From the News

Dated: June 7, 1916

Canadian Asks For Drink; Is Shot by Enemy

Toronto, May 26.--Private Robert Lang, of Winnipeg, a member of the Eighth battalion, C.E.F., who was for ten months a prisoner at the concentration camp at Gottingen, Hanover, arrived in Toronto today. He was exchanged with a number of British soldiers on February 7. He will undergo surgical treatment here. He was wounded by shrapnel at Ypres on April 23, 1915. Half of his foot was shot away. He has very little praise for the treatment meted out to the British prisoners by the German authorities.

"They simply starved us," he said. "For three days after I was wounded I lay in one of the dressing stations without anything to eat. At the end of that time I was taken prisoner with a number of others. We were taken for a three days' trip in a crowded cattle truck to Gottingen. We had nothing to eat while on the trip. One of our men whose leg had been shot away was lying on the battlefield. Hearing a German close by he asked for a drink of water and was immediately shot. The German guards lost no opportunity to insult us. The Canadian boys are employed in the salt and stone quarries. For this work they receive six cents a day."