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...correspondent, visiting a prison camp in India, reported that thousands of captured Italians live in luxury they could never know at home. They tend gardens, sunbathe, play football, grow fat on abundant rations. Miserably paid in their own army, they now receive British Army pay (small compared with U.S. pay). General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, pleasantly housed with several other generals, has been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing...
Operating under the articles of the Geneva convention of 1929, it is the authorized channel for aid to student prisoners. In Germany alone 6,000,000 men are in prison camps, British, Belgian, French, Polish Serblan soldiers. The WSSF is one of the major organizations working to provide them with food an recreational facilities, but it is the only organization which is allowed to send teachers into the prison camps, and set up educational programs...
Warden Edward H. Stubblefield, a political appointee who happened to be away from the prison the day of the break, could only wail that war jobs had lured away most of his seasoned guards. Said he: ". . . the great majority of the guards are green. . . . Last month 65 new guards were put to work. . . . The State pays guards here $109 a month for three months. After that they get $118 and $136." Only 75 guards were on duty, he said, guarding Stateville's 3,256 inmates, when the Touhyites fled. At week's end Illinois' Governor Dwight...
...Geneva Convention of 1929, under which the Y and the International Red Cross work, provides for neutral inspection of prison camps. Hence a certain amount of food, clothing and other supplies gets through for prisoners on both sides even when it does not always reach civilians. Men like Mr. Strong, who have worked among prisoners in both world wars, agree that their lot is better in 1942 than...
...proceedings became even more like real war when the armies began to break the rules of sham battle. In the Blues' prison camp the entire haul of Red prisoners overcame their guards by violence, ran back to their own side to fight again...