The Detroit times., 1917-11-16
GERMANS IN
l. S. MAY BE.
HOSTAGES.
treatment May De-
pend On That Accord
d Captives BY Berlin
sY milton sRoNNER

NNA - ~ INV ffNh-'h
WASHINGTON, r. G., Nov. To-
r7e faet that ne Germans tho other
captured y Of Persh.ng soil
ers brings up afresh the whole
blem Of treatment ~ prisoner
ho more men we get into thc
inches OF France the more oppor
realty there Is going Sc be for The
my 10 capture some %, them Iy
. same token. We are g0iug Co.
German prisoners. just wha.
/. "a be done with them has not been
completely worked out
In this country we already have
ny Germans inLerned sailor
German ships. alien enemies
had been wandering ar large
against whom no criminal
re had been preferred, etc Our
ding these German civilians Is
eortsnt. because they may act as
hostages for the good treatment Of
orr own men.
The Germans IN this country art
.rarned in model anitary camps
d have good food
The Germans have never treated
their own prisoners with the same
consideration I have just had &C.
tess 20 many Official reports 20 the
nch government by French doc
s who were in prison camps IL
rnany. Their accounts consu
e one long recital OF brutality 70
re prisoners. Of insufficient food and
edlcine, OF neglect OF the Gi~E Of
ence Of any seinblauce OF crea-
trc comforts.
r Mensangeon, head ~ -
al clinic ar the Facuit' DE
instance. tells OF bis experiences
she Guestrow camp in Mecklen-
2. where over 5000 French milf
and civilian prisoners were
a. Despite the terrible severity
the winters in that climate, even
January the men were housed IN
on straw or manure. torment
hy swarming vermin. tortured oy
ger and dying Of cold. Mon
Sc famished they would throw
emaelyes or the ground 70 lap up
rom the mud few spo0nsful Of
rilled SOUP. The meals" consisted
u thin, watery soup three times A
6ay, and a tiny piece OF bread
every four DAYS. This bresd was
made ~ bran. potato pulp and straw
n was only later the survivors were /
buf into some sort OF barracks.
DIT. Alphonse David, reporting or I
fr - he ~
ramp. gays the French prisoners
y ere deliberately mixed w.'h Rus
stems who had typhus. the Germans /
saving they wanted the French 70 /
-now their allies better" Orly AZ
Ter conditions here became scan
sal that could not be concealed. was I
my kind of sanitary regulation az
-onpted. OF 1900 prisoners IN this
"TRIP over 1900 had typhus. 500
Frenchmen and 700 Russians died Of
n. And typhus made men more
biect % tuberculosis. so even
when they survived one disease.
they got the other
DR.. Lesieur reports that az Zos
per camp many men had tubercu'o-
SIS from exposure and poor food
md many others had scaryy and
cysentery.
Dir. Fermont tells OF terrible de-
yelopment OF tuberculosis IN the
prison camps az Amberg. Friedrich
reld Koenig brnck. Parchim, Selz
wedei and Zessen-Wunsdorf II is
Tho same story OF hunger, cold and
brutal treatment He tells Of seeing
men picking up sand on which soup
had been spilled. and sucking II for
the nourishment Men licked the
pidcs 81 bowls, like dogs. Men ps.
iiantIv sorted ont the contents Of
f~sibins for the chance stray crumh
~ bread. He tells Of men being fed
,nds OF sausages black puddings Of
~ ubtful freshness. cheese In the
lest stages OF decomposition.
Or Mai Chon tells OF hrutaii'les
nrncticed upon the prisoners a.
itr4edrichsfeld and Senne For tri'
,el onenses against camp rules.
ley were made to run FOR hours on
re hot sand in July day, until
,hey dropped from exhaustion
Those put in cells for punishment