Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 33 | Sergeant Explains Why He Whispered

SERGEANT EXPLAINS WHY HE WHISPERED Parliamentary Inspection Party Has an Amusing Esperience While Viewing View-ing Trenches. Ey EAEL C. REEVES, Universal Service Staff Correspondent, j LONDON',' Sept. 21. A parliamentary inspection party which recently visited Uie front was very, very quiet. They had heard a great deal about the necessity of not making a noise in certain front line trenches. One day they were turned over to a sergeant who was to tell them all about the trenches they were traversing. "Two hundred Huns were captured here." he whispered. The message was relayed in whispers to those in the rear. "Forty-nine of the blighters blown up here by a mine," he whispered at another an-other point, and again the whisper was relayed to the rear. Reaching a large dugout the tension relaxed and Uie re was general conversation, conversa-tion, during which one of the first questions ques-tions put to the sercea-nt was how far away were the German trenches at that point. "Oh, about nine miles; we captured those trenches months ago." "Dammit, why did you whisper then?" an irate M. P. broke in. "Because I've lost my voice," whispered whis-pered the sergeant.