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KILLEDSOLDIERSUSE WEAPONSClash Is Precipitated .When Drunken American Officer Tramples French Flag.Two More Americans Will Die; More Than Two Hundred Woundr ed in Rioting.Brest, June 30.—Two French civilians were killed and five American soldiers and sailors were injured severely, and more than one hundred wounded in riots here last night. Two of the American soldiers are expected to die. .The casualties occurred as a result of the exchange of shots between American military and naval police and French sailors. The trouble began, according to a.ailable reports, when an American naval officer, who is said to have been drinking heavily, tore down a French flag and trampled on it. A crowd of Frenchman attacked the offi-'cer and it is said kicked and beat him until he was unconscious.Americans who were Wt aware of the cause of the fight, went to the aid of the naval officer. The fight then became general. A mob of French civilr ians and soldiers and sailors attempted to rush the Hotel Mod-erne where American officers were quartered. They burned a sentry box and threw stones at Americans in .uniform wherever they found them. The Americans, it Is said,^ retaliated.A company of marines was hurried to the scene and soon restored order. Admiral Henri Salaum, the French naval commander at Brest, ordered the marines to return to tneir barracks. As the marines marched back to their quarters, it is declared, they were pursued by a fcnob throwing stones and bricks.The city is quiet today. ,1
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Muskogee Times Democrat
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Jun 30, 1919
Page 7
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