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Show Generous Treatment of Axis Prisoners in U. S. Improves Conditions for Captured Americans Red Cross Reports i Men in Nazi Hands t ' Well Fed and Housed jT j By BARROW LYON'S :f , WNU StufT Correspondent -'-i.v ' ' In some 30,000 families . ------- ' Vj ' ,j throughout our land today V V the folks are thinking of some k 1 V ; j soldier from home who has p 1 - ? . -4 j . ; , fallen into enemy hands now ,'..;;! a prisoner of war far away. s . ' ''-, v """ ! ' When our troops make the . - 5 5 , great push against the main- . ' s .J.-, 5 land of Europe, there will be " - " . "; more boys taken prisoners. : f " " ' - In the war prisoner camps within !.. ,. . y JZ ,.;.:; k . ' the United States, we hold some ' , - . i 175,000 enemy soldiers captured t , - , , 4 mostly on the battlefields of Africa. I j . ' ' ''"'' Sicily and Italy. Of these, 125,000 Eu . - v t - are Germans, 50.000 Italians. Only ' --'f J, r 116 are Japanese. , Many protests have been made - iftj , , .K to army authorities, because of the , . ' V-wf. $ j x " - ' good treatment given these prison- s ss" - - ' " l . ers. Lots of people don't under- ' v ,! 'y stand why enemy prisoners should 3 J " j 't I ' ' be given the same comforts, the ' ' t - ' " same medical attention, the same JJ ' . y. , v-y, i ' food as our own soldiers. I - "Jf ' ' But there is a reason so compel- - f ' ling, that none can complain when r " " ' V J"4 ' it is understood. It is not for the -1 C '' 1 sake of the prisoners, but in the fTT"T ' 9r ' f $ I , ' interest of our own soldiers held by .j, L t-i-,- - .-U-... J! the enemy. They are the real object u! u-.i., ... t h ,i;itj The first German soldier to be taken prisoner In Iceland was Ser- a .our(forbe"a"cier ,ra Cnnnn: geant ManIrak- who bailed out of his Junkers plane after it had been hit And, 01 course, our national honor . TT . , , , , , , . . , .n -a oy U. S. army fighters. He is shown at intelligence headquarters, en- is involved for we agreed to give rations on before bandaged arm and prisoners the same food and care numerous brujses as our own men under the Prisoners . of War convention signed and rati- ians who escaped from a branch -wr T T J . Ol fled at Geneva on July 27, 1929. camp at El Paso, part of the Lords- Y a.nKS riaCl tO OlaSt Reciprocal Good Treatment. burg, N. M., camp, and one German j . Reliable reports made to the army who got away at CrossviUe, Term. JapS VJUt Ol MOleS indicate that the good treatment we ' There has been complaint from A lVIoi-cT-iolle have accorded prisoners has won organized labor lately because we JH IViaTSnaiflS for our own men in German prison have used some of the war prison- Doughboys of the Seventh infantry camps conditions that are at least I ers for tasks in lumber camps and division who captured Kwajalein as good as those under which Ger- on road work, where there was no and other islands of tne Kwajalein man soldiers live. American labor available. General atoI1 during mvasion of the Mar- These facts were revealed for the Gullion Slves Iabor assurance that shaU isIands literally had to dig the first time to your correspondent by Prlsoners of war are not being put Japanese out of the ground. Col. Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion, provost ' work on any Job where civilian Syril E. Faine, infantry, of New marshal general of the army, who labor " available in adequate sup- straitsville, Ohio, who is now in the has general supervision over prison- P- , Prisoner of war labor is a United States, acted as depiity chief ers of war. The actual guarding of temporary expedient to relieve the of staff of division during the six. the prisoners is a function of the sU"Z .tsgf of ma PW"' day campaign. He said the Japa- prison camp commander who is un- he Umted States eei at the nese defenders of mid.pacific der the control of the commanding Geneva conventlon to. return M coral base had taken refuge in hun- general of the service command. Prisoners of war to their own coun- dreds of sheI1 craters by Hme tries at the conclusion of the war, fh fl t -,.. nf teatrT, hn tho Censorship reveals that letters ence the f comDetition with u t Z I , from relatives and friends exnress 7 , u competition with snore on January 31 (February 1, irom relatives ana rrienas express Iree iaDor ls groundless, the gen- pacjfj,. time) much gratitude and happiness over era says ni. the way we are treating their men. ' . . . "It was just like killing rats," he Pnsoners Cu' Pulpwood. dpclareri "Thp whole island was "We are informed by the Inter- . . . ... aeciared ine whole island was national Red Cross that the Ger- p have been in logging rubble, after the. preliminary bomb-mans bomb-mans say that because of our good operations where American workers ing and shelling. The Japs had treatment of their soldiers, they bave left the woods to work n ship- crawled underground wherever they are giving our men more liberties arhds and maci!me sh?pS at Cn could' and the "fantryrnen had to and better treatment," General Gul- S''hUfl ZZ Z T -f ' firetd . . , . , have been useful in cutting and into it, or throw grenades into it. Lon told your correspondent The neded critjcally 8 Geneva conventions required that contaiilers in civilian indust Playing Possum, each prisoner be given the same an(J fQr new Q wnich there The Japanese were up to their food as soldiers of the capturing a snortage. Prisoners nave been usual nasty tricks, went on Colonel power receive m base camps. Ac- uged alsQ in maimaining roads fa Fame. Even after they were hope-cording hope-cording to the reports of Swiss ob- somfi areag where other manua, la. lessly defeated, they refused to give servers, the Germans are living up borers are ye scarce The tre. up. At one point m the action, an to this provision; our men in some mendous importance of road main- tTT ' instances are getting even a little tenan view of hea traI. lished close to a pile of three ap-better ap-better food than the German sol- fle ig obvjous parently dead Japs. Only two of diers, although the German facili- Prisoners have been used also in e- " tuf".ed "JTJ. ties do not compare with ours. iaundries. Nearly everyone today iead: The ll?!rd' at the bottom of "I think there can be only one has suffered inconveniences because e heap' pulled him,self "p afte: answer to the complaint that we are 0f the shortage of laundry labor, Playg possurn for a long time and treating the prisoners we take too and can understand this expedient. fed .0ne eSe Ctualu shoTl atu an well. One gets it when one asks the The storv of JaDanese Dris0ners A,merlcan officer-. ther blew Question- Is it better to vield to a , ? prisoners themselves up with grenades, question, is it Deuer 10 yieia to a js less happy. When a Japanese , , ,. a. . very natural, vengeful impulse to soldier is taken prisoner he . is T , g MarshUs: take it out on our prisoners, or to ob- washed uphe never wishes to re. Colonel Fame said, was preceded serve our treaty agreements and pro- turn t0 Ja an or he is disgraced by ne f the most intensive bom- tect our own men?" orever m the eyes of his country- baments of the war Both army Few Escape. men and navy planes Part'Cipated, and There have been complaints also We have in this country scarcely fjSWo that the prisoners we hold have not more than a hundred Japanese pris- sq ch ., ColonJel been sufficiently guarded; that too oners, and General MacArthur has Faine sa; . couldn,t many have escaped to become a only a few hundred more, accord- off menace to the home population, mg to General Gullion. even & wheelfaar. General Gullion points td the facts. They are given the same food row aiong jt " Of the 175,000 prisoners we now hold and accommodations as our own m . . In this country, about 100 have es- soldiers, because we hope by ac- mp 1 lous ar are' caped, but all except three have cording such treatment to amelio- Tne aerial hammering kept up as been recaptured and are in custody, rate the lot of our own 18,500 men the invasion armada, containing The only men at large are two Ital- held by the Japanese. more shis tha" there were in our whole navy at the start ol the war, Ti I swept over the horizon. As the V I r t A f j landings started, Seventh division in-fantrymen in-fantrymen who had received special FEW JAP PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY U. S. amphibious training drove their own D 'alligators and ducks toward -0,J& iLSLl shore, and later ferried supplies jrg y? back and forth from the mother fjS til , The doughboys had relatively easy JAPANESE 400 rf Tf ' going when they first hit the beaches advancing 1,300 yards on the Qrsl I f k I nrair3irr3,o(3ifr.ai n day. On the second day, they began I :yyi iSSS?SSSjr55Si?S to run into lines of pillboxes, against I rft J fffff tffflnffff n which they advanced with combat GERMANS 111,000 engineers right behind them. With .. . - - flamethrowers, grenades, and other 1 ' t 1 ,'',M!'!2!5S!M!5I5,f!S'(S''"'5 weapons, the infantrymen calmly I M I 1 ii5isiSS2SSSSSsS5SSSiSSi cleaned out each pillbox as they got ',TAtANSU f Iff IHfWW fill IHtf fffftli 0 LamUeenognnrrS "r'd400,10"5 Italians 170 000 dynamite on two islands alone, ' levelling everything on them. Leader of this orchestra of Italian J f':- ' ' war prisoners in Bizerte, Tunisia, is a - . .a jf-j Joseph Fcllcgrino from Passaic, f . . - .. . - . - - , -y ' J N. J., a citizen of the United States, f , - Z 4 'v- He happened to be visiting in Italy ." j, - . : -'j T: ' ; ' , . -i -" " when that nation entered the war $"--. 1 - -N 1 i 1 -V Despite his protests, he was induct- t . - . li ' 'Z ' f " ' ed into the Italian army, and he - rv,'yi - V . v . f -. served unwillingly until he was cap- V,:--T-. :v tured by American troops during f . - - ... ja. ' f-.- - . . the North African campaign. Some- v: : c ; time after this picture was taken, -. 9 ( . Pellegrino was accepted for indue- f r ,f , -i-s , y - ' tion into the U. S. army. 1X1 . . CS U 1 W 1 .fJ J |