Show FEW F W AMERICANS I 1 IN N jeph PARIS AIRIS PRISONS only held now and these largely for minor infractions MEN UNDER discipline at almost most all the prisoners pr loner trace their trouble to ceding absent without leave many of them have mighty good war records dy by FREDERICK X A SMITH chicago tribune correspondent carls tho the ancient petit roquette Ilo quette ill in the tha rue hue roquette Roq nette Is a gloomy shelter for the li unconventional in tit the skirmishes between tile lie boys of our tinny army and the lie temptations of paris tho the fact that hint american soldiers are incarcerated there is not such a shock to lo our falth in the character of our soldiers when it Is considered that hut tills this la only a tiny group out of the fighting inez who camo came over the of the petit ilo ile quette represents that restless element in tile the army which the weak nc of excessive ur or natural instinct for foi wrongdoing lifis has clashed with the military police in view of the fact that tile the fighting Is over and the men are chafing at their inability to get home it to Is probably A point lit in the ardys favor that so BO few have fallen into trouble in search of relaxation and amusement also it roust must bo be remembered our byg come front from an unmilitary country try n and rid tile the discipline la in this hill rigid army to Is not yet old enough to have hava placed a restraining impress on the soldiers whose work in the trenches to la over almost nil all the prisoners trace their trouble to being absent without leave having overstayed overstated over stayed leave or left their outfit without leave ilia he hoys boys fear to so JM back absence without leavea leave A W L thuc lends charges ranging from murder flown down to forgery of busses pusses many of the prisoners have a mighty good war record some wearing wound stripes ind ani severn several I 1 having ed glo homily with one or another of tile shock divisions that hat were always in the lie thick of things ono one tall light haired boy hod hild run away i paris for a holiday after being ll 11 d af hospital severr severe I and unable to speak above a W file duo to being gassed in tho the argone Ar gonie lie enlisted when sixteen and lias fins a record any man might he be proud of b but he got tired fired of restraint and naw u I 1 Is in the gloomiest gloo prison he over ever saw lie ho bedtime fc econie involved in the use of 6 forged |