New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Sends Photographs Show
ing Friendly Treatment
in Detention Camps
Men Well Paid Here
One Writes Prospective Wife
He will Save Enough to
Retire

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The United
c....s has opened negotiations with
r.rrarv for an agreement TO govern
N. treatment Of prisoners OF war
..t,p by either nation. This is being
5,r. with the hope Of securing the
,,,. possiblc conditions for Americans
..ts, prisoner on the battle front. and
J, sbow Germany how well German
.r;.orers in the United States are
tsing treated.
aresdv through the Red Cross at
cs,eva. the United States has begun
forwarding food and other necessaries
:, Americans held in Germany, OF
Ion there are now more than one
hundred
Get Plenty of Money
German military prisoners OF war
d, ,bs United States, besides receiving
very necessity and comfort. nave the
80 and privileges Of their rank IN the
i'ni,ed States army and navy. Ihey
20 housed in model sanitary camps,
~ reccntly one Of the prisoners send
;,- 3 letter 70 his prospective VIE IN
Germany wrote that the pay he would
ssrpmulate during his Imprisonment
,~onld not only permit him to retire
srom the navy. but would set them up
N little business as well.
photographs showing the eomfortapie
.,nrroundings of interned Germans IN
his country have ben forwarded 70
cs,ranv by the War Department
,brough the State Department and
,sn.rsl agent. They are INTENDED 10
row that interned Germans are well
,,ss,ed by the United States and to re,
r,sl the expectation of the United
Ststss that similar consideration VIII
~ shown American soldiers and sail
srs who may be captured by Germany.
= Two classes OF German prisoners are
5.,sined in this country. One is COM
rrised OF German sailors taken into
sr,,odv when the United States ln-
,sned various vessels at the beginning
AZ the war. The other class IS COM
rrised Of enemy aliens, civilians VINO
5sve been arrested and are now being
attained under governmental regula-
tons for various reasons.
$40 at McIneIsOn
The principal detention camp Is at
Fort Mcpherson, Georgia, where ap,,
rroximately $50 war prisoners are held
n custody of the War Department AT
For. Oglethorpe, Georgia, there are
l65 enemy aliens who are not, strictly
psaking. prisoners of war.
Az Fort Douglas, Utah, there are oil
r-isoners Of war and eighty interned
aliens. ,oc, .oI
n-isoners Of war in custody OF the
Wsr Department, and about 400 in
termed enemy aliens held at the re-
cusst Of the Department OF Justice.
or this number, about three score are
located at Taboga Island, Panama. IL
Is estimated that Germany is now hold-
.ine l5O sailors taken from American
sbips biz commerce raiders and other
German vessels. besides the frst prs
oners taken from General Pershlngs
forces.
The detained Germans, wherever To-
ea.ed in the United States, are consid-
sratelv treated and are not given oner-
ops ,asks. The duties assigned are
strictly in accord with international
lfw. .,.
Reading and recreation facilities are
provided, and the photographs eoIIeSleo go,
from the several detention camps sho"
German prisoners going through out
door cymnastic exercises and staging
amateur plays on improvlsed stages III
thr recreation rooms.