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Show me us CiMOF miii fluid Authenticated Cases of Bru-talityt'Howevert Bru-talityt'Howevert Are Lacking. By Aaaeclststf Press. WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. Amsrican prisoners returning from German prison camps complain of scanty food and bad housing conditions, (General I'erahlng has Informed the war department, de-partment, but there Is no evidence of ilivriminmi.ih again! ahi.'iU'jiiis inn any authenticated report of brutality toward them. ! following statement, based on a cable 1 front General I'ershing, dated November Novem-ber 2. and sent In reply to an Inquiry j cabled by Oneral March: American prisoners released from Orman prison camps complain of poor find scanty food and bad housing conditions. con-ditions. Only a small percentage of those who are sick are hospital cases. The majority are suffering from sltuht colds and the prospect l that all will recover rapidly with proper food and housing. There Is no evidence of discrimination dis-crimination atT'ilnst the American prl-TmeTir prl-TmeTir 1 "Among 7000 prisoner of all nationalities nation-alities who have been released there is no authenticated Instance of brutality brutal-ity against the Americans. "The majority of the American prisoners pris-oners say t hut t he Orman sold lers ulso suffered food privations, but in r"' har- lh I'r'r f f -sufficient food for the prisoners was cut off before that or the Orman soldiers." |