A Polish soldier serving with the Russians on the western front had the remarkable experience of capturing his own brother fighting "under compulsion 1' with the Germans.
For grinding a small American flag under his heel, Joseph Glabasria, a German-American, was fined 25 dollars, in New York, and sentenced to wear the American flag on his coat until the termination of the war. This ia making the punishment fit the crime with a vengeance.
A matron of my acquaintance, complaining of her daughter's vanity, was observing that she had all of a sudden held up her head higher- than ordinary, and taken' on an air that showed a secret satisfaction in himself, mixed with scorn of others. " I did not know," saya my friend, "what to do with this fantastical girl until I was informed by her eldest sister that she had a pair of striped garters on." -~'
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 June 1917, Page 3
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148Untitled Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 June 1917, Page 3
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