Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-31 | Page 18 | German Prisoners Return Well Fed

i GERMAN I PRISONERS I I I f RH ILL ELL FED FEO I Political Parties Try to Winf Win 1 I I f Repatriated Men to T Their Side SideBy de deI II aJ By Associated Press I BERLIN Oct 31 The The prisoners of ot war returned from England are well fed I and clothed clothed writes C C. it M. M Schmidt from fromI from fromI I the collection camp at al Meschede l where I Ithe the men ale a are e concentrated and then are I II se sent to their homes he i JI JIa fl I They are arc naturally a overjoyed to be at atI home their r relatives sometimes frantic I with Joy at having them The pleasant nt picture is i dulled dulled only by one blot the blot the B I Independents and Communists are prisoners a already ready at work trying to win I the prisoners ers to their side and have even placed agents where they can most t I easily get In touch with will the men and preach their unrest an and l chaos and dis dis- I or order The for forces es behind the move have put JIUl puta a great number of Communistic and p women f into the mg game on the tho I theory that the prisoners after years without their wives and sweethearts will succumb more easily Kerr Herr Schmidt 1 reports to his own obvious satisfaction that the women are having little success and the prisoners in huge majority announce announce an an- I flounce their intention of ot standing by bythe bythe the empire There Is is however I a minor element I among the prisoners themselves that promises possible trouble trouble that that element which was the last drawn Into the army l I and went to the front unwillingly and determined to desert at the first moment Those men are the malcontents malcontent and trouble makers but Herr Schmidt says i that even they are not very effective e In Inbreeding Inbreeding inbreeding breeding trouble and disorder among the great It Is mass easy comparatively to take care of or the regular transports of prisoners large as they are says sas Schmidt but far greater trouble and danger comes from the footloose Individual escaped from a camp who drifts over the line As he appears In German Germany begging food tood and andI clothing and other gifts he is in a at t least I 50 30 0 p er cent of all cases a swindler who is exploiting g the situation I