Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1918 — Germany Has Pledged to Let Both Military and Civilian Prisoners Have Home Help [ARTICLE]

Germany Has Pledged to Let Both Military and Civilian Prisoners Have Home Help

Through the Spanish ambassador at Berlin arrangements have been made whereby American prisoners in Germany, both civilian and military, will be allowed to receive money from home. They will perhaps not receive actual cash, but will probably be given credit on prison exchanges. A. (1) Sixty marks (about sls at normal exchange rates, but probably considerably less now) may be spent weekly by officers and others* of similar rank; (2) 50 marks weekly (about sl2) by noncommissioned officers and privates. B. Civilian prisoners—(l) Sixty marks weekly “for men of better social positions;” (2) 50 marks weekly for others, The note of the Spanish ambassador says: “With a view to obtaining particular articles the prisoners are allowed at any time to draw on their credit.” All money sent interned civilians or prisoners should be remitted through the Bureau of prisoners* Relief, American Red Cross, Washington, D. C, Remittances should be checks, drafts or postal money orders, made payable to the American Red Cross. That organization will do its best to get the remittances through but cannot guarantee delivery. Thus far It has had pretty good success, and such American prisoners as have already or may hereafter become German prisoners will most certainly need all the help they can get to make their lives bearable.