OCR Text |
Show 2532 10H SOLIffi FiEO Liberated From German Camps on Signing of the Armistice. Number Comprises All the Yankees Captured Up to November 1. PARrp, Wednesday, Nov. 13. (By the Associated Press.) Some 2532 American prisoners In German camps were released immediately by the signing of the German Ger-man armistice, according to the latest figures prepared by the American Red Cross In Switzerland. This number includes all the Americans captured to November 1. It is estimated that only a few hundred more Americans were captured after that date. Of the total number of prisoners to be released, 23S0 are army men, twelve are from the navy and 110 are civilians. In the camps were 241 army officers and 2133 non-commlssloned officers and privates, pri-vates, and three naval officers and nine sailors. A majority of the privates are at the Rastatt. There were 117 at Giessen and 103 at Lim-berg. Lim-berg. There were 103 officers at Vlllengen, forty-three at Karlsruhe, twenty-nine at ljandshut and twenty at Rastatt. Yanks Take Own Officer. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Tuesday. Nov. 12. (By the Associated Press.) To bo taken prisoner by American troops was the experience last Friday of Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur, a brigade commander of Hie Forty-second division. The First ati Forty-second divisions wero advancing that day toward Sedan and in the region of Autrecourt the lines of the two divisions divi-sions became crisscrossed. General MacArthur, who was at the head of the advance of his men. was taken prisoner by soldiers or the First division, di-vision, who could not believe that any Americans were ahead of them. The situation was explained quickly and General Gen-eral MacArthur released. He then good-naturedly good-naturedly went about straightening out the line and the two divisions were soon fighting the Germans with full vigor. The Incident did not delay the advance and by night each division had taken its objectives for the day. Freed From Lorraine. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Nov. 14, 1 p. m. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) The advance guard of several hundred Russian, Polish and Italian soldiers, freed by the Germans in Lorraine, reached the American lines in the region of St. Hllaire today. The first group numbered forty-five. They said they were released several days ago, the Germans telling them to start for the American lines Immediately. The released re-leased prisoners were attired principally in German uniforms. They expressed the opinion that the Germans had set them free so as to be rid of them during preparations prep-arations for moving northward. The arrivals were taken in charge by American officers and furnished with additional ad-ditional clothing and plenty of food. Twenty More Liberated. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Nov. 14, 7:16 p. m. (By the Associated Press.) Twenty Americans taken prisoner by the Germans recently were freed late today and reached' the American lines opposite the First army. More than 500 Italians whom the Germans Ger-mans had employed as road workers crossed the American front. They asserted as-serted that the Germans told them they had better start southward immediately if they desired food. As a furtlrer indication that the German Ger-man withdrawal has begun carne reports today from various parts of the front that explosions were being heard. It Is believed the Germans are destroying their old shells and ammunition dumps in excess ex-cess of the ammunition which Is to be turned over to the allies according to the armistice. The Thirty-second division reported explosions ex-plosions in the direction of Muzeray and two heavy explosions in the direction of Etain. which were followed by lighter detonations. de-tonations. Other explosions were heard beyond Merles and in that region this afternoon. |