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Show PRISONERS OF WAR. During the last weeks of the war there were 385,000 Germans taken prisoners, of which the British captured 188,000 and the Americans Amer-icans 44,000. Although nearly a year has passed since the Armistice was signed, word from Berlin indicates there are thousands of German prisoners to be returned home. On last Thursday women of Berlin made a demonstration, demanding the immediate return of their husbands. The more aggressive tore their hair and not a few proposed the organizing of a crusade to cross the border into France and bring back the missing men. Evidently a part of the German women are of the opinion that they could do in war what their husbands failed to do. The Allies should hasten the sending back of the prisoners. No more distressing condition could exist than to have members of a family waiting long months for the sorely afflicted to return, after a period of privation and sorrow such as the world war created in millions of homes. |