Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1920 — Wanted Further Information. [ARTICLE]

Wanted Further Information.

The suddenness with which tbe. great war broke out. and the confusion of mind that overtook persons wbo were not in a positloli to follow closely the course of events day by day. Is amusingly shown by this story told to Everybody’s Magazine. ~ i* British administrative official, stationed tn 8 village In the InteHor of Africa, just after the outbreak of war received the following telegram from his bureau chief: “War decfared. Arrest all enemy aliens at once.” Two days later the bureau chief was handed the following reply: “Have arrested two Frenchmen, a Dutchman, three Germans, two Americans, a Pohuader, three Russians and an Italian. Please tell ms whom wn are at war witter