Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-03-02


regulations will have been COM
piled with by that date.
Copenhagen. March ,. (Yia Lon
don, 9sf5 a. m.)-Four Americans
fFom the steamer Yarr0Wdale. who
have been prisoners In Germany
for three months, arrived here to-
day. They are Or. John Davis,
columbus, Miss: 0rviiIe McKim,
Watcrtown, \, y: Or. H. u. Snid-
er, Norfolk. Va; Richard ZabrIs-
kle- EngIeWO0d. n. j. The four
men were practically destitute.
They reached here with only the
clothes they stood i'm and VIII. under
the custom Of the sea, be supported
by the British consul until it is pos
sible TO send them home, They owe
their release before the remainder Of +
the - Americans who were on the
Yarrowdale 10 the fact that, as ply
sicians or veterinarians, they ranked
as officers and were confined in the
ofBcers camp at Karlsruhe The horse
tenders and sailors. who composed the
bulk Of the American captives, ara
still held in quarantine at the pris
on camp for enlisted men at DuIken
Treated Well By Danes.
The four men left the camp az
karlsruhe on Feb. p and travelled
direct 10 Waruamunde under escort
where, after being subjected to the
usual frontier search, they were put
aboard a Danish ferry and left TO shift
for themselves. The Danish police took
charge of them on their arrival I'm
Denmark. provided them with quar-
ters for the night in a hotel at Giedser
and gave them the first hearty meal
they had enjoyed since landing in
Germany in December.
The next morning the Danish auth
critics gave them railroad trausp0rta-
ton to Copenhagen,
Follow Ancient Custom.
Ancient sea practice makes seamen
stranded in a foreign port the guests
Of the consul of the power under
whose flag the lost ship sailed Uni
ted States Consul General WinsIow
was compelled therefor to refer the
passless, paperless and nonevIess
wanderers to his British colleague
The British consul provided hotel aC-
o0mmgdati0ns pending an iuvestiga-
tiou as 70 the mems identity He
pointed out that, as far as any i3enfif-
cation was concerned the four men
might be German spies
Tell Dramatic Experience.
Few more dramatic tales have been
brought forth by the war than the
story of adventure. hardship and peril
at sea. short rations on land. and
The new danger from the sky which
was related by these four American
professional men 10 The Associated
Press correspondent. Snapped up bv
the German raider In mjd-0ceau they
=ruised around for days while the
commerce destroyer was gathering
.urther prizes. Then they made the
s0yaEe in the EarrOwdale to Swine
nude, under such conditions that they
expected the ships seams TO open and
he vessel 10 sink beneath them at any
moment
Suffered treat Hardships.
They lived for more tbaa two
months in prison camps in Germany
IN the meagre prison fare provided
by the German government without
God parcels which tighten the coadi-
ions Of existence of other prisoners
II war. They passed through four
irpiane attacks on Karlsruhe. during
which bombs intended for the rail
cad station raiued on all sides OK
heir camp. To cap the climax, ther
we're ignorant until the last whether
hey were prisoners Of war or ueu-
rails in detention, whether their GOV
rnment was doing anything to obtain
heir release. or whether the United
tates had not already entered the
var To add to their anxieties, their
elbow Americans from the Yarrow-
ale, al the time when they left them
Z the Neustrelitz camp 70 be trans
erred with other officers from the
aptured steamers were in a state Of
omplete restitution. They were in
clothed. several having
cen without shoes or overlooking
uring the severe December cold
nd all were weakening under the
feet of these conditions, although
1ey were subsequently remedied
hen Ambassador Gerard finally Sue
eeded in locating them in the prison
amp at DuImen. The four men cs-
aped the ambassadors notice on &C
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