Show KEEP CHIEF OF ARMY POLICE BUSY american troops not unruly but full of mischief FROLIC UKE LIKE COLLEGE BOYS cigars eggs a baseball and a bottle of wine among missing articles to be traced one day escapades no more than reaction from the heavy strain or of very active army maneuvers when the it whole story ot of this war shall have been written it will be incomplete without a chapter about how bow the boys behaved in france the historian should get the material for that chapter from the provost marshal ile he Is the chief of police so far as ar the lie americans are concerned I 1 am at present living with a alent m ent stationed in a little french village where from time to time becan hear the booming of the guns on in the battle front keeping the boys always reminded of the direction in ill which they are arc headed writes a correspondent of the new york times there are few french folk in the place they moved to where it Is safer and so the americans are arc pretty much auch in control of the town and incidentally there sire are about ten times as many american soldiers here as there ever were civilian frenchmen and french women they are quartered in every available house and iu in some that would not ile available were it not that they hall had to be in one that falls in the latter category I 1 am living myself this typewriter and some blankets are the L only furniture it has to get of out of my room I 1 have to so go through the room of the hiwot marshal ills room Is better than mine it has a bed ile he know it was it tied bed until the owner of the house put in a charge for billet under the army plan a room with a be bed in it costs one franc a day but if there Is no bed the charge Is 13 only 30 centimes cen times and so the provost a rhal knows he lias has it bell bed to sleep on lit and not a box it says so in the off official leial records of the lie war department of the united states we were in the loom of the provost marshal the other day and noticed a part of the wall ivall at one lie end was corrugated steel we pushed it up ill and lo 10 there as a fireplace we immediately called the owner of the house and demanded a fire it was bwy y dlou biffl cult lie he aid because he lad had no wood and nener neer use used fire except for |