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Show INDIANS URGED FOR SERVICE IN THE U.S. ARMY London, July 23. Canadian officers offi-cers on leave here from ,tho French front have Informally recommended to American officials that American Indians be employed or enllBted for service With the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces. Manitoba .Indians with tho Canadians have done excellent work at scouting In No Man's Lland. "These Indiana with us,!' said a captain with' the Canadian 'forces whose parents live in Philadelphia, "have performed strvlces that neVc could have been performed by a white man. Tho Indian lot North AWrlca has it in his bones to be a good fighter and a crafty one. Wo have them In nearly every regiment. "Again and aagatn during the past two years 1 have seem them go out at night lietweon the tronchos, without with-out firing a shot, without making the slightest nolso or creating tho slightest disturbance, como back leading a half dozen or so Germans from whom much valuable Information Informa-tion has been obtained." ' '' ' - - - |