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Show . IBB TBOIO The Enemy Within; cr, Rounding Up Spies en the Western Front Sergeant ArthurGuy EPr ; Author of Over tha Top" First Call," Eta - abonfTwoVeeks agoTIrofl know, the one where that big church with all the shell holes in Ifwas right on the corner where we' turned to the left to T take the road at St. A We all remembered It and turned Inquiring glances In Curlya direction. Well, this morning, when I went don n with the quarter (quartermaster sergeant), to draw coal, I me a fellow at division headquarters who told me mighty Interesting story of how he amT another f ellow rounded up a cou- v ple of spies. This bloke, through modesty, and to cover up his own good work, tried to make me believe that It was only through a lucky phanre that he stumbled over the clue which lead to the v O-O-- O.-. t , t Mf. Empeys Experiences Durirg His Seventeen Months in the First Line Trenches of ther British Anriy inFrance tOm9TngM.tM.br i W were In nst' billets In the little , about ten French village of S kilos from the front line trench. Number Two gun crew were Bitting on tha ground In a circle around their mac chine gun, while a sergeant,-- newly return ed frora a special course In machine gunnery at St. OTOer.waS lest founding the theory of scientific machine gunnery. - He himself bad never actually been tinder fire with a mar chine gun, but from tha theoretical point he sura could throw out Jha book stuff. I "must confess thathli flow of eloquence passed over my bead like a Zeppelin, and I noticed an uneasy squirming' among the rest of our Crew.' ! 7 Happy Houghton, Who was sitting next to me, leaned over, and with his .aye on the sergeant, whispered In my & - - . " glanced at onr wrist Wj constantly ' " Fifteen minutes more and watches. the lesson would be over. The aer-- geent was becoming confusedand was trying to flounder through the rest of , his talk. ' We had mo mercy tm him, ' but kept up the scratching.; At last. In desperation, the sergeant said: Ton men have actually been under fire with machine guns several times. Cant one of you relate some Incident " of how.Uhrough some fuse, you put It orer on the Bxhe?" Ikey Honney, grasping this golden opportunity to break op the lecture, and slyly winking at us, started In and fold how ft certain guns crew Io- -' cated and put eut of action aQerroan machine gunner by playing a June on : their gun, which thg German tried to Imitate, thereby indicating to them by Bound the exact location of the which was later put optof action by concentrated machine-guT Are from their section. course we all listened very Intently, but It was an old story to "us, because we were the guns crew which bad accomplished the feat that'Hon-me- y . n . d , t Was describing bnt'n?(hlDg grafc than- listening to that sing-son- better - : - - V h - smarted In with ; Remember that village wq passed throdthfen er,'m;ira " We were pretty sure that we had him, but this arresting a spy oh slim We evidence la a ticklish matter.' didnt want to make a mesa of the affair, or perhaps send an Innocent roan to his death, ao the following day we Sure again took up, our stations." enough, It was two grays In the morning, but in the afternoon he need wo blacks. That night troops came through and were shelled,. We had solved the problem. Two grays In the morning mean nothing. The actual ner was still, attentively listening to signal to the enemy was the change the two across the table from us. An- of horses In the afternoon ; two blacks other poke In the knee from my part- meaning troops Coming throu ner and I was all uttentlon. One of the night, shell the road a. gray- - and a fellows across the way was talking: black, "No troops expected, -- do not Well, I dont see why this French shell." When it got dark and It was safe blighter .should change horses . In his Ive watched to leave the hedge, we immediately replow every afternoon. him for several days. Nowf'ln the ported the whoie iffalt to the town morning he usea two grays, and then major '(an English officer detailed la about two in the afternoon he either charge of .a French village or town hooks up two blacks or a gray and a occupied by English troops) who, acblack. French waya may be different, companied by ua and a detail of six but fki frog-eatis very partial to men with fixed bayonets, went to the the colors ,o, his team. -- He.voiles the fanner's house that night and arrestgreys all morning and then changea ed hlnn" He protested, his Innocence, g them In the afternoon. , Now, figure it bat -- we took him to military police out for yourself. He starts work with headquarters where, after a grueling the two grays about six oclock In the questioning, he at last confessed. was a mystery to ns how this morning; works the two beggars up fill noon, Thats six hours straight farmer knew that troops were comThen he sticks them in the stable lay ing through; because he- - never made off for two hours, and In the cf ternoon a mistake In Ms schedule, a After furabout two oclock the new relay of ther questioning he explained to as antmals comes on and works up fill that If we searched In hU cellar and four. Now, anybody with any brains raised up an old flagstone with a la their nappers knows that Is no way ring In It, ,we would find a telephone tokeep horses In condition, working set. The other end of this set. was one team over six hours und the ether established In an estamlnet In a little team only two hours. T know, because French "Village' eleven"kIloa 'distant. we have been farmers In our family His confederate was so situated on the road that troops 'coming Into the back In Blighty for generations." -I was ell excitement and r great village had to pass th door. As In hope surged through me that at last troops march only at night while hia could fire confederate the sector, we had fallen on the clue that we were figure out that the passing looking-for- ... Restraining my eager- safely would he quartered In his troops ness as much as possible I addressed until the next night, when, under the fellow who hnd just spoken: , , Cover of darkness, they would start .Well, mote, I dont like to Intrude and would have Into yoqr conversation, but Ive also for the next tillage, to pass the point in the road by tho ace all my life and I dont been a old church. He would immediately see anything queer in the actions of telephone this Information to the this French farmer," who would change hla horses -De answered: Well. blUne me. farmer, OB whIch be er eason for this ; b efl8l,y ob. d)d, Wg p,owlnjf W,1 this, but J can t Agure , blighter gtrved from an observation balloon It out at ull-- . If you can explain It, go ( ,n and the aI?. Qemm nal was given to the German artillery, 1 answered: Well, perhapa tt " We still carried on with our third you can give a little more details about degree, and got further valuable Inforit. It would be easy enough to explain. mation from him. Who (s the farmer, and where IS hla Tf, v In the plowing, two , gray farm located ?", horses were used on two consecutive He swallowed the halt, all right, and informed me that the farmer,was plowing a field on a hill about five hundred yards west of the church at a point where our troops were being shelled.' ,. 4 Duylng , a . round of . drinks, I nudged my partner and be came In on th conversation. The two of us, by adroit questioning, got the exact location of the field and a description of - - - the fanner. T pretended to be sleepy, and,' yawning, got up from the table, saying that I was going to turn, In, And left-- ' My partner soon followed me. Upon reaching our billet, we outlined our plan. We decided that next mornfifuriy Wallace exclaimed i TO. ell With your admiral; ylo you ing we would get np at daybreak and want to .heal' this atory?t If you do, scout a round the field to see If there was a hiding place, enut up and let me tell it.;. . i." Sure enough, along one edge Of the .hel sOo - on,- - Curly,, never, iplud; ' harmless," ejaculated Happy Hough- field ran q thick hedge. , We secreted ourselves In thl3' and waited for ton. Curly carried on, with t about six In the tnomlng, the Getdig our packs and drawing i Good Mind to 6nd You 4 two grays, three days rations, we started hiking farmer appeared,-drivin- g to your Units." Back J ! V . "Vsf arrived which he hooked to the plow, and cari. it for th? village of .'here about Jour In the afternoon, and ried oq his work.: To us there ap--, afternoons, it- meant that the use of liter puuingour packs hod rations In jieared nothing, suspicious ip. hi ac- the road had been indefinitely disconfor troops and supplies. tn old brn which we intended to use tions. .We watched him all morning. tinued ' ! -- is oar billet during our stay In the vlt At noon he unhooked the horses and Dndee a strong guard, which conInwe went home. remained oil a general tour of We Mge, left In, hiding, cealed Itself in the hedge, the farm-e- i f afraid to leave, because We wanted to Was made to use two grays for two spection. take no chances of being seen by the afternoons.. The scheme worked. For ,7, There were about three hundred civilians In the place, who preferred to fgrmer. .We had forgotten to bring weeks afterward that road was only brave kthe dangers of shell fire, asthere ration with us, so It was a miserable Occasionally shelled, and our. troops was a rich harvest to be reaped from wait until two o'clock, at which time and supply trains used It at wilt. The the sale of farm produce, bee? and spy at the other end was rounded up an both were taken to the base and Vifiea to the troops billeted all around. Two- estaminets. (French, saloons) shot, We reported back to Old Pepper, were still open and did a thriving business. expecting to he Mghly commended for onr work, and we were I dont think. Occar'onally $, shell wOuld burst All the blooming blighter said was; civilians did not la the village, but the Well, you certainly took long seem 'to mind It ; just carried on with to do It 1 have a damn goo enough business and as usual their fanhlng mind to send you back to ydur units We decided to make a thorough for Incompetency and inefficiency,' search of all houses, barns and build' P ' ' "We saluted and left, lugs for concealed wires, and did so, we You sec, didnt deserve any ; but with barren results. Nothing ausgreat credit,' because It was only picious was found. This search wastthrough a lucky chance that we stumed five days, and we were In desperaover the clue, so I guess Old bled tion. Watch and question as we would, Pepper" was right after all.",,) not a single clue came to light. ,. , 'After finishing his story. Curly During this time two large bodies turned to us and asked : of troops hud passed through and edch "Dont you think It was pretty nifty time they were heavily shelled, with work?" ' . dire results. Ws agreed that It waa." After a few minutes more the party ,Da the sixth night of our assign-meat.- " broke up and turned la. utterly disgusted, I, being In charge, had decided to chock up the (Con tinned la nest issue.; whole business and report back to Old pepper tbyt we had madq a mess out of fasveattgatluo. 4 My partner pleaded with me to stick It out a cou Hooka to tho Plow, and Carrie Post "Want Ads Bring Results pie of days more, and after he gave ( k' Hla Work. CUT' O'-- a jItU -- gpr- pinched me on the knee and whispered: Listen to what those two fellows across the table from us are saying. It sounds good." 1 listened for about a minute and then paid no further attention. At that time farming in no tfay Interested me. I wanted te catch that spy, and started devising Impossible theories as to the ways and means of doing sa At last I gave np In disgust" My partdenly my side-ktek- - -- ' Swift & Company buys more than 9000 head of cattle, on an average, every market day. tr Xzy - ,, Each one of them is "sized up" by r r . J " -- ct It 111 mtii 1 Jr I Is' ft of the fat ILL n Both must know market .conditions for live stock and meat throughout the country." The buyer must know where the different qualities, weights, and kinds of 'cattle can be best marketed as beef -' . ; , . , If the buyer pays more than the animal is worth, the packer loses money on it If he offers less,5 another packer, or a shipper or feeder, gets it away TV '' r t K d h 7- . ! , - . ' from him. If the seller accepts too little, the live-- stock raiser gets less than he is entitled to. If he holds out for more than it Is 7 worth, he fails to make a sale. A variation ofa few cents in the price per hundred pounds is a matter of vital importance to the packer, because It : means the difference between profit ' ' loss. and r, ' J n . 1 1 vil-Ic- tr , 1 n9 m 4 --- f r Swift & Company,: - 1 v r aA T u. j . x 1' i 1 - 1 S -- -- u , J i , - A v - , v - ' t A-- ' OS-- IF'i tt - j .At te H tiT H er :r t , .experts., ,t fl theBoth' r packers buyer and the "T commission salesman must judge what amount of meat each anirnal.will yield, and how fine if will be, the grading of the hide, and the quantity end quality -- - g Ironing of book knowledge which the had been pumping into ns - sergeant for the Inst hour and a half. The sergeant glanced at his watch nd dismissed us. We dismounted our gun,' put It In Its box and stored ! ' away In our billet; then we reassembled under an apple tree- in the or-- , hard, and, while the rest of us Indulged In a shirt hunt. Hungry went after our ration of tea. Hungry uas cure bn the job when it came to eating. Pretty soon he returned with .. dixie full of tea, two tins of Jam, a loaf of bread, a large plece of cheese, and a tin of apricots which be bad bought at a nearby French es Saitiinet. , He .dished out our rations, not forgetting a generous share for himself. After WS' hd finished, out came the Inevitable fags, a few puffs from each man, and the ball, of conversation started rolling. his Wallace cleared and throat Curly one-fourt- shell-ine- thus-causin- oo,-started cootls. , Next day the farmer repeated Hie days actions two greys In the morning and a black and a grey In the afternoon. No troops, no previous ". way h chucks his weight about I I agreed with Happy. Across from me sat Ikey Honney, with our mascot, Jim, In bis lap. Every now and then Jim would take - bis bind leg and furiously scratch at a Spot behind his ear.' Honney, no tldng this action, would' reach under' his armpit and also scratch. ; Sailor Bill was latently watching Jim sod Honney; he. scratching. , Ih a minute or so Hungry Foxcroft . started, on a cootie hunt ; and I bad 7 nn Irresistible'' desire to 1 lean back of the gun against thq barrel casing " and also scratch. ' . It 14 one of the chief indoor sports on the western front, especially dut lng a monotonous lecture by some offy cir or noacorn, for one of the fed-ulisteners to start scratching himself. This generally causes the whole gang to do tho same, the instructor included. It' is just like a minister In tho midst of a very dry sermon suddenly stopping, stretching himself, and yawning, this action cursing the rest of tho congregation to do likewise. ' As the whole circle scratched, our - sergeant ' instructor commenced to shift; his weight from one foot to the other in an uneasy manner. '. We all gazed at him Intently and each began Sure enough, to scratch furiously.' the sergeant gave In and started unbuttoning the front of his tunic to get at some rest or Imaginary cootie. A nudge went .the rounds of the circle. - We had aceotupllnhed . our purpose. The sergeants mind took an awful drop from the sclehce of machine gunnery to that of catching that particn-le- r - sev-en- rhe farmer reappeared, driving two Macks, which he hitched to the plow, and carried on until four oclock, and thrn knocked off for the day. That night troops came through and, as usual, were shelled. "Next morning, at daybreak, we again took onr stations In the hedge, this time bringing rations with us. The farmer used tho same grays lr the morning, but in the afternoon ho appeared with a hlack n(l n gray, and again, knocked off around four oclock. No trftops came through that night, and there waa no shelling. t "BlHnem,Yank, Isnt It srful tha r and I spies' arrest, but I'm know youll all agree with toe, that It was not so much luck at It was clever thinking. I'm not much at telling a story, but I'm going to try and give It, as far as I can remember. Just the ' way he handed It to me. It seems that this fellow, who told ine the story and another chip, had been detailed to the divisional intelliwere hanging gence department,-an- d around division headquarters waiting for something to happen. - jreeled Now, heres the story as he It off to me': ' About three kilos behlnd division headquarters was the old French vil. One of our lmportant lage of B roads ran th rou gh l Th Is road was greatly used by our troops for bringing up supplies and amqmnltlon' for the front llnelyit was ftlso used by Urge numbers of troops when relieving hot t tsliohsln the fire sector. I Of course, on account of this road being In range of the German guns. It could only' be used at. night; otherwise the enemy airmen and observation balloons would get wise and It Would only be a abort time before the road Wouldbeshelled," man; casualties. For the last ten days reports had been received at division headquarters that every time troops passed a certain point on this road, marked by an old church, they were sure to dick heavy shell fire from the Boches. On nights when no troops passed through there would be very little shelling. If any, but If a battalion or brigade happened to come this way they suffered .. . from- heavy shell fire. 'Upon receipt of the first two or three of these reports we put ludpwn as a strange coincidence, but when the fifth, report oL this nature reached us It war evldept to us that a spy was ct work, and that in some mysterious way the information of the movements ot our troops were communicated by ' , him to the enemy. who and another bloke, Myself t hid been working with me for the last two weeks, were assigned to the task of discovering and apprehending this spy. To us it seemed an Impossible job, as there were no clues to work upon. As Is usual, our general, "Old Pepper," called ns in, and said : "There Is a spy working In the ; go get him, vlllhge of B Foolishly, I butted1 In and asked for fuHher Information. I got It, all right. With a lowering look which made me tremble, he roared : Go and dig up your own clues, What are you with the Intelligence for? Intelligence department! It ought to be colled the brainless if you two are a sample cl the rest. Somehow or other we didnt stop to argue with Cfldf Pepper. At this polot Sailor Bill butted in; Bllme me, hes Just like an admiral we had In our navy, this Old pepper,A chorus of, Oh, shut up, you're In the army now, cut off Bills story. We knew Sailor Bill, If he ever got start ed talking "navy; nothing short of a gas attack .could stopllni., Sailor Bill, with an indignant glance around the circle, relapsed Into silence, -- ( a i: slde-klck-er 1 - k d . Thm MsOlU -t- to us1T3e5I3-ePepper wouldluc-uu- ! to stick It out for six months. If necessary. ' To celebrate this decision d ottered to blow to my rounds of drinks. Now, this fellow had never, during my acquaintance with him, offered to spend a hapenny, so I quickly accepted his offer and we went to the nearest eaUminet. Sitting around a long table, drinking French beer and smoking cigarettes, was a r crowd of. soldiers, laughing, Joking, arguing and telling stories. "We sat down at tho end Of the table, and in ft low tone tried to work Impossible theories as to how the spy. If there waa one by t this time we were doubtful could get the Information back to the German batteries., Right across from us Wore two soldiers arguing about farming. Sud- feat o MAY Returu Sfar of .ig-t:-- ? 31. 9:15. , o( Mary" I' - - L; A .sthrt v , L SU-an- I . .: SO N Saturday, ' matinee ; - : . I: I |