Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 30, 17 December 1917 — Page 20

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM." MONDAY. DEC. 17, 1917.

GERMAN NURSES SPIT ON THEIR f VARPRISONERS Canadian Tells How. Foe Abused Wounded Men Praises Red Cross. FRANKLIN. Ind.. Dec. 17.Mra. Jesse C. Webb, wife of the superintendent of tbe public schools in Cana

da last summer visited a convalescent ! hospital in Montreal, where she form-!

ed the acquaintance of a young Cana- of one Clement Laird Vallandigham, dfan poller, a patient in the hospital, j 0f Dayton, O., who was much the same who had been a prisoner in a German j g0rt of state and local hero in his day earap for a year. In their conversa- j in- Ohio as Robert M. La Toilette h3 tioa he told her that he owed his life ! been Just recently in Wisconsin. But

LaFollette Recalls Grim Humor Lincoln Used on Vallandigham

(Edwin C. HilL In New York Sun) What is to be the outcome of the trouble tn Wisconsin what - will be tfone to antisepticize the LaFollette poisoning? Well, that's what the pat riotic citizens of Wisconsin, the 70 per cent, or so who are ashamed and enraged, would like to know. That something will be done Is pretty certain, though it may take time for the state that once worshiped La Follette to cast him out. The movement Is started. It is on Its way. It is unquestionably gathering momentum. And in that very connection it is Interesting to know that the Loyalty Leg-

ion is studying the copperhead career

to the Red Cros3, and a few days ago, Mrs. Webb, who is an active worker for that organization, received a letter Jrom him in answer to her inquiry as to what the organization meant in the war-stricken countries, the writer asking th&t his name and identity be kept eecret "Treated Us Rottenly." "I was captured April 24, 1915, in the battle of Ypres, imprisoned at tMagdeburg hospital in Germany, and arrived back In civilization and heavenly Switzerland May 30, 1916," says the letter. "The Germans treated us rottenly. Everything .you hear of their brutalities, etc., is quite true. The German Red Cross nurses and camp conditions provided only what was absolutely necessary, if that. The nurses .abused and spat on us. The German diet consisted of brown water, called tea, made of acorns and such Uke, for breakfast, nothing else. Dinner, vegetable or mtat soup, made of less, vegetables or meat and more water,, entirely, unnutritlous. Supper, similar brown water acorn tea and

Dayton is glad to forget Vallandigham.

Wisconsin people have read that Vallandigham, by virtue of bis brilliancy and daring, was as well known throughout the United States In his time for his anti-war and anti-conscription speeches as La Follette is in these times for his anti-war and anti-con scrlption speeches." He made himself Infamous by using his brilliancy and daring to harass and annoy .and obstruct President Lincoln in much the same way that La Follette Is harassing and annoying and obstructing President Wilson. Whatever move Lincoln made was wrong In Vallandigham's eyes, and he

put forward resolutions and proposed

legislation to show the country that

Lincoln was wrong. He made speeches and circulated literature to try to convince the people that Lincoln's scheme for financing tbe war was wrong, and that his whole scheme for conducting the war was wrong, that the war itself was wrong, that conscription was unconstitutional, that tbe war itself was unconstitutional. He tried to compel this government to hang itself with its own Constitution. All of this President Lincoln endured with patience until there came ' a day when Vallandigham was arrested by military authority for treason, and another day when Lincoln, with grim humor, made the southern Confederacy a present of Clement Laird Vallandigham. Wisconsin find3 this bit of civil war history extraordinarily pat to its present humiliation. It finds' the Yallen-digham-La Follette parallel startling. It finds little difficulty in substituting the name of La Follette for the name Vallandigham, excet as such substitution is necessary in the climax; but Wisconsin waits with lifted pencil

while she turns an expectant eye to-

w m u iue w uiiAt nouse, even as wuio did In 1863. Boats to Germany are few and far between. Steamship communication with Germany is decidedly bad. But Wisconsin has no doubt that President Wilson would find a way, just as President Lincoln found a way.

FOUNDS UNITED7 v SERVICE" CLUB

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Lieut.. Edward W. Irion. One of the principal organizers of the "United : Service Club." with branches in Washington and -abroad for officers of all- branches of the war service, is Lieut. Edward W. Irion.

LETTER CARRIERS' BRANCH ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

Enemy Cigarettes Smoked by American Soldiers in France

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN

raw salt herrings, or Jollop of maize PRANCEf Sunday. Dec. 8. (By The or some such unpalatable stuff. One's : , . . V i day's bread rations, of black, called j Associated Press.) German and Aus-

"brown, uneatable bread, a loaf slightly larger than a 10 cent Canadian loaf, rationed out to twelve men. Suggestions for Red Cross. "American Red Cross parcels were received safely and soundly in tbe majority of cases. The Germans recognize the Red Cross endeavors to keep my comrades alive by food parcels and warm by clothing parcels. Therefore credit them with not being antagonistic to Red Cross work. I would suggest that you send white, eatable

oread (from section Anglais, Berne, Switzerland) two loaves weekly. These arrive regularly fresher than bread from England and quicker and were God-sent by Canadian Red Cross. Cost lour weeks supply per man, $1. Food parcels of one-half pound cocoa or tea, one-half tin unsweetened condensed milk, one-half pound sugar, one tin golden sirup or tin of jam, one-half pound of margarine, one pound tin herring, sardines or salmon, two onepound tins of beef, sausages or rabbit, cake or biscuits. List approximately 11.60 a parcel. Send eight at least sueh parcels monthly to each man, otherwise hell not be able to 1st, much less live. Occasionally include a tin of keatings. It Is useful in vermis. Clothing Needed. . "As to clothing, the Germane issue only what is absolutely necessary you should send one special prisoner's overcoat and uniform, three pairs of socks, two summer and winter vestB, drawers, shirts, one sweater, one blanket, one pair of boots. Occasionally send a story book, not relating to the war or government or military matters. Be sure that ficticious names are not sent In to you by the Germans as prisoners of war. Each name, his regiment number and regiment should tally with your records. "Please excuse hurried scrawl, and accept my very best wishes for thorough success in your indescribable

trian cigarettes are being smoked by

the American expeditionary forces. There are two varieties being sold In

the army commisartes and they are known by the soldiers as "Bocae

smokes." One variety bears the name

of a Berlin firm while the other was

made by a concern In Sarajedo. The appearance of the cigarettes cauEed considerable speculation until it was learned they had been turned over by the French when they discovered the American cigarette supply was running short. The French captured the cigarettes in the early days of the war and since they have been stored in a warehouse.

good and praiseworthy effort to keep my comrades-in-arms existing, warm, etc. I can't say the Germans do as much. I was there. I have experienced and seen. You are at liberty to use this .information if it will assist you in your efforts."

UKRAINIANS DEFEAT FOE

LONDON, Deo. 17. The Petrograd Railwaymen's Union, according to a Reuter dispatch from the Russian capital, has received "a telegram to the effect that the Maximalist troops in Odessa attacked the arsenal where the Kkranian Rada was assembled. The officials of the Rada summoned -the Ukranlan troops quartered in Odessa. These attacked the Maximalists who were defeated after street fighting in which there 'were many casualties on both sides The sailors of the Black Sea fleet, participated in the fighting. Afterward the Black Sea sailors divided, the majority going over to the Ukranlan Rada was assembled. The Bolshevik! from sending troops from Odessa against General Kaledines.

Branch 271 of the National Association of Letter Carriers-has elected the following officers: President. William Hansche; Vice-Jresident, Clyde Claxton;, Secretary, Harry Young; treasurer, Ed Owen.

Capt Reid to Leave For- Over There Soon - ' 1 j j Capain Raleigh N. Reld, Richmond soldier, recently "commissioned a captain, who has been visiting here, ex

pects 1 to .sail for France within a month. - Captain Reld has been ordered to report at Governors' Islaad,' New York harbor. Captain Reld left Richmond twenty years ago and . joined the -army- He received -tili 'commission as a captain after several months as a student officer in Fort Sheridan, HI., near Chica

go. He had been in charge of recruiting stations in Peoria and Springfield, Lllnois. ; He has been visiting his mother Mrs. Alice Reid and his sister, Mrs. T. Mason Byer, 209 South A street.

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LONDON. Dec. 17. The number of cases of neglect of children has shown a remarkable decrease In - England since the beginning of the war. In 1913 the number of cases officially re ' corded was 54,000. Each year since there has been a decrease, until last year the number was less than 42,000 i

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