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Show GERMAN SOLDIERS ON EAST FRONT REVOLT j LONDON, Jan. 6. A dispatch received j here from the Russian wireless service says that 25,006 German soldiers in the region east of Kovno have revolted. Ger- j man deserters stated that in consequence of the government drafting all' soldiers I below the age of 35 for dispatch to the western front, the aforementioned num- her of men rebelled and marched out of the battle line.' I They then intrenched themselves with rifles and machine guns against the other j German units. The German military authorities au-thorities have been powerless atrsinst the j revolters and are trying to cut off their j food supplies. The German deserters declared de-clared that one of the motives for the re- 1 volt was that the sending of troops to I the western front was a contravention of j the Russo-German armistice agreement. |