Show I O. O Emery And 16 Other U US S Men lWell pros prisoners opera By International News Service WASHINGTON March 16 16 Major l Henry O. O Emery former i representative of the Guaranty Trust company of New New York in Petrograd is held as a prisoner by Germany according to reports received by the state department today 3 1 Messages from American Min Minister ister Morris at Stockholm told of the safe sate I an-I arrival val of ot Mrs Emery gmery there According to the report a a. party of fifty tifty left Abo Abe Finland Inland crossing the ice on sledges in an attempt to reach the Aland islands There were twenty-eight twenty in the party mostly English sub sub- When a short distance from the Aland islands they were vere met by German troops holding that ter ter- ter- ter The party was taken first to and then to Dantzle Upon protest of the Swedish authorIties authorities authorities au au- au- au the women and children were allowed to proceed to Sweden Emery and sixteen other men were held by the German German German Ger Ger- man authorities and it was understood understood understood un un- un- un that they were to be ba transported to Germany Emery mery was at one time at attached attached attached at- at to the American military mission In Petrograd |