Show LUCK lUC lUCIN IH IN SA BATTLE n TIlE IS I 1 I SUBJECT Of GROWING NU NUl l ER ANECDOTES Paris aris Juno June Luck Luck in Battle Is the subject of or an cr c number of ot anecdotes The colonel of or 1 a regiment that was I in the battle o of Morhange in tho the battle batlle of or the tho Marno Marne and at the attack attick of or l es pai participating in more than thun thana thuna a dozen battles s and a score of oC charges marching each tah time at nt the thc head of oC hl his hlf troops and each time i mining running ninety nine nine- t t ty chances out of or of or being killed never received a scratch though his I regiment was wn decimated both at Mor- Mor hango and The Tho other uther da day he I retired with will his staff state to an Isolated I village behind the lines hues to rest It was a spot the German heavy artillery I had hud neglected although It was In range The Th chances were that he i would pa pats pass s his days Lla's of oC rest rost there in I I security Tho e evening of oC his arrival al tin the Germans remembered there was wasa n a village there and began hegan to bombard I it The last shell fired fell In the thc Cr very center of oC the tho tho mess The fhe I four officers around him escaped cs with j Insignificant nt bruises but the colonel was killed outright Six artillery officers wore were at nt mess In Ina Inn inn 1 n a little house from which the fire tire of ot their battery hatter had hall been directed A Ashell Ashell shell struck truck It five fl of or them were killed hulled and the sixth untouched His Ills men pleaded with him to go so to co the cellar as long ong- ong as us tho the bombardment continued but h he Insisted on remaining remainIng remaining remain remain- ing where be he could better direct the theIre fire Ire of ot the batter battery Scores Score of or shells fell feU around lh the tho spot without touching him Finally he hc was prevailed upon lIPon lIPonI I I to go Jo into the cellar and he ht had no noi nomore no noI I more than disappeared 1 when H It shell shella 11 I III i a went through the tho collar l' l n win window In- In II dow and killed him 1 I Shells Sheds are arc more uncertain than but but- I lets lota the so soldiers s as sat The tatter latter are arc jI I j u expected as ns the soldier knows from Crom whore where the they are likely to come while the former strike in spots and at moments moments moments mo mo- I ments least IN expected Wind Ind and weather enter Into the elements of or I luck hick The dampness s of or the map from which an nn artillery officer calculates distances may account for tho the chance that brings a shell to a soldier or send It a hundred yar yards s from him |