Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-20 | Page 8 | German Prisoners of War Captured

oo GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED Calais. Me., Jan 19 A situation of international interest developed today to-day when four men, alleged to be German prisoners of war who had escaped from a detention camp at Amherst, Am-herst, N S , wero captured on the American side of the border. They had crossed the ice on the St. Croix river two miles above this city from the New Brunswick ,shore. Three of the men had fled to Aycr Junction, where they were about to board a westbound train, when PI. C. Gillis, a United States immigration inspector, arrested them: Another was caught here. Agents of tile Canadian government in this city said formal proceedings would be started at once through tho administration at Ottawa and the British ambassador at Washington, seeking the return of the alleged fugitives fugi-tives to Canadian soil. The men apprehended here gave their names as William Schroedor, Gustave Hartwig, George Kleinworth and Hans Neu. The escape from the camp at Amherst Am-herst was effected by tunneling 150 feet under walls to a point beyond the sentry lines.