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Kansas Lad Returns Home After Spanish Adventure
Harold Ewing 16-year-old enlistee recounts serving in the U S Army then forced to sail to Hamburg and Buenos Aires, detained, sent to a Spanish training camp, and later captured by Moors. He escaped with a German comrade after three wounds, hid as a civilian, and reached Genoa with U S consul help. Affidavits and investigations followed before his return home. Also notes extinct Galapagos Island animals found off Ecuador coast.
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