Show TREAT CAPTIVE GERMANS KINDLY French Generous to Prisoners Despite Despite Despite De De- spite Brutal Course of Enemy ft I I AREA IARE ARE ARE- GLAD TO BE OUT our OF IT ITC I x C I Sight of Long American Columns Columna De DC troys Hun Hopes of Victory Victory Live Live Like Happy Family in ti i. i Prison c Camp W With ih the American Forces s 's In France France knows that her prisoners In Germany are treated badly but German German German Ger Ger- man man prisoners are arc treated humanely and even generously In J French prisons prisons prisons pris pris- ons Just the same writes Don Martin In the New York Herald I asked an officer In charge of or a n French prison camp camp why hy this Is and he shrugged his shoulders and said merely Ah Ahl I Unless one could see ee the gesture accompanying the monosyllable he would hardly know what meaning to attach attach to It It really meant MOh Op what's the use of b being l g bru tel tal to Individuals Just because some someone someone someone one else Is We wish we could but w we cant cantI I have Inspected several prisons some large and ond some small and In to everi- everi every every- one everyone one I have found the Germans treated quite as 88 well wel-a wel as civil prisoners In normal times and in man many Instances better Officers are not humiliated In anY any way nay ny In fact they receive better treatment a stranger would think th than n they are really t ent tl d to Prisoners Live Happily On a low Jow hill hili about 1000 feet from froma a main rond road of France stands a prison five five low wooden buildings s surrounded surround ed by two barbed wire fences with pickets armed pickets always patrolling outside out out- side t r Here are ore Germans many of ot them prisoners taken In the early bat bat- tie off of ot j the Somme but some taken more recently They are all oil privates and Ond coD constitute as happy a 0 family as one co could conid ld find where personal liberty Is the one thing desired and denied dE The Germans stood at their barbed fences hours at a time and watched th the endless line Unc of soldiers soldier When It was the blue of or France that was moving moving move ing past the Germans were weN not particularly particularly Jarl Interested They had seen seE that for tor years They know France always has hag had an endless line Une of everything needed for war But when they saw the khaki of or America filing or rolling by for a 0 whole day and then for another another an an- other ether and heard the muddy shuffle of feet teet through the night there was a change In In the dull expression lon of those German Herman eyes It was at nt tills this time that I went to the prison on to learn what they thought ht of what hat they had soon seen First It ft should hould be stated that tho these thele e prisoners see gee little of recent developments inthe In Inthe Inthe the war They m l must t form their opinions ions from ruch ruck fragments of con conversation conversation conversa conversa- ersa tion as ns they hear from their keepers and froin from what they see c n as for Instance In- In Instance In In- stance from the Ion long Ion long line of at Americans R. R the first they thy had 1 seen nIn n In this particular prison on the new new- comers omer h had tl brought the news S situation up to early spring but as for the big offensive lve the tho prisoners prisoner knew only that there probably would be one Americans Surprise Germans When I asked I It if there was a n German among tl the h two o hundred who could speak puk ED English a i good lookIn looking young man with ith a typical Teutonic mustache ml red cheeks a a. glow of or stealth health was calli call cail- j i Cd d out HP lie stepped Into m mv my presence like an automaton clicked his heels together to- to I gether and saluted the tho French captain He Ile told toM me h he was a private that he helias helots lots has a home hOIDe in Lucerne Switzerland that he fought el eight ht months but was never Jle wounded that he lie Is In the wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale dry goods good bus business ness In Berlin and that he does dol 1 business with John Wanamaker Wanamaker Wana- Wana maker Marshall Field and Stern Stem Brothers l s. s What do you Yon think of all the Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans cans you have ha seen been pas pay ng here recently recent recent- ly Jy I asked himI himI him I I have seen been many Americans he said I r was surprised that you have bave so BO many in France Another prisoner less prepossessing in appearance than the first was asked about things In general He spoke English poorly I r live In Berlin and work Ip Jp a bank but was In the war for tor two years ears When the war Is over I am going goIn to Switzerland to live I would go to America but they dont don't like Germans over there any more Why are you going to leave Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many For an answer there was a shrug of ot shoulders and a half haIt scowl half halt smile Are you satisfied here Its a lot better than being In a n p grave where whre a lot of or them are ore |