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AUTOMOBILE SECTION
PART
TWO
67th YEAR
RICHMOND, VA? SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1917.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS
Nearly 700,000 Negro Soldiers
Are Now With the Annies
of France.
Many very intelligent
Become Melancholy and Lose
Appetite at Sight of Snow
Covered Landscape.
ZULUCH, February 18.?A war correspondent of the Neuc Zuerich Z?\
tung, who returned from the western
war theater recently, after spending
two years in the field, was the French
and British troops, reports that the
African negroes in the French army
now number nearly 800,000. About
300,000 are stationed on the
Southern wing of the line, near the
Swiss border.
The colored soldiers come from Algeria, Morocco, Hahomey, the French
colonies and other African colonies in
France, and are now in the hands of the French.
As a rule, they have no fear of death,
and they willingly give up their
privations and face the greatest dangers without fire being.
When the negroes first arrive from Africa, they give the military authority
hints considerable trouble, because it is hard to yet get there.  The submission to the strict military discipline, although they are partly trained before they are brought to Europe. Their fiery temperament often leads to a May with them, and it happens that they attack nonconformists. The culprits are invader, shot warning for others. 