n Soldier Got Into American Prison Camp by Mit take One of the great scandals of the ~ American army has been connected with the treatment of the men in the ~ prison camps and among the worst offenders is an officer named "Hard- boiled" Smith, It will interést Cana- dians to know that one man from this country fell into Smith's hands and ~ was given reason to feel thahkful for his Canadian citizenship. i : ; Appearing before a special board of inquiry, which is taking "data for "the Congressional Committee at 'Washington, who is to hear the direct evidence later, Charles A. 'Mannering, of Robert street, Toron- to, told his own story of the abusive and brutal attitude of "Hard-boiled" Smith 'at prison farm No. 2, near 'Paris, where Smith was In. charge. Mannering was originally = in* the Canadian army, 'and. transferred in 1917 'He completely lost control of toward the end of his Jeeital, intense were lis fcelings.. Speaking of his initial ° arrival in amy. Mannering stated: \ z 'They searched me and took out eo my, brother's picture, tore i up and threw it into a waste basket| I said, 'That's my brother's picture,' and they said, 'You can buy a bum's pie- ture for a couple of francs and it will look just as good, a Mannering 'asserted. "I"saw them neh another ma-. chine gunner and take off his re- 'volver, " he writes. "A marine point- ed it at the man's heart and pulled the trigger, saying, 'H there are any bullets in it you are going to get the first one." Fortunately, it was un- loaded. "After I was searched a young marine came up to me and smashed me in the face and said, 'Get into that room on the double.' The smash made my nose bleed, and I pulled down my hands to wipe it, ~~ whereupon he cracked me with his club. I rushed into the room and stopped inside the door. One of the prisoners grabbed me and pulled me further into the room. 'Never stop on the deadline if you want to leave the room alive," he said. «J saw men standing at attention for three hours at a time and every time their muscles gave out under 'the strain and they sagged, they were struck with a club. : «] saw them drag two sergeants 1 saw tnem drag two sergeants 'out of the room and make them do torturing exercises for forty minutes. When they dropped they were beaten with clubs. Ome was clubbed so strenuously that they could not bring him to. They dragged him away and we never saw him again. "The boys said he died. "We had to sit on the concrete / floor all day without resting against any support. If a man leaned back against the wall and the guards saw him it meant either the 'hospital or the grave. : / "They had two colored men there and when a guard wanted to see how strong he felt he called one of them into the corridor and knocked him down, The job of the two colored men was to scrub soldiers brought in intoxicated. They did it with a stiff ~ serubbing brush and made the flesh raw and bleeding. 5 "I asked permission to explain my situation and told Smith I was a wounded man there by mistake. Smith ignored my explanation, and, with the other men, I was deprived of leggings, given one blanket, and quartered for the night in the racing stable of a Frenchman. The bed was the cobblestone floor of a stall, and no food was given the men that night. The weather was cold and raining. The next morning the men who had newly arrived at the prison. camp ° were lined up. 'Hard-poiled' Smith strutted before us, up and: down the lines, looking us over. 'Then he start- ed to yell at us. 'I'm Hard-boiled . Do you get me. I'm boss of Don't forget that. You ng to soldier here as you old ered before. And you can't skip out. There are only two ways to leave this place. One is to go out in a long wooden box, feet first, and the other way is straight to the front lines to be blown to hell by the Boche. Yesterday a man ~ thought he knew a different way ton "© get ut of here, but he was all wrong. See for yourself," and he pointed to a still form lying under an old army = St : "Finally I got to see the surgeon: He was all right--the only human I found in that camp. He saw I was 'wounded, Beard my Sy png got me ont . the flat "toot camp at Stag- nan, where a medical board placed me in Class B2, and I was myalided back to the States, where I got my honorable discharge, tough as any ma of the men he "with him at the : n things were of his type. There was not a guard tlrere that I could find who had been up at the front, or who knew what a soldier's life is. They were deserters, slack- thrown 'out of diff es 1 y dock and' Ibreak- St. John Dr 24 Dock & ~ Every City and ~ District Will Win ~My Flag" When Edward, Prince 'of Wales--eager, bright eyed, smiling and sincere--arrived in Canada in August, and when he voiced his great admiration of the wonderful achievements of Canadians, on the fields of battle and at home, once again we were fields of battle and at home, once again we were 'thrilled with joyous pride. 5 He asked concerning Ganada's fechnstraction pro- : gramme, and when he was told of the Victory Loan 1919, he graciously consented to the use of his Coat of Arms on a flag, which is to be the prize of honour for districts achieving their quota in the loan. In dedicating '""The Prince's Flag" at Ottawa on : Labor Day, His Royal Highness said in part:-- i "Itis a great joy to me to be associated with the loan, which is the bridge between war and peace, and which is finishing off the job." "I hope every city and district will win my flag." ; Striking, and beautiful in design, this flag will form not only an unique memento of Victory Year, but a' lasting and outstanding souvenir of the visit of His Royal Highness--a visit which will remain as one of 2 the most memorable events in Canada's history. The reproduction above shows the design of the flag. The body is white, the edge red; in the upper left hand corner is the Union Jack, and i in the lower right hand corner the Prince of Wales' Coat of Arms. The flag is made in two sizes, 4 feet 6 inches by 9 feet for small cities, towns and villages, dnd 7 feet by 13 feet 6 inches for cities of over 10,000 population. Canada has been divided into canvassing districts be 'by the Victory Loan Organization. Each city forms one district. Other. districts have been determined according to population. Each of these canvassing districts. has been allotted a certain amount in Victory Bonds to sell. To win ~ the Prince's Flag, therefore, a district has to sell its yl allotment. That is the one and simple conditi n, * Anticipating that many 'districts will buy' far i beyond their allotment, the organization decided that for each twenty-five per cent. excess of the quota one Prince of Wales' Crest be awarded. "Thus the workers in a district doubling its quota will be the proud win- ners of four small crests for their Honour Flag: These crests will be sewn to the flag. The Prince' s Crest SH MANN : YZ Wie Ar BRO, i ~ the three ostrich plumes --is shown at the top of the coat of arms. 1 To every organization with fifty or more employees, where seventy-five per cent. of the enrollment invests a total of ten per cent. of the annual payroll in Victory Bonds, a supplementary Prince of Wales Flag in smaller form--48 inches by. 34 inches--will be awarded. The allotment for, each district has been carefully considered, and is based on a conservative estimate of the purchasing power of the district. Your district can sell its allotment and thus win the Tie s Flag, provided 'each person does his or her share. You will gladly do your part and encourage your neighbour to do his. Remember YOUR purchase may be the one that decides whether or not your district i is to be the proud possessor of the Prince's Flag. The Prince' Ss Motto is "I Serve" win You also Serve? Issued by Canada's Victory Loan Committee ' in co-operation with the Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada, 5 You've heard the re st- Now hear the best is still nti in this respect are at been selling: a g : to the United States, January ..$47, 624, 7 February . 41,185,814 March .... 70,570,794 April .,.,. 66,934,076 May ...... 18,266,622 June ..... 70, 597,035 ie / EXPORTS. . -1918. January ..$26,681,092 February . 22,795,703 March ... 37,111,492 April .... 26,459,118 May ..... 36, 784.057 58) June .... 39,834,229 $189,665,691 $196 Prom tthese figures it will be that the adverse balance of against Canada the first half was $185, 513, 360, while fo $134,168,608. The balanc m still further reduced if the the Canadian dollar is to Db ed. The discouraging featu year's trade is the falling off ports since March. Canada must duce more--not only enough to ply her own people, but to aff larger surplus for sale abr The ravages of the Span ensa in Labrador during the the friends of the Labrador m In a letter from Dr. fell an account is given of th of the influenza epidemic Sandwich Bay district of L Twenty per cent. of the pop perished as a result of the il Dr. Grenfell gives a long li dead and adds: "As these settlements are very small generally consisting of a few h some idea can be gained of th tastrophe to that part of the ¢ The distancesaregreatbetween "and families, and the diffic the doctor and nurse trav that area are almost insurm The point that I should phasibe in this connect pressing need for care ' phan children who are 1 sult of this epidemic. A ny men left young families, an "eral cases both parents we: Our present orphange, besid s0 poorly constructed and di 'run, is full to capacity, an - at our wits' end to meet the of caring for 0 FRY: help dren." 5 Canada's Credit. Canada's credit stands hig reputation for sound finan ods during the war has been estimable benefit to the D Behind this stands als tion of her immense na sources and the fac ; North American continen new settlement on a la i Reports from various tricts in Eastern Can da | all records. sugar and syrup in 45, 000. About 550 wa The latest figures giver Soldier Settlement Bo up till the 26th of Jul had approved 6,620 lo ing $21,311, 425, The 'figures of the training branch of the bo that 25,7 22 applicatior ; a : The SS ontest atv in the four western berta reports