Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — IS CRIME TO KILL A MULE [ARTICLE]

IS CRIME TO KILL A MULE

French Army Regulations Provide Penalty of Two to Five Years Imprisonment for Offense. Washington.—Two to five years’ imprisonment for maliciously killing a government mule! Such is the penalty provided for this crime in the “llvret militaire” which every French Poilus carries, showing that though the mule may be French, his disposition is exceedingly like his American brother’s, and tempts the soldier to violence quite as irresistibly there as elsewhere. This small manual of 34 pages must be oh the soldier’s person night and day. He must be ready to present it for Inspection at every requisition. It contains his name, address, occupation, blank pages for notes and five pages of closely printed crimes which he might commit and penalties attached. As the cover of these precious uvrets” is of brown paper, the Red Cross through the American fund for French wounded has been maklhg for them small cases of oilcloth or other suitable material.