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Show EIGHT AMERICANS IN A PRUSSIAN 'L WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY JN I 'FRANCE. Fridfcy. May 31 . (By fhc (Associated Press.) A Russian prison er who recently returned from Ger-Imany Ger-Imany has made a statement at Mo -j cow which is now available here, f'o the effect that It aw American pn-- oners of war in a camp at Tuchel, W est Prussia, and that the., asked him to let It be known that the were beinc treated brutally The prisoners said they were huncr and penniless. When the American's arrived at the j camp, according to this account, the Germans removed all their clothes The were particularly anxious to I have the American's shoes. They told! J the prisoners they should not w ear ex- i 1 pensive clothing and shoes while1 i working and that their property would j be taken care of until their return to ' 1 America. The Russian said, howevi that e eryone-knows what that means.. The Russian raid that right Ameri- j cans who were captured several ' months arc re; 'n i'v- enujp, ?t mi. 5- ' 1 v. and jemg ' fr TiiAgiy aftku'd lor j I bread. They vere told bread was distributed dis-tributed only in the morning. They 'were placed in a hut v.-iih Russians after being forced to stand in a square 'where Germans were given an oppor-1 oppor-1 tunity to insult them The huts In which the Americans are living, the Russian said, are damp, cold and unfit un-fit for habitation. Some of the Americans Ameri-cans became ill Two of them who j were in a hospital, had an opportunl' I to talk with the Russian and it w a-through a-through them that he had obtained in- formation on which his statement is; based. 00 |