Show SENATOR FINDS CAMP AT BREST HORRIBLE HOLED HOLE D Declares clares Embarkation ion Port PorE PortIs PortIs Is Not Fit for Ca Cattle tlc i to 10 Live i e Jn En 11 I Iw 0 J O S New w York eb l 17 United States Slates Sen Senator cn tor lor nobe t I I. I Owen of oC Oklahoma I Iho who rho for the Ue hast two months ha lia been studying the program pros ofha ortho of or tho ha AI American army arnu In France upon his arrival here today on the steamer Rot Ilot- ter am said JEr Brest t is not fit tit for tor cattle to 0 live H In Many of the soldiers p ro are suf suffering fering from Crom melancholia he hc said sa d add add- In t 1 ii ho would recommend e. e P l to to t the bo bohey e er r ih they hey be brought home homo as soon as pos poe possible possible sible and that every even care be given thom them when the they return Senator Owen said the first thing he I Intended doin doing was to inform Secretary Baker laker of or the conditions and the attitude atti atti- tude ude of or tho the soldiers on coming home alti horrible hole from rota what ho called a who advocates do He lie Ic declared that anyone none 1 ales cates a correction of ot conditions Is doIng doing do- do Christian work wont and Ing ing- inga a charitable The They told us over o there that Brest Is better etter than It was If It that Is BO so God Godhelp Godhelp help those who were there when It fl Itma I was ma worse worse The Tho sena senator tor and Mrs Owen Oven who have visited London Paris and nd Madrid and who rho contemplated longer al abroad cut their visit short thoy said In a order that the thoi might report to Washington the tho deplorable conditions existing at Brest Brost Will Vin Till Be Asked to lo Make Jake Full Report Washington Feb Fob 17 Senator 1 Senator fob Kob- Kobert crt ert rt Ij L. Owen of Oklahoma will be In Invited In- In to lo tell the Senate military corn corn- of conditions at nt the American aUr camp al at Brest rest which he today sharply criticized in a Il statement after fter his lute arrival RI in New Nev ew York from France I Secretary Baker also expects ts S Senator Owen to lo call at the Iho war ae- ae soon to Inform officials thereof there thera thereof of oC what ho lie saw at this mu much discussed h center of or th the American army's homeward homeward homeward home home- ward movement Secretary Dal Baker er said today loday ho was delighted that Senator Owen had been what hal at It tho tito camp and after reading the senator had lo to sa say declared that the war department was combining every cry source where additional shipping to bring the troops home homo might mIg bo bs found Baker Illume It As to lo l jO crowding at Brest Bres tho the have havo suet not the secretary tary continued I 1 means moans of or knowing ln what the answer to that Is hs I have O been told told and and I do not like to say sa that I have been told lold because be- be causa cause It sounds Hounds so but bUl I havo have been told 1 that the tho French railroad congestion is such that It Is necessary foi tOI tOIla us la to lo Ull use the Fr French nh rail railroads roads rot when we can get et them Ih They arc aro using them In hi their own demobilization and for Cor the British and as nJ a. a consequence conse quence we have to uso use them wh when n w we can got get c t the them Ill J mean meOn sending more people pee peo plo pie Int into Brest and keeping keeping- them longer thorn them to bo ijo thereIn there thero than VC we would desire In anticipation of the known capacity ity of ot the transport fleet In order to mak make suro sure to have ha enough men there when the tho telephones como come In That Is the officers who answer I havo have heard from fronts have returned to this country countr but whether an any error hiss has been made about that and the French railroad difficulty has been overestimated I 1 cannot say l 1 I do not know It When hen the senator says say Unsanitary Unsanitary Unsanitary tary I do not think h lie menns means unsanitary that It Is unclean tars tary In the tho sense tenso There re arc mire simply oceans of or mud there I know that because I 1 was at Brest substantially at tins this time last year It II rains there da s out of ot 36 26 and some times five times a day clay The Tho rh mud seams Beams to lo be bo our big big- trouble there Th The secretary added that returning officers and others r who had passed through Brest recently hind had told him that food con conditions were very good and that t out outside of ot the tho ho weather r and anti th the tho mud thc they saw little lo to complain of Ho said salil he ho could welt well Imagine the feeling of ot the men waiting walling In that camp for returning chip how vr r and fully sympathized with nil all the discontent rut 1 ht jf that thi thin waiting un Un- U unpleasant 1 conditions ns c t. t |