Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-23
DAN PATCH STEW
 AND BARLEY SOUP
Served in Prison Camps Humor Stories Told by
 Liberated Tanks.
BY DAMON RUNYON.

mans were brought into the towns Of
 Revigny early this morning.
 You ought to have heard us give
 them Heinies the old raspberry when
 we left up yonder" said Sergt Walter
 Sampson of Chicago, who was one of
 two men left of his platoon of Com
 pany F, 136th Infantry, after
 charge.
 They had us at Montmedy first" said Sampson, but our bombers came
 over and bombed hell out of the 1 place, so we went on strike and re- fused to work around rail head that
 bombers were aiming SO. So they took us to Corey. That's where we were when the fighting stopped. We knew the finish was in sight, because the German privates kept tell ing us what was going on outside. ] Every day they'd be around saying the war was going to end next day; they, were tickled to death about it, too. There was an ornery Prussian ser geant-a little short guy-who was al-
 ways yelling at us, 'Raus Amerikaner,' and we started a song for his benefit Il wish I had that son-of-a-gun at the end of a bayOnet right now," in- terrupted Fred Soma, New York, who
 was with the 18th infantry. "He was certainly ornery."
 Fed On Horse Stew.
 "They didn't have much to eat them selves, them Dutchmen didn't" said John Powell of Campbellsville, Ohio, the only man from the First Division
 in the party, which represented about 15 American divisions which were on the line in the Argonne-Meuse drive. 'I'm going 70 dream about Dan Patch stew and barley soup as long as l live. Dan Patch stew is horse meat" he explained. "It was meat from
 horses that had been killed in battle. l You could see how it had been torn by shells''
 "They treated us better than they treated the Russians or French" said Sergt. Herbert Birchards of Omaha. who was a member of the S9th div ision "They had about thousand Russians there. They booted them around pretty fierce all the time, even 1 though Russia was supposed to be at peace with them.
 How was 1 captured?" Birchard
 grinned. "Well, I strayed over into the German lines one night. saw
 lot of guys laying on the ground sleep /, ing and I thought they were our own men; so I went around shaking them and telling them to wake up. Finally ] 1 heard one guy say, 'Vot lss'? the next thing I knew about forty Dutch
 men were around me-
 Those Russians certainly got a | rough deal," said Corj. D. Barfott of
 Richmond. Va, from the 146th 1n- fantry "When we refused to work
 round the rail head where the bomb- CTS were dropping explosives the French prisoners also struck, so the Russians had to do all the work there. 1 They worked us on the roads and when they did work us they paid us six cents day.
 "None of them liked our song very much, but the sergeant hated it most of all," Sampson went on, ESQ we sang it whenever he came around. We sang it when they marched us out of l Corey down the roadways toward the American lines and turned us loose.
 Here, I'll sing it for you. It goes like l this: "Song of the Sergeant" "Raus init him. Just hear that funny noise;
 'Raus init him, just let him have it, boys.
 l We'll turn the old place inside out; We'll turn it inside in,
 1 Treat every Dutchman just alike, And raus init him. You could hear us whooplng and hollering for mile, all right" Milton Horter of Malta, Mont.l, who comes from the Ninetieth division said: ,N
 We knew it was over, because tho flags were flying all over Corey. when we went out. They certainly looked ! great" 1 "Yes, if it hadn't been for the people
 of Corey, we would have starved to
 death on what we got in Corey" said
 Lewis Morris of Gainesville, Ohio,
 who comes from the Twent-sixth div
 ision '"They gave us lots of bread.
 What the Germans issued to us
 wouldn't have lasted long. 1 "You worked a week for one marx,
 then they charged you four marks for
 a loaf of bread. We didn't nave all?
 blankets until couple of days before
 we left. We slept in a church on the concrete floor. That is, we tried to
 sleep there. Generally we sat up all I |,
 sleep much.'
 "Them German cooties are terrible
 averred Frank Kocurek, of 235 south
 (Halstead Street, Chicago, who was
 captured from the Thirty-third divis- ion. "They can bite worse than any
 I ever saw. We had stove in the
 church, so it was awful cold there worked ill the kitchen myself.
 | 1a outfit" he added proudly. q managed
 one of John Thompson's joints. And
 who do you think found in the pri.
 son camp when got there? Why this fellow here-one of my old custom ers." He dragged forth Jack Norton Seaman of 1443 Van Buren street, lChicagO.
 Brought German Souvenirs.
 Sanford R. HOwton of Johns, Ala, just outside of Birmingham, who oe' ho 1uroufV-ninth Division,