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Show BIH BOYS 1CKJPNS Teutons Are Captured, but Yankees Will Fulfill Extra Ex-tra Rations Promise. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES NORTHWEST OF VERDUN", Oct. 27. (Sunday, by the Associated Press). Americans now count among their prisoners pris-oners fifty-one members of the Second German Land well r, who are the most sadly disillusioned men from the German emperor's army. The men still are convinced con-vinced they were played a shabby trick In being1 taken prisoner, though they are quickly becoming reconciled to their lot by generous rations of food and tobacco. The Germans for several days had been coming unarmed out of their trenches, creeping forward to a point midway between be-tween the two lines, where they had been given bread and tobacco by the Americans. Ameri-cans. Their donors, they told an Ameri-can Ameri-can intelligence ofiicer today, wore T crosses on their shoulders. The other dav when they came over they were told that the next tim each man would receive five sacks of tobacco instead of one sack. The opportunity was too good to be lost, and instead of groups of three, four and five, as heretofore, hereto-fore, fifty-one men came In a group, eager for the tobacco and food. The Germans were hospitably received at the customary rendezvous, split into small groups and invited to come to another spot where the distribution would take place. That spot proved to be the intelligence officer of the American division, divi-sion, where the iandwehrs were informed they were prisoners. The Germans indignantly demanded to be sent back to their lines immediately, together with their rations of five sacks of tobacco and bread. For a long time they could not be induced to say why they had been badly treated, but they gradually came to "renounce their demand de-mand that they be returned, especially when they saw the- treatment accorded them and other prisoners. The Iandwehrs Iand-wehrs will receive their extra rations as per promise. |