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Show U. S. SEEKS PACT WITH GERMANY 01 PjISOK Negotiations Opened With Berlin to Govern Treatment Treat-ment of Merr Captured on Both Sides. TEUTONS FARE WELL IN THIS COUNTRY Fort Douglas, Utah, One of; Principal Camps; Like Treatment Asked for Our Soldiers. WASHINGTON. Nov. 10. The Tinted States has opened negotiations with Germany for an agreement to govern gov-ern treatment of prisoners of war. This is being done not only to secure the Wt possible conditions for American prisoners, but to show how well German Ger-man prisoners in the I'nited Statu, are being treated. Already through ' the -fied Cross at Geneva, the United States has begun forwarding necessaries to Americans held in Germany, of whom there are now more than 1UO. It is realized that as the American troops increase in numbers on the battiefront, more prisoners pris-oners are bound to find their Way to the German prison camps. A nation pinched for food for itself, r robablv v ill feed its enemy prisoners lust. To lighten the confinement of Americans will at the same time, alleviate alle-viate the suffering of families at home, which naturally witi he distressed at accounts of German underfeeding of prisoners. Germans Well Treated. German militarv prisoner? of war in the United States besides receiving everv necessity and comfort, have the urivilege ot their rank. They are housed in niockl sanitary camps and recentlv one of the prisoners sending a letter to his prospective wile in Ger-manv Ger-manv wrote that the pay he would accumulate ac-cumulate during his imprisonment would not only permit him to retire from th; Davy! but would set them up in a little business as well. Photographs showing the comfortable surroundings of imerned German prisoners pris-oners in this countrv have bern for-" for-" warded to Germany by the war department depart-ment through the state department and a centra! agent. They are intended to reveal the expectation of the I'nited States that similar consideration will be shown American soldiers and sailors who rcav be capture.) by Germany. Two classes of German prisoners are detained in this country. One is comprised com-prised of German sailors taken into custody when the United States interned in-terned various vessels at the beginning of the war. The other class is turn-prised turn-prised of enemy aliens, civilians who have been arrested and are now being detained under governmental regulations. regula-tions. Some at Fort Douglas. The principal .detention camp ic at Fort McPhers'on. t.a., where approximate-.- vVi war prisoners are held. At fort 'Oglethorpe. (Ja.. there are lti.j enemy aliens, who are not. strictly cpeaking. prisoners of war. At Koit J"ulas. r'tah. there are SI 7 prisoners of war and ei'ntv inteined aliens. Smail ''."Tarhrrfnts of nti:fr In'.r-rnr'l ?jns are n-"1' ' a-nonr-arily q,;arfrrr, at srmv posts thro-.irhont the country, but t-oir r.urr;bt-r is r'-lm i'eiy small. In an-3!tion, an-3!tion, the dr-ppi mirnt of ULnr pas in C'jrtorp- s'-vf-al hnn'ir'-n' iTmanr. n-u-m-Hts of til1 crews of various ntrr,-h;.nt S 'i'--L'. TV.S crftv.v is 'M-. rr,-?rr:i tl-n lmn i::rntion Marion at lalin tlnri'I ami a nonl!on ramp at Hm Spripr1-. N. ('. A'rnt'.'ier t'lrr" arc 131 a- t ial prisoners pris-oners o' war In r'lst'r-lv "f Ihc n'ar fle-r.-r'-nrn ari-1 about 4"'i In'-m-.! "iifmy f.' eps h'-.i at the rousf of Mir 'irr-.arl-C"'r: r.f iuMi"-. Of thiK numt -r await r ,. p-or1 are liv-qir.I in Termor i.Iirvi. i'anan-.a. It is si irna !') lhat ci.rir.ao' is ;"v. rnHlrc l'.ft sailers takrn from Arr.fr- an ."alps h- ropim'-n-'- iin'ina aral ornrr c.'rr-.c n vs!s. Irai'lffr ihr first pri'-orr-f TP 'a'-:-n frnm r-.rri'-'al f'er' ihrrr.' s for rs. .A r-nr""'ir;itv; of ti,r. Hi.a irnaiien, fhrt var-tl'ne fl 1 p!nra 1 1. rrr.r.-.wii t a r j vr of fl'-Hisr.' in tr.is roonrrv. rc'-niiy tn-F'.crf--i th" dcfrir:oo ramps hi Trrs Mr-P-rTFOn h:il Onl'-Lio; .. 'JoialltlnnK at oth camps were reported as satisfactory by the Swiss re proven t;ii!-e. The detained ijemians. wlierevor iorat-ed iorat-ed in the fnneil States, are i-onsiiierateiy treated and tlieir 'ork has been roniinod to construction of barracks, the clciMiiec up of rrounds about ilie camps and Hir;H road work about their barracks. Some of the Ccrnnn prisoners at Fort McPher-son McPher-son are pncafied in making toys In their spare time. Heading- and recreation f:i-cilities f:i-cilities are provided. The set of photographs transmitted to the German grivornment shows both ex- j terior and interior views of the detention i a:nps. The sleepinc: quarters are roomy and clean and rhe sanitary arrangements, frooi kil'-hens to bathrooms, are modern , 'and not unil"e those provided by the , t'uiied State at tne national army i j camps. j |