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Show AT THE FRONT Stars and Stripes Go Into Battle Bat-tle During Storming of Vimy Ridge. TEXAN CARRIES COLORS Joins in Assault With Canadians Can-adians With U. S. Flag on His Bayonet. PARIS. April 11, 3155 a. m. It was decided today that the Lafayette flying fly-ing squadron, composed of Americans who has distinguished themselves at the front, will change from the French to tho American military uniform and hereafter carry the American flag at the French front. OTTAWA, April 11. The Stars and Stripes went into battle for the first time during the world war during the recent entente storming of Vimy ridge, in France, according to an unofficial dispatch received hero today from Canadian Ca-nadian army headquarters in Europe. "To a young Texan, who came to Ontario to enlist and who is now lying ly-ing wounded in the hospital," the dispatch dis-patch reads, "belongs the honor of first carrying the Amorlcan flag into battle in tho European war, into which tho United States, as a belligerent, bellig-erent, has just entered. He went up to the assault at Thelus carrying the Stars and Stripes on his bayonet and fell thus." nn, |