NEW GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS

Evening Star, Issue 16629, 11 January 1918, Page 6

NEW GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS

Indignities inflicted on a 19-year-old American girl in Germany were described in a letter that was handed on November 24 to the authorities at Camp Devens (Mass.). Tho writer’s brother is one of Unde Sam’s soldiers being drilled at that camp of instruction, and he turned the communication over to his superior officer with a request that something should be done to effect his sister’s release. The man, who is of German descent, came from New Hampshire. Before the outbreak of the war his mother went to Germany to visit her parents, and has remained there since. He says his sister received an official-appearing document from Germany saying that her mother was ill there, and that she should make arrangements to go to see her, if possible. Tho girl’s letter said : Alother is well, and has not been sick. When I arrived here I found that the whole report of her illness was a beix. I was taken ’ by the military officials, and am now confined at a lama where there are 5 hundreds of other girls and women. This is only one of jots of such places. 1 am so unilap rv. Even the best classes of young girls and women are confined here, and you can well imagine how they fee!. \Ve arc not treated well, and "the food is horrible, and it is even worse, considering the conditions we are living under. Officers and men who won glory in battle spend a month or mors furlough here, and we are subjected to all sorts of indignities. I am so unhappy that several times I have almost made up my mind to kill myself. Mother was held here for two months some time ago, and now she cannot visit me. I hope you will try to do something in America and help me. The message, written on a piece of a paper bag. ended with a hastily written postsc-ripl she must hurry to smuggle the no re quc. When the private was told that nothing could be done to help his sister he at once applied for a transfer to the next unit sailing for the battle front.