Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1917 — Starvation Perils Americans Now In Hun Prison Camps. [ARTICLE]

Starvation Perils Americans Now In Hun Prison Camps.

Washington, Oct. 17.—Minister Morris at Stockholm cabled the state department today news of the arrival there of Willot Charles Smith, of Norwalk, Conn., who escaped from a German internment camp at Kiel and brought word that American prisoners in Germany would starve but for food sent them by the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. Smith stated that without the food packages sent by the Y. M. C. A., and the Red Cross, prisoners would not be able to live as the daily food ration consists of a slice of black, sour bread and a drink of cold coffee for breakfast, and for dinner and supper about a pint and a half of warm soup apty consisting of water and turnips.