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Show BOCHE CAMOUFLAGE AMUSES AMERICANS United States Army Officer Laughs at Dodges Attempted by the Germans. By International News Service. PARIS, May 15. American artillery officers of-ficers are fast becoming wise to the wiles of "brother boche" across the way. And American avialor observers and the men who sit about white pine tables dissecting dis-secting the aviators' photographs as they come wet from the developing table also have some hearty laughs at Fritz's attempts at-tempts to camouflage. "Do you know," laughed an officer, "they even tried the old dodge of mounting mount-ing logs of wood as cannon on us when we first took over the sector. Didn't even camouflage the wooden cannon, either. Just to remind them that we weren't as simple as all that, we let their real batteries have an extra heavy dose of shelling the morning after the wooden cannon were mounted. "You've got to hand it to the Heinies, however, for working hard on their camouflage, now that they have had a taste of our artillery. For every battery they have on this section they have a second camouflage battery. And their Schelnenlage Kommando, or camouflage group, certainly did work hard putting In those false batteries close at hand to the real ones. "They have been doing their darnedest to get us to fire on those false positions. As soon as their real .battery fires, up goes a cloud of light- white smoke from the camouflage battery and boom comes a detonation from the same direction which, they would have us believe is a real piece's whango. "At night they work harder still, vv hen the real battery fires a salvo our night hawks above see five or six red flashes from the fake battery. The flashes of the real battery are, of course, heavily shrouded. In the daytime they use smoke bags similar to those used by flashlight photographers over the muzzles of their rpfll euns." |