Show i HAUNTED HAur TED RIFLE IN TRENCHES TRENCH S Si i German Gun Captured in Abandoned Dugout Brings Trouble to New J Owner the Latter Believes An m officer In the European trenches writes I have heard beard many ill III omens app applied ap ap- p plied ed to certain towns or villages fehere There Is one on the tower Albert for z Jn Instance while certain dugouts are arc always s 's It is a bad had omen in some parts of the line to stumble over oyer I n a grave During the late offensive a certain young o officer cel found In a n captured trench a a German snipers sniper's rifle with two small Ivory disks let lct Into the stock He kept It in his dugout Intending to take It back hack to billets when the they vacated vacated va vu the trench One morning he brought It out in the trench to clean and mid Fritz thereupon started strafing so that he lie had to retire again to his Ills dugout Next day the same thing l happened and whenever he brought the rifle out of the Ole dugout shells would li begin gin to come over Finally the thing got so 80 on his nerves that he refused t to let any one touch the rifle It Is probably still in the dugout for it Is certain that the legend was handed on onto onto onto to the next occupants |