The Arizona copper camp., 1918-07-13
SYNOPSIS.

AAOJ lfAlAkSS geeAA <A4l4CA
an, leaves his office IN sJersey City and
oes to Epelend' where he enhsts In the
CHAPTER IT-After q period Of train.
ng, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv-
ce and soon finds himself in rest btlletg
somewhere In France" where he first
nakes the acquaintance Of the ever-pres-
Mt scootes."
CHAPTER III-Empey. attends his first
hurch services at. the front while a Ger
nan Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empey's command goes
nto the front-line trenches and Is under
CHAPTER V-Empey learns to adopt
be- nettos Of the British Tommy, III you
re going to get It, you'll get II. SO never
Forry."
CHAPTER vI-Bach II, rest billets, EN-
rderly
CHAPTER VII-Empey learns how the
british soldiers are fed.
tA vl-Pack IN III. enS InsI " the
renches "go West"
CHAPTER Ix-Empey makes his first
sft+to a dugout IN Suicide; Ditch"
CHAPTER x-Empey learns what con.
dtutess "a siday;s work In the sfront-hrS
CHAPTER xI--Empey goes ""over the
~ for the first time in charge ON the
man trenches and Is wounded by
ayonet thrust
CHAPri A.1-Empey JOINS rne sui
0e club" thesbombipg squad Is, called.
sHAF, 4. xIII-Each Tommy gets a
anced trench under German fre
CHATTER xv-on listening post" in.
CHAPTER xvT-Two artillerymen '"put
ne over" on Old Pepper, their regimentaI
CHxPTER xv1I-Empey mas narrv- 90,
pe while on patrol duty in No Mans
CFIAPTER xvIII-Back in rest .billets.
mpey writes and stages farce comedy.
CHAPTER XIX-6oldiers have many
ays to amuse themselves while ION their
cE5AFrEN xx-;Empsy volunteers for for
front-line trenches
CHAPTER XxI-Empey again goes
bver the top in @Arge which costfhis
mpany II killed aAd 81 wounded.
CHAPTER XXII7Trick with e machine
q sLlences one hothereniaa Frisz +
pever gave us.anshour's rest. 4Our.
tation as machine gunuers was at
e; we tried various ruses to locate
put this gun out Of action, but
ch one proved to be failure, and
ritz became a worse nuisance than
ver. He was getting fresher and more
reless every day, took gall kinds of
perties with us-thought he was in
ncible.
Then one Of our crew got brilliant
ca and we were all enthusiastic to
It 1t to. the test.
Here was HIS scheme: ~
When firing my gun, / was to play
tune, and Fritz, no doubt, would
lltfor it, try to initiate me as an
ded insult. This gunner sand two
hers would try, by the sound. ), to To-
to ,Fritznand his agun. After having
the Location, they would mount
machine guns in trees, in little
mp of woods to the left of our ceme-
and while Fritzswas In the middle
bis lesson, would open up and trust
luck. By our calculations, it would
ke at least week to pull off the
INT.
# Fritz refused to swallow our bait,
would be impossible to locate his
ecial gun, and that's the one we were
-er, because they all sound alike, "a
W puprpupypup.
Dur prestige was hanging by a
-ead. In the battalion we had to en-
re all kinds G insults and fresh re-
ks as to our ability in silencing
=. Even to the battalion that Ger
gun wassa sore spot.
ext day, Fritz opened up as usual.
let him FIRE away for a while and
n butted In with my "pup-pup-p pup
p-pup-pup." I kept this up quite a
lie, used two belts Of ammunition.
tz had stopped firing to listen. Then
started In; sure enough, he had
en- for our game his. gun was trying
initiate mine, but, at first he made
rible mess of that stune. Again j
ted in with few bars and stopped.
en- he tried TO copy what / had
we'd. He was good sport all right,
ause his bullets were going away
r our heads, must have been firing
the lair. commenced to feel
endly towardOhim.
This duet went on for five days.
tz was a good pupil and learned
idly, in fact, got better than his
cher. I commenced, toffeel jealous.
en- he had completely mastered the
e, he started sweeping the road
in and we clicked 1t worse than
But he signed his death warrant
doing so, because my friendship
ned to hate. Every time hefred. he
we'd thatTtune and we danced.
he boys In the battalion gave US
'RHa i,ssHa" They weren't In on
little frameup.
he originator Of the ruse and the
er two gunners had Fritz's location
ed to the minute; they mounted
two guns, and yalso gave me the
ye. The next afternoon was set'for
grand finale.
ur three guns, with different eleva-
5, had their fire so arranged, that
ling up together, their bullets
Id suddenly drop on Fritz IKE a
storm.
no,,t threa the next day Fritz start