Show GERMAN LUNCHEON DISTURBED DY BY SHELLS Soldiers Seek Safety ir ip in Trenches When French French i Interrupt Meal PARIS AR S F Feb Feh b 12 German Geran German newspapers newspapers pers are aro printing an amusing of the tile bombardment by the French o oa ot ota ota a village viage on the western wester front German troops were beginning to ea eat their midday meal meal i iThe The Tile food was on nn the table l h writes That Is such food as it i was was was' for in this dead and war ridden vii vI lage we must eat what we can ge get Sometimes we have peas prepare prepared and cooked with wih chemical chemical skill ski by the vil village village vI vil- vil lage schoolmaster and those tose peas are aro indeed a luxury We Ve have a a cookbook cookbook cook cool book but that is of little lite use for th the book says Use this' this or Use that tat but when you have not got it theres there's nothing to be done However despite all al tese these hand handl caps our meal was ready and and we had Just taken up our spoons to start in IE when we heard the melodious whistle of a shell shel that exploded near us wih with terrific violence To think that the French should disturb our little luncheon was very aggravating Of course couse we cannot cannot can can- not prevent it and so we go down dow Into the cellar celar and wait wait S ss comes the te second shell shel this time tie even nearer Several men who had remained re re- re- re maine at the table now Join joi us also aIso The third shell shel comes and our ou house trembles Our meal Is forgotten forgot forgotten forgot ten as we b begin to count the shells sheila coming our way Another crash followed fol lowed by falling stones in the village street We see that things are In earnest The cellar becomes unten- unten able Our only recourse Is to fleeto flop flee to the protection of a well fortified trench on the outskirts of the village As the shells come flying at two min ute intervals we calculate that we ca reach the trench before the next shot shoK One two three and we are out ot of the cellar and we reach the trench Just as the next shell explodes over the very house which we had left These shells are the deadly ones of neutral American manufacture that emit a stifling black smoke The guns gusis are well aimed and there Is consider considerable able damage as we can see from our trench Two minutes pass and no shot is heard Five minutes and still none The bombardment has has' has ceased ceased as suddenly suddenly sud- sud denly as it began Carefully we crawl out of our trench and go back to the house lt is shot to pieces and bottles and plates and food scattered everywhere However we begin at once U to set things to rights as much as p possible pos pos- sible and to forestall any further interference in- in j in-j we place this sign above the door Entrance for shells forbidden |