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Show Veteran of World War Poses as Real German For once, Johu Thomas, a veteran of the World war, was glad that he could pose as a German, even though he had fought them on French soil in 1917 and 19 IS. For Thomas escaped from Iluertista rebels in Mexico by posing as a German, Ger-man, after the rebels learned that the United States had begun to supply the federalists with guns and munitions. Even then, he was tortured with hot irons, and his clothing taken from him. and escaped only through aid of friendly friend-ly freight train conductors, who helped him make his way across the border. Thomas was a miner employed by a British syndicate on the Jalisco-Guada-lajaro front, and the mine was attacked at-tacked and wrecked by the Huertistas. He was taken prisoner with a group of federal soldiers and was accused of being a "gringo." He saw another American killed by the rebels. "Americans are about as popular as rattlesnakes with the rebels just now," said Thomas to a group of American Legion members in El Paso, who provided pro-vided him shelter and funds. "Since the United States began to send munitions muni-tions to Obregon, they call it interference inter-ference In their family scraps." The rebels took ."07 pesos all the money he had and left him .almost naked, but he was freed when he claimed to be German. Then the loyal-Istic loyal-Istic troops caught him and repeated this treatment. |