GERMAN DESERTER

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 3

GERMAN DESERTER

HORSEWHIPPED BY AN OFFICER

Great prominence was recently given in tho newspapers to the arrival in New York as a stowaway in the steamship 'Ncodordyk from Rotterdam of Kari Schulz, a deserter from the German Army.

Schulz is being detained at Ellis Island, whence unless a philanthropist provides him with money sufficient to enable him to comply with the immigration laws ho will be deported. He fought in five battles,, (but instead of receiving the Iron Cross \vap beaten with a riding whip by an officer for giving some cigarettes to a French prisoner. This incident led to his determination to desert, which he did, together with a sergeant.

Schulz was quartered at Leipzig when tho war began. After fighting at the Marne, where the army under General yon Ha sen lost 10,000 men, and at Rheims, Saint Quentin, and Arrae, Schuk was sent to Antwerp, where he tried to escape. Ho was caught and sent with a number of others captured as deserters to Lille. "We should all have been shot," Schulz said, "but for .the fact that the army was badly in need of men."

He told the court martial that he had tried to escape because he was hungry. "Our rations consisted of black bread for breakfast with tea or coffee. If we wore near the ca.mp kitchen thera was soup" with potato.es and rice but no other vegetables, meat, or bread for dinner. No; butter or fat was served out to the troops, and;the hard black broad was so dry that' it broke . oiir teetii in trying to chew it." Schulz and a sergeanti got out of Lille in full iiniform by telling an officer at the gates that they were going out into the country to try and steal a cow from' a farm. The officer laughed, wished them good luck, and bade them leave a piece of the cow with him on the way back. After numerous adventures, they ;.;ot smuggled in^O' Holland* where' Schulz said there were thousands of deserters from the German Army.