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Show New American aL dor to ritain Is C-J to Washington I U I'AIlls, Nov. li John V. lie 1 I newly appointed American amba0 I Groat Britain, wliTjtaas been ic I tlmo in Berno attcfjuig the -c I of American and Ownian delt-.n 'he exchange of waBprlsonersed here today. The tilting oi the is-sion is-sion at Berne had oi .led. Mr. Davis will sail rorthe Unltefcs "ext Saturday. Ho opects ion to Ixmdon in Decei'il . f and tak.is new post. John Curat and tiff ol' lii,. American commission are r. Davis. Mr. Davis said today that a coi n concerning the exchange at prison s s'gned at 11 o'clock Monliy nig t k Vl lt t,ll armistice, which d beer fcm. amo morning, largely fcipersc e HHTiventlon as the armisticl provi r tho immediate release or America -SSf oners. jr TIlG ambassador said that neve' i the convention contains a nunihu'ct -visions of a humanitarian ehara.tc t still may be useful if thev are mc fective by ratification by the :w ernmcnts. He is taking a coryo i document to Washington with lip terms of It will not be made pule . it is approved by tho America! ro merit. The question of the comlitionof oners was not before the commfto 1 duty beinff merely to provide f0i 1 chang-e. There were no reproa(-.s i either side across the confcrencita t J It developed during the dhul 1 however, that food conditions n II many were so restricted that vei 1 was affected, prisoners sufferinpri itl rest and probably in a great e de : On the whole conditions were rcsor -except in some instances where L s I shprtag-e of food prevailed. |