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Show YANKEES EAGER TO GET IRON CROSS NsioupR- Hun Value Emblem Lightly Light-ly and Trade It for Totmcco. By Aaeeelated Preaa. WITH AMERICAN TROOPS NORTH-WEST NORTH-WEST OF VEIIDVN. Nov. It The Oer-man Oer-man Iron rroaa la the prile aouvenlr and to obtain one the Amrlcan eoldler will (ladly lv aeveral baaa of tobacoo, and even money In the bargain. It la an tntereetlng commentary on the eeleem. or lack of eatrem. In which the eroee l hrld by Krtta that he parte with It In a great number of caeea. and generally with only exprlone of contempt con-tempt for It and Ita aignlflcanoe. Even Uarm.n offlrera give up their croeeea occaalonallr. Here and there la to be found an American eoldler who haa a Oerman machine ma-chine or automatic gun aa a aouvenlr. but only rarely, becauoe they generally have a military value and are too bulky to be ueed or carried. German car-blnee car-blnee and rlflee are more popular, although al-though they. too. are almoat Imposalbly heavy and In the way. Greatly coveted though eeldora found j am the revolvere that Oerman offlrera I carry. V'nllke the American eoldler, the fjerman aeldom If ever earriee auch a weapon. Even the numeroue "naricoma" of the Oerman army have them only i rarely. Coneequentlv. they are eearce and are all the more popular becauee they are eaelly carried, ueeful and handy. They are good wen'e. too i Every Oerman eoldler rarrlea. a, a rule, a meaa of documenta on nle per- eon. ranging from written and unwrlt- j ten postcards to sentimental lit ust rated aawa and aaylngs. colored picturee. and j the like. At the start they were In de- j mand aa souvenirs, but are now far too ' common. Kven the Inevitable diary la j no longer popular. It la Invariably written writ-ten In Illegible Oerman ecrlpt and con-tat"S con-tat"S little If anything of Inter-at. Wrist wstches have been considered ' sine the beginning of the war aa the legitimate le-gitimate booty of the conqueror, and many and many a watch of enemy make now runs well or badlv upon the arm of I some victor. Ninety-nine out of every ! hundred watches, of courae. are virtually 1 worthiest), but the hundredth, originally the property of aome officer or aviator, la valuable and a thing of beautv. i - The Hat thua far comprises chiefly I the pure souvenir or remembrance of ; I the battle. In every retreat, however, j ! the Germans have left bvnnMt a wnote griat of utenslta tool bones, cartrldre ' cases and general utensils that are eagerly picked up by thoee who want aome additional facility for carrying their possessions with safety and ease. |