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population of France. That was encouraging news, for while we don't bear
our allies any ill-will, we think they ought to have the honor of trying
out the experiment first "_Apres vous, mon chere Gaston,_" as the saying
goes.

After all the French people in need of dental treatment have been
treated, however, the Red Cross person went on to say that it might be
tried out on the Americans--yanks for the Yanks, as you might say, if
you were inclined to be funny about it, as you ought not to be; but we
prefer to think that the war will be over by that time. Anyhow, who ever
heard of an American who would own up to having anything the matter with
his jaw.

Be that as it may, when you see the cussed thing on the road, jump into
the ditch and lie low. It's real, and it means business.

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ANZAC MAKES SAFE GUESS.
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A company commander received an order from battalion headquarters to
send in a return giving the number of dead Huns in the front of his
sector of trench. He sent in the number as 2,001.

H. Q. rung up and asked him how he arrived at this unusual figure.

"Well," he replied. "I'm certain about the one, because I counted him
myself. He's hanging on the wire just in front of me. I estimated the
2000. I worked it out all by myself in my own head that it was healthier
to estimate 'em than to walk about in No Man's Land and count
'em!"--_Aussie_, the Australian Soldiers' Magazine.

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HUNS STARVE
AND RIDICULE
U.S. CAPTIVES
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A.E.F. Soldiers Compelled
to Clean Latrines of
Crown Prince.
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GIVEN UNEATABLE BREAD.
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Photographed Sandwiched Between
Negroes Wearing
Tall Hats.
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EMBASSY HEARS THE FACTS.
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Repatriate Smuggles Addresses of
Prisoners' Relatives Into
France.
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Ridicule, degrading labor, insufficient food and inhumane treatment
generally are the lot of Americ