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Show BATTERY II MM I PBB SALT LAKE, Jan. 22. Although having satisfied several of tho agents! of tho department of Justice that hoj is an American at heart and ready to ! participate in any punishment that , might be meted out to tho kaiser ' Rudolf Polak, who enlisted in thej Utah national guard last Juno befofej It was mustered into tho regular serv-, Ice, is now, according to a postcard received at the United States marshal's mar-shal's office yesterday, a prisoner of war on Ellis island. Polak has had a varied and sensational sensa-tional career. During the early days of tho prosent war ho served In the German army on tho Russian front He was then transferred to tho western west-ern front, where he is said to have' surrondorcd, with sixteen' other soldiers, sol-diers, to the-British. Ho escaped, and making his way to Liverpool stowed himself away on a Swedrsh vessel bound for South America. From South Amorica he worked his way north to tho United States. Polak was arrested in several cities in tho south on suspicion of being a German spy, but In some mannor he succeeded in every Instance in securing secur-ing his release. He finally reached Los Angeles, whore he also was lakon Into custody, but again he was given his liberty, but the Los Angeles authorities wired Salt Lake that he was on the way to this city. He was arrested by the police for having failed to registor for military service, and his case was investigated by Leon Bono, special agent of tho department of justice, whom ho satisfied that ho was a loyal American at heart, although al-though an alien. Several letters were found among his possessions, some of thorn considered as connocting him with German intrigue, but all of these he appoars to have explained away, and by Mr. Bone he was given a clear bill on the proviso that he enlist in the United States army. Polak enlisted in A battery, Utah j artillery, soon after mobilization, and I within ten days was discharged at Fort Douglas on account of having served in the German army and seemed proud of his escape. He was on kitchen duty most of the time while at Fort Douglas." That ho drifted east and was finally taken up by the i federal authorities as an enemy alien is evident from the note received from his yesterday on a postcard bearing a picture of tho immigration im-migration buildings on Ellis island, N. Y., telling of the fact that he is a prisoner of Avar |