Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-12-26

| believe that 1t is stern war III WnlcA
hey d. ; engaged
A French sub lieutenant, writes:
I'VE dig comfortable classmates and
! line them with straw, and remain
there for three, four or five days,
firing at TIE German lines now and
then, and the rest OF the time sleep
Ing, eating, playing cards, watching
the enemys shells falling or the flight
# the aeroplanes Each battery soon
becomes little village. Ours-I speak
only Of the firing party. not the sup
ply cclumn-ceunts so inhabitants,
living In IS huts. 1t Is sort OF per.
petual Jn'v 14--rockets by day and
fireworks ~ night. At last we don't
hear the explosions. except by DELHI
arately listening
we arlillerymen see it; In the day, a.
village of cave dwellers behind bank
Of willows, with intervals of firing;
at night. sleep broken by occasional
alarms.
During the last two or three weeks
their larder by adding to it hares,
rabbits and pheasants. The poor
birds, which are very plentiful here,
maddened by the sound of battle, are
chased and easily beaten down. Some
days our battery has had In stock 100
hares, so rabbits and a score of pleas
ants
Another French soldier shows that
his countrymen have learned the les
sor of trench warfare and can now
teach their teachers something. He
writes:
All the Connforto.
I'm really up-to-date intrenchments
you may find kitchens, dining rooms,
bedrooms and even stables One regi-
ment has first-class COW sheds. One
day whimsical piou-piou, finding
COW wandering about in the danger
zone, had the bright idea of finding
shelter for 1t In the trenches. The ex-
ample was quickly followed. and at
this moment the - infantry possess
an underground farm, in which fat
kline, we'll cared for, give such quanti-
ties of milk that regular distributions
Of butter are being made-and very
good butter, tool"
Another young officer tells how the
enemy is quite near. just over hill,
but between fights there occur Ger
tain odd but characteristic conven-
tions."
"A hare runs out between the
trenches he says. 1T Is greeted
with rival volleys. 1t falls. A French
man jumps up to get 1t. The Prus-
SLAMS wave white handkerchief and
cry 'Tabac! Tabac!' which means that
if we give them some tobacco they
will let us have the hare. So our men
club together, and one of them goes
and gets the hare, leaving Ia place Of
1t big packet Of tobacco Scarcely
has he got back to the trench ere a
Bosche' quietly goes for the ransom.
Then silence falls On the scene, and
five minutes afterward. If head Is
shown, there is a blaze of firing"
But the merry French soldier must
have his little joke. When everybody
is feeling bored to death, waiting, wait
inC for something to happen, he picks
up an officers cap which has been
left in a corner of the trench and
raises 1t on a stock Just above the
level of the ground. Immediately it
is the signal for the German marks
men, each firing in turn. not by vol
ley. A ball strikes the cap. AT once
n spade Is waved above the trench,
like flash at rifle butts. signifying
a hit, and everybody laughs joyfully.
Games Of "Money Boxes"
There are more useful games than
this, especially the game money
boxes"
This is the name the French infan-
trymen have given to the tins of meat
which the British Tommy calls bully
beef" The empty tins are found to
make quite good alarm bells. Some
times they are slung on strings, some
times they are simply scattered about,
under cover Of darkness. between the
trenches, Sc that any body of men
rushing across will make clatter.
They are put as far forward as pos
sible, and, says Mr.. Meunier-Surcouf,
there are competitions for who will
carry his boxes the farthest. There
are trenches which have as many as
five hundred tins thrown about in
front of them. But the best is ever
the foe of the good; or SO we think
when a rabbit scuttles amid the tins
and receives shower of bullets from
either fearful trench"
Another amusing picture of life in
the trenches is told by an officer in
. letter to relative.
YES" he writes, I'VE are clean peo-
Hle here. Thanks to the ingenuity Of
-. we are able to take a warm
douche every day from ten to twelve
We call this teasing the 'Bosches,' for
This bathing establishment of the
| latest type is fitted up--would you be-