Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1918 — Germany's Labor Army. [ARTICLE]

Germany's Labor Army.

“Our growing labor army” is the description applied by the Huns to their .prisoners of war. According to a communique in the latest Berlin' papers, Germany and her vassals between them now hold 3,575,000 prisoners. For the first time the German military authorities lay stress on the supreme value gs their prisoners as man power for industry and agriculture. They ate so numerous, It is asserted, that they go far toward compensating Germany for the men she has had to withdraw from peaceful pursuits for active military service. “The longer the war lasts,” the communique adds, “the more adaptable these prisoners become to the work assigned them, and the more useful to us.” Huns have a majestic awe of big figures. Thus it is explained for their edification that the “labor army” in prisoner camps is numerically greater than the whole male working-class population of Denmark, Norway and ‘Sweden combined, “and is equivalent to one-fifth the total number of working men in Germany before the war.”