wi (1) A roadside scene as the Allies advanced in France. (2) With the British forces in.Italy. View from the Montello looking towands Cor- nuda. (3) With the British in Italy. A battery in action. (4) On the Cambria front. Clearing up the Canal du Nord, which we took in our advance. (6) On the British western front. Highland machine gunner ready with his gun for any emergency. (8) On the British western front in France. "Jocks" loading into a motor truck on their way to the trenches. (7) On the western front. Nails left on the road cause a lot of trouble to horses and moter transports. They are picked up and put in boxes, which are placed at the roadside. (8) On the western front. Pigeons on military duty in France. A message from the trenches being removed from the leg of a night howler. _-- HOW GERMANS TREAT PRISONERS J The following id an interesting I was very badly fed and we had ne story of a horseman's experience on {soap to wash ourselves with, except a the C. P.. R. steame® 'Mount Temple" |few pieces sent out by the British Red when she was captured by the Ger- [Cross Society, and shad it not been mans and his subsequent treatment for this society sending us parcels w hile a prisoner. Simard is now on of food we would have starved. The y . P. R. 88. "Melita." | German guards and sentries took X Joseph Simard, $6 years of age, {from us what was left of our meals, »f Montreal, left Montreal on the 29th las they said that the prisoners got Nov, 1916, on the 8S. "Mount more food than they did. In one | Femple" as horseman, on my first month 1,600 Russians died from star to sea. There wére about 750 Ivation in this camp. The number of on board and about 45 men to prisoners in Brandenburg is as near f them, Nothing abnormal {ly as follows: 18,000 Russians, 12,000 ntil the 6th of Dec., and |French, 2000 British, and about 500 § on that day a cruis Italians. On account of the British ish flag, came towards prisoners being more stubborn than E le§ on the starboard the others, they used the Russians as yut a guarter of a mile {horses to draw waggons full of all wauled down the British [kinds of material, to and from the od the German flag, she station. It took about or 60 men §5 o draw, one of these waggons. I saw :ward, Mr. Gilbert, was |a Russian shot dead for refusing tof Killed on tho after deck while stand: {take his boots off and give them to ne of the guards, after having stat. bean another member of led that he had paid for them himself . 1 was wounded in|Two other Russians were wounded bv the same shot. I also saw a man truck on the head with the butt of me 4 rifle to force him to work, the man piece of shell ampu- : part of my! struck part of the'leg, and being unable to do so on aceount.of E a third piece striking n above the weakness, and he died three days thigh, came out at the r t side of [later. In the camp there was a gaol the basin. 1 crawled among the dead and in this place there were 2 Rus horses for safety and the next thing sians and 1 Frenchman. One day 1 saw was the crew leaving the ship the place was burned down and the in lifeboats! J gathered my strength guard that had the y refused to and lewered myself over the side till open the door and with the help of § I reached fhe water, where I was the rest of the guard hé kept the picked up by one of the lifeboats. prisoners back who tried te break in The German Cruiser "Moewe" sent a to save the people inside, and the re-B faunch and took us all prisoners, and sult was that the unfortundte men ing one of our crew died on board. The the gaol were burned to cinders. The § German doctor finished the amputa- guards were very strict and their offi- tion of my leg and I was then put cers gave them full power. The pris into the cruiser's hospital. 1 was on!oners have to be on parade at 5 am board the "Moewe" for four days, to see if there are any deserters and and I was well treatAd and the food to find workers. I had to turn out was good. 1 was then transferred to with the rest and had to support my the "Yarrowdale" along with the rest self with two pieces of wood because §/¢ of our crew, and we were on board they: would not supply me with this ship until the 1st of January |¢rutches. One morning I refused to 1817. ~The doctor of the "Yarrow: turn out and the guard threatened to dale" was very rough and didn't seem put his bayonet through me, but in to care to attend to the woupded at stead of that he took me before the all, and 1 was locked in the hospital Commanding Officer, who seeing my and could not see very much. We infirmity released me from failing were not foo well treited, and on into line in the morning. I heard New Year's morning all I had for during my stay there that four muni breakfast was dry bread and cold tion factories were closed on account water, We were all landed at of the shortage of material. I pass Swinemunde and four English cap-ied through Berlin twice during my tains and myself, wounded, were captivity, and I heard from a French transferred to a tug and taken up man and a German non-commissioned the river to a place called the Aus-|{oficer, that the Kaiser had four tralian Hospital. and the first thing castles in Berlin with copper roofs they did was to remove the stitches and that the roofs of three of thesé which were put into my leg by the castles had been removed and turned doctor of the "Moewe" and which! into munitions. the doctor of the "Yarrowdale" did! On my arrival in London the Cana: not trouble to remove. The doctor at dian Red Cross took great care of me the Australian Hospital' was very and supplied me with new clothes aagry about it, and the removal of and very good food, and they also the stitches gave me a lot of pain I was at this hospital for five days, and was well eared for and had good food. After my time expired at the! hospital | was sent to barracks, where | { was very badly treated. I was there for about 15 days. and the feed fog and sleeping accommodation was very bad, my bed couststing of a hag filled with wood shavings, which was L¥ery hard, and we had very little From this place I was trans f2rred to Dundernin and gas there for another 15 days and eXperienced a the same discomforts, i. a, bad food, yery little coal and bad gleaping accommodation 1 was then sent to Brandenburg, and was thers tmtil 1 iv Teleaged on the 12th of Janvary, | 1st tw EE rid 81 the: place. and as RL Keep ware 1 nd wpa clothes. | showed me London from one of thajr cars, for all of which I am very grateful. 1 wish to thank the commander and officers of the B88. "Melita" for kindness and courtes {shown me during my voyage 'back to Canida, the comfort of my slesping accommodation, and the food being the best | have ever experienced. I am greatly indebted to Doctor A. Dupont, captain in the R. A.M. C.. od late surgeon 60 the CO. P. R.. for acting as my Mterpreter and thus enabling me to set forth my experi ences ip English. JOSEPH RIMARD. Witness: AH Feb HUESTIS, 1918