Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-27
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The war department has asked for
5000 volunteers to man ships to bring
the boys back home.
General Crowder has ruled that
registrants between the ages Of 81
and As may return their missionaries
to their local board unexecuted.
Rewards of $50 are posted for sew
eral deserters from various U. S. cam
tonments. Absentees without leave
are also looked for.
Five large Dutch steamships have
| left American ports bound for Hol-
land and loaded to the "gunnels" with
white -four for the Dutch.
Nov. oath was set aside by the sol
diers as Fathers Day" Mothers
Day was celebrated last May 18th
| The boys in France all wrote to their
fathers on that day, the. fathers in
America penning similar letters to
| their sons overseas.
Washington, November Three
months pay would be given each sol
der and sailor engaged in the war
against Germany, after being muster
ed out under a resolution presented
in the senate this afternoon by SEN
ator Lewis of Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
leave soon for France to visit the
grave of their dead son, Quentin. The
colonel asked that his boys body be
left where it was buried by the Ger
mans. He said, "We have always be-
lioved that Where the tree falls, let
it lie.'"
Henry Clark, a Kenosha boy aged
16, is home for repairs. Henry, the
youngest soldier with the colors, fell
2,100 feet from an aeroplane at Camp
Dodge. He was picked up with a
broken thumb, dislocated shoulder,
four broken ribs and a broken hip.
His spirit was not broken.
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Oshkosh, was the signal for an i'm
mense celebration. Kilby has a rec
ord of nine Germans killed in one bat
tie. He first picked off five machine
gun men with his automatic rifle. The
other four were overcome in bayonet
trench duels Kilby is modest in
speaking of his exploits but his COM
rades told the true story.
Madison, Wis, Nov. 23.-Secretary
of War Baker telegraphed Gov. Phil
ipp saying that the signing of the
armistice in no way lessons the re-
sponsibility of civil communities for
the protection of soldiers from bad
women and sale of liquor. He says
he is determined to return the sol
diers to their homes uncontaminated.
Amsterdam, Nov. 25.-The tiny ISL
and of Wieringen, on the Dutch coast,
is to be the ST. Helena for the for
mer crown prince, according to the
newspaper Handelsbad today This
paper said that the eX-croWn prince
is to be interned there. (Wieringen
island is only six miles long and con-
tains less than 5000 population.)
With the fife and drum sounding,
flags flying and soldiers outstanding
and courageous the American army
is occupying Luxembourg, the Rhine
province west of Germany. The men
are not boastful nor do they impress
the victory upon the Germans of that
locality. The Luxembourgoise them
selves are immensely pleased to do
the Yanks honor. One novelty to the
native eyes is the American negro as
he happily sings at his work on the
railroad lines.
Grand Cross TO Queen.
Paris, Nov. 25.-The grand cross of
the legion of honor has been con-
ferred upon Queen Elizabeth of Bel
gium, by The French nation.
Hall OF Mirrors.
Paris, Nov 25.-The formal sessions
of the peace conference at Versailles
will be held in the Hall of Mirrors at
the Trianon castle, where the kaiser,
Bismarck and Won Moltke "insolent-
ly triumphed over France in 1871 2
the Petit Parisien announced today.
YankS Coming.
London, Nov. 25.-American trans
ports have already begun to move
Yankee soldiers homeward, the Man
chester Guardian stated today. 1t
says that the latest arrival in Eng
land is an aviation unit which is due
in the United States by Thanksgiv-