Show 1500 Happy Ex Captives Ex-Captives Board Exchange Ship By Preston Preiton Grover MOIL Portuguese India Oct OcL 19 GP UP Like R Like holiday picnickers but with much deeper joy joy 1500 Americans and nationals nationals nationals nationals' na na- from other countries in the western world Tuesday marched off the Japanese ship Teia Ibm Marn and boarded the ex ex- change liner which r will carry them home after months of internment in Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese hands Again free men they stepped into the hot sunlight shouting jokes and wisecracks A file of ot stony-faced stony Japanese being exchanged for the Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans cam 10 yards away contrasted with them as they marched off the For 21 months the Americans have ban been either cither under the watchful watchful watch watch- ful Sul eye of the Japanese or penned up in hi a Japan Japanese e Internment camp An American was picked by the consuls to keep the line moving I and his jibes kept them laughing ug ln as u. u they struggled along the narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row gangplank with their bundles S suitcases s. s ba babies les banjos and b bas Hold Hotd your tickets and hurry t up the boats boat's leaving leaving ln In three d days ys he urged them along II LONDON Oct 19 OB UP- UP More P-More rore than disabled allied service men Including 17 Americans who w were were captured by the Germans on many battlefields and who spent months and even years in prisoner of ot war camps are on their way home in the wars war's first military prisoner exchange with Germany I The exchange for an undisclosed number of wounded Germans German in allied hands handa La Ls taking place by byway byway byway way of ot Swedish and Spanish ports The British foreign office announced announced announced an an- that the Americans in inI involved involved in- in would be sent back to I their homes as soon as possible I. I after they have reached this country country country coun coun- try and have communicated with their families The foreign office said the repatriation repatriation repatriation re re- was being carried out in n three separate movements with witha a transfer of allied and German casualties at Sweden a similar exchange at Barcelona Spain and an embarkation of ot German German German Ger Ger- man prisoners without an exchange exchange ex ex- r change at an allied port In northwest northwest north north- west est Africa I |