Show it 6 3 f f y l r 1 day y t I w. w tt 2 j d b lo 1 ru i I v v a tirl I II II t b lI l I y w h Y b y f r s I 7 I I c. c I 1 w v w N y A J L V fr- fr I II 1 t E Are Afe Well Cared F For Of I S Sedan dan France Trance Sept 23 Fo 3 oll lowing the tho protest abroad about tho the action of or orthe the Gc German authorities in deporting from the i s or of Lille Roubaix and fc cr several l thousand of or tho civil Ina inhabitants and d about lt tho alleged hardships har those thore civilians cl had had to undergo the Ute military authorities in inthe Inthe Inthe the occupied portion of ot France r recently rr afforded a a. number cr of oC neutral correspondents corre corre- the Iho opportunity to visit several rev sev eral cral hundred of or th the so culled and fe see for or themselves cs time the conditions under which thc they now no live lira A of oC the tho Associated 1 Press Tress visited t two 0 large larko u conscript where campS camps w men of ot military age ace are art kept under guard and guard and some eight villages vil vil- villages lages 1 whom wheat lar large o numbers of ot called so-called men and women live live- without without without with with- out guard suard and ami finny y themselves chiefly with agricultural occupations With Hh ono one exception that exception that a conscript camp In the city oC ot HII itself the itself lr tho correspondent found round the tho former rt residents resi rl- rl dents of ot tho the to the northwest living 1 tinder mer clean clenn sanitary sani sant- tar tary clr circumstances Repeated ques questioning toning brou brought ll only tho the answer that t I the people were were reasonably happy and comfortable table Justly and fairly treated and cr very often far tar better off oct than they thoy ha hail had bon at home The lohe corre correspondent ate ato the food Cool which th the receive most of ot it H through the Spanish American committee committee committee com com- with which the German authorities author author- HillS have nothing to do do and and It appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap peare In general good bood and tast lie was as assured that In quantity it equaled the food Cod received recel b by tho Germans themselves Tho The housing conditions varied ac- ac to the th town and und thu quarters available In etch each but without exception tion tiun the they w were re p. p clean and airy The second conscript camp vl vis- vis It d was ms located in an old chateau or orvilla orvilla villa Ulu and was waa declared b by tho the men there to bo bu far better bettor than conditions as they hadl noun them at nt home In good ODd Condition Perhaps U the e best besl testimonial for tor the generally pru sentiment was waa the fact fRet that t In the thirteen village mn which form the th group Kroup around S. n. and eight I ht of which the correspondents correspondent visited vis- vis It ono attempt io to scaDe had been made an and the man who mathat ma mathat mail that came ba back k voluntarily The rhe exception to the general rule satisfaction on the part of or tho time c acU was In the tho camp at Sedan where t correspondents were told only mon men m military III tar ago age were J kept or men m n w wIn wl In Lille LilJe or h ha E prosecuted some t-omo pernicious that their removal remo n a n necessity cl it Here Hire In ht a ono time factory no now non 1 10 o 0 ot of ot business two or three c hundred pr p pT k sons Mons from Crom boy boys to 0 non men of ot 43 i wet housed In close quartets quarter Asked t r re their condition several ral co cpi t plumed that tho food was waa a a complaint that eno on en cnn can hear all lh Va way from tho front trenches to th bust boat equipped prison camp in the tho con cou coutry try trY trY- said the bread was wan sour and I 1 some somo Instances tI of ot their notably rheumatism find and Tho rhu men on wC weep lc days are arc from 7 i to 11 it a. a m m. and from room 2 to I P. P in Ill at nt carpentering and c i work for COl which they receive from 4 to 30 o 0 centimes centime a day and their too fool Thc They hatho twice w weekly wf-okly and r rations equivalent to tho o of ot the time co com commO moat rno-i mO 1 soldier doMler of t which rice and brew form Corm th the chief components Doth Loth the tho o er overcrowding g and r th thA th-n plaint that w ro a feature of tL tto o CO cor script camp camp- ln In Sedan vanished 41 as nil th correspondents toured the rest of oC t 1 tl district Lakin taking In tho the villages c S o 0 Francheval Cornay Curna onno GI Illy Oily lily Illy St St. Menges an anono ono one or two others |