Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — FIRST CLASH WITH GERMANS [ARTICLE]

FIRST CLASH WITH GERMANS

American Soldiers Quarrel With Teutons at Peking Legation. Washington, March 23.—Since the break between the United States and Germany, American and German troops in the Peking legation quarter have come to blows once, and the Germans have had many quarrels with the French and British troops, stationed a stone’s throw distant. China is arranging to send the dismissed German diplomatic and consular officials in that country back to Germany by way of the United States, md has secured the consent of the \ite department to their passage cross the continent under safe con- - UL ‘t- ' ~. _ -