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Show PRISONERS OF RUSS START LONG TREK WASHINGTON, May 12. Dressed In remnants of the uniforms they wore In 1014 "when captured by the a Russians, thousands of Austrian and " Hungarian prisoners have started on foot tho 4,000 mile journey from Siberia Si-beria concentration camps to their native lands. Itoports to American Red Cross headquarters told of the trek of the liberated prisoners. No provisions was made by the Bolshevik! authorities for feeding; clothing or repatriating the men, the reports said. American relief organizations and churches havo launched a campaign to ralso 53,000,000 to supply the necessities nec-essities of life and to aid In repatriation. repatri-ation. Nearly $1,000,000 has already been subscribed. |