Show I i i Escaped Prisoner Tells Mistreatment By Associated Press PARIS March 26 a. a m. m R. mn R. R president of ot the Besancon Prisoners of War Var association has forwarded forwarded forwarded for for- warded to the foreign office a a. declaration declaration declara declara- tion made by a man a a. prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner who was forced by the tho Germans to work within the zone of ot fire and who escaped The man alleges that he ho and his companions companions com corn were badly treated and fed ted that they slept In hastily constructed sheds which were so small that each of ot the occupants had to tolie tolie tolie lie in a n. space fourteen inches wide that the majority had no bedding bedding- and were obliged to sleep in tho the mud and that all were vero forbidden to write to their families or receive any letters money or parcels The Tho prisoners prisoners' cantonments were six miles from the thel front and the fu fugitive says the they were made to work on trenches or railway 1400 yards from the French lines When he escaped one of his comrades had been killed and several wounded b by French shell- shell fire The refugee estimated that Frenchmen were being forced to work on different sections of ot the tho front under under under un un- un- un der similar conditions |