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Show PRISONERS LOST BEHIND MANY BARS KHARKoFF, Jan. 28. Being a foreign for-eign prisoner in the Ukraine Is akin to being lost In the Sahara. The Muetapha Kemai government at Angora, Turkey, recently negotiated a treaty with tho Ukraine under the I terms of which there was to be a i mutual exchange of prisoners. I A delegation of Turks came to Kharkoff and after paying diplomatic courtesies Inquired at the foreign oi-fice oi-fice for a list of the Turks who were Imprisoned in the Ukraine. Hut neither neith-er that office, the war office nor the. I wardens of the prlsoiiR had any list. "Go in and ask the prisoners," the I wardens told tho Turks. So the Turkish delegation wo.it shouting; through prison corridors call- ' I lng fur all Turks to come forward and rounded up 1,600 Turkish subjects who 1 wero sent back to the land of Mus-tapha Mus-tapha Kemul. ' Most of those Turks wero officers and crews of small thips which had ; entered Ukrainian ports with mcr-chandlse. mcr-chandlse. After they had sold their I goods they were arrested by Ukrainian 1 I officials who confiscated their money and sent the Turks to Kharkoff. tho new capital of tho Ukrainian repub- 1 lie. The Turks say they wero honest merchants The Ukrainians say the) wore smugglers oo |