Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — STARVATION PERILS AMERICANS [ARTICLE]

STARVATION PERILS AMERICANS

Who Are Held Prisoners of War in German Detention Camps. Washington, D. C., October 17. •—Minister Morris at Stockholm cabled the state department today news of the arrival there of Willot Charles Smith of Norwalk, Connecticut, 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,” said a state department statement announcing the escape, “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 aptly consisting of water and turnips.’’