Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-02
kaiSer'S Soldiers and Officers
Are Well Fed and Comfort
ably Housed, According 10
Report Of Correspondents,
CIVILIANS INTERNED
PASS TIME PLEASANTLY
TeutonS Still Believe in Ger
tainty of Victory Over Allies
and Discredit All Unfavor-
able War Stories.
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Paris, April 1 (6;20 p. m)---Cap-
tivity weighs lightly on the German
prisoners i'm France. Their spirits are
sustained by unfalllng faith in final
victory for the fatherland and the
good care they are receiving. These
facts were discovered by a delegation
of foreign newspaper men who have
just visited the prisoner camps.
MY soldiers" General Poline said
at Tours, ARE sleeping wherever they
can--in barns, in sheds-while the
German prisoners are enjoying the
comforts of barracks"
There are 900 German prisoners
in the Issoudan barracks from all
arms of the service, of all ages from
10 to As and from all sections of the
battle front. All arc rosy and gay and
satisfied with the food that is given
them. This amounts daily to a pound
and half of bread, two pounds and
six ounces of vegetables, a quarter of
a pound of meat and twelve grammes
of coffee, the latter mixed at the re-
because pure coffee is too strong for
them.
Measure OF Retaliation.
These rations are the same as
those given the French soldiers ex-
cept as to the quantity of meat,
which is reduced from a half pound
TO quarter Of pound, in retalia-
ton for the measures which are
said to be applied to French prison.
ers in Germany.
I'VE are we'll cared for. We do
only six hours work day, are well
ton by the French officers and sol
diers, +. Rondholz, of Constance,
a 20-year-old private of the 142nd
regiment of infantry, said in a signed
statement to the Associated Press.
He is a prisoner at Issoudan. The six
hundred prisoners in the camp at
Tours are housed less comfortably
than those at Issoudan, but as we'll as
are the French soldiers. Recent ar
rivals in this camp are said to have
been more depressed than those who
preceded them, but nothing can con-
vince them that the Germans are not
bound to win, and none of them
seem to believe anything that APP
pears in the prisoners newspaper,
which is being published i'm German
for their benefit.
Refuse TO Credit Statements.
I'VE know all about that. We have
the same thing on the other side. 1t
is the kommandatur who does all
that" they say.
what impresses them most is the
military body employed in handling
the immense commissary stores at
Tours.
''Who is going to wear these mill
lions Of shoes and shirts?" they ask.
They refuse TO believe that there
are so many soldiers in France.
The privates naturally are docile,
and the officers are compelled 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 disap-
pointed.
Work for Cents IA Day.
Only one attempt has been made
to escape at Issoudan and two light
penalties have been inflicted At
Tours the men are so glad to earn
eight cents day that all of them
work with a will on highway repairs,
in the stone quarries or in handling
the supplies in the military depot.
The news received by the prisoners
from home is said to have changed in
tone i'm the last two months. The
letters il is declared, talk of hard
times, but still insist on a 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 are arriving much less frequent
ly. Where previously they had dis
trlbuted two thousand francs each
week, the Officers declare they now
distribute only one thousand.
Civilians Well Cared For
The contrast between the soldier
prisoners and the interned German
civilians in the German concentration
camp at Chateausroux is striking.
Most of the civilians show plainly the
influence of their long contact with
the French people. Their faces cloud
when the question would you like to
be sent back to Germany" is put to
them.
Numerous races comprise the col
ony of eight hundred prisoners, who
are housed with modern comforts in
a new building of the asylum in the
department of the Indre. Germans
are most numerous among the mass,
which included Austrians, Poles, Asa-
tians and Czechs.
Single men and single women occu-
by separate light, airy dormitories.
Families are provided with little
apartments where they can enjoy
ssmblance of home life. Here eleven
Sldren have been born since the col