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Show FRENCH PRISONERS ARE DISAPPOINTED Special Cable to The Tribune. COLOGNE, June 3. Several hundred hun-dred French prisoners of war who aro employed as farm laborers at KindR-bach, KindR-bach, Rhenish-Buvariii, became greatly excited when the ronr of the cannons lief ore Arerdun was plainly audiblo in the village. With the shout: "Our comrades nTfl coming victoriously! Wo shall be liberated:" lib-erated:" the Frenchmen threw down their implements and refused to continue con-tinue work. As some of thorn tried to break away, they had to be locked up in the fire house of the town. Jn their improvised prison they were singing sing-ing and dancing all night, but their joy turned to the deepest grief wfmn they iv ere taken to the depot on tho following day and shown long trains filled with French soldiers captured before be-fore Verdun. |