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Show SOLDIERS FORBIDDEN TO RETAIN TROPHIES Regulations Are Strict, but Fighters . Use Many Sorts of Subterfuge in Order to Evado Them. LONDON, June 29 No lonper are British soldiers on leave seen streaming stream-ing out of the bi Loudon railroad stations sta-tions with trophies of the groat war in the form of a German helmet, rifle, bayonet or a few odd bombs ami shells to decorate the walls of their home. An army order long since .issued, but only f very recently put rigidly into effect, forbids the carrying off of these trophic tro-phic from the battlefield, and now hawk-eyed military police watch the1 leave boats. But all the orders in the world and all the precautions ever invented will not stop souvenir hunters. And the Tommies have the cra.c worse than nimble-fingered gentry who used to specialize in railway straps, hotel soap and towels and chips of granite from old castles. Tj carry the stuff home the soldiers will try all sorts of subterfuge. They will tarry their souvenirs about with them from rest billets to the trencher, sometimes even refusing to dump it when going into action. Thev guard |