Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — AMERICANS IN-GERMAN ARMY [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS IN-GERMAN ARMY

Enemy Forcing Sons of United States Citizens in Germany Into Service. Copenhagen.—The German military authorities continue the practice of putting into the army nersons living in Germany who have lost their original citizenship without acquiring German nationality. A new order says that former nationals of foreign states, including former Americans, will not be employed with the front-line troops, but must serve in the armies of occupation or elsewhere behind the front, This applies to German-Americana who returned to Germany to live after being naturalised in the United States. The children of such parents are liable to service in the trenches in case they have not completed the necessary steps to Obtain |American citizenship. **”