Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1918 — GERMAN PRISON CAMPS WHERE YANKS ARE HELD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GERMAN PRISON CAMPS WHERE YANKS ARE HELD

Bureau cC Prisoners’ Relief American Red Cross. Of these 27 German prison camps in which Americans now are held, Tuchel, near Danzig, is the chief prison camp for our captured boys in uniform, according to advices reaching the American Red Cross. In each of the camps shown by a black square on the map and in one small camp which cannot be located, there are either captured soldiers or else American seamen taken from submarined merchantmen. The Red Cross had direct reports from 231 men in these camps at the beginning of June, and to each is sending through its prisoners’ relief warehouses at Berne, 20 pounds of food a week and is supplying clothing, comforts, tobacco, and, in fact, everything the men need. In supplying captured soldiers and sailors the Red Cross acts as the transmitting agency for the army or the navy, which furnishes the supplies. In addition to the prisoners actually on its records, the Red Cross believes that there are some '2OO additional American prisoners in Germany who have not yet reached the prison camps where they are to be located permanently. The Red Cross, however, is already prepared to care for these ns soon as reported, and in fact has stored in Berne or in transit supplies enough to maintain 22,000 prisoners, if necessary for six months. Awaiting American prisoners sent to Tuchel is a stock of Red Cross package, of food and clothing in charge of three of our captured boys, who are appointed toe M Sos«Uefcommittee for that prtaon camp, stellar reserve storks win other prison, « It become, evidentthat the, centers for Imprisoned Americans, who thus wIU be fed and clothed imme-