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Show GERMAN PRISONERS IN HARVEST FIELDS Men Given Board and Lodging and Are Fill at Bate of Ten Dollars a Month. 8pclaJ Cable to Tb Trlbuce ORI-EA-NS France. AJf 14 The ex prlmei a use of German prisoners of war as harves ere ha begun here In the : old province of O e&na. It may solve the question of the harvest without the re mt of he sod era at he front. Two hundred Germans who were cap lured at Carency and sent to the prison camp a Issoudun were transferred o MaJesnerbes and there In groups of twen y were sec o the different com munes that have app ed to the ml 1 tary authorities fo farm help Each de tachment Is Pla ed under the supervt stem of the mayo of the commune act lr.tr for the military au horitles, and s subject to the same discipline as In camp. The men are to be paid at the rate of about HO per month, in addition to their board and lodgings direct e y by those who emp oy them Thus far the experiment has devel oped no affl ultles snd If It continues to prove success ul other convoys of 200 each win be sent to other farming cen ters The present harvest outlook In the great wheat country of the Beauce surpasses all previous expectations as to yield and qual t |