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Show FRENCH BOY MAKES RECORD AS SOLDIER Wounded in Battle of the Marae; Joined Another Regiment; Arrested Ar-rested as Vagrant. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, Sept. 11. A boy of 13 has just appeared before a higher criminal court and a remarkable story of precocious courage has thus been spread on the court records. At the beginning of the war the lad told his parents he wanted to go to the front. When they forbade him he ran away and joined an Infantry regiment. He is big for his age and the soldiers kept him. He fought bravely at the Marne and was wounded. From the hospital he was returned to his parents, but he soon joined another regiment. This time he showed such reckless courage near Loupls that he was mentioned In dispatches and publicly congratulated con-gratulated by the general of his division. The general also persuaded the boy that he had done enough fighting and had better bet-ter enter the French school for midshipmen midship-men al Brest. Soon tiring of books, the boy ran away a third time. He joined a regiment which came to Paris, where the boy was arrested arrest-ed as a-vagrant and sentenced to a penal colony. From this sentence he appealed. He was freed and the president of the appeal court congratulated him- on hi a record. " |