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Show BITTER WORDS OVER A STOLEN GOOSE HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERICAN AMER-ICAN TROOPS WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE, June 17. (Mail) Bitter words have passed between two battalions of American soldiers here over a stolen goose. Tho bird was missed from a little farm in the area occupied by one battalion but the feathers were found within the district occupied by the other. Believing that its territory had been invaded the first battalion informed tho second that when it folt the growing grow-ing need for goose It would bo well to confine its foraging to its own territory terri-tory and avoid casting unpleasant implications im-plications upon its neighbors. The second disowned tho feathers but paid for the goose as a mattor of pride, to protect the property of tho natives In the area occupied by the American regiments the colonel has prescribed a new penalty. "Any man In my command com-mand who lays a hand on a fowl that has not been bought and paid for will have to eat tho feathers," he declares. rtn . |