The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-25

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recreation ne11 thzo4 a. -. ~! Nd /.
extent, and tt@eo 49, :! b.
Of games. They - 49, A..
around the camp ~ g. - -
the exercise from game an4 Norn ~
are taken out in bic squads fof tfeMye
through tina country outlying 90
camp. Of course being oonetanty m
der guard.
Those of the prisoners with wnon
talked individually proved to be MOI
interesting men. One of them up to
| the time of the outbreak Of the var
had been q professor Of languages y
a German institution OF learning. no
knew the classics thoroughly ana nov
while In prison he was striving hard
to add English to his linguai accom-
plishments.
With one exception there was NO
| prisoner in camp under the age OF
eighteen years. The exception was 9
boy of sixteen, who had been picked
/ up from the water after naval en-
gaeement. It was the intention OF the
/ authorities to send him, in day or
two, to another camp where other
young naval apprentices are confined.
Are Closely Guarded.
All about the camp at Dorchester,
including of course the recreation
| ground, there runs a double line OF
barbed wire entanglements. Back OF
these for large part of the inclosure
there is high wall. On platform
back of this wall the guards walk
with fixed bayonet and loaded rife
Escape seems well-nigh impossible Yet
1t ia true that recently two prisoners
both officers, escaped from another
prison, presumably just as we'll guard
ed, as is this one, and they were mol
recaptured until they had wandered
about the country for nearly a week
In the camp at Dorchester there are
several members of the Prussiar
guard. They are huge men and of
wonderful physique The rest OF the
prisoners are just about like the av
!, erage of other nationalities in sizs
and build. All of them look like pyg
mics, however, by the side of the Prus
, sian guard giants. There are no Ger
man officers confined at this camp
: The enlisted men captives, however
are not entirely from what some people
call the lower walks of life. They rep
, resent the merchant, the farmer ant
the professional classes.
These captives hear from home I'm
: der certain restrictions. The Ameri
/ can embassy has taken over the al
fairs of Germany, and it is Americ'
i today as represented in England
: which has in it's care in way thes'
. German prisoners of war. OF course
: it must not be understood that Amer
lea says that this must be done o
t that must be done, but it makes repre-
: sensations on behalf of the German
r government, when so requested, an
h 1t looks after matters pertaining t
: the communication which is kept u
i between the prisoners and their kins
folk, and also to the transmission unde
e regulation of money from father an
: mother or sister and brother in tn
Q Fatherland to the member of the fan
g lily fold who is a prisoner in an allie
s land
l. The prisoners at Dorchester shove
e an interest, and rather a keen on,
/, when 1t was known that an America
r was to visit them and wished to tai
O to them about their welfare. The re,
n son for this in large part was as
< found somewhat to my astonishmen
If that as near as could be determine,
not one Of the many captives at Do
G. chester ever had visited the Unite
q States. An American was a curiosit,
3 | thought it was possible that 1 coul
ir find among them all some man VIII
e would like to send message to
if friend whom he had known in tt
S, United States, but not one of the
n ever had crossed the water to Wis
", | the land whoro CO ruopu ~ tba;r c0,,