Show TREAT CAPTIVE GERMANS KINDLY french generous to prisoners despite brutal course of enemy TO BE OUT OF IT tight of long american columns destroys hun hopes of victory live like happy family in prison camp 11 with fill tho the Amerl american cai forces lit in F france trance france knotts knois that lier her prisoners lu in tire treated badly Ini illy but german prisoners are treated dented humanely and even generously in fit french prisons just the same writes don martin tit in the new york I 1 asked nn officer in charge of n F rench prison camp athy why this Is and lie he shrugged ills his shoulders and said merely all ah I 1 unless one cm could suo see the gesture yang the monosyllable monos liable ile ho would ardly know what meaning to alac to it it really meant fit whets the use of being brutal tit to just because sot some 11 e one elie de Is wo naish we vo could but we ve cant I 1 have inspected several prisons rome fume large and some soine small and in ili very cery one 1 I have amne found the germans german quit us its well e ns as civil prisoners prig milers in la normal times finies and tn ili many instances Offic officers erg tire not humiliated tn in tiny finy pitr hy in fact they receive better treatment nent a stronger stranger would think than the they v ere a ro really entitled to prisoners live happily on a low hill about 1000 feet from a waln road of F france rance stands a prison five low booden buildings surrounded by two barbed wire arp fences with ali ornies pickets always patrolling outside here are arc 1 germans many of lit thern them arl boners taken in the lie early battle battie of tile the somme but some token taken more recently they tire ore all privates ond constitute as happy a family as one could conail find where hero personal liberty ta the onu one thins thing desired and denied I 1 the germans stood at their barbed fences encis hums tit at 1 n I tittle time und and watched the endless title line of soldiers when tt it wn the blue of france that was moving past the germans were not particularly Into interested rosted they lint hod seen that for years they know franco france always has hod bad nn an endless line of everything needed for war ar hut but when hon they saw the khall of america filing or rolling ly by for a whole holo day mid and then for another and heard beard the muddy shuffle of feet through the night there was a change in tile the dull expression of those geranan eyes it was tit nt this time that alint I 1 went to the prison to learn what hat they thought of what hat they hall had seen F first it E hould be stated that these prisoners seo see little of recent developments in tho the war they must form their heir opinions from ruch fragments of conversation its as they hear from their keepers mofid from flat they see ris ns for instance from tile the long long tine line of 0 americans tile the farst they had seen t in this particular prison the newcomers had brought tile lie news new situation it ill lip to early spring but ns as for the MR 19 olTen she lve tile tho prisoners knew only that lint there probably would mould ll ile 11 one arne americans ricans surprise germans W wren ton I 1 asked if there here wits a german among the two hundred who ho could 9 1 look engl I 1 sh n good god looking young oung 11 ninn with tl a typical topical teutonic mustache red iel checks clicc ks a glow of health was na called out lie ile into my presence like nil automaton clicked ills heels together and saluted edthe the french captain ile ho told niu me lie ho was a private that lie he has a home in lucerne switzerland that lie he fought eight months but wits as never mounded voun deI i that lie Is lit in the wholesale dry goods business lit in and that lie does business avith M john wano wann maker Maislin ll field and stern what tit you think of n till nil the annerl c cans in you have 91 m priar ng liere here recently I 1 aked a ked him 1 I have seen ninny americans lie he said 1 I was sur surprised prized griat you baic so ciany in france another toner less Ire possessIng in appear appearance it than th the at farst was naked about things in general ile ho sooke anglish poorly iio orly 1 I live tit in berlin and work in a bunk bank lint but was lit in the ho war for two years when the war la Is over I 1 rim am going to switzerland to live I 1 would go to to america but they dont like Geri nanis over there tiny anny more why are arc you going to leave ger ninny mally for nn nil answer there was a shrug of 0 s shoulders boulders and it a half scowl half are arc yu you satisfied here horob its a lot bol bour itar than being baing in r grave where a lot of them are arc |