Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-12 | Page 19 | No Freedom or Food for German Prisoners

NO FREEDOM OR FOOD FOR GERMAN CERMAN PRISONERS f I Baron Baron Kurt von Reden makes public public pub pub- I lic lie In the Prager some letters let let- tens which were received by him recently re recently recently re- re from German Gennan prisoners In Russia Rus Rus- I. I sia sin One of ot them received early In September Is as as' as follows We W are having havinga a hard hand time of ot It I. I here Food Is poor and nd scarce and medical treatment worse The doc doe doctors doctors tors amputate even when not sar sary Prisoners working on the railroads railroads rail rail- roads ads receive seventy five kopeks aday a aday aday day others others twenty-five twenty kopeks it a day I Consequently we cannot purchase much food for that sum aura and the majority majority majority ma ma- of us have to starve We have no freedom whatever and any civilian caught talking to us is fined Ined twenty- twenty five rubles Many of f us are sick an and azid there are deaths among us daily As S many as of at the prisoners are housed in I rooms scarcely large enough to ac accommodate accommodate accommodate ac- ac fifty fity