No fires were built, though in
the bitter cold of the early morning they would have been
grateful. But the men submitted to this privation without
grumbling, and stood about stamping their feet and swinging their
arms to keep warm and munching the cold rations that they had
brought with them.
Within an hour three Germans had been brought in by the sentries.
Two of them were laborers who were coming from a neighboring
hamlet to their work in the town. The other had been intercepted
coming from the town on his way to take an early train at a
railroad station some three miles away.
The men were questioned by the lieutenant with the aid of an
interpreter. The laborers knew nothing, or, if they did, they were
too frightened by the sight of the armed men about them to answer
intelligently. They knew that there had been rioting in the town
and some people had been killed and wounded, but they had gone
along doing their work and had not been molested. They knew
nothing about any American prisoner. They were plainly what they
claimed to be and the questioning was not continued long.
The other man proved more intelligent and more communicative.
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