New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1916, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY OCTOBER 10, 1916. HAUTHAUSEN JUMPS | INTO THELIMELIGHT Becomes “Clearing House” in Rustria for Italian Prisoners (Correspondence of the Asso. Mauthasen, Austria, Sept. From a picturesque though little known village on the upper Danube, Mauthausen, the “clearing hause” in | Austria for Italian prisoners of war. | In its—orFF Shai5.—Ozh L Its peace-t jon of a few hundred grown to the size of a small city, and each month there s through it, with a three weeks' stap for quarantine purposes, several thousand Italian soldiers and several hundred Ttalian officers. The town consists of a group of picturesque houses, a church or two and an ancient palace that climgs to | the edge of the Danube. What may Le called the new city consists of | acres upon arces of white-washed barracks, holding in all when full 42,- 000 soldiers. | There were only some eight or ten thousand Italian soldiers interned in the “city” when the Associated Press-| correspandent arrived to pay the camp a vis Two days earlier there had | been 25,000, but the greater part of them had been sent out along their way—to permanent camps in eastern Austria and Hungary. Daily there arrive at Mauthausen some 8,000 bulky parcels or “love gifts” from relatives and friends in Traly. The banking and bookkeeping department of the camp has ta main- tain a ledger with something over 41,000 running bank accounts, the to- ta] of which far exceeds a million | crowns FEach prisoner, wherever he | may be, is permitted to possess ten | crcwns a week for canteen spending money. All that he receives from home over that goes into his account. The actual handling of cash devolves upon Austrian officers; the boollkeep- ing is done by Ttalian prisoners of war, who are thus in a position to know that the funds of their com- patriots are honestly and accurately atministered. \ So long as he stays in Mauthausen, which may be for a hear if his con- duct is good, the Italian soldier is affered the privileges of a school in which illiterates are taught to read and write and in which the better ed- ucated may take courses in German, in English and in other useful sub- jec If so inclined he may take up | ainting and wood carving and sculp- | He will be furnished the ma- | “praduct’” will be sold at Looney Bill Homer Sat in a comer Smoking “Bone- head’s Joy:” shoved in his mutt To get a fresh bit And pulled out -a bunch of loose, hard stems, —a few other things, And—some tobacco! The Wise Lads, who know real tobacco when they smoke and chew it, always use LIBERTY Long Cut Tobacco. The Wise Lads want quality —they don’t want the “big-locking™ package. ROM the homes of Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr.Carnegie to the humblest cottage, Magee Ranges and Heaters offer unlimited service. self, and he will be gven the bal- | snce between sales price and cost of materials. Or he can enter either | the stringed orchestra or the brass Fand. The correspondent saw an exhibi- tion of one of the half dozen fire companies, camposed wholly of Ital-| ians, who guarded the camp from a! possible conflagration, and who as a matter of fact have kept the fire loss, | despite the wooden construction, down to two barracks and no loss of life. | Tire prevention is further aided by ! 2 high fire tower in the center of the | camp, on which two men constantly | stand guard) with a horn to warn of a blaze and a flag to indicate its di- rection. The colonel of the camp led the correspondent through the wash room- huge barracks fitted with showers | and heated in winter time, or cauipped with tows of faucets for washing hands and faces—and throug the living barracks. The lat- ter are large and roomy—and very clean—far better than any the cor-| respondent had seen in the course of | \Visits to camps in other countries. The hospital section of the camp is | one of the best in Austria, in cleanli- ness and equipment. Tt is the col-| onel’s boast that there never has been | an epidemic of any character, that| cnly such diseases as were brought by the men have ever boen encoun- tered, and that there have been a large number of cures. Deaths occur regularly, as in any large community, but now the cause is chiefly tubercu- losis of ancient standing among the prisoners. Since the wounded as well as the well often come to Mauthausen the camp has met the need for artificial | limbs by creating a little factory for manufacturing these grim implements, znd up to date has turned out about 150 and trained the war victims to use them. The Young Men's Christian associa- tion amusement hall, with its tiny| stage, has been equipped with scen- ery made by the prisoners and with a drop curtain showing the Bay of Naples. Here, too, are the educa- tional classes, conducted by the intel- ligent and gifted Italians. The English classes are conducted | by “Tony” Tenore, who told the cor- respondent that a brother in New York (Frank Tenare of 300 Bridge street, Brooklyn, believed him to be dead because he had had no oppor- tunity to communicate with him. The ltalian, who said he had lived two | years in America, begged to be re- membered to the brather. One of the chief aims of the au- thorities is to give the men as much opportunity to work as possible, and All choice, pure Ken- ucky leaf. No loose, nard stems in 1t—all taken out by four inspec- tions and hand dressings. Ihai"s why LIBERTY gives you more good smokes and chews for your money than any other long cut made. Magee Heaters have earned an enviable reputation in steam, hot water or hot air furnaces. They are sturdy in construction and economi- cal in operation. Magee Ranges combine all the modern facilities and conveniences, together with the standard Magee construction which has placed them in the lead for so many years. There is a Magee Range, Steam or Water Heater or Furnace for your particular requirements. Sold By J. A Andrews & Go 132 MAIN STREET ef a package that’s 41/l good tobacco— clean and fresh. Try LIBERTY for a week and you’ll ti_qk to it glways. A ¢ all Piealers. on the whole find them tractable and willing. If the men do nothing they receive six cents a day if privates, twelve cents if corporals or sergeants, and eighteen cents if higher non-com- missioned officers. If they go out to work on farms or in quarries or roads they get a settled sum in addition. Self-government, in so far as it is possible, has been introduced and the NOTICE The New Britain Wet Wash having A. B. JOHNSON, D. D. S. DENTIST moved into their newly equipped building are prepared to do first class work. We solicit your patronage. Satisfaction guaranteed. 30 Union ational Bank Bldg Opem Evenlugs. | street. Tel 583 common soldiers are commanded by their own non-coms and merely su- pervised by Austrian troops. Accord- ing to the number in camp they live, i50 to 250, in the big, airy, lighted barracks, with their own superiors told off to keep them in order. Their food, so far as the correspon- dent could judge from an examination of a week’s bill of fare, appears to te ample though somewhat monoto- nous. They have two meatless days a week, as all the rest of Austria does, a fatless day and the other re- strictions, But the authorities find it hard to compel Italian tastes to ac- custom hemselves o Austrian food. The few Serbian prisoners delight in the Austrian bread but the Italians loathe it and eat it only when their families have sent them none of their favorite Italian bread—whch arrives to the extent of about 20,000 packages a week, Though the men are inclined to be moody at times, in keeping with their temperament, none of them seem to have lost spirit so far as to the war is concerned. The colonels laughed as they told of the marked change in the camp when the prisoners read of the beginning of the general offen- sives against the Central Powers. And n the course of the walk through the huge camp the correspondent spoke with no single soldier who did not ex- press a firm belief in the eventual victory of his sde. 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