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Show IN THE SAME OLD HUN Vichy, France. The following astonishing as-tonishing communication was received here by Mr. Lee Shippey, Y. M. C. A., from American prisoners who have just arrived there from the Villingen camp. They and other prisoners from the camp at Bastatt have little faith in the change of tone of the Germans and treat the communication as simply sim-ply another insincere and treacherous piece of propaganda. It consists of a message of the commander of the prisoners' camp of Villingen, Baden, to the American officers on their departure de-parture to France, on Tuesday, November No-vember 20, and is as follows: "Sooner than you expected, your ! day of liberation has arrived. In a ! short time you will bo back again I with your own dear people iu Ameri- ca. Tell them that the German people peo-ple has no more grievance against them. Germany does not consider itself it-self as conquered but as conquering, as you can see by the troops coming hack fro:' Ike front, because it has now its own liberty. "Now it is your turn to give the German people a just peace in the peace terms which will give them, liberty, lib-erty, to live justfy and peacefully with the world at large. "We hope that you will reach your home safely and find everyone in good health. "I again request you not to part from Germany with hatred against us and to influence your people to look upon Germany as it is now, not as it has been judged, perhaps Justly, up to the present time. . "The new Germany has the desire to live In perfect peace with its recent 30 enemies, but In the same manner claims an honorable peace which will give her the possibility to live as promised' by r resident Wilson. "Again hapy returns home." |