WAR PRISONERS.
FEW AMERICANS IN GERMANY
HARDSHIPS OF RUSSIANS,
(By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and' N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, December 26. Mr Dosch Fleurot, telegraphing from Berlin, says that, Tvith the exception of half a dozen men too ill to remove, all American prisoners have been removed Jirom Germany. General Harries, who accomplished the removal, is now giving attention to other Allied prisoners. . In one camp in North Prussia there are 4000 Serbian prisoners without proper food or clothing. Measures for the feeding of these are alreadv in hand. In one Roumanian camp there are one hundred prisoners unable to leave for want of shoes. The Russian situation is most complex. There are 1,200,000 Russian prisoners who are unable to get awav and must face serious hardships if they remain. Many Russian prisoners were turned back *nt the frontier by the Bolsheviks. Many who have returned to Russia are concentrated in a large camp "by the Bolsheviks near Moscow. So many of them die daily that the bodies are romoved by carloads.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16406, 28 December 1918, Page 9
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