Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-23 | Page 2 | Germans Salute Americans from War Prison Camps

Germans Salute Americans From war rrison tamps HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERICAN AMER-ICAN FIRST ARMY, Nov. 22. (By tho Associated Press.) Sergeant Robert Faucott of Virginia, Minn., and Private Pri-vate John Krlstenson of Now York City, have reached ttere after two montha imprisonment at Colmar. They wero discharged from tho German prison on Novombor 12 and told to make their own way to tho frontier. They wero tho only two American prisoners held at Colmar, whero thoy wero used in concrete dugout construction. con-struction. Both rolato a otory of moat scanty food and atorn, but not brutal troat-nicnt. troat-nicnt. Thoy stato that their captors took away tholr undorwear, nocks and shlrtn, leaving thorn only tholr unl-formn unl-formn and ahoea, Tho men walked throo daya beforo fro3sing tho frontier. fron-tier. On tho way they root thousands of returning Gormau troops who gttvo tho Americana hsSi t&o roadway, all . . . ... ., , ,., ,., ,,, , . . . , i , i ,,, ,,i , ., ,i the officers saluting thorn. Faucett says that tho revolution at Colmar occurred on November 10, the revolutionists ordering the German officers of-ficers to remove their insignia and all tho soldiers and officers to wear tho 'black andred badgo of revolution inscribed in-scribed : "Wo aro on the way home." 1 The revolutionists released all thp i prisoners, but there was no general disorder."