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Show SIBERIAN CAMPS IN ILL CONDITION Frightful Situation in Russian Prison Stations Described by Visitor Who Escapes Censor. BERLIN, March 31. A Dutch missionary, mis-sionary, who returned from northern China recently and has visited some of the Russian prison camps in Siberiat reports re-ports that not more than 40 per cent of the German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers sol-diers who fell into the hands of the Russians and were sent to Asia will be alive when the end of the war comes. The mortulity among the unfortunate prisoners is appalling, and those who survive arc mostly mental aoid physical wrecks. About 70 per rent of tho many thousands of civilians dragged away from Eastern Prussia and Galicia during dur-ing tho early stages of tho war are dead. The missionary accompanied the 150 children from Eastern Prussia who were saved by representatives'of the American Ameri-can Red Cross in Siberia to Tientsin, and gives a terrible description of the condition of the little ones. All of the children have lost their parents and many of them are so small that thev do not know their names and cannot tell where they were born. To ascertain their identity proved impossible, because be-cause no records were kept in the Russian Rus-sian prison camps. |