lady I knew person official to come down to a steamer lving

and a

Un the suspension of the sitting of the used to break, rules and have their meals Serbs and Poles, nearly all very ill with the peasant women, just as the preists. Chamber a reception was held at the summe back kitchen or sollen consumption and very dirty Each man were set to clear up the Paluis Bourbon is honour of the Ameinn. Of course, if they were found by received a blanket of a kind of checked arrangements," which there consisted of rican Labour Mission. The mission was a gendarme, there would be a row, and received by Mr. Deschanel President if often a punishment; either twenty-four attern. When these blankets were hung the Chamber, násiated by M. Dubost, Pre or forty-eight hoars in a camp or inap in the yard to air, it was impossible long open ditch with board nlong one sident of the Senate, M. Clemenceau, the cell. As the gendarmes made a habit of to recognise their pattern-they were wil

A crawling mass. The room into which CIVILIANS KIDNAPPED, Premier, ・・・ M. Pichon, Minister for prowling about back kitchens o

· and scul

At the beginning they had a cruel way Foreign Affairs, and all the other memo leries, especially in the evening, these the Englishmen were put was so full that

when they lay down at night they were of arresting people. They would march many Senators and Deputies. The pre about eighteen months, the authorities

and sanitary arrangements were un-

know of one lady who for. cordiality

and allowed then known prisoners,

about two months did not know where.! Deschanel in great deres English,

same freedens as the others had always

her husband was while he on behalf of the Chamber, referred to enjoyed

just as little about her. President Wilson as the illustrious

the first two years the prison CASTARDLY INSULTS TO LADIES

Drosendorf was another camp not far mother and daughter, who had also been TWO SALadies. head of the American democraty, who, had to report dailys-at ten o'clock all from Rauabs, especially during the first at Salterbad, had been staying at a little though a lover of peace was

had to assemble at the gendarmerie, and months prisoners endured the greatest watering place in Dalmatin, where they wholly against his will, by the ambition then the roll was called, and anyone who hardships. They slept in shod, in stalles had gone for many years. One evenin and tyranty of an overruling caste, to had broken a rule got a dressing down." sometimes on wet straw, sometimes with when they were only dressed in cotton defend, on a still vester stage, the prio Letters and parcels were also distributed out, and were treated as brutally as in dressing-gowns, they were asked by an ciples of Washington and Lincoln; and at the same time: The prisoners were other camps. Here were also

at the wharf. Only for a few minutes, Festivala, Tables of Money, Weights and

maile Measures and other Commercial Information militarism, and by his championship of within a radius of about a mile or a

he latter was brought there with ho said there were just a few questions. the emancipation from a regime of cun

half from the village. Altogether The ARONICLE and DIRECTORY ning and force of Alsace Lorraine. Bel at Raabs, after the eight o'clock rule had to prisoners, male and female, after to be asked. So they went just as the

walking for miles, they were shut into a wete, and went on the boat with several though sondensed in every possible manner gium, and all oppressed nationalities, bon abolished privileges were enjoyed large room-men and women together. others; someone bengn to ask them ques contains every year more pages and now became the apostle of universal right and which were unknown at a camp. But Thore the sanitary arrangements con tions, when to their horror they noticed numbers pearly 5,000,

one of the foremost, interpreters of the yet no one can over be sure of his or her sisted of a large pail put down in the the ship was moving.

Epecters of

They were taken of the hukian conscience."

Dubost sected the mission on behalf habit of removing prisoners from one in this som with the men for some days, they stopped were. At every port

The authorities had nasty of the room. lady was kept Tight Eile published as the Office "Hanazono Ditty Pams.”

of the Senate.

camp or station to another at twenty and not allowed to leave it. In this came the same way. M. Pichon said: “Among the visit our hours notice. This was especially at present there are principally Russians were handcuffed two and two, and march- ed through the streets to the prison. beginning of

of the war none has given us tried to make the best arrangements pos-not occur from starvation. Here, as also pleasure or proved more useful sible for comfort, and moving at such in the large camp of Katzenan, the mother, who had been also handcuffed, greater than that of the American Mission whose short notice often meant property having rations are as follow

spent the night in a cell, with only two. presence we are greeting to-day It has the left behnid. come from America to Great Britain tind

Breakfast Tea, made of a mixture of upright chairs in it. Next day they and Periodical visits used to be paid to dried birch and starwberry leaves, and wer

alf the other prisoners collected up to then Brano to inform itself fully as to the camps and stations by higher officials, in sixis grammes (about 2oz) of bread_packed as close as they would go and

packed into third-class carriages. state of our publie opinion and as to the order to bear any complaints. But, of

Midday-Soap made of turnips, or course, we knew better than to make any general situation of those European coun-

fully accoutred, with red bayonets, summer, all the windows were kept shut. In this way they were brought to Mar- you will shrink from no duty to obtain removere is one instance: on all the Fuing a touch dreaded was at the begin for it All this time they had nothing" it You will be convinced that oar state farms round about, Russian peasants, who rounded on three sides by the Danube things; but, as all their money had been in ordinary time but they took two days. place. It is sur of feeling accords with your own views are identical, and the fact will hela had been taken from their homes at the and barbed wire on the fourth. At the taken away from them on the bout, they to out. People camo to the train selling time of the Austrian advance, were allow beginning there were over 80,000 prison could get nothing. of which have so often been laid downed to work. quite depended on the

In Marburg they ers--men, women, children-there, but not by your illustrious President, and which individual for whom they worked whe

were put in the prison, and kept there. sufficient accommodation, so many, spot for eight months we do not doubt will open to the world ther they were well treated or not. But the nights out of doors in the rain and at best they were a miserable set. One of

endless mud. Some lived in tents. Of

Another lady in Salzerbad, the wife of

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Peking.

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Lappa. Kowkiang, Bamchal Hankow Kongmoon, Yoshow. Nanning. Trade O'trea, Elsust, Wuchowfu.

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Aatung, Hanshorien

they

In liume they landed.

we have received from abroad since the hard in the cases of families, for everyone and rarely a day passes that a death does.There the daughter and her 65-year, old

tries to which the United States in land complaint however justifiable it night Potatoes boiled and served in the water each compartment two soldiers, mok ing its decisive aid in assaring liberte, be. For whoever made a complaint might they are bailed in (no salt or int), and line ke chimneys. Although it was bot.

The

Another sixty grammes of bread. Newchwang. lekung Kwangobauwas. Gentlemen, do you desire a peace which be certain of being removed to a worse

Evening-Same as breakfast. At Chungking. Pakhoi.

would be only a truce? You desire a camp within twenty-four hours. Hangehow, Holbow,

ower to ing the soup misdemeanour of any anyone for

Etergom in

Dziren. Port Arthur,

Wothalwal,

Telaafu.

B

Mukden,

Shanghai, Harbin

Amoy. Kirin Langkow.

Langahingehun.

Ningpo Lungohow. Wachow Mangtse.

Hokos. Fooths. Sretno.

Tongyueh Changchun. Ennchun,

Japan and Formosa,

Takyo,

Kodung Yokohama. Mojt

Bagan, Taków. Eskelata, Auping.

Erogo Kobe.

Nisolejayız.

Broxl

Fingring

Makpo. Chinnampa, Bangehim.

LADIES

Vor functional troubles, delay, mala and thoip fragolaritias, peculiar to the sex?

Prescribed by the highest Frazen 3 dicat pathorities and superior to Toasay, sol Brow and Pansy royal CHAPOZLAUZ, 1 rue Viricusa, Paris

Hamo Haiphong. Tänkin Provisoon. Quinkan.

THERAPION NO THERAPION NO THERAPION NO.

ILRADING DRESS, TAKE A PR

MERACION

SMPARSTARS STRE

formar, Balgon Cambodga

LOMC

I just peace, so that it may endure, and Bendarme commander had the power to places the same vessels are used for hot burg--a journey of some four or five hours:

Our

us in securing that victory the conditions

kind.

· It'

the foundations of the rights of all these men once asked the woman for whom course striking a match in the dark was high Serbian officer, had been spending

up

tion, justice, and security."

the close of the reception the mem. she had not done it for so long. As she

accustomed to do for years, and was well Ibers of the Mission were introduced to a refused he began to wash it himself one did strike one, the guarda rushed, 1P, known. She had her little boy of with

delegation of Alsace-Lorrainers who has This infuriated her so that she attacked striking about them blindly with their ap

fixed hayonets. Once one unfortunate

One evening her boarding house. Deine expressly to great them and at the him and struck him The Russian, as Scotchzian was attacked very badly with was surrounded by geudarnues and dectes same time to demonstrate their affection this was not the first time he had been

bach next day. given by the President of the Chamber, and asked a Russian gentleman to come a doctor. The guard simply ordered him to the fortressa long, hot, dusty walk for France 4 luncheon to the mission, treated so, wished to tell the gendarme, dysentery in the middle of the night, and bives, she was arrested, and taken to La

caine gap to nak the guard to take him to made her and the boy walk with hin

There the gendarme M. Deschanel, followed the reception. and interpret for him. The Russian

to go back to

to the tent and be quiet

When what had happened, and two days after the sick man begged again, the guard got her the was to be shut up. When he ho was removed to Kautzen, another end of his rifle.

with the he was told he had simply knocked

bath her to the wrong place; he must take her brought. COUNTESS SOCIAL SUICIDE station. As there have been so many such de camp which was even latel to the prison. This was at the other end

even lately men case no one will

ill complain of anything.

tioned as a disgrace in the Austrian ParThere she was taken to a cell, and, as of the town, so another long, dusty walk. BLACK HOLE OF ILLMAU..

liament, is Thalerhof, near Graz, and capital of Styria. Here they kept

The Countess of Warwick, speaking at a conference on "Land Nationalisation"

guard knocked him

saying

Children can't come h him go

in

at the Memorial Hall recently, said she Some of the prisoners, about twenty- cipally their own rofugers from in her little boy was following her in, the Supposed she was invited to down in Raubs, were interned at a broken down eight months is now in Raabs. She was back here he came from But she

the meeting four of them, before being brought to Folish lady who had been there for from!** self, and therefore somewhat of a freak old hydropathic called Salzer-bad. When taken away from her own house in Galicia phay were in that prison for there" in the eyes of those belonging to the Land taken there was seemingly no guard, only in the clothes sho stood in allowed to Nationalisation. Society.

a waiter in the dining-room. This man (Laughter.)

take In her own right she owned 30,000 acres told them that they must pay ten kronen reached Thalerhof. Through her suffer hole in the door, through which the guard

nothing with her. Eventually she months, a small, smelly coll, with of land, irrespective of what her marria day or be sent to a

A camp.

Whilst thereings there the poor woman is so broken looked overy time he passed, and through age might have brought her, so that in the prisoners were guarded and spied on down that it is almost impossible to set which an electric light shone all nigh the eyes of her family and friends, in by this waiter and a chatabermaid. The her to speak of what she has been through and are still being endured. Many of the Thus many hardships were ondured, belonging to this society she was, so to place was managed like an hot, and were a little she told me. When they she and chimps bave slightly better arrangements speas, committing social and moral kari that the inmates were prisoners, and were other indics brought to Thalerhof, the than at first, but the punish food. kar. One was, however, heart and soul exposed to unspeakable rudeness to verbes (not the peasant women). were tola makes it so much worse now, for, of in favour

of land nationalisation. It

hardships go on- the people concerned. Although they were going to be one of the most if not the paying for 1914-15 an unheard of price they must come and bathe. It was many course, where there is little food, the poor most-important problems of the futur

they were only spoken by the people degrees below freezing point, but they (Hear, Henr.)

The question of the

as Vis cultural labourers

Baggage. The gendarme came were taken to a shed, open all rouni prisoners are the last to be considered,

and the bread, never good, heart, because they De nearest bort at irregular intervals to inspect, some down the middle of which a long row worse.

Bete worse and people who Blagapere, Fanang, Malasan, Prov, Wellesley. the soil, and had stuck to the land ander or three days, but always at different troughs half-filled with dirty water was putting hors-chestnut and bone-meal in

loved times every

When I left Austria, they were Klay sometimes not for two

Laboan. British North Bornno,

Baxezon,

PHILIPPINES.

Tislin,

Bazano,

Barswak, Brunet

Mataz Szares.

Belangor,

Pabang Kodan Krenggaan. Pertiä.

Perak Negri Sembilan, Johore,

Batavia, Baisessary.

Sewares SeptlUMEREN,

NRSTERKANDS, INDIA,

Samarang. Padang. Bourabaya. Macausat Enak Const nð Bumisteni

saa

of

ali

classes were

peasants, men of

The

scazoity

and

arranged The water had already been the most hopeless conditions From sheer hours. He was always under the in-used by soldiers for washing their clothes it. I have often known even wood-meal fova of their homes.

thepabling of drink, and ander vers he has Thon, they were ordered to undress the poor the top who too A resolution in favour of the manner; would shout and rave at the unsoldiers with fixed bayonets surrounded poor wretches in the camps who have to ownership of land was unanimously car fortunato prisoners, all for nothing there ladies, while they completely undread rely on the rations. The English prison ried on the motion of Alderman A. H. Walks at Salserbad were very limited ed in the open, and forced them to batheers are kept going by English parcels: the Scott, L.C.C., seconded by the Countess four minutes in one direction, twelve

French also receive things from home... of Warwick

minutes in the other that was all. Auy (Continued at foot of next Column.) But the poor others!