The Mena weekly star., 1920-11-04
Captured
 SOvietS Are Scum Of Asia
All Types are Found in Wretched in-
 ternment Camps at Arys.

All Types are Found in Wretched in- ternment Camps at Arys.
 Interment Camp of Arys, East Prussia Thirty thousand beings bearing mud and filth; suffering from hunger and cold, disease and despair are crowded into three square miles of green hillsides and pine groves on the feage If this town of Arys
 ia all the refugee camps along the East prussian frontier western civili- zation now has an opportunity of studying conditions in that commun- ity in which there appears to be at least equality for all sharing the ills land troubles, discomfort and hopeless ness to the exclusion of all things that man is presumed to desire for himself and for his brothers.
 The camp here is a concentration i point for smaller ones in the vicinity. Before the war the camp was maneu- l yer ground over which the kaiser moved his divisions into mock attack. During the war it was a training camp where young classes were taught trench digging, dugout construction and methods in modern attack. Today l this expanse, once as orderly as Ma tional park, literally seeths with the Iscum of Asia--ill fed, unkempt dupes of the Red regime.
 The skies over the scene are leaden grey. There is wet wind and a mean drizzle of cold rain. Thousands of wisps of smoke are rising from miserable small fires of green wood. 1 Under foot is sea of mud, churned up by the ceaseless moving about of the prisoners.
 All types of Asia are here. Pock- marked Chinks with slanting eyes leering out from under their bulky fur hats. Volga fishermen with their heads bare. Swarthy Jewish faces with cigarettes Imply projecting from their lips. East Indians, Caucasians, Uk- rainians, Siberians, Tartars Mongols, with their ragedness as their only uniform in their varied costuming all that goes to make up this congress of anarchy.
 X walk thru the camp leaves one with the individual impression of wet matted hair growing down on the brows beneath which peer eyes of fanatic brightness There are faces, i ty patent. Hands with vulture-l like claws scratching in the earth for roots or tearing strips of flesh from the carcass of a dead horse; broad flat stumpy feet with gnarled toes protruding from dirty bandages squash thru the black mud And from all cries the hum of the babble of hundreds of dialects.
 Two hundred orderly Prussian bur gheFs with the laws of "verboten' as their Bible, live next to this confused mass, while 2000 German troops with polished boots, buttons and feathers endeavof to restrict the prisoners to the confines of the camp The com plete enumeration of the camps con tents has been impossible up to date, but the German general, Ehrhardt commanding estimates the number between 10000 and 50,000 men. The number of horses is unknown.
 These animals are running at large over the entire country. I saw one German farmer with his whip trying to drive off horses from his field and gardens. Along the road everybody is leading one or two horses. The Reds sell horse as low as 200 marks
 anybody apparently, can have as many as he wants by simply haltering the animals and leading them off. \ The Germans are planning to ship as many as possible into the interior of Germany for work on the farms until the international ownership of the animals is decided upon.
 Elements of five infantry and one cavalry division have been identified. German agents are working among the prisoners and report that 90 per cent of them are non-bolshevik, but that these men were prevented from asserting themselves as such owing to the presence of secret communist spies, who enforced authority by ter TOT.
 The Germans are not averse to trading sugar, coffee, cakes and mon ey for precious stones, jewelry and household articles, the loot of the Pol ish invasion. The questionable origin of these vaIuables is not considered.
 A