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Show CLIMATE TOO MUCH FOR GERMAN TROOPS United States to Aid ill Caring for the Prisoners of War in Russia. STOCKHOLM, July 12, via London, July 13, 12:30 a. m. An important conference con-ference regarding relief work among the Gorman and Austrian prisoners of war in .Russia, under tho direction of the .American embassy at Petrograd, has just been concluded at the American legation le-gation here. The work now will be undertaken un-dertaken on a larger scale. Tho American Amer-ican embassador at Pctrograd, David K. Francis, has named several members of his staff to handle the relief work exclusively. ex-clusively. Germany and Austria-Hungary are anxious to do -what they can for their imprisoned soldiers during the coming winter, the rigors of the Russian and Siberian Si-berian climates already having caused many thousands to be sent home in advanced ad-vanced stages of tuberculosis. They will furnish clothing and medical supplies. sup-plies. Permission also has been obtained for the central powers to send Red Cross nurses to work among the sick and helplessly help-lessly wounded. The Austro-Hungarian government, heretofore, has been able to provide clothing for its returned prisoners only when they readied the Swedish frontier on the v.-ay hume in exchange for Russian Rus-sian prisoners. This summer some (50,-0110 (50,-0110 crowns has been spent for clothing. prisoners, who are not accustomed to the Siberian colds and who suffer more than tho natives. So far as is known, lie re no formal charge has been made by the central j lowers that war prisoners are treated differently than the Russian army itself, but the standards of living are so dissimilar dis-similar that Austria us ami Hungarians succumb where !"Jusians mi'ht thrive. After some negotiation thp Russian government gov-ernment has agreed to allow five representatives repre-sentatives from tho American emboss" to work among the pritoners of war and twelve among the interned civilians of the central powers. |