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Show BOY OF SIXTEEN IS SOLDIER "PERFORCE" ; Special Cable to The Tribune. PARTS, Dec. 1 Among a convoy of German prl Honors passing through St. Omer wns a boy under 17 who spoke French fluently. In conversation with a local resident the youth remarked. "This Is St. Omer. Isn't it'.'" He was informed Thnt It wus. 'Ta it far within the French frontier?" he innocently Inquired. "It Is in tho north." was he cold reply. "Ah!" said the youth, "that is a surprise to us. Sixteen of my companions and mv-self mv-self were taken from our benches In tho university at which wo were studying. They gave us uniforms and a rifle and here we nre. "My mother wns not to'd of my departure de-parture Whpt will she think? For'three weeks before I left school I had not seen her. Klght days after they equipped us thev put us in the trench.s. We did not know how to bold our rifles. And then, one fine day while our commander was in the act of calling the roll, we found ourselves our-selves surround',! by French soldiers, who made us prisoners. And now we Pnd ourselvert bore, after we had been told on our departure t'-at wp wore eoirur to guard Furls nnd the other great cities we had taken," |