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Show FISH FOR ARMY OFFICERS' MESS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Feb. 24. (Correspondence llo the Associated Press.) Fish that .have been out of the water only an hour or so is quite common in offli er8 messes at the front now. No Sunday dinner is complete without a nice I broiled or baked pike There maj even be a trout or two sometimes. An American major who until recently re-cently was with the British army in Flanders taught his fellow -officers the trick of how to get fresh fish without flshlhg for them. There is no time tor fishing, even when it might be good, with Germans in the hills all around waiting to shoot at something. The major was passing a lake just in the rear of our first line the other afternoon when he saw a large pike swimming along near the surface. Next afternoon he came back to the lake with a handful of grenades. He banged two of them on a stone and dropped them into the water. There were two muffled explosions and then in about two minutes up floated three large pike, one of them nearly four feet long. The major hauled haul-ed them to shore with a stick and carried them off. His mess had fish for dinner, and it tasted not only good but like more So he gave away the secret se-cret and told how he used to get trout in Flanders the same way There are a unmber of lakes in our sector and all of them are teeminc with fish as the location has not been quiet enough for anglers to visit them j for many months. |