Show BIG GUNS GIVE NEWS OF PEACE PEACE-j TO LIGHT GUNS I Men len Up On Front Lines Sec See Lit Little c Indication That Enemy Means l It By Damon Runyon ST ST I I lI I OF TilE THE UNI WS SERVICE SER At tIme the American Argonne Front o Oct t. t 18 18 Figuring that the advanced po post post- l would be bo interested ted In tho the news of the tho da day tho the headquarters of ot ofa a heavy art artillery Ulery outfit telephoned such details of or the peace negotiations aa as aMhad ashad I had trickled up to them yesterday to the time bunch with the light guns buns away up at nt the tho front Tho The telephone service ser on tho the American American Ameri Ames can front Is very good It Is not quite as an easy eusy to give a n. man in a a. first hoc lino dugout a ring as it Is to call can up lip Spring noo N New w York but all nil things considered considered con con- the service Is ia goo good The heavies got bot Capt Milton Brown of Tennes Tennessee cc on the wire Brown was In charge of or the lights lIe He la is a brother of or Innes Innel Brown Dron of or New ew York the newspaper man Captain Milt MUt listened intently to what the heavies had to eay say When ho he hind had heard all the news he answered dryly lE u Well el I reckon ckon nobody nobody's 1 Jod s told lc meso oiras opposite us yet shelling hell hen out of or us The news was vas telephoned 1 on to a French outfit still sUIl further ahead The commander was quite excited about It but his hie answer was In line with Browns Brown's remark So the boche ho dont don't know It he said lie Ho stilt still fighting here Football Fans Gossip From another light battery position a n. voice olce that had hod a familiar sound to the listener In the heavies dugout came cam rasping along the wire Hey Who Vho is in that 7 demanded the listener This is Frank said eald the voice Who ho are you I Tim The old Dartmouth coach was well I up amid the fighting with the light guns Juns He lie said Minot the tho Harvard back was as with his outfit For a few minutes minutes' football was tho topic of ot the tho conversation con with the tho shell fire makIng making making mak mak- ing more racket at each elch end of or the wire than the rooting section at the tho Yale-Harvard Yale game This day produced mighty dreary ly I weather It rained It was cold A gray y haze hung over the tho world Out of or tho the grayness moved mo that everlasting ing parade of dripping infantrymen trucks wagons wa and artillery slashing to the front as tho the echoes of ot the thundering thun thun- dering derins- guns came camo drifting back Not Ideal Fighting Day If H the tho men could choose the tho da days s 's sor for or battle no man would ever choose such a da day as ns this The horses gave off orr steam as ns they strained against tIme the tU tugs The men went ent along kickin kick kick- in Ins blobs of mud from rom their shoes with every step The Tho rain seeped through ones one's Ver very soul Tanks were wele used in the fighting this timEs morning It was the first time in particular attack Mud Iud makes no difference dir dif ference to tho the tanks They lumber out of or haze like o 0 mud turtles move moYe against the enem enemy lines The heavies and lights were drcar drear pasting Jerrys lines with monotony The Tho heavy artillery man mar has a prosaic job In this particular drive He lie works on the Germans a couple of or miles away Often Otten he ho i is shooting from behind hills Big BIR shells shell come drifting his wa way out of ot the distant die dis tant horizon without him being able aula to see an any The Tho lights sometimes go forward Jd right on the heels h of ot tho Infantry The They are occasionally used to pot machine guns uns However back with the bi big guns uns life Ilfe Is precarious even If Ir It is in large largely routine A whole flock of ot shells shell may fall into a battery batter without doing doln an any damage like a futile shot Into a cove covey of ot quail Shells Shell Frill Fall Unannounced Then along will come como a a. loose chunk chun of or metal and cause all aU kinds of or trouble trou- trou ible ble ble The other da lay clay two 1 heavy heMy artillerymen artil artil- heard a n. shell wheezing MI lit i their direction Both nUn flung on the theroun ground roun close together Shells burst sixty yards ards from them One margot mangot man mar got up wholly unhurt but the oth other r man lay ay quite still lIe Ho was dead A front from a shell had flipped alon along the ground and ind penetrated hIs j It neck C ck Arthur Richardson of or Schroon N N. V Y came out of ot tho tIme ff fight ht toda today He t talks U s sIn in a slow drawling voice He was In Ina Ina a a. dugout this morning with two other men seen when a 1 shell landed among them Richardsons Richardson's companions were killed If It nn any psychologist is Interested in what tho the soldiers are aro going gains to do after the thc war ho might talk to Jars Met Met- lock a n colored gentleman wl o proclaims proclaims proclaims pro pro- claims himself an engineer Jars Jors has been hanging around the fringes in much of oC tho the recent fighting patching roads and what notAh not Ah Al come conte from Clarksville nell lieu county Texas Teas yas as sah soh said he today Ah wl wish h Ah wa waI I back bacle In ole Clarksville Dorc's Dores no noI place like Clarksville Clarks no sah Ah got I me one of or these heah bocho beebe guns uns to tal take e back to Clarksville Clarks to show to tho the folks De Deys Dey's s gob to bo ho mighty when Ah h tell urn um all Ah see Ah Ali wish Ah Alt was back in Iii I Clarksville Cl right this minute |