Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-13

anecdotes are circulated in civil
life in times of peace. Herbert
Corey war correspondent for
the Associated Newspapers, after
writing of the activities at the
front, has set down some of these
army stories and sent them by
mail to America. Here they are:
NNE gathers that the recent visit
of their majesties to the British
~ front was not appreciated by
their loving subjects. The loving
subjects had to stop fighting or get
ting ready to fight in order to enter
tain their niajesties. Which may ac-
count for this yarn:
I'VE had to fire off one of each sort
of she'll to show Queen Mary" said
a British officer. Jolly bore. What
One of the shells fired was a tracer.
That is, it threw out a shower OF
sparks behind it, designed to aid the
observation officers in registering the
fire.
why does that shell throw off
those sparks?" asked Queen Mary.
THE officer in charge was a bit OF
a humorist-what? He was a Bit
tired. anyhow. So he said:
THAT is to burn the Germans
your majesty
"'Ahr said Queen Mary, isn't this
a cruel war;"
"He came to me in the midst of a
storm off Vera Cruz" said the Marine
Corps major whose name everyone
knows anyhow. SO that the censor
ship rules do not irritate. His eyes
were rolling and his blubber lips
We're trembling.
"'Ah want to go home said he
Abs sick
'Sick?'
"'Yes, sab, sick saye he 'Ah'n
homesick and Ah'm seasick and Ah'n
lovesick-and dat shuahly is some
sick
A party of Australians went out tC
see the town. They insisted on deck
ing their taxis with British flags.
Wont go unless we get the flags,
was the ultimatum. Tired of being
taken for Americans"
That is a sore subject.
who's been doing the fighting il
! this war" they. asked, I'VE or thu
Americans? All right. then, But there
| isn't British flag to be seen in Pari
and the town is perfectly covered
with American flags. Wherever W.
go some fool Frenchman throws vi
his hat:
"'ooray.' he says, for the brav'
Americans. Vive fAmerique!
Find a Canadian in town on per
| mission and the chances are you will
! find him jingling with souvenirs. Th
men of Canada have almost a manii
for gathering momentos of war. l
vas a Canadian who is responsible
for the following witticism:
/ "rhe English" said he, fight TO
| honor, the French for glory and tn
| Canadians for souvenirs
A little Canadian came to town tn
ether day to enjoy his leave, grante'
because of a particularly gallant &C
tion. But he wasn't happy.
| -"I fought for twenty-four cusse'
hours straight on end" said he. "an'
then a Boche shell put me out. Whel
l woke UP the battle was all over
and 1 hadn't got a single souvenir"
Charles .Omessa, who recently re
turned from Russia, believes the cri
sis in which Kerensky recently re
| signed only to have his resignation
/ refused, was of greater importanc
than the world now realizes. Whel
| he said good-by to Kerensky the lat
ter said these highly significan
words:
Il III you learn some day OF my res
ignation or of my fall from power
tell yourself that the day of my dealt
and that of my country is near"
| Omessas admiration for Kerensk!
is unbounded. On one occasion tw'
of the latter's most trusted aids
worn out by the constant fight, ant
| feeling themselves unable to con
tinue as witnesses of the spectacle
Of their chiefs powerlessness and o
his declining health and influence
begged permission to go to France t
| enter the military service there.
60" said Kerensky, without bit
terness. You are not equal to tn
task of fighting the enemies within
and without simultaneously. For me
1 remain here"
"I went into a restaurant on tn
boulevard with a girl" said a sol