KAISER OFFERS REWARD
, "FOR FIRST AMERICAN TAKEN. A. recent Paris despatch to New York says that the American headquarters staff in France' had just been informed by the French authorities that Emperor -Wil--1 liam has promised a prize of 300 marks and threb weeks' : leave to the first Ger- '■: man who captures an American soldier. This information came from a German prisoner recently taken, who declared that the offer was contained in ah order issued I throughout tho army. A despatch telegraphed from the Brit- ! ish headquarters in France and Belgium i said that the German general commandI ing- the 11th'reserve division had promisi cd' to tho man who brought in to headquarters tho first American, dead or alive, the iron cross of the first-class, 400 mark 6, and two weeks' leave. That this offer had been made was disclosed by the diary of a captured Prussian sergeant of the 23rd reserve infantr3\ regiment.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 114, 10 November 1917, Page 3
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154KAISER OFFERS REWARD Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 114, 10 November 1917, Page 3
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