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Show THE IAYSON I,()N HKOMfLi:. f 1 Xil 1 I U. Generous Treatment ot Axis Prisoners in Conditions for Captured Americans Allied Command Aided By French Quarter Improves R1 Cros Underground France Said to Be of Million Men in Ready, Anxious and Able to Bear Arms Against Germans. irwlwt ami ( mmm nUitnr tws Service, Union Trust Building Washington, I f. "Arms arc what we wait, aims arms, arms1" My companion li.uiri funs the t ihle ar pniu ricri it v ith Gulin U oi c ii( i r itod 1 i They did it at very little expense, few men were involved, and not a single civilian life was lost. They did it by blowing up a key dam and thus cutting off the electric power from the plant. At least three expensive Allied air raids long and carefully planned, had failed to destroy this dam. Not long ago, word came to another group of these French guerrillas that a German munition tiain was about to move over a ceitam stretch of track The bolts were removed and the rails spread. Then came the word that ahead of the munition tram was a passenger train. Immediately men were sent out to flag the passenger tram and order it to slow down while other men worked feverishly to put back the bolts The passenger tram went on safely Once more, the bolts were withdrawn and before long the munition tram was a wrecked and smoking mass. No French civilian had been injured Less dramatic is the thankless and difficult task which the French National Committee of Liberation has before it, attempting to work out with the provisional assembly, the the machinery for adnunisteting areas of France as they are liberated by the Allied armies The committee must labor m an atmosphere of deliberation and enforced delay which the mood of the underground finds It hard to grasp The members of the French National Committee of Liberation, with headquarters In Algiers, have gradually achieved more and more authority under the Allies There have been many obstacles to overcome and the French, of course, feel that they have not been given the fiee hand which thev desired and deserved However, within rr cer t weeks, n has been evident that the Allies are changing their ultra conservative policy and it is now taken for grai ted that rcpicscntativcs of this committee and later the v.sional assen blv, which nicesjrim Afnra, and which is marie up of ci sons ic rest nin g v ai ions po ps in I one, will te g veil t e rospon i s' of ari i s st o i o t i re- - c i c fnil t I i uni t scive as a hod , and they w ise ri ust m ic gul it ons governing pioccilure m the interim he tween liberation of Fiance and the tin e w him a f u e It t ion is held 'lie ri cc nt rue ting of the asse nobly (Fehmiry 2D) began the long and e omplie a ted consideration of the plans for the pmvision.il government One tvpieil pi in suggested can now he dt scribed in some detail although of course it is likely to be modified as a result of the discus Sion in the coming weeks and months, and in its application therenisi t1 legislative c e e file-arm- Few Involved it is lit i tve ag'iicv '1 the two-thir- as v c If c rks m imti o in ri r pic at chili tu It n s V my c f the n c in rs an li ' i i me i ni n i tl in pi bins aid tl ' hive ri spin s bih-- t i s n ui h gi t r th iri a noi m al g v i in (i tri b riv would have '1 111 y li u t live as all ariininisti i The v despite their inadequate help fiotn outside, 228 others must sit, twiddling their thumbs They are getting very tired of waiting blit s their ennui would leave them if could be put in their hands If America will provide them, we will guarantee to get them into France, we will guarantee to transport them and distribute them It is very difficult to write of that shadowy world, the European underground, for even the few scraps of Information which one might piece together make a dangerous pattern which might bring swift enemy reprisal. There Is no question about the efficiency and the effectiveness of this silent army in France, in all the occupied countries for that matter. There is no question about the fact that through it flows a steady stream of information out of the heart of the enemy territory right back to tlie Allied high commands of the Creusot Today factories, once the makers of the famous French 75s, long a vital source of the German arms supply, have been put out of commission by a group of loyal Frenchmen, according to a storv that is now current in Washington. terrioi rc m h Great Difficulties r his Iff k v ex fl iff n g .is o.ir first rt i rtu f f r rr f re than a (rr and I krrw that tfioP id o (arnistl. tws (ixrri on n n ( t "k ligt t of tl i dr r rt iun f r h he t id f md t w ith the F rec F m forces ur dc r Dc G mile m Africa and had had rr uiv an iirivcn'uie serving his country .droid he fere he tetiirnrd for this uni tr his tc in porary he me "We have a cpiirtcr of a million tnc n m the hi inch unric i gt ound ready, wrilirp, able arid anxii us to hear arms only one out of 20 of those has a su gle fur arm and that means that while 12 men can har-ras- s the German forces, as they are doing every day and eerv night, It F p ei e L piece , al i 1 atug the rn.ic biury f ,r tie I h h cite w hu h will d e cult, tl c m ih nl gov i rriini nt rv fc cl c - after It covers, roughly, two phases First, is partial liberation Just as soon as the Allies have taken over a portion of France and the military organization moves forward, the Funcli committee would be placed in charge under this plan Iinmedi itely munie ipal officers would be selected, councils for each municipality When an entire province has been taken over, each municipal counc il ah cadv functioning would sclec t dc legates to the assemble now existing in Algiers There aie at present, about 110 menu ers of this assembly, composed of Frenchmen who have been selected by the u.t derground organizations, bv political organizations and by labor and other groups, and have been smugThev would be gled into Africa joined, or perhaps substituted bv, the newly elected delegates chosen by the municipal groups of each province There would be approximately one for each 100 000 inhabitants Finally, the day comes when Allied troops march down the Champs Elysees and across the Seine to the Place du Palais Bourbon Then the ancient building, which housed the chamber of deputies of the Third Republic, will open its doors to the Bv till' time, it will new assembly s probably repi event at least two-third- of Fl nice. Second Step the second step of the in, now considered, will be taken The assen blv will have reached depending on the pc'pul itions liber ated, some 100 membeis Then the provisional government (I use the woid "government" m the Fui ope an sense we would call it the "cabinet" with an executive head) wouli be chosen bv the assembly The national committee would cease to be the executive botlv but would nssmt the t semblv, im der this chosen govein.noi t to woik out the plan for the genor d ele e tion which would decide upon the form of government which F'lance would have However, this election could not be held at once for the thousands upon thousands of Frenchmen taken from their homes for forced labor in Germany and eKewl ere would have to be repatriated first. Fvery attempt is now being made to carry out the preliminary plans for procedures in the spirit, if not exactly in accordance with the let ter of the French constitution and law Theie are, however, manv practical difficulties which arise Take the quesfion of woman suf frage Under the Flench constitu tion, women aie not permitted t vote However, at present, with most of the men awav m the arn v or as dc pen tecs m Got manv the women make up the maje'ritv of the population Tlcuhie it would he dcMidllo for them to cast tie h dot in order to get a true repicsent itive Now 1 opinion of any locahtv Meinwhe the r of the loval Fu rulin in in and e t i f h x c un trv , is for a. n s ami a l o i it on " er to. Is et dyi ii ie aid the s tfio1 c u d ee ol tii'n w ih w h . thev be e tl c v c i v tulle s n i v s s t tl iic at. o s n i u, Is - ,7 I p s O 't I fl' v y. 1 V Kj ft 1 r4 ? f 5 Z V s pi' w r 1 h . 0 V .a e 1 ic l'l ( . s, A 0 1 "1 ' ' 11 n i il ... . v s o' Ce ,, U Il u i ,a ' e 1 ic I ( U I ' that (li e - stroyed 40 p,- lent of Get manv capacity to ur duce gh ei i lares I mi ; It t I , 1 11'", t is rt e flmv air forces t up i v c n t 1 1 t I c Ri ' 1" f v v lie! iixt le txj 1 0 v,,iiu U 'v id u v C U a vv i 1' ,1 f i I IH 1 f t i - ill C s ' .OF) ai 1 n of people dont understand whv ene n v prisoners should be givtn the sari e con forts, the s lots s.irr e medic il attention, food as our own .soldiers y 3? ft'' I Z s , Y i i - r 4 lVi '4, He Is a nice kid Always laughing He worked for an ar smiling id agency before the war started, where they used to kid him a lot because he liked colorful cravats and No zoot suiter, more apparel Lucius Beebe . . . One day they nearly drove him out of the place because he turned up wearing a s t ! the same But there is a reason so compel ling, that none can con lain when It is not for the it is understood bake of the prisoner, but in the interest of our own soldiers held by the enemy They are the real object of our forbearance and solicitude And, of course, our national honor Is involved, for we agreed to give prisoners the same food and care as our own men under the Prisoners of War convention signed and ratified at Geneva on July 27, 1929 Reciprocal Good Treatment. Reliable reports made to the army Indicate that the good treatment we have accorded prisoners has won for our own men in German prison camps conditions that are at least as good as those under which German soldiers live These facts were revealed for the first time to your correspondent by Maj Gen Allen W Gullion, provost marshal general of the army, who has general supervision over prisoners of war The actual guarding of the prisoners is a function of the prison camp commander who is under the control of the commanding general of the service command Censorship reveals that letters from relatives and friends express much gratitude and happiness over the way we aie treating their men. "We are informed by the International Red Cross that the Germans say that because of our good treatment of their soldiers, they are giving our men more liberties and better treatment. General Gul lion told your cm i espondent "The Geneva conventions required that each pnsoner be given the same food as soldicis. of the capturu g power receive in base camps ding to the reports of Swiss observers, the Germans are living up to this provision, our men in some instances are getting even a little better food than the German sol-- , diers, although the Get man facilities do not compare with ours. "I think there can be only one answer to the complaint that we are treating the pnsonets we take too well One gets it when one asks the question Is it better to yield to a very natural, vengeful in, pulse to take it out on our pi isoncts, or to our ticaty agi cements and protect our own men Few I sc ape. There have been complaints also that the prisoners we hold have not been sufficiently guarded, that too many have escaped to become a menace to the home population General Gullion points to the facts Of the 175 000 prisoners we now hold in this country, about 100 have escaped, but all except three have been recaptured and are in custody The only men at large are two Ital- - ,, NOTF This Ulus, wh ch also gut yfiie r rig i ugs th irilv from thing! Ill 1 t b for mal THllll 111 g old fur BOOK 10 send 10 ... riTtrirWfrt MltS Ercose No purple-c- vest . . . Then came he was among the and the serwas draft, m Iceland The first German soldier to be taken prisoner . . . After 17 geant Manfrak, who bailed out of his Junkers plane after it had been hit very first accepted in action he showed up again enmonths at shown S. U. He is intelligence headquarters, army fighters. by he goes, his joying the rations on the tray before him, despite a bandaged arm and . . . Now, wherever old pals show him considerable renumerous bruises. spect, even though he wears purple On his chest. inns who escaped from a branch camp at El Paso, part of the Loids-burN M camp ai d one German His lifes ambition was to be a Tenn who got away at name bandleader . . . Studied alThere has been complaint from He finalmost every instrument organized labor lately because we ly became one of the great arranghave used some of the war prison He couldnt "front Doug! boys of the Sevcntn u f intrv ers, Instead ets for tasks in lumber camps and divis.on who captured Kwajale.n for a band, It seems . . . Wasnt on road work, where there was no and other lsl inds of the So he Kwajilein the type, the agents said American labor available Geneial atoll during the invasion of the Mar- was hired as head for a arranger Gullion gives labor axsur nice that shall islands literally had to dig the well known orchestra . . . The leadof war are not being put Japanese out of the ground prisoners Col er of which was a "front man beto work on any job where civilian Syril E Fame infantry, of New cause he looked it . . . The front labor is available in adequate sup- Straitsv die, Ohio who is now in the man could never read a note of muPrisoner of war labor is a United States, acted as ply deputy chief sic, but he had a baton mans "pertemporary expedient to relieve the of staff of the div iston during the whatever that is . . . sonality, existing shortage of man power can pugn He said the Japathe arranger Each performance The United States agreed at the nese defenders of the n id Pacific stood backstage and saw the leadGeneva convention to return all coral base had taken refuge m huner take the bows for his work . . . prisoners of war to their own coun- dreds cf shell craters by the time Not long ago the arranger (who tries at the conclusion of the war, the first waves of mfanry hit tire knows nearly every instrument) was hence the fear of competition with shore on January 31 February 1, Inducted Because of his musical free labor is groundless, the gen- Pacific time) background, by golly, he was made eral says It was just like killing rats he army bandleader, a commission due Prisoners tut Iulpwood. declared Tie whole ls'and was soon. The bandleaders front man Prisoners have been in logging rubble, afer the prelim nary bomb- was drafted a few weeks ago . . . operations where American winders ing and shelling The Japs had You guessed it . . . Hes a private have left the woods to woik in ship- crawled undeigrouid wherever still trying to keep they In the infantry yards and machine shops at much could, and the mfintryrien had to In time' higher wages, he exjlm.s They stop at every hole and fire down have been useful m cutting and into it, or thro v gierades into it New Tork Novelette: She was a peeling pulp logs necdici critically Possum. Playing waitress m a small Midwest hotel for containeis in evil an indu-riiThe Japai esc wete up to then Because her feller played in and for new spnnt, of which there il Ore day a stranger is a shortage Prixuncis liivc been usu navy tr cr,s went on Cdoml the band offered her a screen test chance . . . also in inainta mng roads in Fane Fven . f er thev were hope. She wanted to some arc is wl ere other m uiual la- lessly defeated thev refused to give She spurned it At one point in the action an be near her Joe borers aie veiy scarce hoping hed ask her Ihe tre- up . All uvasudden mendous importance of road main An erican aid satum was est ib to marrv him tenance, in view of the heavy traf- lished close to a pile of tirce a; her Josephus wrote one of those Onlv two of screwy non'enscal national anatheparertly dead Japs fic, is obv ious Prisoneis have been used also in them, it turned out were r nllv mas wb.ch periodically sweep the dead The thud at the botom cf land So he upped and left for launch ics Nearly everyone today has suite red liicotncAuences because the heap puffed h n self ip uficr The E g Eurg . Leaving her beplay g posji for a long tm c ai d hind, of course . . of the shortage of laundry Two months ibor and can understand this expedient fired one 11 effectual shot at an later she followed her broken heart c'ficci Othu JaDs blt.v In New York he . Ihe story of Japanese prisoneis American bluntly told then selves up vv.h grenade her that h s plai s did not include When a Japanese is less happy The lu dug on tie Marsh her He sa d he was waiting for a soldier is taken prisoner he is Pis, washed up he never wishes to re- Color cl Fare said was pieceriui movie agent who was bringing him turn to Japan for he is disgraced by one of the n cst intensive bom- a contract for Hollywood any and would she please leave9 forever in the eyes of his country- bardments if the war Both army and navy planes . She found herself men. participated, and staggering We have in this country scarcely later, warships pounded the Jap de down the hall towards the elevators, fenses "One where out more than a hundred Japanese pris airstrip on the Wotje stepped the guy who ofoners, and General Mac Arthur has atoll was so chopped up, Colonel fered the screen test back home! He Fame said "that not op'v cruldn t recognized her and had no trouble only a few hundred more, accordthe Japs get a plane off seli.ng Hollywood to her right there ing to General Gullion it, b ,t couldn t even have run You anticipate me . . . Her They are given the same food row Joe still is along it and accommodations as oar own waiting for the same agent with his movie contract and mphilnous Warfare. soldiers, because we hope by acwonderirg whatmell happened9 The aer al ban rrer.ng e cording such treatment to an kept up ns m.v the lot of our own 18,500 men asjon armada contain held by the Japanese more ships thin there were Quotation Marksmanship: Mark in 0 a whole navy at the stmt of t! e Twain In agination was to war given swept over t' e hor on As the ir.an to con pensate him for what landings started Seventh div isi n in- he is not, and a sense of humor was fantrymen who h a ff received provided to console him for what he speci 1! 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' -- Korhtnvc , the rcntr.butc - mar yoi 'Play, pi fe-r- ed ac.v 0 ( g 13 9 v n on r.av OnthesocuJdav.tlav b, to r m nt, fi Xt 11000 JR T jtorge electric 875-pou- elio-rat- aanannaiaaooi . ra RUB 1 GERMANS ' field1 or, scored sue d 1 JAPANESE Pa' started le VAlK six-da- y Par Tork k TELEFACT JAP PRISONERS 8 qu-- ... 11 C sFow, j,o Ac-10- 1 . wlo ait yens else: 4'I ii. 21 s v The boss to . s, 'ted for y lift y U ' strip s ? . . In a cheap comic weeklract cally nothing per week F.yery year they brought it oack to tl e m e , who liked It, but he couldn t get it on his chain . . . f e boss still didnt like it . . Another syndicate made an offer, but the boys gave the me another Thev were turned down chance It row grosses $5,000 per week via royalties from newspapers, radio . The first ind gadget makers . lyndicate boss, who spurned it so to know what aiany times, demanded The strip is the reaappened . . nowned "Surerman y, v j , Ah e leader 0 10 f v ... five 1 & i a i fm syndication whom he delivered it took it home Ne xt day he memod it wouldnt jo The kids he showed it to didnt . The young care for it, he said . cartoonists were disappointed, of course They finally got their i'ir i v-5, .. imps within the United States we hold some 175 fi00 enemy sold rs captured mostly on tie battlefields of Afnra, Sicily and Italy Of these, 12) 000 are Gilmans 50 000 I'ali ins Only 116 are Japanese Many froteffs have been made to army authorities hi c uise cf the good tie atrnent given these prison-- e iiiii u . - Several years ago a with CHVI comic strip yyas submitted to him He liked it. Recommended It - ( e The y tell you it actually happened. . He was I dui u managing editor fur a New York syndicate. Now A, V ; I T y Zf c ! ' ' 4 4 c jnsoner , 1 ' In sorno 30,000 families throughout our land today the folks are thinking of some soldier from home who has fallc n into cm mv hands now a prisoner of war fir nwa When our troops make the preat push a'inv-- t the mainland of Europe, there will be more bovs taken prisoners In the war 4 :' $i5 zi J j t i yvC-nOe , Te By BXKKOW LYONS WM StifTCoin sond nt Bv BA IKIIAC.H A i Reports Men in Nazi II ands WVIlIVflari.il loured ujJS |