Show HI LICE DOPE Ls S WORSE VORSE WORSEN Aw N GAS Medicine on Cor- Cor Gives Rise to I Alarm c- c dI C. C Lyon ral Republicans Republican's Republicans Republican's Re Re- Army in France I FRONT LINE April p il 25 Amen Amerl- n the front line trenches happen occasionally m fl advanced listening pos post I lout put Into No M Mans Man's ns n's Land d detected gas A corporal corpora at ates S were with me In the post from which a sharp lookout on re ches across the way gas ma masks ls quick Corporal Cant take any law 1 t stuff n l time he sounded the I 1 gas alarm and pretty soon Boon we could see them sending up rockets farther back which was a 3 signal to the reserve re re reserve reserve re- re serve troops also to prepare for a possible possible pos pos- j Sibl sible gas attack I After Arter about ten minutes the trench I gas officer came out to investigate I d dont don't nt detect any gas ga at all corporal cor con I he said You must have been mistaken and he went back and sent out a danger past signal I The corporal then made himself comfortable le on an old box boc alongside of ot me and began telling me mo bout about his girl back in New Jersey All Alt the time however I was getting whiffs of something that almost knocked me off ott the box box Corporal i said at length I dont don't want to be the cause of any more fake gas scares cares but I certainly do smell something awful Th The corporal himself sniffed a few times and then declared he couldn't smell a thing Come over here and see if It you can smell anything he ho said to the two privates standing nearby This newspaper newspaper news news- r paper guy hero thinks hes he's being bellg gassed again After Atter the privates had inhaled the I I night air a few times in our immedi- immedi ate vicinity one o of ot f them said to the corporal Say Bill Dill he doesn't smell gas Its It's that stink bag youve you've got around your neck Thereupon Dill Bill the corporal unbuttoned toned his coat and fished out from behind behind be be- I hind his underwear a a- little bag that was fastened to a string around his neck I I The odor was something t e I b l LICE PREFERABLE Well Veil Ill I'll bo be darned was Bills Bill's comment Dont you know what that that's s for Well we wear these bags filled with some chemical or ot medicine or something and they keep the trench vermin off us Say they're fino fine They actually drive the crawlers right out through your shoes I can get you one if you want me to Much obliged Bill Dill I said but I believe Id I'd rather have the crawlers S S An Indiana boy of 20 was doing sentry sentry sen sen- try duty and had been firmly admon admon- by his captain to let nobody pass his post without the roper proper pas password word I A few hours later a II middle aged soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- 1 dier came down the trench and was i halted by Dick the Advance and give the password Dick commanded Oh that's all right Im I'm your colonel colonel colo cob other I 1 nel aol said tho the dont don't happen to remember the password Just now Nix on that stuff sturt said Dick How do I t know youre you're my colonel But I am your colonel coonel and an I de deI demand de- de demand I mand to pass returned the other ap app app apparently ap- ap p in anger You can see from the tho Insignia on my shoulders that Im I'm Ima a colonel That doesn tell me anything Dick came back We Ve V caught a boche the other night who ho said he ht was an American captain and he almost got awa away with It Dont Don't come another step without the password or Ill I'll stick this bayonet into your belly Ill go and report you OU to your captain cap cap- tam tain said the tho other and he turned on his heel and left lert Pretty soon the captain came to toI I Dicks Dick's post Dick he said youre a 3 corporal from now on That was fine stuff sturt you I pulled on the colonel He was testing you fellows out lie got by two or three by bluffing them and they'll face tace charges in the morning lIe He might have been a German spy masquerading In in an on American uniform you know |