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Show AFRICAN PRISONERS RETURN AS WRECKS Special Cable to The Tribune. ZURICH, Sept. L'3. The Zurich rust says: The German soldiers returning from the t'evcr-ridden French prison ramps in At piers and Morocco, who came in Switzerland fur recuperation, arc :ill menial and physical wrecks. Thry have spent many monlhs under the broiling African sun nnd their sufTer-inH sufTer-inH were almost beyond humnri cn-durancf1. cn-durancf1. Many of them suffer from lung and stomach diffuses and wtU never fully recover. Tiie unfortunate men are broken in body and .''pirit. and their condition provefl the truth of the terrible stories they tell. The bodies are nothing but pkin and bones, and their sunken eyes and pale, hollow Hiceks spprik of l lie horrors hor-rors they have endured. Some of t hem are on the verce of insn n it v. Haunted by continual fear, thev rcfufe to talk and even reject t lie loMs of flowers and dclii-n.-iew brotijjbt to Ihein bv tiie sympathizing Swt.ss public. pub-lic. On the other hand, the Frerjeh and F.ntrlisb prisoners eoint nc lYntn the camps in fhTmny are in ecepe?it health, well fc 1 arid in l-ooi spirits. |