The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-12-12
INTERNED TEUTS
FARE WELL HERE
United States Sends Photo
graphs to Germany, Show
ing Treatment in Camps.
AID OUR MEN IN GERMANY
Negotiations Entered Into to Secure
Best Conditions for Americans Cap
tured on the Battle Front-When
Germans Are Held.

Washington.-TheU United States has
an agreement to govern the treatment
of prisoners of war taken by either ma
ton. This is being done with the hope
of securing the best possible conditions
for Americans taken prisoner on the
battle front, and to show Germany how
well German prisoners in the United
States are being treated.
Already, through the Red Cross at
Geneva, the United States has begun
forwarding food and other necessaries
to Americans held in Germany, OF
whom there are now more than one
hundred.
Get Plenty of Money.
German military prisoners of war in
the United States, besides receiving ev-
cry necessity and comfort, have the
pay and privileges of their rank in the
United States army and navy. They
are housed in model sanitary camps,
and recently one of the prisoners send
ing letter to his prospective wife in
Germany wrote that the pay he would
accumulate during his Imprisonment
would not only permit him to retire
from the navy, but would set them up
In a little business as well.
Photographs showing the comfort
able surroundings of interned Germans
In this country have been forwarded
to Germany by the war department
through the state department and a
neutral agent. They are intended to
show that interned Germans are well |
treated by the United States and to re-
veal the expectation of the United |
States that similar consideration will |
be shown American soldiers and sail !
ors who may be captured by Germany
Two classes of German prisoners are
detained in this country. One is COM
prised of German sailors taken into
custody when the United States in
termed various vessels at the beginning
Of the war. The other class is COM
prised Of enemy aliens, civilians who
have been arrested and are now being
detained under governmental regula-
ions for various reasons.
$50 at Mcpherson.
The principal detention camp is at
Fort Mcpherson, Ca, where approx
nately $50 war prisoners are held in
custody of the war department. At
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, there are 1876 en-
my aliens who are not, strictly speak
ng, prisoners of war.
At Fort Douglas, Utah, there are b17 :
prisoners Of war and 80 informed s
liens.
Altogether, there are 1884 actual
prisoners Of war in custody of the
var department, and about 400 in
erned enemy aliens held at the re-
uest Of the department Of justice
II this number, about three score are
)cated at Taboga Island, Panama. 1t
J estimated that Germany is now hold
lg $50 sailors taken from American
hips by commerce raiders and other
erman vessels, besides the first pris-
nerS taken from General Pershing's
)rces.
The detained Germans, wherever To-
ated in the United States, are consid-
'ately treated and are not given oner-
is tasks. The duties assigned are
richly in accord with international
w.
Reading and recreation facilities are "
divided, and the photographs collect
from the several detention camps
ow German prisoners going through
Itdoor gymnastic exercises and stag
g amateur plays on improvised stages
the recreation rooms. =