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Dubuquer in German ’rison Camp or Two Years, Fells His Storyf JOHN T. SAWYER DESCRIBESCONDITIONS UNDER WHICHHE LIVED.!TAKENPRISONERFROMMake* Two Attempts to EscapeFailed Both Times And Was Recaptured.But1:To bo captured by Germans and beforccd to langtilsfc Is their hotttbleprison camp?* was reckoned the acme of hard luck by soldiers while the war continued, but even the soldiers , agreed that, if they had had a chance to “take a ^rack” at the Hienifs be fore being captured mitigated the suf I fering In a wav. The penultimate t pinnacle of hard luck of this however, wa.i reached b\ a lubuquer, now on his way home after I two years of suffering He Is T. Sawyer son of Mr and Mrs Sawyer. 305 Seminary street.Sawyer, who has written his parents his experiences, did not even hav*» the satisfaction of being tak^n a prtsoneiof war. even without the privilege orseeing a fight. He was taken pr:s on#*r in p*»aelt;» time, on March 1^. 1917a month before America entered th* war. beinc captured while a member of the crew of a British vensel hv thefamous German sea raider Moewe and. ,despite his American citizenship andthe fact that America and Germany j were still at peace, he was sent to a | prison camp and h»dd there until theSTEAMER! armistice was signed.H *s Letter Home.However, his own letter tells Msexperiences in the b* s? way:Dear Father: Just a line or so to let you know 1 am well and hope you are the same. I am in I’ittsburg giving it the once .over. I am coins; to tell you how the Germans captured us and a little bit of what we hat? togo through when we arri\ ed in .Germany. § jjj | ., , ■ % We sailed from Liverpool 26, y!7 on our way to tFebruary stare®.John J 1We were on sea 12 days wh*n we ran into the German raider Moewe, It was about midnight when she stoppeaus and fired three or four shots across our bow.They rook the entire crew prisoner and placed five or six time bomis on the ship and destroyed it. When we came aboard the Motwe we were shoved down in a. small hold with about 500 other prisoners. They had been taken prisoner from l' other ship-*, which the raider had destroyed before it met us. We were Kepr locked up for 15 days unfil we Hnrtec!Germanv Conditions !n th«iftwo
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Apr 06, 1919
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