GERMANY'S SUFFERINGS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 6

GERMANY'S SUFFERINGS

EPIDEMIC OP DYSENTERY'. -Mr. Hun:'}' AVood, United Press correspondent with tho French armies, sends to the Exchange Telegraph Company a remarkable sories of extracts from letters found on German prisoners captured by the French at Verdun since the attack of August 20. These letters describe the ravages of dysentery in all parts of Germnny as the result of improper and insufficient food, and also refer to the prevalence oF cholera and typhus. Over half of the letters found on tho thousands of prisoners taken contained references to the spread of dysentery. A smaller proportion of tho letters referred to the epidemics of cholera and typhus. Tho following are typical extracts: — Burstadt, Aug. G.—l believe it will soon be the end. It cannot continuo like this, for tho people in the interior are disappearing as -well. At Mannheim dysentery exists since a long time now, and the streets are closed, and now it exists at Burstadt. Mamma is very much afraid, because a great many people are dying of it. They fall almost. likt) flies. Guben, Aug. 9. —To-day there are again some dead, always of dysentery. It is frightful, but it is true that it could not be otherwise with what we have to eat. There is> absolutely no fat left in our bodies. Guben, Aug. 10.—My Dear Brother, —Hero peoplo are dying every day of dysentery, only it is not allowed to be known outside. Cologne, Aug. 5.—1 rejoico that you have your leavo. I hope they won't suppress it, in spite of the epidemic of dysentery that has broken out here. The barracks and'hospitals have been closed for fifteen days. Dysentery reigns also amongst the civil population. People no longer have any fat or grease left in their bodies. Many havo died. Mayence, Aug. 11. —Since several days both cholera and typhus have made their appearance to the extent that several streets have been closed to traffic. Gollub, Aug. 9—At Raudenz and Thorn people are dying of cholera. AVe can be sure that the disease will come here also. My God, we must die now or later. Mayence, Aug. s.—Many people are dying here. Children especially are lying of typhus and of hunger. Bacharch, July 29. —Friday Paula Houl was buried. She had the typhus of hunger; How she suffered 1 She was only 15 on July 28. Chemnitz, Aug. 2—Thero is nothing to he given to the children. It is terribly sad. Tho four children of AVeirwoen have become consumptive, and the little Hannel child also has tuberculosis. The hearses are obliged to gallop! Karwitz, Aug. I—Here all the young girls are dying. Duisburg-Ruhrort, Aug. 12.—Above all be careful abbut your food, for dysentery is raging, and it is a terrible disease. Recently quite a few have died hero of it.