Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 32, 19 December 1917 — Page 14

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vTHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1917.

RIGHT HAND OF OFFICER TELLS OF FOEJdlLTUR Canadian, Who Was Prisoner Behind German Lines, Describes Brutal Treatment. CAMP SHERMAN, Chllilcothe. O., December 19.-Lieutenant I. S. Ros6iter. of the First Canadian Mounted Rlflea, came to Camp-Sherman today, and with Us left hand greeted officers and men of this division. His right band bangs loosely from the wrist, a trlking example of German kultur as practiced by surgeons of the Kaiser's armies. Lieutenant Rossiter was shot through the palm of his right band at the battle of Sanctuary Woods, June 2, 1916. He, with three hundred other Canadians, was taken prisoner. , Three days later, behind the German lines, a product of German kultur gulsed as a surgeon, came to Lieu

tenant Rossiter, and said: "Scbwaeinhund (German for "pig dog"), what ailing you?" The Canadian exhibited bis wound. The German grinned maliciously. Taking Rossiter to an improvised operatJog table he scientifically butchered the boy's band. He operated on the carpus bone, paying scant attention to the real wound In tbe palm of the band. Ah, He Gets Busy. With characteristic German thoroughness the surgeon severed the tendons which make finger and thumb movement possible. Then he turned attention to the lad's middle finger. There was a slight scratch on this digit, but the German

deemed It necessary to amputate. While the surgeon sawed and clipped, sewed and severed the Canadian, without anaesthetic, looked on ' and marveled at the efficient way the Kaiser's surgeon was incapacitating him for future use as a soldier. At adjoining tables Germans were having less painful wounds attended to under the humane influence of ether and chloroform. For weeks and weeks after the butchery Rossiter was under care of various German surgeons while he was being driven from one prison camp to another. Each surgeon in dressing the wound found a new way to inflict pain on the Invalid. Despite their inhuman treatment the wound healed, but the band was left helpless.

IS "ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U. S. FINANCE"

Joseph S. McCoy. The only treasury department employee for whom Secretary McAdoo has asked a raise in salary is Joseph S. McCoy, government actuary. He gets $2,500 a year. McAdoo asks a $1,500 raise.

thrown Into an ill-ventilated, flea-ridden prison, guarded by old men, who were instructed to shoot on the slightest provocation.. The food, according, to Lieutenant Rossiter, was unfit for swine. .The prisoners subsisted on food sent to the prison camp by the Red Cross, the only organization which is able to get packages : through Germans lines to prisoners. - Oh, You Red Cross. ' "Were it not for. the Red Cross," said Rossiter, "prisoners of war would die by the thousands in German prison camps. Individuals might as well address packages to Kaiser Wilhelm as to a soldier in a prison camp. The only humane thing the Huns do is to

allow the Red Cross to care for allied prisoners." . Lieutenant Rossiter was exchanged for a German last spring, and recently was discharged from the Cana

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of the German Empire.

While at Camp Sherman be will deliver several lectures on "Behind the German Lines." . ,

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Rossiter, who was a private then, first was taken to prison camp at Morslede, thence to Courtrai, Belgium, then to Hanover, Germany. - After a brief imprisonment here he was moved to Celle Lager (Camp Celle), thence to Soltau No. 1 Lager, and later to Hamelin and Soltau No. 2 Lager, and finally to the big prison camp at Achen, better known as Aix Lachappelle. At Aix Lachappelle the Canadian was stripped of his soldier outfit and given civilian clothing, which the Huns had commandeered from the stricken Belgians. With hundreds of others he was

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