The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-11

lily are part of the conscious or uncon-
scious propaganda for the maintenance
of morale. When incidents occur they
print only what they are told by the
official press bureau. A paragraph like
this, for instance, means little to
reader not familiar with such mat
ters.
Last night at seven o'clock on the
Boulevard de Ia Vallette brawl start
ed, for triillng reasons, among five sol
diers. Some Kabyles emerging from
nearby factory and passersby were
mixed up in the scufIlc. The police
interviewed to rc-estabish order. Sew
eral arrests We're made"
What really occurred, though not q
newspaper so much as limited ut 1t,
was rather more serious. The soldiers
who were on leave from the front,
had heard that the Kdbyles, who are
Arabs imported to clean the streets,
We're TO be used to rcpress disturb
ances among the civilian population.
They had been told so by their wives,
one of whom had been ogled by
Kabyle. When the "pollus" attacked
them the Kabyles naturally resisted,
and a riot ensued In which n dozen
persons were severely wounded.
This ARRAY was preceded by an
even bloodler affair, in which num-
Der of Annamite soldiers were attack
ed by crowd of women and "permis-
sionaires" and several were killed. An
Annamite battalion was brought to
Paris at a time when the strikes were
at their height, and the rumor spread
the city that the Annamites had been
summoned because the French garri-
son would refuse to fire upon the
crowd In the event Of riot.
Depressing Rumors Flood City.
That there was any truth in this
may be doubted, but certainly the pres
ence of the Mongollan troops at so
stressful period was unfortunate. An
nantes are anathema to all Parisians
nowadays, simply as result of the
rumors and the really furious fight that
arose out Of them. Yet, beyond n for
NAL communique no more communi-
cative than that about the Kabyles,
there has been no mention Of the mat
ter in print.
Paris is flooded with rumors these
days, as it has never been since the
first weeks of the war. Most Of them
are depressing and doubtless con-
siderable percentage are deliberately
inspired by pacifists and pro-Germans,
of whom there are good many to be
found In the Greek and Spanish colo
MES. Whether they are true Is of lit
tie consequence; the important thing
is they are believed to large extent,
even by persons well informed about
the situation as whole.
One of the minor problems con-
nected with the 'permissionaires,"
who, released for the time being from
direct discipline, have a tendency to
become unruly, is the evil that lies in
wait for them at the railroad stations
In Paris. Almost all Of them pass
through the capital on their way to
and from the front, and at the sta
tions they are preyed upon not only
by merchants Of vice, but by the
agents Of anarchy and pro-Germans as
well, who seek to inculcate peace-at-
any-price ideas, and the desire to re-
volt by spreading stories of the terri
BILE conditions prevailing in the rear.
The ''poilus" learn in their own homes
that most Of these yarns are not true,
but on the other hand they hear mass
of rumors which have almost the same
effect upon weaker characters, and
they believe them all the more really
because they come from their own
wives or relatives.