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Show FOE THANKS AMERICANS FOR WORK IN EPIDEMIC WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Credit for I saving the lives of 1.S00 Austro-Hun-I gar Ian prisoners of war in a prison Icamp near Chabarovsk. In eastern Sl-I Sl-I berla, during the fall of 1918. Is given ito officers of the 27th United Btates infantry by Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Ferdi-nand Redder of the former Austro-, Austro-, Hungarian army, In an open letter to the press of Austria and Hungary. Colonel Redder's letter, forwarded to the sbite department by the American mission at Budapest, says an epidemic, of Influenza had threatened to convert the camp into "a vajt cemetery" when personnel of the American regiment i took charge and "transformed thi wretched hospital accommodations provided pro-vided by the Russian authorities Into la model establishment." Colonel Redder declared he felt it hi mod faithful and sacred duly" Ion returning to his country to let the world know that he and his comrades I owed their "lives, health and happl- less and power for good in the world I o the noble American officers .f the ' 27th regiment of the gTcat American I nation." |