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A RN te FE es fe ee! OA PA Ha ran outintneMige tases an GREEN’S FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 Eight Months at the Front With the American Army MORE ABOUT OUR GERMAN PRISONERS Visit to Cemp of 6,000 German P risoners, in Chateau- 5 Thierry-Soissons Sector, Taken in American- French Drive, Shows Them to Be Well-Equipped | ; Soldiers. Habit of Discipline Remains Even in Prison Camp and Men Reflect Character of Their Officers. By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Caprright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). ERMAN prisoners are now a@ prominent feature tn the stage setting | of war behind the American lines in France. A few weeks ago German prisoners in American camps were curiosities—almost freal Only members of units which had served long apprenticeship in the trenches had ever seen a German soldier, When our troops went into open warfare taey began to gather in the enemy in quantities and our re-! cent activities have added probably 50,000 ablebodied Germans to the vast army of captives which is engaged | in productive or reclamation work in France under French and American direction. \\\ A SO DAILY STORY OF \ AN BN \ BW at ek elk Ps : ‘ e MERICAN COLLEGES IN NEW RECIPROCAL EDUCATION PLAN. my Nd i) i ht AN ian Our New “‘Sisters’’ From Our ‘‘Sister Republic’’ SOME OF THE FIFTY-TWO FRENCH GIRLS WHO ARRIVED IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY TO ENTER A It was my good fortune during the initial advance’ of our army in the Chateau-Thierry-Soissons sector to visit a camp waere 6,000 German prisoners, taken by $ American and French troops, were assembled for pre- eax liminary examination before being sent back to distribu- | Yon points. The distribution of prisoners taken by American troops is @irected by the French military authorities. As rapidly as possible Ger- | Man captives are sent in box cars to parts of France where manual labor bs required. The prisoners are put to all sorts of tasks, but are barred from munitions plants and supply depots where food is handled. A feature of warfare in France not = Without humor is the work done by German prisoners in repairing but serviceable, and their boots were In good shape. The privates were foads behind the iines. Th work, | cheerful enough, but tho ofcors were Which keeps the reads, even under| generally grouchy and plainly sut-| pressure of the heaviest traffic, in| fering from chagrin, The discipline; was perfect, however. Instructions! given te German officers were obeyed neatly and efficiently. The thorough- nably good shape, enables the French to move with surprising speed he reserve forces and reserve sup- lies which appear, in a manner ap-|ness of German drill methods was proaching the miraculous, just when| illustrated by the precision of the ‘and where they are most needed. An-| marching columns, At one time when a group of 2,000 moved off the field for the railroad station, with very line ag straight as a string, every space rigorously maintained, it needed no great stretch of the’ imagination of a spectator to call to; mind a Potsdam review, | other job at which German prisoners are employed is fashioning posts for barbed wire entanglements. ‘The 6,000 prisoners I saw in a group were confined in a series of barbed wire corrals in a cozy little valley five miles back of one of our main headquarters, Fach corral Seattered about the fleld were great about 500 men. A few French 80 piles of ¢ ques, or metal iers patrolied the outside of the cor- | #, ¢ belts, knapsacks, Pals, the barbed wire walls of which masks, the cloth and adhesive were twelve feet high. Prisoners wero] sections of which wero becoming eoming in from the front and march-| gummy in the hot sun; electric ing out to a nearby railroad station] flash lamps, none «f which would] fm steady streams. work; collapsible cases ‘containing | The corrals were emptied in rot tien. German officers were instruct to take charge of each batch of 600 ‘Under direction of their officers the men were linea up on a field outside the corral inclosures and there they were soarched by deft, fast-working French soldiers detailed for the pur- knives and forks and empty pocket books of all sorts and sizes, The average German soldier carries trom two to five pocketbooks card cases, and he generally retains only one, for one is enough to hold all his belongings of a private nature purses, or after the searchers get through with pose. him. The piles were continually at-| GERMAN SOLDIERS HAVE PAPER tucked by ch soldiers, who TEARING HABIT. |leaded the spoils into camions, As we descended into the | A French colonel who, before tho Gown a winding road we noted that) war, had conducted a business in Ker- the surface of the field was white.!jin wa@in charge of the camp. All It was as though a heavy fall of| ine rchers spoke The @now had carpeted the valley, A feW) colonel found time to tell us some- minutes later we were wading ankle | thing about the prisoners who were deep in scraps of paper, the remnants| saysing through his hands, Of letters which the prisoners had! prey are all listed,” he said; “at camp German, Hi ih AMELIE) +HYLLESTE THe “WaTcH DOG mile JEANNE | DULONG, i UMM i ill 4 iy . iV Ae MAA Cn aN Wa mille Germaine RENARD MERCH ET Tt His Letter Is Mostly ‘‘Footnotes”’ for a Lot of His Time Is Spent Touring Kentucky— On His Last Hike From Camp He Wore a Pair of No. Eleven Brogans Right Down to ‘o. Threes—-The Rest of His Time Is Spent in the Broom Squad—But Even So, the Trenches Have It on the Subway; You Don’t Have to Kick In With a Jitney Fare, They Haven’t Any Straps, and You Have a Bayonet to Prevent Overcrowding. By ARTHUR “BUGS” BAER New York Evening World). way when there is so much room at the zoo. CAMP ZACH, September Something, 1918, save in the trenches. You don’t have to kick in with a J Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The LD SCOUT Just got hold of a New York paper that aad a two weeks’ and block the aisle. The trenches are all velvet compared Of course, brighteyes has not seen the trenches yet, but we ditches down here that are almost as precarious to a canary, Tae first thing that struck my eyepiece was that junk about a bird hiding four days in the subway in order to bilk the draft. torn into small pieces and thrown) ine distributing points and a careful away | record is kept of each man and wher. ‘The German soldier packs an iM-| he goes, and that record is kept up eredible amount of papers about with od, The ty date as he Is mo dovern- How did that guy get that way? Guess that bird will go to war when they make the medals big enough to hide behind. @ shull bigger than a huckleberry the subw But any bird with hould know that the trenches have and is good for three demerits, emearing rouge on your dogs. Then they gave me a bunk that takes two hours of Mr. It keeps you busy six hour: cheated a country m And @ country mile is some dis- € growth of whiskers on it, but it was as welcome as birdseed | | | | Bim. He saves the letters he receives | sent, when prisoners are nol | and the newspapers be gets from |yyt work Rae ee ic one tance, especially in Kentucky. We knocked off a ten-mile bike this dollar time to keep straightened up. After that we got ome, and when he gets a chance he - : week , bo, Ht wa me elegant ankle excursion, I think the barracks bags and sox. You've got to keep ‘em polished u ends captives to work, for private em tears up his accumulation and scat-| ‘ ployers, These men dre paid @ smali "There is Fifth Avenue and there J8| oy wo, the opening night of “Fid- tera the pieces to the winds. lwage and their rations are regulated Started out with a set of No. 11 brogans and wore 'em right down to | gob of hay that busted the camel's suspenders was when they staked | jsroadway—those I must not miss. ] dlers Three” at the Cort Theatre, he earche vent do he 3° \ n the sh ur \ 7 i . " hey . e Uni- z 4 og i: evar ee haebshan 7 oy — by government order, The French », Bs, When t dish up the boots in this young army they stake | me toe rifle which requires fourtecn hours’ steady work to keep clean, | Mme, Boucher 18 going to the Unt The curtaia had just fallen after ie they were a i Government feeds them well and takes| YOU to @ set of as which seven § too big for you. This | If anybody tries to give me a flivver I am going to knock him for a | versity of Texas. the first act when from the star's French soldiers carrying bags, boxes | °° f them. | is for emergen 1 a f urpri tack you can retreat six 1 h thing which i Ib. ‘ Oxe*) Kood care of the 8 for emergencies. In case of a surprise attack you c treat 8 al. ‘ But there was someth! 4 cressi.g room came a woman's sob, and baskets, h German soldier 4 Ls) S 1 Gieplayed bie belongings, ‘They were| THE GERMAN IDEA OF A SOL-| or seven sizes wit deserting your post. Not so bad, eh, what? All we do down here is to cleare and mop up the floors, If ever | Mile. Alice Salvan, from St. Jean) The wardrobe woman looked In. allowed to keep such personal pay Mls DIER'S VALUE. | The brogar © are very peculiar, You rattle around in ‘em Ike | 1 graduate from this camp I guess I will have a Ittle gold broom on | d’Anjely, wanted to find even before| There at her dressing table, over as they had not destroyed, photo-|, Ait es B wood jot a hailtone on a tin roof. Then your second loot bawls you during | my shoulder and a pair of crossed mops on my collar. Yea, bo! she had her lunch, She pag a brother which were draped American and Bel- graphs and money field was lit- |" ‘ tad " ae = pss c order formations for not standing at attention, How can a man I thought I signed on the dotted line to fight, but I guess now in the Fre aan NA. fone pee a n ave eat varie Beige, the prima tered with metal ntification discs | 11° Privates ure wen | judge what a set of No. 7 wheels are doing in a collection of No, 14 that the only weapon I will ever see 1s a broom with all the straws | has not means al neg Ae ragehen ae DAE AMSA RAE peed weeping. which the Germans had throwa away, | The } | boots? missing. It always seems to be shedding time for brooms down here, | What she most wan 6 sue ut pany’ were Many of the Germans had aino cut| Menthe soldiers Gerr | , : A : "re; | york is the French Consul, who may | summoned and Mile, Belge was asked ro gl A Se a to stand the brunt of an attack or| Your feet could be st ng at attention while your No, 14 brogans You get the dirt up all right, but the straws pop right into the place | 111s. Something about her brother.|why ste wept off and discarded the shoulder stray an attack or] : , Rey Shia By ye | tell her some ‘ . Be SOP Which bore the numbers of their regi, |4efense: Germany carefully graduates] could be doing squads ri The only way you ean tell the front of the dirt Just Jeft. It's like a kitten chasing {ts tail, It never catches | ""sy110 Jeanne Dulong, a slender) “These are tears of Joy,” she tw yl ber army. The system calls into the| your 8 from the backs {s by the heels. ‘The built like ferry it, and even if it did catch it, what would it have? rk-eyed young woman in a blue | pied am very, very hapay. After In the matter of equipment the|M0st dangerous of purely mechanical] boats, but they sure are fortable, They are th siest shoes to The toughest blow of all is that the bird who pointed out the |. iiior suit, comes from Merac and is | all I've gone through in ray Nwtoved German soldier is well supplied, He | S*TY" urges and stu! n de-| sit down in that I ever owned dotted line to me had a nice, kind face. | going to Washburn College, Fopaka, | reieiunn America fae weig.eG mie bas everything needed by a ftigh fenses n of very little mentality, But how about that bird in the subway? Guess that Darwin was Well, co long, we're due for a long tour, and I have to go along | Kun. pace for me in the world ¢fter ail,” man in the field, His mess kit is g Peasants, laborers in unskilled pur-) right at that. In fact, the old boy was very right. What I can’t figure | to see that nobody cheats me out of my share of the blisters. | ayy father is so enthusiastic about | Mile Be Ie, new 3n this country ‘nd < ii sits, he smarter men are assigned| 1 IGS. r cans h penniless, Dad been enthusiast mode) of compactness and util . i. al an an | out on my little busted slate is why that fish should pick out the sub- | Your old side kick, BUGS. merica and Americans that he was) eed by the rt re Healy invariably he has a large, sharp|t? Work requiring the exercise of some i anh | in \Very glad to have me come here,” |;ynt against adversities bad been oo and serviceable knife, The French | Pin power A | | np it a ahh a the told me with a smile, “Myjivng-diawn out that the welcome of goidiers on the day of our visit had| "YoU see the idea? It does not mako| tles in which there have bean no out-| iain whose name waa familiar to me,| ten like him will be factors of some) bis sorrow and apprehension. T am viner hated to have me go ao far| the audience came ag balm to an ache made an unusully profitable haul o¢|MUCM. difference to Germany if tha rages, no brutalities, where the|and we eS 76 Sany NT Mee he relentiess power of the|cers of bis clas# and character in the, from home, But I wanted to come Oy ae, 4 Saletan sehen,” ‘ia candles, which ure badly needed in|*¥P! round head is killed or maimed, | French people have been treated with | friends 4 acquaintances in Ger-| Gorman military machine he did what | German Army.” I want to teach French in this coun-|+1 was born in Antwerp and ee ga He is easily replaced and for me-, consideration, You will find other! many and in France, He 4s fifty-two| he considered his duty, but he told| The type of German officer de-| try or learn English well enough to|family—were very happy until the Many of the soldiers searched that) *o*nica! fighting, under the direction; communities in which the women | years old and very bald, and he had | mo that he would a vote eee ee d by tne: Fes ah elon ls rare teach it in my own country, I love Seraane ama My brother was nat) of trained, dri ‘offic ave be jected to the will of|lost his cap and was deep! {after the struggle to trying to prisone e avera) erica 7 taken to & German prison day had produced Deigian money, |f Wained. ar ving Mors, he ix as| have been aul ated to the. wi ot | lost his cap and was deeply umill. | aftor, ne Mitta which would curb] Ge r falling into our hands | America, and the Americans whom T)\"here he died. My baby me oa Which faci established that they neq | 2004 & soldier as the man with brains, | brutal soldiers, w ple rec- power of the Junkers, is as con 1 ay a atar in the movies. | pave seen are Wonderful. The French | nd 1 was forced to leave heen stationed in Belgium Nearly ceainaant A opts, 0 e and destruction, . ion of the Gorman office e world.” ra time and thei r fall bad smal! sums of German money, | Drains and throws the dumkopfs, or ag|of rapine and destruction. | You willl DRAGGING U. 8. INTO WAR GER. |{he, apinion, of the Gorman omcert| In our army we have many oMcers| best in the world Meomia hare Tiere mene ae sa tbe young men had collections of |). cncnen, -) Senem fathenda,| And vot saponsible for these sr MAN MILITARY ERROR, should sherifice anything demanded | WhO speak perfect German, We turn] “Would you marry one if you) heigian re xt I came to the cannon. rectly responsible for these condi- : ona = Jour German officer prisoners over to vd here and taught French?” I : Photographs of girls, which they|'®, ule | . told me he had gone into the| in the west in return for jour German office: nara 0 stayed her to New ¥ ment was eape allowed to keep. Every man The character of the soldiers you tions, 1am a Frenchman, This war|war unwillingly and had served un-| she nad gained in M and | aeee omnere. The Américas seine | ventured. offered to me by Mr, Cort and I took po peel 4M) see here is largely molded by their|has ruined me financially, taken| willingly, but that he had always done| Russia, but he was or-| Pradually break down the German mel #1 should have to wait and see, but) it, Had I failed, I don't know what had o diy co tary kit, and bi officers, If a German officer is bru-, away Many members of my family | his duty as an officer because he ia ica would not allow the Kk serve an much Valuable in-|y gon't say no," laughed Mile, Dulong, | Would have become of me. But I watained that if he wanted it tal, tyrannical, bestia), his men ayo! and Tet me at an advanced age al-/erman and felt that as a patriot hol quit.” ‘The great mistake of the Ger-| formation sant a Oe eae: mot falled 1 have “been wel: spe : must support hi vernmen: e|man military powers, he sald, was to) When you want to got anything! ws ‘ o i Teal QRIBONERS HEALTHY AND WELL always of his stripe. If he is a de-| most alone in the world and without |does not hate France or England, amd | drag Ameriea into the war, ‘and for| rome eta “detmia Momcant | Germaine Renard: have come from| American people and my troubles are NOURISHED., cent man his men are usually decent,| resources. But 1 am willing to 4d-|said he had always conducted his| that, in his opinion, they wil! have to! nf@unced one of the American intel Varis and are going to the College of | at an end. an you blame me for my ‘The thousanls of prisoners we saw| You will find, as we progress through Germang have| mans. _ S@urished. Their uniformp were worn held for four years, many coulmuni- Were uniformly healthy and weil/ country which the ‘The German army machine conserves are mad: out of rubber down in this man's neck-o'-the-woods, I B handle on the door of the only saloon in a mining town. MIIEANNE | A Li’l More Correspondence.From “ Bugs’ i BR Wi Mad Look at the coin you itney fare, they haven't got any straps, and if a German tries to elbow you, you can bayonet him without having four middle aged lady tourists faint to the sub. have some Any mud on your gondolas is acrime equivalent to swindling the orphans and the widows 's each day Ingersoll’s uniforms, up ike the ut the real and the Americang about his shining | the ord of German occupation is a record However, handling them Phis Captain totd me that it was we pate, operations according to the rules of| answer to the German people. He Is warfare, Like me, he has lost hig)a very smart man, travelled and) acter, business. Two of his sons have been| widely read, and he is also a very|he will not only admit t “To-day I talked to a German cap-!killed, Both were aviators, He and| sorrowful and apprehensive man, and! but wi try '> prove t GE ih ae aaasa amg tat OR mit that there are some decent Ger- gen good he is. have found a way of; student of cha ' Then het he is gpod Assy \\ \ \ we N FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 | Fair Daughters of France Will Learn U. S. Ideals In American Colleges Sent by French Government, They Arrived Here Yesterday, and—Who Knows? —Maybe Some Will Take Back With Them More Than an American Education—For They Are Young and Pretty and, With a Solitary Exception, Unmarried. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ' OR the third time since the beginning of the war the French have F captured New York. Papa Joffre led the first victorious drive upon Father Knickerbocker'’s trenches. The gay and gallant Blue Devils were the second French army of occupation. Now it is to the Blue Stock- | ings of France that we once more capitulate—fifty-two of the cleverest— —and also the prettiest and most charming—French girls, who have just arrived In this city on their way to enroll at American colleges and to weld the newest and firmest of all the many links binding together the lands of Lafayette and of Washington. The girls are the advance guard of one hundred and thirty-four who have been chosen by the French Gov- ernment and a group of American women to matricu- late at various colleges and universities scattered all over the United States and to take back to their own country American {deals. Later it is hoped that | groups of American girls can be sent to French universities—the mission- {ary work {s not to be all on one side, by any means. The plan for this | exchange of students originated with the American Association of Co!- leges and {is being worked out in co-operation with the American Council | on Education. h French girl receives a schol- ) larship in the American institution | like it here so much and we are glad which she attends, and her living ex- | to come.” |penses are also paid by this institu] Two of the four girls who bave won She pays her own transporta- | CaTegie Foundation scholarships are tion : 1 | Mile. Fernande Hel Mile. : ak, @hed RDA oe 45) Bae DEC A .Fernande Helle and Mile, Paula French Government has set aside a| | ‘or those who cannot afford saat ; Ny nses. + | England for one year. Mile. Bureau enue cnet aneet |has been three yours at the Univer- | In big gray ambulances driven by | sity of Bordeaux. Both are to pro-' ‘the women of the Motor Corps of the |i to the University of Wisconsin. A Seah Last night the girls were given a National League for Woman's Ser-|reception at the Y. W. C. A. This vice, the French girls arrived early | morning they will make a brief sight- Pe - | we tour of New York and at 2 yesterday afternoon at the headquar- | seeirt \ters of the ¥. W. G. A., No. 600 Lex: f «ioek this afternoon they leave for ueago, from which they will peor ‘ington Avenue, where they were ré-} cael to the various Western and ceived by a committee of New York § Middte Western colleges to which women headed by Mrs. Nicholas Mur- ; ‘hey are assigned jray Butler. They are the prettiest things, these | ' | | | | | Mile, Hi 5 ¥ 5 attended the University of Rennea for two years and the Sheffield School for Girls in Tavie Belge So Glad young French “high brows!" For i a ‘they were selected on a basis of To Be in America 'scholarship, and many of them have, |attended the Sorbonne and other | She Wept for Joy! | French universities, as well a8 8chOO1S |g in Engiand. “They are young women! * of great learning,” Mrs. Stocks Millar | of Denver, Col., who was their chap- | eron on shipboard, earnestly assured | me. | “The lilies of France!” somebody sighed sentimentally, watching the picturesque group in the Y. W. C. A. reception room. On the contrary, they | look much more like roses, for they | are pink cheeked, to a girl, and they | have animation and vitality instead | of colorless hauteur, Their eyes| sparkle, their lips smile and they ob- | viously are thrilling to the great ad- | venture of a new life in a new land. | Most of them are in the early twen- | ties, or late ‘teens. There is one wid- | ow, a trim young woman, with splen- | did brown eyes. She is Mme. Marcelle | Boucher, and her husband was | gassed two years ago while fighting for France. | “IT have been a teacher,” she told me, “and I want to learn English 80 well here that I can go back and teach it. I wanted so much to come to America. And I know of two } things I want to see in this city. | ; TAVIEG BELGE é) my home, the Americans are the| "I sang for the soldiers in Belgium soldiers say tears of joy?” And then the little Belgian prime. donna buried her face in her t and again cried until she smiled. -| gt, Therese at Winona, Minn. “We have a brother in the Frenoh Arm Mule. Suzanne told ms “We shall