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Show 321 GERMAN PRISONERS ARRIVE AT SALT LAKE Allen Kucnile.s Under Guard of 50 Murine All Way I-Yom Guar Ar- rhe at Depot and Sent to Fort. MANY ritr.OAUTIONS TAKKN IIY CUSTODIANS I'ears of Violence Impressed by Military Mili-tary Officers In Charge Prove Unwarranted Un-warranted when Capt lie Detrain. Salt Lako, June 10. Threo hundred hun-dred and twenty-one German prisoners prison-ers arrived at 1:10 this morning nnd after many precautions had been taken, they wero detrained and sent to Fort Douglas. Long beforo tho train was duo military officers cleared tho platform. J. 1'arloy White, chief of police, was In charge. Everybody elso was ordered to tho pavement outside tho dopot. Officers from Fort Douglas In clmrgo were Col. Arthur Williams, Capt. Stephen Abbott and others. In full unl form thoy paraded up and down tho station platform, ordering civilians about In a peremptory manner. man-ner. The prisoners were tho most harmless harm-less looking persons imaginable. Many of thorn had come from tho Interned In-terned German gunboat Gelcr at Honolulu and others frrora tho gunboat gun-boat Carmorant at Guam. They wore eager to got to a permanent stopping place, as the long trans-Paclflc trip had worn them out. Capt. C. II. Metcalfo was In charge of the marine.? ma-rine.? who brought them across tho ocean. Many formalities wero to tie complied com-plied with, however. Tho prlsonors wero chocked ono byb one and tho Fort Douglas officers frequently raised objections lest they bo ro-qulrod ro-qulrod to receipt for moro men than thoy got. Tho captives all appeared to bo Bailors, except a small group of officers, offi-cers, who, proudly aloof from tho others, seemed to take, tholr fate no less calmly than tho men thoy had commanded. All wero anxious to get to some permanent , stopping place, so thoy could sleep. A crowdd of about 600. persons was at the depot, but not tho slightest slight-est sign of hostility was to bo seen. Thoy wore Blmply curious and not at all disposed to be violent. Completion of tho transfer to tho fort was not until ' almost (daylight thU morning. Upon tho arrival of tho train, officers offi-cers and soldiers from tho war prison pris-on barracks too entire charge of tho prisoners. Thoy wero lined up on tho dopot platform and reported to Col. Arthur Williams and Capt. Sto-phen Sto-phen Abbott of tho prison barracks, who with Capt. C. II. Metcalfo of tho marlnp corps checked them against tho official lists. Tho majority of tho prisoners are hardly more than children, many of thein appoarlng to bo less than 17 years of nge. They laughed and chatted, smoked American cigarettes and tried trf assist tho officers in overy manner to tho hasty completion , of tho checking In. Thoy wero but thinly clad In their white sallot unl- '- ' . .-.- ... . form and many ot thorn wero flhlv-erlng. flhlv-erlng. They were glad to get to the United States. The prisoners started some twenty-eight twenty-eight days ago, making frequent stops at the islands to pick up other Interned prisoners. They sailed from Manila May 15 and landed at San Franccisco day before yesterday and I Immediately entralnod for Salt Lake. I The officers among the prlsonors I were twenty commissioned .officers, I eighteen warrant officers and two I pay clerks. After being checked ofX I tho men were loaded upon cars for I tho tort. I |