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Show oo MISSIONARIES ON WORKJOERCV Washington, Jan.' 4 To relieve German and Austrian prisoners of war a committee of missionaries, princi-rally princi-rally Americans, will start tomorrow from Peking for the interior of Siberia Si-beria bearing medical supplies and clothing furnished by the American Red Cross and to plan an extension of their work of mercy The prisoners are not confined, but generally have peon paroled under ntodge not to leave the neighborhood. Their only wants are food, clothing and medicine. In explanation of the parole of prisoners, it is laid that with Its absolute ab-solute control of the Siberian railway, which in wlnterlaffords the only is-sible is-sible egress fro Siberia, the Russian government feeJ there is little possibility possi-bility of escape. I I 1 |