Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-15
T.SORDERSWAR
'PRISONERSW WORK
viii Compel Them to
Labor on Roads or
Farms
rv1IJANS GIVEN CHOICE
will Be Paid Wages if ,rI They
"a T;,l Leave Camps to Help
Raise Crops
CIVILIANS GIVEN CHOICE


o.rr,an and Austrian prisoners
" ho,a by the war Department at
..noAnt camp at Fort NacPher-
y Georgia, are to be compelled to
~ - The Georgia roads or farms.
" .,n,an prisoners arrested by the
...r,,nent = of Justice and now interned
-, oglythorpe, Georgia, In charge
,so War Department, are to be Of
IN work of the same character and
.,y undertake it or not as they please
~. enemy aliens confined in the civ
=. comp under the Department of
~, at Hot Springs, n. c., are to be
-...a work on the farms, but they
4, !. oiven the option of working or
N.ining w within their camp and doing
VA iobs incidental to the camp up
lsep. ~. ,.,,,oro, ,r;ticis,,, di-
- bv the people toward the at
s.,da of the Government in permitting
\. ,rnrisoned Germans and Austrians
..n,aln idle. the War and Labor De-
..,rsnfs made an investigation to de-
,.-rIne what authority they had under
International law TO put the prisoners
70 work
Al the close of the investigation it was
,.cidsd 10 apply to the German and
austrian prisoners the same treatment
.ccorded BY England and France to the
cptured Germans and by Germany to
ths prisoners Of the Entente allied ma
tops
The other nations are compelling the
pflsoners OF war chat is, members of
ths organized armed forces) to perform
daily work, but the civilian prisoners
(nren not actually combatants) are not
compelled to do anything more than care
ior the upkeep of their camps. unless
hey volunteer for day labor outside.
Prisoners of war at Fort Macpherson
are TO be paid for the work they per-
form This money will be used to pay
for their upkeep, and what is left over
estimated to be about twenty-five cents
day, will be used to buy them tobacco.
cigars and other luXuries. War Depart
rhert officials state. The same rule will
apply TO the civilian prisoners at the
camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Hot
Springs. They are TO be offered work on
The farms.
t1tds believed in some quarters they
viii not accept this farm work, i'm the
beltf that in so doing they will be aid
ing4the enemy. Other officials believe
they will undertake ii because II they 10
not they will be kept busily at work
preparing their food, building and MAIN
taninR thhip
ruek farm operated in connection with
her camp to raise vegetables for their
hple If they agree to work outside
iaey will have virtually no more work
y perform and will have more liberty
and receive some money.
me men at Fort Macpherson were
memoers OF the German naval forces
s0Vard the hronprin2 Wilhelm and other
uefhan ships that put into Norfolk ana
f%slle ports and interncd. When war
was declared by the United States the,.
automatically became prisoners Of war.
fle prisoners at Fort Ugle. horpr orc
@nan Germans and Austrians who
sas rounded up by the Department of
susuce and turned over to the War De-
pattment
me American prisoners in Germany
oom war and civilian prisoners. are re-
Ewing scarcely enough food from tbe
Vsimans TO Keep them alive, il is assert =
10y tne war Department. But the
Ssman prisoners at Hot Springs are
s'lls given all the food they need. and
IVY experts have repeatedly declared
mA ,a the war prisoners at Fort Mae
snsrson and Fort Oglethorpe are being
nWh twice as much food as men of
uer habits require.
hherlcah prisoners in Germany would
. uunculty in maintaining life on
ny ny uerman rations alone, IL is said.
XIV 'ne aid Of the American Red Cross
w are receiving all the food they need
y soon as the American Red Cross
s'es word that an American is a
soler IN Germany record is made
ms name at the American head.
ss -elVers IN Berne, Switzerland, and a
se containing ten pounds of food is
~. 70 MN three times each month Ia
s 70 the ratlons offered by Germany
,A,ss uermans have not an over.
~ upnuance of food for any of their peo.
~ n ana but little is being wasted on
os.t ninerican prisoners or those of any
- e Entente nations" said an oficiaI
war Department today. "But
ntierlcan Red Cross sends from IL,
ss headquarters to every American
s'Uher In Germany a package ever,
vE,s containing ten pounds of good
thtre ~ lood' which keeps our mel