Show INCH CH FIGH UT ERS E E T IN PRICE RICE P TRENCH TREN UH TALES rp ia A A LE S aboe joe Nougie rand and alphonse roeton thi depot platform leSI ondi afternoon it was t lime they hadr seen each nee oce they left cron county ace nearly dearly four years LV ua 1 0 at each ch bad had spent more thin trenches and they a in inthe the in lathe in the same division often close to each other their fau ws touching for each knew been through and bigeh it vas that they really eing each other alive and augier has beer back several let t mr gr gamier Garn ler member of ahead ee i firm of gamier broth ted ved oly oily a few days al ago yo the returned on a furlough and i permission to remain indell it at the latter has a complete a both were slightly wound ol 01 tines times and both were deaf rhen bombs exploded near the el benches ten ches both were ald almost completely in the ickes has nearly one w ar being yet but glenier Gir nier su suf orse and it is doubt doubtful rui if he sly repin the ise of one sere ere is still a in his uch ch bothers him it ta times of the bombs ai at a ter both men who haap occasion occa ion they are talking about sri erred nearly three years i twitch which were ivere beatin juie ve atin the thickest of some of it OB on the western fronk front iain W into the trenches he i alie artillery he is the only one of six who went together from the united states who is no not t permanently disabled or killed three are dead and two are so badly crippled that they can do nothing for themselves res out of his company of of 35 all special friends oab six were left when mr came away I 1 from the front whether all are ded derd or whether some soine are in the of tl 61 e germans he is unable to tell he was in the hands of the kaisers keisers kai sers troops a short time but before he and the rest of the prisoners could be taken from the field larger french forces came up from the rear and the germans were the prisoners onson ers say says that be he and his friends did not when they were captured that they were wore too excited from the fighting to real ze just what had happened aid a id that they felt they had done their duty and ready for whit whatever ever came next N hen telling of their recapture and the sharp scrap he laughs like a boy but when the story reaches tho the part when be he thinks of the fate of so many of i those who went to the front with him he asks to be allowed to forget all about it he lie thinks that the allies are bound to rin for the morale of the french troops is 13 much better than that of the germans and they are getting to be better fighters every day gamier garnier served 30 months in the hardest of at the fighting he was i A sargeant ar geant when he left the bomb that exploded in his trench was close to him and he could hear bear nothing for many days the ringing in bis his airs continued for weeks and still bothers him to some ome extent it was feared by the surgeons at first that his skull had been cracked by the concussion but such is not the cuse cise he ile can tell many thrilling stories of trench life of the bos in hir hin command who will never return to their friends of lonz we try days waiting for something to happen and of rapid action on other days when fighting was fleme I 1 both men feel that tie vie action of the united sates in entering the war is one of the greatest events of the three years and that success for the allies with the men money and munitions ot this country is no longer a question of doubt they are gl gild id to be back in america with their friends n eastern utah and want to get got back to work at once |