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sTwo out when winning run scored.
iBatted for Boehling In third
tBatted for Ayers In seventh.
Innings s3t5s ssloi1
Detroit 80 : 90 90 0 0--S
Total bases-Detroit II. Washing
ton 9. Sacrifice hits--veach ?. Henry.
Stolen bases-Veach 2 Three base
Witt 20 Burns Left on bsses-Detroit
.. Washington 4. First on srrors-
Detroit l, Washington l.. Bases on
balls-on Ayers on Dubuc 3, Hits
runs in innings. of Ayers : hits
no runs In 4: on Coveieskie. Z hits, 4
runs In 8 (none out and two on base
In SEVENTH. on Dubuc hit. run
in 5; OF Johnson. 2 hits, no runs In 4.
Struck out--By coveteskie 1, by
Johnson 6. by Dubuc Z. Passed ball
Henry. Umpir.s-Evans and Hill
debrand. Time--2.i5.
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Kirby Sent Home.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. May fs.-
Pitcher Larue Kirby, former ~.
Louis Federal. and now with the
Little Rock. Ark, club. has been
sent TO his home at Elsie, Mich.
Kirby was injured In collision
in a recent game.
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Amateur Association Meets.

The Detroit Amateur Baseball as
sociation will meet at the once Of
the recreation commission. in the
Farwell building. tonight. TO COM
plete plans for the opening OF the
season. The entry lists close today.
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Welsh Suspended.

MILWAUKEE,. Wis. May 1.-THE
charges that Freddie Welsh used
li1ror in the ring during the Ever
Hammer bout fell fiat when brought
before the commission. out the cham
pion was suspended for four months
in this state for refusing to fight
until he had his guarantee.
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Champ ellis Behind.

PITTSBURGH. May 16.--Charles
McCourt. challenger for the world
championship at three-cushion bil-
l.ards, will meet Champion Ellis to-
night in the second block OF the
title match. McCourt won the first
block. so 10 20. last night.
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Harry Cavan averaged 205 for .

Harry Cavan averaged 205 for six
games last night and lost to Tom
Haley In the Greater Detroit bowl
ing tourney. Five OF his scores
were for better than 200. with 2i4
the high count. HaIey's average
was 2I3, and his high score was
24s, Another game saw him rolling
225. and a third was 223. His aver.
age for the last three games OF the
match was 232.
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Jaquier In Lead.

Jaquier defending the title OF
city three-cushion billiard cham
pion. won from olde. so TO 20. At
Sweeney.Huston's last night. The
second and final block will be played
tonight.
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A Real Fighting Parson.

yvx1Y once while hear Of nghng
middle
Gtte unless
naunewe pusist Knocked
Ne 0ner night Matthews win.
ooooeo heologcal school Chicago
yoesionea nsticun ~ legitimate
q ~ studies Pierce continues
~ The ministry he surely should Of
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Gunner Shsdes Rsttier.

PHILADELPHIA. May I5.-Tn a
siX-round bout that was little more
than a workout. Gunboat Smith
shaded Battling Leylniky here last
nlght.
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Sunday Umplres

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May is.-
Evangelist Billy Sunday, former
baseball star, got back into the
game here yesterday by umpiring
the American association game be.
tween the Blues and Indians.
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ball
Il vigorously when an ahete ps os ~
a ease be them in later pncn -
bleaehe
young outnelaer
He his
1890 ustiess this youth missed n.y. ls
trimming The fans never loasas @ ~
bated
Mack the most recen
Tiger outheders last
vesk enough them to be the danger
nothing and could have sold MIN al
nro6 the him Incidentally
of only games ast season
who could mace UP
Some More Swell Guesses-
- NE or American league Jimmy Aus
He q Fielder Jones the
the finest tributes over Passed our
Ill Pep in Louis because
a. bad
only mechanical The
Austin that has been
Jones 70 regularly play Deal who not In Austin class a. no COT
the minors except for
Today Smith
for Speaker
urnstes
the would admit that
rol ths day ball players
Smith let
richly endowed
ah bleaching Skdoo trail because they insisted on
sslting n happen again"
OF ball
Indians tomahawkd the Yanks yesterday after
s.. s:x x.h hcss s'
~ ssias s md nd - lead '-'' '
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Worth S29.10 Minute to DariO Resta
to Spin Over Speedways 100 Miles An Hour

the only athletes who
accommodating
His earnings
this
In U s d.
received t17is
abou a
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It's almost time for the bowl~r- Co
dwst on the alleys and shI Iurnpe
start ehsiieagssG.
Hask Gowdy uses hts chest pvot~~-
ter Tor q asovwss doStsg the OF see
sos. TIE protector looks the Dsrt.
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Mlchlaan Meeta Yals.

NEW HAVEN, Con. May IS.--Th}
University OF Michigan tennis team
arrived In New Haven this mornin I
TO play the Yale racaueteers. Yes
tcrday Michigan defeated Brown unf
versity in both singles and doubles
The Detroit times., 1916-05-16

CU1o0nY examination Of the athletic made
nsssss q the land and mistress Of the
1osdlns e Hoyle This has been the
haeeened however Pop Courtney. Of
nne not ecOvcred sufficiently
4e eneegs - the Red advises John
0ooe b1der and assistant coaching
~ peeperstoe ~ this according TO Hoe" guy
nas 800 lies are very important both nshng
- o4L playg Who doesn't his playing
0 14yo - ~ ~ spsinsng EN- At the hole
The Detroit times., 1916-05-16

Yesterdays Game.
A. New York
innings e345s- 80 RHE
Cleveland "A q = o O--s :
New York. . O. Of It'll
Batteries -- Norton. Btghy and
Vel. Markie Caldwell Love and
- wlksr CmpIres Dinecn and
Nttif ifn
At phliadelphia-
innings t27I SO RHF
- Louis. . q o o.
rhiiadoI Il q o - .
Batteries-plank and Hartter..
Bush and Meyer Schang Ump pirca-~
chill ard CLoughIin.
At Boston
Chicago Boston, rain
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Exposing "Sizzler."

RANCH RICKEY insists atng exposing
Sisters by juvenile
huisr Rckey asserted than while
at Michigan In 1911. sser famed 20 inning
That accounts for al but putout
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Judging by the way the Ies 4 u
Getes athletes are masssgtag IN
~ewuttHR Frank Chance must he feed,
Ing them meat.
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CaIi Far Ma.ons

Manager Chambers. OF the Friend
ship lodge team. wishes the follow
ing players to report at Norihwest- :
ern field Wednesday evening at
8 y. Ia for practice. fnker, Keifer.
rsor~nE Walker. ElmOre, Richardson.
VtgnT. Anderson, Hoffman. conzett.
Purvis. Eallagh. ONeiil and Wood.
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ck Pcunc Bat and Sab Drops Tigers Second DN
& AA~1NA1.A--N
IT9';9'[N;Il = N;l!'S!| 'S!|RB'!kl[: 5RllBlk'

club in the league pu
10 little patience an nn.
"a ~ out a That's nappea
the eleventh maae Wv
hue ball the DIG
the lot except IN n "
when Bobby decided @
IL that's the
somebody doesn't nag him quick he VIII " ON
down whenever nc se' w. ~
ncbody clamp the brakes on him
It but IL is fact that ee'e'Sh' Winning
nrnes faster a losing them
The Detroit times., 1916-05-16

That right field fence AZ the cubs
park must have been made TO order
for Nick Williams. II is almost a
daily occurrence for the hard hitting
Chicagoan TO slam the ball over the
wall
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and - Terre
adns the Central league batting average
The Detroit times., 1916-05-16
The Costs Curve

Of IN ommodities-labor inciuded-has
climbed during the past decade-aIl ex.
espt
Central Station Power
Central Station Power II cheaper than
tt was ten years ago
Has not this fact q significance for
YoUi
Let one Of our engineers have frank,
heart.to-heart talk with you on your
power problem. He win give you can.
did opinion. after studying your case. as
to whether you would profit or not by US
ing our service.
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TodnY.s Ganea

New York AZ Chicago.
Boston at Pittsburgh
Brooklyn at St Louis.
Phiilies at Cincinnati.
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American Association.
STANDING
Yesterday's Games

At Kansas City
indianapolis 5, Kansas City 0.
AZ Milwaukee
Milwaukee 4. Louisville 4
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international League.
ct AyDINC
Yesterday Gsm~s
". 2. A. 4. sebsiI stanatrss.

A. Rochester
Providence s. Rochester 4.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-16
Blue Monday

in Philadelphia Ehoe
1915 and rouneed nm ns1n~ Gsorrs
throwing dust al boehhns u.o
sary make room for ne" n sS sines
the
and
released oy S ~
20 RedM and Pud McTigue COMPANY
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STANDINGS
American League.

Yesterday Games
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National League.

ST TANDING.
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ball players and ~hle hey
Their little when athlete pulls oones
s cuicr IN forrive the erring wod
a csse be comes through them later pinch
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Is small. Pettitt is free-handed, and
the walk to Texas Is long.
Meantime Haney. the last OF the six.
was taken back with the Gloucester
shires to England. He heard of Villas
invasion, and the idea came to him
that II a man must fight and his ma
tive country is in the mix-up home is
the place for him. He put the case
before his colonel. who told him that
he felt that in Haneys place he should
wish to do as Haney did, and it was
finally arranged in high places that
he might come home for the scrap
He tells in his own way how he Sc
cured his passage home, for, like his
friend. he was without money.
Il had to go into a British pub and
there on a table. with half a dozen
men around it. saw a package OF to-
bacco with a label that I knew" he
said. II went over and said: Boys. l i
haven't seen anything like that for
eighteen months AS 1 filled by old
pipe they asked the story, and I told
it. They said: There's a good steamer
in the harbor and she sails with US
on her day after tomorrow. Are you
with us?' 1 was.
soon after I reached New York I
found Pettitt We drifted as far south
as Washington. We found that the
District Guard was at Radio and we
thought We would take a look at II.
We found them filing up a machine
gun company. 1t looked good to us.
and it is a long walk to Texas. So here
we are-the two of u.s.
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and chickens dropped to a dollar apiece.
Billy found that his hens did not do so
we'll in large focks. He was losing
money and looked about for other
raising only fancy chickens and is de-
voting his energy to hogs and pota-
toes with crops of turnips and oats
now and then on the side.
4
went to see Billy's farms in COM
pany with him and DR.. G. NJ Faulkner,
the acting United States consul at
Dawson. DR.. Faulkner has a dairy
farm of 200 acres on the opposite side
of the river from where the Klondike
flows in. He has Jerseys and Holsteins
and supplies most of the milk and
gallon for his milk and selling cream
at 50 quart He is posted on farming
conditions. having some land on the
islands. as we'll.
Leaving Dawson, we started up
the Yukon in gasoline boat about
three feet in width and forty feet
long. The boat had a big paddle
wheel at the end and this was attached
by long iron shaft to the engine. We
had gone only two miles UP the river
when the shaft broke and we had to
row ourselves to the nearest island and
walk. The island was devoted to farm
ing and we found the farms the best
going. We left the beach and made our
way through the potato rows from one
little patch to another. The first farm
we visited was owned by a Swede
Nelson. He has eleven acres I'M
der cultivation, one half in potatoes
and the other half in oats. The oats is
grown for hay and 1t is now being cut.
Some of it stood in shocks as high as
my head. The remainder was uncut
and the grain reached half way to my
waist. AS we looked I asked Billy tho
price the oats-hay would bring. His
reply was: sixty dollars a ton"
The potato vines were in blossom.
They were In long rows Of a beautiful
green spotted with flowers of deli
cate white. I asked Mr.. Nelson what
he expected to get for his crop. He
fixed the price at $50 a ton, saying
that it might go as high as 500. There
upon Billy told me that Nelson was a
good business man and gave me the
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i'm the Yukon Island Farms of Alaska

than this potato patch. The vines reach
to my knees. They are In rows which
are perfectly straight. and the pillow
goes just one mile in the round trip up
tells me he hopes to have six or seven
tons to the acre and that the patch
should yield about 100 tons or over
5000 bushels. He expects to get 500
per ton. so that the gross receipts
should be something like $4,000.
The soil is a sandy loan made up of
silt brought down by the Yukon. The
trees so thick that 1t takes 800 and
upward an acre to clear It Farm
wages are high. In ordinary seasons
a hand gets as much as 800 q month
and board. and Just now Billy 10 paying
his tenants SIS a month and their
board. He says that he has had farm
hands this year as low as $3.50 q day
and found. although the prices in Daw-
son have been 81 a day and on govern
ment work as high as from - to H. !
would say, however, that the demand
for labor is limited. and the market Tor
potatoes and other vegetables Is con-
fined to the small population in the
mines and In Dawson. Much competi-
ton would take the heart out of the
business and IL the farms were in
creased by many new homesteaders
there would be a glut In the market
and the prices would fall.
There is no doubt but that potatoes
can be raised in most parts OF Alaska.
Luther Burbank. the man who original
ed the Burbank potato and who has be-
come world famous as plant breeder
was in Dawson two years ago. He says
that Alaska and the Yukon will some
day be among the chief potato lands of
the world and that by proper plant
breeding a potato can be evolved that
will mature here to perfection. Even
now the country is raising about all
that it needs, and the potato imports
are decreasing. This year the crop is
especially good, and the potatoes are
equal in quality to those brought in
from the states.
1 regret I shall not have time TO visit
the farm of DR.. Faulkner. He tells me
he is doing well with his cows. but that
the milk market is limited and the ex-
pense of dairy farming Is high. He is
now paying 800 per ton for such feed
as hay, oats and barley. and chicken
feed costs cents pound. Cows sell
for $3.50 head and calves ready to
wean for about $40. DR.. Faulkner has
paid as much as Is cents for horse feed
and he tells me that a man once offered
him a dollar a pound for timothy hay.
Said he: That would have been at
the rate of $4,000 a ton. The only
trouble was had mono on hand. I had
country. I could have gotten so cents
pound for that, but I needed 1t for
my own stock" The doctor has sixty
five acres in hay this year, but he will
keep the whole crop to feed his own
cattle. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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details of one crop from three acres
that had yielded him $1,000 in cash.
That was when the Guggenheim syndi-
cate began to dredge out the gold of
the Klondike. They were employing
large numbers of men and potatoes
were scarce. Nelson, who had just
harvested a crop of thirteen tons. got
1914 cents a pound or 1910 per ton for
the whole Since then he has raised
nothing but potatoes and oats.
AS we left Mr.. Nelson it was after 9
o'clock in the evening. but the sun was
still high in the heavens and I was able
to take snapshot of him standing in
front of his ca bin. Like Chicken Billy,
he is unmarried.
The next farm we passed through was
devoted to potatoes and carrots. There
was woman in charge. She told me
that the carrots paid as well as the
potatoes. and said that she and her hus-
band enjoyed their summer home on
the Yukon. They live in Dawson In
winter.
Leaving this farm, we found our
selves at the end Of the island. but there
was another island upstream about
half mile away. Billy put his hands
around his mouth and shouted. where
upon a man came out of the bushes of
the second island and waved his hands
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is to be trusted. IL not he IL a good
man to watch. If this is so. Chicken
His hogs seemed to love him. He talks
to them as though they were human.
He speaks and they will lie down and
turn over just like pet dogs. One of
his biggest boars does tricks.
I was especially interested in the
babies of the hog pens. The young are
Of all ages from little red piggies as big
as a kitten to lusty black Berkshires OF
the size of a fox terrier. During the
winter the pigs are fed upon potatoes
and grain. The food Is cooked and
served red hot morning and evening.
In taking care of his animals Billy
saves every bit of manure. The soil of
the Yukon needs fertilizing and this
per annum. Such fertilizer in the
United States Billy says is worth not
more than $12.
Leaving the pigs we went to the
farmhouse. This is log cabin of two
rooms and a kitchen. The earth is
banked up around the outside to keep
out the cold, and great stoves serve as
a heating plant for the winter. We
washed our hands in a tin basin outside
the door and then went in to dinner.
The meal was delicious. We had eggs
fresh from the hens, and they were
fried with ham cooked in a gravy that
made the meat fairly melt in our
mouths. We had mealy potatoes grown
in the Yukon as sweet as any that ever
came out of Ireland, although they had
been harvested more than a year. We
had good bread made by Billy's hired
man, and all the green cucumbers we
could possibly eat. Cucumbers are a
delicacy in this part Of the world.
Those on Billy's table were cut into
slices and served IN large vegetable
dish.
After dinner we took a skiff and
sailed from the island to Billy's potato
farm on the mainland. This farm is
right on the banks of the Yukon. and
the ten-thousand- dollar crop is within
a stones throw of the river. The field
is a half mile in length and of such
width that 1t makes altogether seven
teen acres.
The farmhouse stands in the center
of it. 1t is a log cabin with a great
cellar under 1t where the potatoes are
stored until ready for market. The
thermometer here falls at times during
the winter to seventy degrees below
zero, but the cellar is SO made that the
potatoes do not freeze. The walls are
furred out and made double. The
board floors under the tubers are venti-
lated and there is a dead air space
where there is any danger of frost.
The potatoes are kept in large bins,
each holding hundreds of bushels. I
found some of last years crop still in
the bin. They are as solid and sweet
as when they came from the fields In
deed. 1t is hard to tell them from the
new potatoes.
1 have seen many farms. but none
better cultivated and freer of weeds
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grenades first in the trench fighting,
and then the allies followed suit. The
Germans somehow always get the
things first, but the French are very
quick to meet them, and the English
get them last What the next terror
will be nobody knows"
In the trench fighting at Ypres came
the first break in the Texas bunch,
when one Of them was shaving. He
was laughing at me-" said big Pettitt,
when a shell burst near him, and that
was the last of Mitchell. 1t makes you
feel shaky to see your friend go out
like that, but we were taking our
chances. and he lost. We had to go on
with the days work, which was fight
ing. Mitchell was fine fellow, well
liked at home and popular in our COM
pany."
Not long after the German artiller-
lists located Pettitt's machine gun and
in quick succession fifteen shells land
ed near him. He moved the gun and
got away, but the gun pointers fol-
lowed him and at the fourth shot
dronrcf shruprel, which burst as 1t
struck the -. u.''l near him SCATTERING
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at US. 1t was Billy's farmer. He was
told to bring canoe and carry US
over the water from one place to an
other. AS soon as we landed Billy or
dered him to start getting supper and
to have the meal ready by the time we
had taken look at the stock and the
farm. He went with the man to the
dollhouse and picked a half dozen big
cucumbers to cut up for salad. and
then sent him on to the memories to
gather some eggs.
In the meantime, Chicken Billy, Dr.
Faulkner and l took a look at the hot
house, where cucumbers and tomatoes
are raised for the markets of Dawson.
This is one of the most Interesting
features of farming in the far north.
There are more than twenty-five big
hothouses in Dawson itself. and they
are all doing we'll, although Billy says
his farm makes more than any two of
the others. Up to July of this year he
has sold over 900 cucumbers, and
by the end of the season he will have
sold twice that many more. His first
cucumbers brought him more than 81
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and man entitled to credit. He is an
enthusiast on farming in the Yukon
and says the day is coming when no
vegetables will be brought in from
outside.
Already number of homesteads
have been taken up in the territory,
and there are little farms here and
there on the banks of the Yukon river
and on the islands which pepper its
surface. There are also great farms
under glass. Dawson itself has acres
of hothouses. and there are other hot
houses belonging to Joseph w. Boyle
in the heart of the Klondike. He keeps
them to supply his miners with the
earliest green's and vegetables that the
arctic sun will produce.
And now a word about Chicken Billy.
He is an American, a bachelor, only
thirty-seven years old. and good to his
mother. I know this, for the old lady,
although she is over four-score, is now
on her way from Seattle to the Klondike.
She likes the cold weather, and prefers
to spend her winters in Billy's cabin
rather than with her well-to-do son in
the states.
Billy was born in Philadelphia.
and went to school there. He was
still under twenty when he passed
the examinations for appointment TO
the navy at the time of the Cuban war.
He was so excited over his success that
when he came into the hands of the
surgeons to be tested as to his physical
fitness his heart was throbbing at the
rate of hundred and odd beats to the
minute. and the result was that the
doctors pronounced him unfit for the
service. They said he had heart dis
easel Billy then worked at odd jobs.
without great success, until one day he
saw a paper describing the strike in
the Klondike. The article was headed
Gold at the Grass Roots" and Billy
tells me he decided to get into the
grass and dig out fortune. He had
only ST ahead at the time, but with
that he got to st. Paul and thence
worked his way on to Skagway.
He walked in overthe Dyea trail and
fought for his own with the miners Of
Dawson. He got some gold from his
various ventures, but made no big
strikes. and finally gave up mining and
went into chickens. For this purpose
he bought an island on the Yukon not
far from the mouth of the Klondike.
and built him henhouse of logs with
glass windows facing the south. For
a time he did well. His eggs sold for
so cents each. and his fat chickens
brought in $40 or $50 a dozen. He
built UP his flock until he had 900
chickens and his fresh-laid eggs be-
came so well known that he acquired
his nickname. Chicken Billy. which he
holds to this day throughout the whole
region. He thought he was on the fair
road to fortune, when competition came
in. The other poultry raisers cut prices
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beat upon copper cases of discharged
75-mfllimeter shells, suspended all
along the line. The noise is SO high
and piercing that 1t can be heard above
the firing.
The German gas shells choke man
to death 1t seems to be something
like drowning. only the pain is fearful.
The French have a chemical which
they throw back that, so instantly
paralyzes all who inhafe 1t that they
die without change in their position
and without trace of pain upon their
faces. l saw some dead Germans who
We're so natural looking l could not
believe them dead. They were sitting
or lying just as they had been the in
slant they were struck The French
have not used these gas shells to any
extent. They say that their effect is
SO frightful that nothing will grow
for years on the ground where their
fumes have settled.
The Germans brought Sut the hand