The Arvada enterprise., 1916-10-05

of the French, with their turneddown
brims, and its lines are artistic. Worn
at the proper angle it makes the come
ly young sentry look rather like Dona-
tellos David at Florence.
With STOPPING heads, the sentries re-
port nothing doing" That means
nothing visible, nothing audible.
Peering over the parapet for mo-
ment you see only wilderness OF
bare earth. pitted thickly with c"nlcal
holes from three to eight feet deep.
Four hundred feet away is the skele-
ton of dead village. No sign OF lie
is to be seen there except perhaps one
of the larks which sing checrfully
through cannonades that would make
the pheasants in PARKWAY Sussex nerv-
GUS. or else a big hawk slowly quarter
ing around and sending the larks into
q retirement rs modest as that of Ger
man air men. And yet you know that
that waste is infested; that you need
only to raise your head Il foot higher
to bring bullet dipping itself with
II quiet flick into the loose earth behind
Sbu iiitlt II Sou u NV iSu oit WI SohA
stomach and peeped over the edge of
each shell hole you reached you would
come ut last to one in which men in
wide-skirted gray TUNES with narrow
bands round their caps were crouching,
some of them nursing their one good
friend, n machine gun. some of them
digging hard to connect hole with hole
iii Of fnr init Ipts is turned
into line; some of them resting
tucked into little cavities ScOoped in
the earth or near the side wall of n
quarry, and staring apprehcnsively up
ut bombladcn British biplancs wheel
ing about In the sky overhead as the
larks in the grass look up Mt n hawk.
Kindness Surprises Captives.
You know all this, because on the
way up this morning you talked with
number of Prussian and Saxon prls-
oncrs in one of the cages at the little
camps where the latest captivcs rest
for some days out of range of their
friends heavy guns till they can be
sent by train to the base or to Eng
land. Three days ago they came down
brOken-hcartcd to the C?g &c, their faces
lined and drawn with mental over
strain, some of them still mechanical
~ making dcprccatory gestures of sur
| render and cntrcaty. AS they marched
today all the lines were smoothcd out
They had been fed and had slept for
whole nights, and had found that the
''murdcrerS" described to them by
their own scrgeants inflicted nothing
but offers of cigarettes. SO they be-
gan to expand in the unexpected sun
shine of good treatment and they told
what life had been like in the shell
holes, its good points and its bad. The
food, It had been good, but sometimes
it did not come because the British
guns would draw kind of fence of
falling shrapncl across Il piece of
country, Il sort of Showcrbath of bull
| lets dropping along the line, SO nobody
| could cross the line without being hurt.
| Still the bread and meat and chocolate,
when they did come, were good and
the water was sometimes mineral wa
| ter in bottles. The trouble was that
the British guns would not cease fir
ing and the British acroplanes would
not 20 away, nor the German ones
come out Of their sheds.
Sometimes the men in the Shcllhoc
would see British troops in the open
within rifle range, but would not dare
shoot lest British airmcn should see
where they were and send word TO a
British gun and bring down high OK
ploslvc shell on the old shcllholc to
bury them all alive by II second rear
rangcmcnt OF the earth. You perceive
this apprehension just because you
twice today have seen the end of n
stIn black-bootcd leg prutruding out OF
the wall of an old shcllhrlc.
Other questions about their life ut
the front the prisoners answered as
freely. Had they talked politics? Yes,
there were amy number of Social Dem
ocratS In the army and every one
thought great changes would come
when the war was over but not now.
Were there any dcScrtiousf No.
Many men would be glad to be prls-
oners, but would not desert Many
more still would surrender II the Ger.
man officers were not So quick to shoot