The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-02
GERMAN PRISONERS
 WELL TREATED
DO ONLY 6 HOURS LIGHT WORK A DAY AND HAVE COMFORT.
 ABLE QUARTERS.
Have an Abiding Faith That Germany
 Will Be the Victor-Remittances and Edbles From Home Decrease.

Paris. April 1.-6.20 D. m.--Captiy- fly weighs lightly on the German prisoners in France Their spirits are sustained by unfailing faith in a final victory for the father.and and the good care they are receiving These facts were discovered by d delegation of foreign newspaper men who have just visitetd the prisoner camps.
 My soldiers said General Polne are sleeping wehereyer they cau-in barns, in sheds-Vhile the German prisoners are enjoying the comforts of barracks"
 There are a thousand German piis- oners in the lssoudan barracks from all arms of the service, of all ages from l9 to t5 and from all sections of the battle front All are rosy and gay and satisfied will the food that is given them.
 Their rations are the same as those given the French soldiers eNce1t as 10 the quantity Of meat. which is re- duced from a ha,f a pound Co a quar- ter of a pound in retaliation for the measures which are said to be applied 10 French prisoner, in Germany
 We are well cared for. We do only six hours light work a day are well fed and are treated with consid. eration by the French officers and soldIers,' said F. Rondholz of Con stance, 2O-year-old private of the One Hundred and Forty-second regi- ment of infantry in a signed state ment to the Associated Press He is a prisoner at Issoudan
 The six hundred prisoners in the camp at Tours are housed less com. fortably than those at Tssoudan. but as well as are the French soldiers. Recent arrivals in this camp are said 10 have been more depressed than those who preceded them. but uoth- ing can convince them that the C IT. mans are not bound 10 win and none of them seem to believe anything that appears in the prisoners newspaper, which is being published in German for their benefit.
 'We know all about that We have the same thing on the other side. It is the kommandatur who does all that they say.
 What impresses them most the vast military body employed in hand- ling the immense commissaly stores at Tours "WLo is going to wear these millions of shoes and shirts2' they ask They refuse to believe that there are so many soldiers in France.
 The priyates naturally are docile and the officers are com 1elled to be so after having given trouble at Mon- tauban. The officers seem depressed and less naughty since the new year, their hopes of being able to celebrate Christmas at home having been d.s- appointed.
 Only one attempt las been made to escape at lssoudan and two light penalties have been inflicted At Tours the men are so glad to cara eight cents a day that all of them work with a will on highway repairs in the stone quarries or in handling the supplies in the military de Jots
 The news received by the prisoners from home is said to have changed in tone in the last two months. The letters, it is declared, talk of hard times brt still insist on d victory for Germany in the end Officers at the camp say that packages containing sausages, preserves, tobacco, con. densed soup, cakes, soap and many other articles came on an average of one for each man a week for the first six months of the war, but that now they ar earriying much less frequent ly The receipts of money are also less frequent. Where previously they distributed two thousand francs each week, the officers declare they now get one thousand