| Show UNCLE SAMS BIG WORK IN FRANCE gigantic things being accomplished by men from united states SPEED astonishes FRENCH immense structures spring like magic from ground troops slated for three months training go into service with the american army in france americans in france who are familiar witt the gigantic things uncle sara sam Is doing hore here sometimes wonder it if the people mho no are subscribing for liberty loans and giving their full moral support to the national government fully itally realize what their money find and their support are making possible over liere here in france writes don martin in the new york herald the rule of the alie army Is that americans must riot not boast in ili simpler backwoods language americans must saw wood rind and let the other fellow do the talking consequent consequently ly tile folks back home get only fragmentary pictures of what uncle sam three thousand miles away Is accomplishing forests in places have been cleared away to make room tor for sidings immense structures have come almost like magle out of the ground railway tracks have been laid so swiftly that one could almost see them extend themselves to see a thousand hardy eager young americans working in an isolated part of F france rance Is a sig sight ht to t be encountered many times any day and the he work has just begun building lines of communication only a few weeks ago while vaille driving along a well known highway of 0 eastern franco france I 1 saw you young hg engineers surveying along a distance of perhaps twenty miles they were young college men A few days later they were thirty miles further along tile the road rind and where they had been were gangs of men digging holes and unloading coils of wire from trucks next nest day tamarack poles were scattered along tile the route what I 1 saw along this emitille 50 mile strip was merely a duplication of what was going on lu in every 50 mile sector all the way from the coast to the front line now there Is a fully equipped american telephone line this Is just an incident in the enormous program of organization and preparation which the united states Is carrying out if we lack perhaps in the long military experience of some of the other nations no one can accuse americans of lacking in quick organization and achievement in construction st work france Is marveling at the speed with which our engineers and their bands of men have progressed with their mammoth tasks she ahe knows now although she really never doubted that the united states Is in the war to a finish and Is determined to prosecute it with the same vigor she has every other conflict she has ever engaged in ili american soldiers its as secretary baker predicted have been pouring into france tor for several weeks they are distributed in villages Il lages where until now no american was tills ever seen one has but to see the gigantic barracks being erected here and there along the line of communications to realize that stupendous things tire are in the immediate future at one point thirty one story frame buildings each feet in length were built in two weeks now they are filled with wilh soldiers idlers going through intensive training for service at the front so as the americans are gradually coming to realize that somei somewhere here back home there has been wonderful speed rind and efficiency eni clency in getting men across the atlantic the people of ne france are beginning to understand that uncle sam saiu has a vast army hero here already how much of it will participate in the great battle which Is still going on no one can foretell it Is known only that american troops have been moving about recently and that many tro troops aps ops which were slated for three months additional training behind the battle lines were found to be in a state stale of such perfection that they hey were ready to meet my any emergency french rejoice americans in line americans were sent to the big front not long after the battle began off official announcement to that effect was made publication of the fact caused a feeling of exultation to sweep over france everywhere one could hear the french saying r america Is now in fit the line americans had been in uie the front tin line long before that but not in the front line of the biggest battle of the war tile the french newspapers commented widely on oil the matter and later gave great prominence to the statement of general r a 1 I 1 pershing g tl that i a t a anything n y thi n g A america ni erce cerie I 1 b has a s Is s at ti the ie disposal 1 is p 0 sa 1 0 of f li france ra n for what nhat use she wishes to make of it this was regarded by france as tile the most nerous and patriotic offer eve ever r made by one nation to another the people e 0 of f france i c n are r e 0 overjoyed ve r jo y e d T they li e y peo api tire ie never r f feared e t the 1 result e s ul t 0 of f tl the i e bl big b battle battie a t now going on possibly they worried sometimes about the capacity of a nation hied bled as france has been bled to continue indefinitely it if years were required to give the germans the licking they deserve but now they are arc flushed with optimism and confidence arid and they are swelled with pride and a new love for america US U 0 so NEGROS negia OS ITEA IDEA IT EA BEXIS lip 11 E conceived in georgia village it bears fruit in no mans land DEAD FOX AIDS AND ABETS now abraham lincoln davis goes hungry to feed bunch of german messenger dogs lured into trench with the tha army in france of the two threads out of which this yarn Is spun one started in a tittle little village situated about 10 16 miles inland from savannah ga and the other started in the office of the german high command in berlin in the georgia village I 1 dont recall the name of it now a developed the idea that thet th ebest best kind of a dog to chase a rabbit was a long iong legged dog likewise in the alie office of the german high commander there developed the idea that a dog having considerable intelligence would make a better messenger than a german soldier on the battlefield and also that it a dog had long legs lie he would be a faster messenger dog than a messenger dog with short legs threads come together so the threads of the story started far apart arid and stretched a long ways to tile french front where the erstwhile Is a first class private in the army of his uncle samuel and where a short ways off tho the german military dogs carry messages back and forth to the docile pillboxes pill boxes rind and advanced posts abraham lincoln davis lils his pals sit alf call him ike has dodged a lot of german bullets rind and gas grenades ike been in ili the trenches long before lie he iegan to hear about the german mc messenger dogs every now and then through a peephole in the top of his trench lie caught sight of one of the messengers although they generally did their work at night ile he developed a respect and tin in admiration for these dogs and he could scarcely choke down a fight when a sniper picked oft off one of the animals when one of the dogs was brought in after a german raid ike made up ills his mind that he had to have one of those dogs to chase rabbits down in georgia I 1 dont believe he realized that lie he was to have a kennel of them it was an evening in early spring when ike was seated by the edge of a deep french well on the outskirts of it a dilapidated little village where he was billeted during a rest period lie he saw something leaping along the top of it a hill a mile awny away A second sight told him it was a fox fos and then lie he forgot about it the next night and the day after ike saw the fox and then there hashed flashed through ills his mind the remembrance that a dog that chased a rabbit chased a fox when he got a chance to make this ahli part of the story short when he went back to the trenches a few drw days later ike had the fox lead dead on the next nest two or three nights ike volunteered regularly for patrol duty in no mans land the third night 1 he le 9 got 0 t P permission el mission find and took the llie dead fox with him hill gets results at last on the third night after after he started patrolling with ills his dead fox he got results sul ts but let the next part of the story be told by lires ikes commanding officer I 1 wish I 1 could mention ills name but the censorship rules forbid it was along about 4 1 in the morning this officer said just after one of our patrols had come in I 1 remember it was vas raining slightly the patrol reported it had encountered no germans and that things seemed rather quiet I 1 was about to go ciway when there was a scrambling underneath ofir wire rind and a german messenger do dog popped over the lie edge of the trench and right into the arms of one of our big buck privates named davis the dog had it message around its ills neck dl it rei greeted ted to one of tile the pill boxes telling the ibo gunners there that american patrols were out I 1 took the message and started to lend lead tho the dog away to have my orderly take care of it when ike hogged begged for it so earnestly that I 1 told him bilci to watch it while thile I 1 got some sleep 1 I forgot nil all about the dog and was thinking of home rind and mother some hours later when one of the he lieutenants reported that hiring during the night six ic other german logs dogs had come into our trench at about tile lie same place and that ike had been I 1 near enough to grab each one of thern them I 1 wont went to look for davis and that darkey had bad those seven dogs 1099 corralled in a rendy ready roade made dugout as 89 neat ilent ns as you please and was feeding thorn them ills his own chow and nil all that ile he could bog beg borrow or I 1 steal im darned carried if I 1 efin can explain it but I 1 know that it the le gunners had find got tile the instructions Instruct lowi those dogs log carried all our patrols have lave come buck back come on oil ill show you the circus lie ile took no me yards away and nf as we mounted a little knoll I 1 saw a bag degro hastily completing tile the job 1 of 17 covering lip ip sowe thill 6 lie hati had hurled burlei in a he dropped tile the spade and saluted as his officer carne up private davis said tile the officer iliew illow tile alic gentleman those dogs here they hey Is sull suh he answered and lifted a heavy board down through tile lie opening wore were seven lanky dogs does with powerful legs and loui kins noses |
