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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH two snipers to each company and be- him In the trenches, boeuusa our out cause they took more chances with fits were nowhere near each other, but A their lives than the ordinary privates whenever we were In bllleta at tha as much they were allowed more privileges. same lime, wa wero together as our When It was at all possible possible. anlpcra Brown wna a funny card and I never were allowed dry quarter, the best of food, aud they did not have to follow saw anyone else much like him, A folthe usual routine, but cam and went big, talk red headed, dopcy-lookln- g In alow and much never aa they pleased. low, enylng Our snipers, as a rule, went over everything ho did or said you would the parapet about dunk, Just before never think he amounted to much or HE FEEDS OUR ARMIES rrttz got his atar shells going. They was worth his salt. The boys used to would crawl out to shell crater or call him Ginger Broun, both on actree stump or holes that they had count of his red hair ond his slow because sur, itf mother Who worries spotted during tbo day In other movements. But he would pull a Is the United States nrmy whore they could ace prise on you every onco In a while words, places food to rKJSr the enemy parapets but could not be like this one that he fooled me with. 1 nourishing a delusion. 1L Once In position, One morning about dawn we started themselves. seen Kuhn rations may not suit Ms comfortthemselves muke would for a walk through what used to out they to as well as the pies smear their tin hats with dirt, be DIxmude pile of stone ond brick able, Pother uwd to make, It Is better get a good reat for their rifles aud nnd mortar. There were no civvies to AND CHIEF PETTYFFfCERrUrNAV preserve 1.1s health and snipe every German they aaw. They be seen ; only mules and horses bringthe army LEGION wore extra bandoleers of cartridges, ing up casks of water, bags of beuns, &, cl fare. The lifeonofthe FOREIGN THE OF FRANCE MEMBER, OF essen-I- . him to depend since there was no telling how many chloride of lime, barbed wire, ammuCASSARD CAPTAIN BATTLESHIP FRENCH CUN TURRET, food Is rounds they might fire during the nition. etc. It was a good thing wa Md be Is content If his WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE PLime, well cooked. properly night. Sometimes they hud direct and were not superstitious. At that, th Cwynsfe Mill RcJfcr W haon C. Thr Armn WA Gwrp Mutow Adtm Saw oa time, and In plenty. The visible targets and other times they shadows along the walla made me feel bureau of the quarter-IfJ- rt potted Huns by guesswork. Usually shaky sometimes. Come on department, under the super-rfj- i they crawled back Just before dayFinally Brown said: at DEPEW GETS HIS FIRST EXPERIENCE IN THE FRONT LINE of Col. William R. Groves, light, but sometimes tncy were out 24 dowa; let' ee the 75e." At thla houra at a stretch. They took great time I hod not seen a 75," except on .li to all these requirements. TRENCHES AT DIXMUDE. missed has I soldier single pride In the number of Germans they train going to the front, ao I took Xotone I M. C. knocked over, and If our men did not him np right away, but was surprised (lugle meal because Q. I Z ouirtermaster department of the get eight or ten they thought they had that be should know where they were. Synopsis. Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service o Irdtcd States army didnt have the not done a good night's work. Of After going half way around In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief And the not wholesale was course him. and It killing, supply we for Here are," Brown ready said, gunner. The world war starts soon after he petty officer, first-clas- s I L been so carefully selected, the like machine gunning, but It was very started right Into what was left of a his honorable from receives the he leaves for and alnavy, discharge I useful, because our snipers were adjusted, the qrchaalnff so nicely big house. I kept wondering how he France with a determination to enlist, lie Joins the Foreign Legion and I Importation so accurately arranged for, that the loss through deterioration ways laying for the German snipers, would know so much about It, but fol- Is assigned to the dreadnought Cassurd. where his marksmanship wins a cent per month per man. and when they got Sniper Frits they I spoiled goods has been only one-hal- f him high honors. Later he U transferred to the land forces and sent to I saved Just so mnny of our lives. fond the I of furnished the army by commissary depart-it to the quality the Flanders front. The Limeys have a great little exsome has bad meat There been furnished Is the lacking. trltk.sm scot, I not come this but did I be the to condemned, pression that mean a lot; Curry on. quurter-through got that bad mess was the from outside It They say It Is a cockney expression. by stores. sergeunts purchased sisters our noses worse than the cooties. They When a CHAPTER IV Continued. captain falls In action, bis Ljrco. certainly were gume little devils, and words are not a message to the girl In the communication trench you came right hack at us. he loft behind him or any dope about have to keep your distance from the So most of the pollus threw the his mother, but Carry on BUILD HELPED SHE SHIPS man ahead of you. This Is done so dope at Fritz and fought the cooties Lieutenant Whosls." If the lieutenant that you will have plenty of room to liund to hand. gets his It Is Carry on. Sergeant fall down In, and because if a shell There was plenty of food In the Jacks," and ao on as far as It goes. Many a woman who stands all should find the trench, there would be trenches most of the time, though once So the words used to mean, Take over a washtub and an Ironing fewer casualties in nu open formation In a while, during a heavy bombard- over the command and do the job day board, cooks three meals and looks than in a closed. The German artil- ment, the fatigue usually a corporals right" But now they mean not only after a brood of small children has a lery Is keen on communication guard would get killed In the com that but Keep up your courage, nnd far hnrder job than most men In the trenches, nnd whenever they spot one niunloation trenches and wo would not go to It" One man will sny It to they stay with It a long time. Most have time to get out to the fatigue and another sometimes when he thinks the shipyards." This Is the conclusion of Mrs. Mar- of them are camouflaged along the top rescue the grub they were bringing. first man is getting downhearted, but guerite E. Ilarrlson, widow of Thomas and sides, so that enemy aviators can- Sometimes you could not find either more often. If he Is a Limey, he will B. Harrison of Haltimore, based on a not see anything but the earth or the fatigue or the grub when you got start Lidding him. weeks experiences In overalls as a bushes, when they throw an eye down to the point where they had been hit, uur men, of course, did not say But, as I say, we were well fed most Curry on," and In fact thy did not shipbuilder for the Bethlehem Ship- on our lines. We took over our section of the of the time, ond got second and third have any expression in French that building corporation at Sparrows front line trenches from a French line helpings until we had to open our meant' exactly the same thing. But Iolnt, Md. Believing that the time may come regiment that had been on the Job for belts. But as the Limeys say: Gaw they used to cheer each other along, when the wives and mothers and sis- 24 days. That was the longest time blimey, the chuck was rough." They all right, and they passed along the ters of the men who must fight will I have heard of any troops remaining served a thick soup of meat and vege- command when it was necessary, too. tables In bowls the size of wash ba- I wonder what expression the Amort be needed for shipyard work In the on the firing line. Conditions at the front and ways of sins, black coffee with or without can troops will use. (You notice United States, Mrs. Harrison applied Wa Started Right Into What Was Left for ar.d got her Joh, determined to find fighting are changing all the time, as sugar mostly without! and plenty do not call them Sammies!) of a Big House. out Just what a woman shipbuilder each side Invents new methods of of bread. I took my turn at listening post with In describe had we to so when I tins. Just Also, would be called upon to do and whethtry preserves butchering, the rest of them, of course. A listen- lowed him. Inside the house was a the Dixraude trenches, you must real- like the Limeys. If you send any par- ing post Is any good position out In er she could do It. under the ruins. It was She was the first woman shipyard ize that it Is probably Just history by cels over, do not put any apple and No Mon's Land, end Is always held by pnssngeway seven feet wide and fifty feet about man who In as them or the the only now. If they are still using trenches plum Jam gets two men. Their Job Is to keep a live worker In this country, and should Judge. there they probably look entirely dif- It will let Fritz shoot him. Ask any ear on Fritz and In case they hear any- long, I vonum among 7,650 men In the plant she worked as a helper In various At other end was the great old the will tell the soldier he and you Limey departments, performing her tasks with an aptitude that won the admiration ferent thing that sounds very much like an 75," poking Its nose out of a hole In same. I never thought there was so nttuck one man runs back to his lines i her bosses. She Is convinced that If labor In this country becomes so Bet when I was at DIxmude they much Jam In the world. No Mans and the other stays to hold back the the wall. The gun captain and tha rare that women are called upon to fill the gaps In the shipyards they will were something like this: front-line Land looked like a city dump. Most Boches as long as he can. You can crew were sitting around waiting the Behind the series of Mt find the work too hard for them. In us took it, after a while. Just to figure for yourself which Is the most word for action, and they seemed to reserve of are In the trenches families trenches; Mrs. Harrison belongs to one of the oldest and know Brown well. I was surprised at Baltimore. She Is a daughter of Bernard N. Baker, founder of the Atlantic this case five to seven miles away, and get the bread. Early In the war they healthful Job. that, but still more so when he told These billets. bombs to but make are back used the still the tins of, farther merchant Transport company, which was taken over by the International As many times as I went on listen me I could examine the gun If I ruined came before Mills that along with ing-pomay be bouses or barns or urine. duty I never did get to feel- wanted to, Just as If he owned churches any place that can possibly his hand grenade. Later on they flat homelike there exactly. You have ing So I sat In the scat and trained the when lined the dug to He tened out the tins and be used for quartering troops very still, of course, as Fritz Is cross wires on an object, opened and off duty. outs with them. listening, too, and a move may mean TELLS OF SURGERYS TRIUMPH Each man carried an emergency ra- a bullet In the ribs. So, lying on the closed the breech and examined the Troops were usually In the frontrecoil. line trenches six to eight days, and tion In his bag. This consisted of bully with hardly a change of posiThen Brown said: Well, Chink, fourteen to sixteen days In the reserve beef, biscuits, etc. This ration was ground of whole lower tion, the part my body youll see some real gunnery now," and for billets back Then to the trenches. In a never real used emergency, except Surgerys greatest triumph during would go to sleep before I had been six or eight days. they passed the word and took staunr has come through a repudia-o- f because no one could tell when It at the post very long. I used to brag 1 our We were not allowed to change medical decoctions. might mean the difference between a lot about bow fast I could run, ao tions. My eyes bulged out when 1 It has front-lin- e with saw them Brown his station take trenches In wne through the elimination of disln-iMnthe When him. life and death to clothing daylight I had turn as the runner, which not even to remove socks, unless for catches a man In a shell hole or at a suited my Sllencel" Is about 'the first comprocesses In treating septic me all right But every time would let Nor you mand a gun crew gets when it la going In No Land Mans out they founds, and the substitution therefor Inspection. listening post to a listening post and started I ns much as unbutton your shirt, unless he does not dare to crawl back to his to got f the knife. Into but I forgot all about It, action, think about what I would do If there was an Inspection of identifica- trench before nightfall, and then is the Fritz should come over and wondered and shouted out and asked Brown how It was not In those words that Col. Herbert A. he got to be a gunner. But he only tion disks. We wore a disk at the time that his emergency ration comes how Bruee, consulting surgeon good a runner he was, I took a and another around the neck. In handy. Also, the stores failed to the British armies In wrist do your grinned and looked dopey, as usual. breath and France, whose said, Feet long You know the gag about the disks, of reach us sometimes, as I have said, Then I came to and expected to get a professional And I was strong on duty. territory nt the front emboff they and we had to use the emergency duty." races 30,000 : Is blown course arm call down from the officer, but he only If your w beds, expressed It hen After I had done my stunt In the can tell who you are by the neck disk ; rations. and so did the crew. It bfas asked what he regarded ns the front-lin- e and reserve trenches I went grinned Is blown off, they do not head seems If meat had It all framed to spring raw Pontest achievement received Sometimes we scl-c- e your they of surgical back with my company to billets, but on me. and who you are. care We built In our ond It since the war fried dugouts. they expected I would bs In pence began. had only been there for a day or two can reserve tow he Is trenches In the you surprised. sur-P-7 professor of clinical before I was detached and detailed to make yourself more comfortable, but cotton In our ears and t the University of Toronto. the artillery position to the right of us, theSo we put caUed you cannot go to such extreme lengths the observation "Practically all wounds are captain both and French British where the of luxury as changing your clothes entower a distance short Colonel Bruce said. away and they We had mounted naval guns. There were tirely, That Is for billets, where you gave him the range. Then the captain passed through various stages both calibers naval of all guns there, lhe treatment 4128 meters" to Brown. They spend most of your time bathing, of such wounds, and I and field pieces, and I got a good look "called and eating. clothes, I sleeping nose of a shell In a fuse changing the may servplaced Juk sny thut now. In our at the famous 75's, which are the Believe me, a billet Is great stuff; It ,D(1 la the turned the handle until and adjuster French and In yours, a In in estlma the world, best guns my Is like a sort of temporary heaven. 4128. This set tha scale It reached twhnlc 1ms developed. This tlon, and the one thing that savecl Of course you know what the word method consists fuse to explode at the range given. of the thorough mechanical dennaing of the wound, the ex Verdun. cooties" means. Let us hope you lon of an Then they slammed the shell into the infected and damaged tissues, and the primary closure of the The 75's" fired SO shots a minute, never know what the cooties hill founds In cases When Inflicted. breech, locked It shut and Brown sent could operated upon soon after the Injury Is where the best the German guns themselves mean. When you get In his best to Fritz. stations, conditions do not clearing the in casualty do was six. The American three-inc- h permit of prininry closure take a course Jr either the delayed primary closure or a secondary closure takes place at or near the trenches, you The barrel slipped back, threw out field a six lets times minute, go piece In the natural history of bugs, lice, ho'e hospital." shell case at our feet and returned the owns too. The French the government has rats and every kind of pest that over a cushion of grease. Then we made secret mechanism the that of ever been Invented. this rapid fire possible. When the first received the result by telephone from It Is funny to see some of the new75s" began to roar, the Germans the observation tower. After he had OUR CONGRESSMAN-AVIATO- R comers when they first discover a knew the French bad found a new fired twelve shots the captain said to them of cry. cootie on them. Some so they were very anxious to Brown, You should never waste yourweapon, If they really knew what It was going one of the guns and learn the self In Infantry, son." And old dopey get the worse than Guardla, do La would Fiovello to be like they Brown just stood there and grinned. secret. viator of the United States, that, maybe. exThat was Brown every time. He the afterward establish ench over Shortly to all they captured start much Then they hunting has done knew about more things than you could mass this a in attack between eight guna by which, other. Just like monkeys. They tenm cellent relations existing think of. lie had read about gunnery Gerorator allies the an were there Is 4,000 claim, He It times and nnd mnny this purpose, Italy. up for country man troops killed. The Boches studied nnd fooled around at DIxmude until and patriot, an American by birth but Is In this way that a couple of men get the guns and tried to turn out pieces they let him play with the 75s," nnd an Italian of origin and heart, who has to be trench pnrtners and come to be like them at the Krupp factory. But finally here he was, giving his kindest excellent an a be be not to long shown himself They Potted Huns by Guess Work. pals for life which may disomehow they could not get it. Their to old Fritz with the rest of them. Houses White the of at that. time mouthpiece trenches It Is more regular clay ovens In the dugouts, with Imitation 75s" would only fire five In the front-lin- e plomacy, a worthy nnd indefutignble broiling. This, of course, shots very rapidly and then cough comfortable to fall asleep on the para- iron tops forfront-linherald of the government's democracy. e was In the trenches only. thirty-seve- n Yo- -t beMembers of the Foreign LeNew fire-step In puff, puff, puff, with nothing coming in the than horn dugouts, He was pet fire-ste- p We a two on hours worked was the out r fath. The destructive power of the gion, all soldiers of fortune, cause the cooties are thicker down years ago., Ills off and knocked swear vengeanca when they see for four , hours, 758" Is enormous. not from will Foggln, These have below-give and guns they simply military bandmaster Is at present in which time we cooked and nte and saved the lives of thousands of pollus the Germans place Belgian womrest. Guardla certainly La a minutes They where you Italv, I is This routine was kept up night and Tommies and It is largely due to en and children In front of them an officer at the aviation camp.of the are active little pests. We used to slept. seven days a week. Some- them that the French are now able to and as shields against the enemys one day, certain of out make back scratches mother came from Flume, untimes the program was changed; for beat Fritz at his own game and give Gunner Depew tells about fire. but at flexible handles, had present that of Istrin, cities weapons Italian this In the next Installment. never had time to use them when we Instance, when there was to be an at back shell for shell and then some. der the Austrian yoke. tack or when Fritz tried to come over When in his twentieth year he needed them most. was and visit, bat otherwise nothing disnnd a of career bottles CHAPTER V. liquid were We given entered the diplomatic (TO BB CONTINUED.) of the which snelled like lysol and were sup- turbed our routine unless It was a gas t.uuuber a as to Budapest sent w as attack. With tha 75s." She Wont Believe It posed to aonk our clothes In It. It United States consulate. In l.H)l fec The ambition of most privates Is to named him thought that the cooties would object My pal Brown, of whom I spoke beJohn Hay A man may be a hopeless Idiot, but State of retary Well, become a sniper, as the official sharps fore, had been put In the infantry If he admires a woman you cant conmell and quit work. consul at Flume, his mothers birthplace. His th "dialect , to the clothes shooters are colled. After a private when he entlsted In the Legion, be- vince her that he Is h. Italian and German, besides various Slav and Croatian i cootie that could stand our crazy. vithout the dope on them would not has been in the trenches for six cause he had served In the United dm successfully to perform his duties. months or a vcnprsl like this and shown has n soon his He little became States a year thing e bothered by Infantry. e his election to congress In 1010 he was depu y Trinidad Is Increasing Its petroleum' Guardla tuff. Also, our clothes got so ecrur marksmanship, he becomes the great sergeant, which had been his rating production, the output last year being ork state. As soon as the United States entered the war La We had In the American service. I never saw almost 50.000,000 id horrible smelling that they hurt man be has dreamed about la services as on aviator. gallons. i Tficjfpjairr nt-on- d Albert. Dei 1 rTo JXj?' Sit dl-hJ- S Vl See Dlx-mud- u L gray-haire- d 1 best-know- n s it nt d, - |