Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 73 | An Effective Break

An Efl'ective Break. A dusky doughboy, burdened under tons of medals and miles and miles of ribbons, service and wound chevrons, stars, et al., encountered a Twenty-seventh division scrapper in I.e Mans a few days prior to tiie division's departure for the states. "Whar yo' all ben scrappin' in dis yar war. boss?" meekly inquired the colored soldier. "Whar yo' all ben scrappin' in dis yar war. boss?" meekly Inquired tho colored soldier. "Why, we've been fighting up in Belgium Bel-gium and Flanders, with the British," replied the Xew Yorker, proudly. "Well, we ben down in dem woods wntcha call 'em woods 'way down south?" "The Argonne?" suggested young Knickerbocker. "Yas, yas, dem's de woods d Ar-gonne.' Ar-gonne.' "You know, our division was the first to break the Hind-nburg lino, colored bov." explained the Twenty-seventh man. "Was it you wot did dat trick? Y' know, boss, we felt dat or line sag 'way down in d' Argonne." The Gas Attack.