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Show FIRST BLOOD. A mrirans in the trenches on the French front drew the first blood when a German soldier forfeited his life by mistaking his way and get-ttng get-ttng within range of tho rifles of Uncle Sam 's fighting representatives in the I-Juropean war. The German, who was captured and died later in a field hospital, hos-pital, told his captors that the rank and file of the kaiser's army did not know there were any Americans at the front, ,the news having been carefully concealed from them. He also volunteered vol-unteered the information that the German Ger-man soldiers were heartily sick and tired of t lie war. So far as the west front is concerned they are fighting on the defensive, and the men in the trenches who have been unable to stop the French and English will of course have no hope of ultimate success as soon as they become aware of the presence pres-ence of the American troops in front of them. That is the reason the news has been carefully concealed from them. The incident of the killing of this particular particu-lar German soldier is not worth more i than a passing notice. There will be . a harvest of death on both sides before peace returns to the world. It is not pleasant to contemplate such things, but we derive some satisfaction from the knowledge that the first victim was a German and we accept it as an augury of victory over tho Huns. |