Show I I EMAY T TI TO I TELL U D D DI I NW NEWS f. f I I II Red C Cross oss Exacts Agreement Agreement Agree Agree- ment From s V I for Exchange of cf Information mat mation on From Fran i V Prisons L V By United Pres Press I WASHINGTON Feb 9 Agreement has been reached be v J tWe and A neri 1 governments governments- and the Ame cai I Red ed Cross for interchange of oI in mI m- m n. n I formation as to prison prisoners rs of war warl the Red Bed Cross announced this i afternoon V. V I By y United Pre Press Prel l I BERLIN V Via a 1 eb 9 Some 9 some American pris prisoner 1 were were t n nth north rth of y the war wat office f ann announced p y By By w T A. 1 A Feb cb 9 lic f EJ 3 Germans claim laim to lav lavo o p r. r some additional American American- f prisoners on ou the western oJ front according to an ai official x statement issued by the j ar war war- office at Berlin today ay s a The Americans we were o R taken el V near the thc German state ment said saW V lies on on th the V plain about fourteen miles ll north north- west ivest of Toul roul rOl It is nine liine- miles east of St. St Mihiel and and- li lies s off off-a ismall i small stream called th the th Ru Rupt t de Macit is is- four miles west of Flirey a town to made important by the strategic roads which pas V through it it iL Recently there Jave ave been heen rep reports of of artillery around Flirey l By InternatIonal International N ws Service WASHINGTON Feb 9 9 Th o at department has received no no report from General Pershing dealing with an any new German raids In which prisoners were captured The latest casualty report received hero here had bad on onman one V VV man wounded in action V J It is expected that if it the German report is true General Pershing will make a report in the near future r rBy I By United press LONDON Feb Definite loc of ot the American n exp expeditionary forr forces foes s sin in France was left to t the th themselves V A brief official announcement by the by I Berlin foreign office today declared d that American prisoners were t taken Ien f at Js a a. small 1 located about eight miles east and andr ay I. I I bit lt south Of ot St. St Mihiel and only fifteen i miles from the nearest point of G Ger German r man territory v. v V sector th the the- Hitherto the sector held by Americans was characterized by United States officials vaguely as s northwest of Toul This might have meant allied lines JInes Ine either that portion of ot the tho I r running nning from St St. Mihiel l east to Pont Ponta a Mousson rousson or that part which swerves s sat 1 at St St. Mihiel and runs northward to V ward Verdun The German st statement however fixes the American lu ot oi t I sector as ns east of St St. part part It at least V f f |