Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 25 | No Man's Land is Scene of Wedding

NO MAN'S LAND IS SCENE OF WEDDING Austrian Couple Are Married and Teast Is Held in Shell-torn Area. AMSTERDAM, March 30. A war wedding wed-ding which actually look place in No Man's Land between the fronts o the Russian and German armies is described in the German newspapers, lt was solemnized sol-emnized In a shertrshattered farmhouse standing almost niidway between the trench lines. This building has been known as the "Cafo International" since fraternization began between the Germans Ger-mans and Russians, . because it was a place where the soldiers met for drinking bonis and exchange of goods. Families which had been separated throughout the war were also permitted to hold reunions at this house. The bridegroom of the No Man 9 Land wedding was a Doctor lluitz, an Austrian police official. His parents and the bride lived in a. small portion or' Austrian territory ter-ritory which was still occupied by Russian Rus-sian ' armies, while lie lived behind the Austrian lines. As the Russian authorities authori-ties would not permit them to go into territory occupied by the Austrians, it was decided to hold the wedding on the neutral soil uf the ramshackle farmhouse. farm-house. The whVe vcoddmfc company made its wav throuch cptnins in the barbed wire and In tiie half-roofed slttlns? room of the'"Cafe Incernalional," the young- pair were married. Afterward there was a wedding feast and dancintr. .