Copyright, Atlantic Monthly, December, 1917.
Germany's treatment of prisoners of war.
Prisoners taken by the Germans were overworked and disciplined with much insolence and cruelty. For infractions of their iron rules the Germans inflicted the severest penalties. The food supplied was insufficient and of very poor quality, so that men might actually have starved had it not been for boxes sent from home through the Red Cross. In the following chapter, a Canadian soldier, who finally escaped after three unsuccessful attempts, describes the life of prisoners and other workers in the Westphalian coal mines.
SIXTEEN MONTHS A WAR
PRISONER
PRIVATE "JACK" EVANS
I was in Germany as prisoner of war from June, 1916, to September, 1917.
Captured at third battle of Ypres.