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possibility of h lasting peace founded on a com prom iso between democracy and autocracy, pointing: out that the world cannot be safe for democracy so long as an organized autocracy—its people still boll* vlng it victorious—is intrenched it. the center of Europe,”♦--(’ONscmiTioN uirn k\s.Melbourne. Australia. Doc. 28.— Partial returns in the referendum on j military compulsion give !*22.fibQ I against compulsion, and 79 4,000 for it. The soldiers' vote is now being counted in London.lt; oi.oi(i i) ori n r.its.From the Indianapolis News.There is no discrimination againstcolored soldiers, mid they nre receiving full recognition and fair treatment from the war department. The secretary of war says that more than 626 of the 1,25') colored men who completed the course at the reserve odicers' training camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, have been commissionedas ofhoers in the United States army; nearly 100 colored physicians and surgeons have received commissions in the medical reserve corps and a full lighting force of 30.000 colored soldiers, inlt; luding representatives in practically every branch of military service, will constitute the Ninety-second division under General Pershing in France. All of my reports. says the secretary of war, indicate that the colored men nre accepting this as an opportunity to serve and not an occasion for creating discord or trouble, and white men and officers are passing over the question of race differences In a helpful spirit.” The secretary concluded his statement with: We are bending all our energies to the building up of an army to defeat the enemy of democracy and freedom, and the army we are building contains both white and colored men. We are expecting that they will do their duty and when they have done it they will be alike entitled to the gratitude of their country.”
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana, US
Mon, Dec 24, 1917
Page 11
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