TORTURE OF PRISONERS EXPOSED, DOGS TRAINED TO BITE

New York, April 10. — James. W. Gerard, formerly United States ambassador to Germany, told the members and guests of the Canadian club of New York at a dinner in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Biltmore last evening of the inhuman treatment of prisoners of war by the kaiser’s military authorities. The 1,500 diners received with groans of indignation and shame the former ambassador’s recital of how the German authorities imprisoned townsfolk for giving food and drink to starving Canadian prisoners of war, how German sheephounds were trained to bite British soldiers, how small German boys were allowed to shoot arrows tipped with nails into the bodies of prisoners, and how, when typhus broke out in a camp of Russian prisoners, they sent Frenchmen and Englishmen to live with them.

The former ambassador declared that war prisoners were housed in horse stalls, six men to a stall, in the Ruhleben race track, Berlin. The men were underfed, he said, and the conditions were such that many prisoners lost their minds.

It was the first time since he returned from Germany that Mr. Gerard had told any of these things he had seen. He saw them on visits to the prison camps in the capacity of official representative of the British and Canadian governments. Mr. Gerard began his speech by referring to Germany as “that country where they were so fond of me that they kept me a week after I said I wanted to go home.”

“I want to tell you Canadians tonight,” he said, “some of the things I saw your fellow countrymen endure in the German prisoners of war camps. You, sitting here in the Biltmore, cannot imagine the horror of living two and a half years in the German prison camp. I know, because I saw.”