At Best's Xou Can Procure Toronto City "During the mext month or Ice Cream i iar 10 Greg ~ Bricks tn All flavors for 30. cents, and || pe cial have them delivered when you wang them, for spring and summér Weddins Drug Store or 2018; We would therefore respect: fully ask our customers to leave plenty of time in order ing articles which we may have Best's Branch For Quick Delivery order from the factories. Rings FOX FURS Licenses _ summer wear in black, mew J io Fg TIES to either make up ourselves or: Wedding Marriage Gob OUR NATIVE LAND, FIRM. MAY SHE EVER STAND + THROUGH STORM AND NIGHT. On the anniVersary of the birth of Queen Victoria, who 86 ennobled wo- manhood by her wisdom and woman- liness, 'we are delighted to welcome home the boys of the 21st Battalion in the Pron consciousness that their y'strength and fortitude will an incentive to 'Canadians to a country of whom we proud, and her national career an inspiration ' to the whole world. 3 r~ SEE OUR vieT ORIA DAY STORE , SPECIALS _& THE {E. DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRI FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919. GERMAN BRUTALITY BERND | LINES OF BATILE As Described By Sapper A. R. Paton, a Patient In Queen's University Military Hospital, ~ Kingston THER Sapper A. R. Paton, No. 3 Tun- nelling Company, Canadian Engin: eers, who is in ward 41, Queen's University Military Hospital, writes to the Whig as follows: 1 gaye to you' recently an intro- duction to the life of privat 03 as prisoners of war, froin a general point of view, in the province of Westphalia. This week if you will allow me a space in your valuable paper, I would like to place before the citizens of Kingston a few facts of German brutality behind the German lines and in the interior ut Germany in the month of Marci, 1817. For example, a body of these prisoners, who had been captured as long before as August, 1916, and had been kept at work by the Gers mans behind their lines ever Since, were-returned to a permanent camp in Germany weak and emaciated. On arrival there a number of them found their own names in lists of missing men that had been sent from our war office through Swit- zerland. and posted up in the camp. As late as November 21st, 1917; there were at Limburg 'on Lahn 18,000 te 20,000 undelivered par- cels lying there to rot for British prisoners of war dn the occupied territory. - Numeroys . cases were cited, and in parti€ular that of 77 Canadian = prisoners captured on April 14th, 1917. In a previous note verbally to Berlin, dated March 21, 1917, Mr. Balfour had cited names of 12 casés in which postal facilities were being 'withheld Irom British prisoners in occupied terri- tory, in spite of assurances to the contrary made by the German Gove ernment on Nov. 9th, 1915, Lodg- ing and clothing horrors added to their miseries and in addition the accommodation provided . for ithe prisoners 'was, In many ° cases, \li- adequate. For Instance, our sleep ing place for a large party of men had no roof and the rain poured in upon us. Wg had no change of any kind. © Some of these prisoners, It they survived, were kept there for over a year under these conditions, and were 'cited and medically treal- ed and fed by Dr. Curran, a Queen's college graduate, at Munster 2, Westphalia. This worthy doctor saved them all and hundreds be: sides them. It was a God-send that he was sent at that time to Mun ster, and he is held by all in high respect for the services he rendercd there, which, considering what ' ho had to. work with, were marvellous. Here Is the accommodation at Lille] and Doual, we were accommodated 100 men in a room 15 by 20, sléep- ing on the bare' boards without blankets, ' There were no means of sanitation except a barrel standing in the corner of the room. "If was 0 cold at night that the windows had to. be closed, and of course the smell in the room was awful. We were never given any clothes. in April, 1917, three prisoners escap- ed over 'No Man's Land". and were' received by a major in the 1st An- ral staff. The following is his re-| port under date April 18, 1917: "Three men escaped from behind the German lines to us the other day. They had been prisoners three months and were INerally nearly dead with ill-treatment, starvation and brutality. One of them could hardly walk and was zac Corps, an officer on the géne. B= Just a skeleton; he had gone down froin 13 stone weight to less than 8 stone. ls this Christian civiliza- tion or brutality? 'I brought him Back from the line, and it almost made me: ery that 'awful January and February, out all day in the wet and cold, no overcoat and at night no blankets, in a shelter where their clothes froze stiff on them, no change of underwear or clothing of any kind in months, and he was one mass of vermin. The bodies of all of them were covered With sores, and they had been beaten and starved, Ono of them, said rather than go through came his way.' 'When literally worn out, prisoners were taken back to camp into the Interior of Germany. The evidence of ten people, given most- ly from different camps, is unani- mous as to the conditions of thesa men whey they arrived from behind the German lines. One witness states in May of 1917 a large party of British came who had relurned: from behind /the German lines: Their clothes were totally in rags; they were half shaven, verminous, suffering from skin disease, and were savage from hunger and bad treatment. = After their arrival the commandant' in camp issued an or der that no more of these parties should be taken through the maiu streets, but should go by the by? ways, on account of the [feeling aroused amongst the people who showed a great deal of sympathy for these prisoners and shed .tears over them. When the civilians took pity on them it is surely an evident fact that the grossest of brutality had been extended to your men be- hind the lines. The evidence given in this report which includes that of others, not of British 'nationality, closes with the admission by the German govern- ment that all cases of death at Duls man cited by the British government were due to Intestinal catarrh or heart weakness--a sufficient : com= mentary of their treatment. Jaatlf, in the "words: of 'Mir, Balfour it thorities have been gulity of the &rossest brutality towasds British prisoners of war employed in the oc- cupied districts of France, and have violated all agreements of April 14th; 1917, not bo employ British prison' ers within 30 kilometers of the firing tne. This report has been bélore the British government and proven to be '{earrect in every clause. I'think I have given you sufficient plied to out men behind the Ger In the Interior, When we were. first captured the there; if so, they were to stép out of parade. They got a few at Dul- man, as far as we saw, but these poor 1 fellows did mot know what théy were | wanted for. They were taken away and we bard no more about 'wirich set all hands wondering tem, the Irish had done or what they werell three | Ji it again he would just put his lead |} under the first rafiroad train that |g these | 8 confirmed that German military PL evidence that brutality has been ap-|H | man lines, so now let me point outly _{'What 'was going on in the interior. | Germans bad an order asking in alll] the camps it there were any. Irishij aver |B § « Wanted for. Maty months of anxiety i passed away before we found out} Hair Often Ruined | ; By Careless Washing bre you want to keep your hair Took- | Iie its best, ibe careful what you wash sham t with. . Don't. use | poos or anything else, that contains much alkali. This dries the akes the hair brittle and ruins it. Casement's 'Brigade; in a conspiracy to raise a rebellion in Ireland. IH think, however, the public will know Ji the case better than I, as 1 knew nothing of thé outside world pro-} ceedings. All the Irish who stepped The best thing for steady use 8} sys i cocoanut ofl | 4 that they were gent to a camp up} - IE Hamburg {0 join Sir Rodger |W J { § ] 2 Probe: Saturday, 1 mostly air: little warmer Just Twelve RERREE i Er 2 1 Erne | Store Hours: Saturday 8.30 to 9 p.m. ORD We will celebrate the 24th May with a gala list of unp cedente bargains--the greatest bargain array this store has ever in for one day's selling--be here early for these exceptional values--on sale promptly at nine o'clock. NEWYO uy) At Half Price SUIT S 2 Exactly 12 of the season's smartest serges and gabardine suits--in colors: navy, sand and clay; tailored and novelty styles. Priced from $17.50 up to $57.00. Sturn 4 Price. WHITE WASH SKIRTS 10 dozen smartly designed "middy cloth wash skirts with new pocket effects--sold reg. at $3.00. Saturday .. .. .. .".$1.98 LINGERIE WAISTS oP In plain tailored and novelty embroidered effects, sizes 36 to 44. Reg. $2.25. Setaday oo . $148 SUMMER MIDDIES - Admiral and Jack Tar middies--in plain white with colored collars in sizes 36 to 44. Worth $2. 00 each. While they last. Saturday .c.cv +. 3 ohaind hs $1.29 | 60 only, ming New York pic- ture hats absol(tely the latest cretion: h --in nearly every wanted color and style--worth $8.50 to $12.50. Wille they last. Saludsy a i Sn RU TE I ---- SE 1000 yards of mill ends of Am- erican flannelette in variety of stripes with plain grounds. Reg. 40c per yard, ; Saturday 1300 yards only, bleached sheeting, full 70 inches -wide and sold at 85c a yard reg. Made of heavy round thread