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Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
True translation filed with the postmaste,
at Chicago, H., on eth f7y of February.
1918. 40 ieQuired by the act of October E.,
1917. -
BOLSEVIKISKAS PLEPEII-
MAS
MAS.

Petrogradas, vasario 22 d -
Kuomet vokieciai vel pradejo
verztis Rusijon, jie nesutiko nei
|maziausio pasipriesinimo. Dvin-
sko tvirtove, pavyzdziui, uzeme
100 vokiSku kareiviu ir tai mere
guliarisku.
Is Rusu armijos nieko nell
ko: Po ltekme bolSevikiSkos pro-
pagandos ir j pavirto i burius
|palaidzios minios, rarp kurics
yra daugybe plssiku If marude-
rq, BolSeviku agitacija taip la
bal sudemoralizavo kareivius,
kad jie dabar If paciq bolseviku
vadp neklauso: viskq pamete vo-
kleciams, bega didziausioj be-
tvarkej, pakeliais plesdami ir de-
gindami.
Tuom tarpu bolsevikiskas Wy
riausis armiju vadas, praporsci-
kas Krylenko, tolsiq mali-lnalie-
ne iSleidineja su grqsinimais If
"astriais prisakymais":
"Jeigu vokieciai atnes taika
ST Rusija, tai kova ant zut-ar
but yra NUNS neiSvengtina =
sako jisai savo oficialiskuose
'prisakymuose' rusu armijq.
"zmoniu didvyriskumas turi butt
pastatytas priesais pirmyn einan-
ii prieSa".
Toliaus Sisai prisakymas pa
sakoja, kad pulkai is 1000 arba
1900 vyru, lengvai apginkluotu
fr galinciu greitai apsikasti, gales
esq stElaikyti vokieciu pirmynei-
ga. Todsl jis prisako pradeti, ka
jis vadina "tikrai revoliucijine
Imobilizacija."
Toliaus jis, tarsi vaikas, tokius
isvadziojimus daro: Jeigu esq
zmonems pasiseks pastatyti prize
sais priesa s,koncentruotas mi
MAS "revoliucijiniu pilieciu', ku-
rie ne tik sulyg "revoliucijines
strategijos', bet If paslaptai, is
kiekvieno uzkampio, is visur ma
zais huriais ir dideliais tataliio-
Inals YES kova uz kiekviena mie-
Isteli, kaima, gatve If uz kiekviena
mama, tai esq nera tokios jiegos,
kuria vokieciai galetu pasekmin-
gal prizes juos pastatyti.
[Beda tik tame, kad tie su-
bolSevikeje kareiviai ir bolSeviki-
Ska raudona gvardija moka skers-
ii nekaltus gyventojus, bet rodo
uodega pirmam pasirodziusiam
vokieciui. Nelaime turf butt te-
mai, kur "siaucius pradeda py-
ragus kept, o duonkepis batus
Esiuti' aba kur kvailiui pavedama
vadovavimas milijonais karei-
viu].
Tolial sake Krylenko "pri-
kazas", kad visi vyrai "burzu-
jai' ir ju moteris turi butt pa
sipstos transejas kasti po raudonos
gvardijos prieziura, " maziausi
pasipriesinima sasaudymas.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
BOLsEvIKIsKA GAsPADo-
RYSTE

Amsterdam, vasario "a d =
Liudininkas, maciusis savo loo
nomis akimis, kas darosi Rtl-
siJoJ, aprasineja laikrastyj T a
Ig e 81 e eitung sekanciai apie
idlotiskq bolseviku gaspadoriaSi-
ma Rusijoj:
"Pasazieriai traukiniuose -
sako jis = susaldavo Xxi mirties,
mes langai vagonuose ismusti
kuomet vokieciu ir austru de-
legacijos apleido Petrogradq, jie
nebuvo ragave duonos jau per
keletq dienu.
Visam Petrograde yra tik du
garveziai (lokomotyvai) vienas
is ju gall padaryti vos IS verstu
valandq.
GarVczlu patalsymas, kuris pir-
nllaus atsieidavo apie 10000 rub.
F'abar atsieina 100000 rub. Suka-
llmas boileriu kastuoja 10000 rub.
kan, sake korespondentas, visai
nereik stebetis, mes darbirinkas,
kuris sukala boileri, gauna 40
rublip i diena w 3 ar 4 valan-
das darbo.
Pe.rograde siuom laiku yr4
apie puse milijono darbininku
be darbo, o isdirbyste Rusijoj
nupuole Xxi $50 papras.os pir-
miaus buvusios isdirbystes. Ne
kuriuose distriktuose gelezies
tarpinimo peciai visai tapo slnai-
knit.
Cukraus iSdirbyste nupuole nuo
100000 pudu Xxi 10000 pudu, o
sekanciais metals vargiai pasieks
10000 pudu.
Finansu ministerijos perdetiniu
(ministeriu) yra kolegijos, STU
dcIntas. Penktos armijos vadu
yra buvusis aktorius, telegraph
perdetiniu yra klerkas. Sekreto-
rius RusiSkos finansiskos komisi-
jos Lietuviu Brastoj buvo klerkas,
kuris, anot correspondence, "ne-
turejo nei mazlausio supratimo
apic uzdavinius". Komandierium
zinomo Pavlovo gvardijos pulko
yra moteris.
Holandietis, gyvenantis Petro-
grade, ilgam laiske, kuris tilpo
Hague laikrastyje Nj w c
Courant, pasakoja, kad lyn-
eavimas Petrograde yra paprastas
DENNIS atsitikimas. Korespon-
dento nuomone, Russia yra taip
'baisiai suirusi, kad inns ilgus me
tus, kol j gales atsitaisyti.'
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

Paryzius. = LaikraStis f h o
de P aris iSreiSkia nuomone, kad
bolseviku pilnas pasidavimas Vo-
kietijai "iduos truputi daugiau
sense talkininku veikimui". Jis
tikisi, kad Londonas ir Washing
tomas ''pasiliaus lygine Rusu re-
voliucija su Francuzu revoliu-
CHA, arba larlte, kad revoliuciji-
mis- judeiimas iSsiplatins is Ru-
sijos / Vokietijq if AustriJ2'. To-
XII sqprotavimai, sake sisai Lark
rastis stow skersai keliq Japoni-
JOS isikisimui Siberiioj, G uz to-
Japonjos zygi stow if keletas X
tu francuziSku laikrasciq.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
APIE LIETUVA.

1917.
KANCLERIS APIE LIETUVA.
Amsterdamas, vasario 70 d.
Vokietijos kancleris, Won Hert-
ling, laikydamas prakalbq reich
stage, apie Lietuvq iSsitare Sc
kanciais zodziais:
Mes nemanome pasilikti Es-
tonijoj ir Livonijoj. KurSe ir
Lietuvoj musq svarbiausis tik-
slas yra sutverti savi-spsispren-
dino ir sayivaldos organus.
Musp militariska akcija (veiki-
mas) vienok iSdave pasisekima
toll pereinanti originaIiskus sic
kinius."
lSulyginus kanclerio zodzius
apie Lietuva su 10 zo<lziais apie
Estonija If Livonija ir su jo
zodziais apie Lenkija, kuriai
jis zada "nePrigulmybe,' aisku,
kad jis Lietuyai siulo nedau-
CLAUS, 'kaip tik tulos rusies savi-
valda po Vokietija. Jis net ne
vartoja zodzio autonomija, bet
zodi "savi-administracija." 10
uzsiminimas apie "militariska
akcija' yra visai neaiSkus, bet
is visa ko galima suprasti, kad
Vokietys taiko pasilikti Lietuva
savo naguose. Nereik nei kali
beti, kad Lietuviai priesinsis to-
kiam kaizerio "skynui" is visu
savo jiegu. Lietuviai reikalauja
pilnos neprigulmybes ir neazsi-
ganedins nielduo mazesniul.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
CALI SUGRAzINTI CARA.

Londonas, vasario 20 d.-Vo-
kletlJa plianuoja sugrazinti Ru-
spoJ monarchija, kaip apie tai
pranesa telegramas, iSsiustas is
Petrogrado laikraciui NJ ornine
Post. Jane sakoma, kad didis.
kunigalktis Hesso, brolis ex-ca-
rienes, tapo paskirtas vadu Rv-
gos sektore ant vokieciu fronto.
lollaus telegramas taip pranesa:
10 seSuo, buvusi cariene Ale
xandra, kaipo regente ir globeia
Jauno ex-caruko, yra vokiecciu
kandidate ant rusisko sosto. Bu-
vusis caras nepriims sosto is vo-
kiecip ranku.
"BolscviEai priruose tokia val
dzios forma, kuria tik rusai su-
ranta-butent gryna despotizma.
Jle istaise Kelia sugrazinimui mo-
narchijos.'
Laikrastis Breslau Tage-
b a pranesa, buk didis kuni-
gaikstis Nikalojus, buvusis Wy
rlausis vadas rusu armiju, busias
pastatytas prizes revoliucijini teis-
ma u2 sales isdavyste. Jis, sa-
koma, tapo bolseviku suarestuo-
tas Utilise dar birzelio d.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

"Prikazas' daro toki ispudi, kad
jis daugiaus atkreiptas prizes tuos
"burzuazhs' negu prizes vokie-
cius.
"Visi prize ginklu! Visi prize
gynimo socialistiskos tevynasr'-
taip baigiasi tasai bolseviltiSkas
dokumentas.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

Londonas, vasagio 20 d. AN
glijos valdzia paliepe savo agen-
tui Kieve praneSti ukrajinietiams,
llad Didzioji Britannia nepripazins
jokios taikos rytuose, kur
Lenkija bus palyteta be pirmesnio
pasiteiravimo su Lenkija.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
BOLsEVIKAI IsBEGO.

Petrogradas, vasario 26 d.
BolSeviku Stabas apleido Petro-
grada if persikels ] 'Ttariska la
geri" = vieta nepazymeta. Is
Petrogrado visi galvatrukciais
bega; panika didziausia. Talki-
ninkp amabsadoriai nutare ap-
leisti miesta.
Pskovo miestas, sakoma, kele-
ia sykiu pereidineJo is ranku
rankas. MuSiai eina Pskovo
apielinkese.
True translation filed with the postmaste
at Chicago. ILL.,, on 9th day of February,
1918, as requested by the act of -ober s,
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

Londone % d. vasario gauta
sekantis oficialis bolseviku val
dzlos prsnesimas, iSsipstas be-
vieliniu telegraph:
"Vokietija atnaujins taikos de-
rybas If padarys taikq su Rusi-
jal sekanGiomis iSlygomis:
"Abidvi puses apskelbsia ka-
res gala.
"Visi zemiu plotai j vakarus
nuo linijos, pazymetos Lietuviu
Brastoj, kurie pirmiaus priklause
Rusijai, nebus toliaus po Rusi-
JOS globa. Dvinsko apskrityj ST.
ia linija turf butt pastumta pir-
myn Xxi rytinio rubeziaus Kur-
SO gubernijos.
Rubezius vokieciq pazymetas
jlaikc buvusiu taikos derybu Lie
tuviu Brastoj ejo nuo apielin-
kiq Kevelio per Valkq, Lillian
dijoj, Xxi Dvinsko; Gia perllirs-
damas dali Vilniaus CUB, Xxi
apielinlIiu Pinsko, kur is susi-
siekc su rubezium naujos Ukra-
limos respublikos
"Pirmesnis prigulejimas stu
distriktq prie Rusjos, dabar jo-
kiu 'budu negali palikti jiems jo-
kin priderysGip linkui Rusijos.
Russia atsisako nuo bile kokios
teises maisytis i vidurinius ST.
tu distriktp reikalus kitais 20
dziais tariant, dalis Latvijos ir
Estonijos If visa Lietuva ir Len
kija pilniausiai turi butt atskirta
nuo Rusijosl.
'"Vokietija If Austro-Vengriia
tulri intencijq nustatyti tolimesni
siQ distriktu liking santaikoje
su jq gyventojais.
"Vokietija yra prisiruosusi, po
Ipilno demobilizavimo Rusiskos'
armijos, evakuoti [apleistil dis
triktus, kurie yra j rytus nuo
virsminetos linijos taS reiSkia,
kad j neapleis Lietuvos If Len
kijos.l Kick tas nera pazy-
ia kitaip, Latvija ir Estonija
privalo butt tuojaus iSvaiyta nuo
Rusiskos kariumenes If Raudo-
nos Gvardijos.
"Latvija [Livonijal il Esto-
Mia bus uzimtos per vokiSka po-
licija Xxi tai dienai, kol minetu
Sally konstitucija uztibrins drau-
gijine ramybe ir politiSka tvarka.
Visi gyventojai, kurie yra ares
tuoti delei politiSku priezastiu,
Iprivalo butt tuojaus paliuosuoti.
Russia padarys taikq su Uk-
rajinos Zmoniu Respublika. Uk-
rajina If Finliandija turf butt
tuojaus apvalyta nuo RusiskosI
kariumenes ir Raudonos Gvardi-
jos.
Russia padarys viskq, kas yra
jos galeje, idant uztikrinti Tur-
kijai tvarku sugrazinima JOS An
atoliSku rubeziu (UzkaukazyO.
Russia pripazista panaikinimq
Turkiskos kapituliacijos (pasida-
vimo).
Pima demobillzacija RusiSkos
armijos, priskaitant il naujai su-
tl ertus dabartines valdzios pull
kus, privalo butt padaryta tuo.
jaus.
"Rusiski karislli laval ]Juodose
jur6se, Baltiko jurese ir Siauri-
niam vandenyne turf butt tuojaus
arba pasiusti / rusiSkus uostus
ir laikomi tenai net Xxi kares
Ipabaigos, arba turi butt nugin-
kluoti. Talkininkg kariski laivai,
kurie randasi rusu valdzios sfero-
je, privalo butt skaitomi kaipo
rusiski LAVAL.
"Pirklybiniu laivq judejimas
Juodose ir Baltiko jurese privalo
lbuti atnaujintas, taip kaip tas
buvo pazymeta muSiu pertraukos
| s,1tartvi TS0audvn1ac MINI *
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
No.

lrne translation filed with he postmaster
at Chicago, H., on 9th day of Fcbrnarv
iSiS as requested by the act of October g.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

Paryzius. = Francuzu- garlai-
Wis La Dives tapo torpeduotas
Vidurzemio jurese I d. vasario,
kaip apie tai dabar praneSa Off
cialis pranesimas. zuvo 100 ypa-
tp. Laivas buvo lii tonu di-
dunno. Pirmiaus jis priklause
vokietiams ir vadinosi Wilhelm
". Submarine, kuris torpedavo
laiva, nematyta.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

Paryzius. = Francuzai smaf
kiai uzatakavo vokie6ius Lota-
rlngiioj vasario 20 d.. isive-z5
ju trans6jas ir uzeriebe daugiar
400 belaisviu kaip apie TAI prane-
sa officials pranesimas,
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

OF Chicago, ILL.,, on 9th day of February,
1913, as requested by the act of October s,
1917.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

True translation filed with the postmaster
at Chicago, ILL.,, on 27'h day of February.
1918, as required by the act of October 6,
1917
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

True translation filed with the postmaster
at Chicago, ILL.,. on eth day of February
1918. as requested by the act of October g.,
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

True translation filed with the postmaster
at lineage, ILL.,, on 9th day of February,
1913, as required by the act of October g.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

True translation filed with the postmaster
at Chicago, ILL.,, on eth day of February,
1918. as requested by the cct of October 6,
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

True translation filed with the postmaster
4 Chicago, lil., on eth day of February,
iSis' as required D. ne act of October 6.
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01

True translation filed with ,he postmaster
at Chicago, II. on 27th day Of February,
1918, as required by the act of October s..
Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1918-03-01
'Vokieciai Uzeme Revell, Dorpata,
Pskova. -Bolsevikai Bega is Petro-
sradO. Vokieeiai Gelbsti Ukrajinai.
BolSevikai Pilnai Pasiduoda Vokie-
thai, bet Negali Taikos Gauti.

True translation filed with the postmaster
at Chicago, H., on eth day OF February,
1918, as requested by the act of October s,
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Fired by the news OF the
sinking of the Iusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Ameri-
can leaves his office in Jersey City and
goes TO England where he enllsts In the
British army.
CHAPTER II-After a period OF train
ing, Empey volunteers for immediate serv-
somewhere in France" where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres-
ent "cooties."
CHAPTER II1-Empey attends his first
church services. at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV-Empey's command goes
into the front-line trenches and is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V-Empey learns to adopt
the motto OF the British Tommy, IF you
are going 10 get II, you'll get II, so never
worry"
CHAPTER vI-Back in rest billets. EN-
pey gets his first experience as mess
orderly.
CHAPTER vII-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
would yell across that they were Sax
ons and would not fire. Both sides
would sit on the parapet and carry on
n conversation. This generally consist
ed of Tommy telling them how much
he loved the kaiser, while the Saxons
informed Tommy that King George
was a particular friend of theirs and
hoped that he was doing nicely.
When the Saxons were to be relieved
by Prussians or Bavarians, they would
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then been in force, these so called
Missionaries would doubtless have been
arrested as Migrants and thrown into
Jail or drafted into the army.
During the first five years after the
original flight, airplane progress was
slow and unsatisfactory but, since
the great war started, development
has gone forward by leaps and
bounds, and accomplishments have
been so great that now nothing sur
prises us. Recently, in New York
city and in certain other parts of the
country airplanes, singiy and in
groups Of from two to 20 have become
a familiar sight that they are hardly
noticed at all, and the world reads
with only passing interest of such
epoch-making accomplishments as the
successful establishment Of new
aero-postal lines here and in Europe,
the recent 621 mile nonstop flight
of a large group of Italian planes
across the Alps to Vienna and back,
and the many other wonderful
achievements Of aviators throughout
the world. 1t is not difficult then for
US to believe even the recent astound-
ing announcements that soon huge
airplanes. each carrying 100 or more
passengers, will be darting back and
forth across the Atlantic with such
speed that it will be possible to eat
breakfast in New York today and
dinner in London tomorrow.
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.cASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
s,s.. K: bears :, Zz2zzs-
OTIsCo ITEMS

Those who are mentioned as going
visiting in this vicinity Sunday went
the old fashioned way with horse and
buggy.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cartridge and
son Of Eureka visited their son, Lew
Cartridge Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Reeves and
three children spent Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Reeves.
John Mason and daughter, Byrl
visited Sunday with his brother, Geo.
Mason CT Grattan.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Bedding were
Sunday afternoon callers at r. w.
Belongs.
Miss Letha Hill of Bay City visited
from Saturday night until Monday
with her brother and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Allen Will
News is scarce this week as every
one is too busy to go visiting.
Shafter arbor will hold their neXt1
meeting Thursday evening, Sept. &c.
Ice cream, cake and waters will be
served.
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Tor the course In machine gunnery.
This course lasted two weeks and we
rejoined our unit and were assigned TO
the brigade machine gun company. 1t
almost broke my heart TO leave my
company mates.
The gun we used was the vickers,
Light 1903, water cooled.
was still member Of the Suicide
club. having jumped from the frying
pan into the fire. / was assigned to
section /, gun No. 2, and the first time
sin took position In the front-line
trench.
During the day our gun would be
dismounted on the fire step ready for
instant use. We shared dugout with
would mount our gun on the parapet
and go on watch beside 1t until "stand
down" in the morning. Then the gun
would be dismounted and again placed
in readiness on the fire step.
We did eight days in the front-line
trench without anything unusual hap
pening outside of the ordinary trench
routine. On the night that we were to
"carry out" bombing raid against the
German lines was pulled of. This raid
ing party consisted of sixty company
men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis
machine guns with their crews.
The raid took the Boches by surprise
and was a complete success, the party
bringing back twenty-one prisoners.
The Germans must have been awful
ly sore, because they turned loose a
barrage of shrapnel, with few min
MES" and "whlzz bangs intermixed.
The shells were dropping into our front
line like hailstones.
To get even, we could have left the
prisoners in the fire trench, In charge
OF the men on guard and let them click
Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not
treat prisoners that way.
Five of them were brought into my
dugout and turned over to me so that
they would be safe from the German
fire.
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TRANSATLANTIC
AIRCRAFT TO GUT
OCEAN TRIP TIME
So HOURS FROM NEW YORK TO
LONDON IN AIRPLANES is A
PROBABILITY.

Nine years ago, at Fort Meyer, Va,
just across the Potomac river from
our national capitalize writer wit
messed the first public flight of a man
carrying airplane that the world had
ever seen, the machine being driven
by Wilbur Wright, one of the now
world-famous brother-inventors. That
first little plane was crude and inn
perfect and would now, as compared
with present day aircraft, be fit only
for the museum or the junk pile; how
ever, the event marked the opening
of a wonderful new era. Prior to
that first flight a few persons in diff
ferent parts of the world had had vi
sions of our modern airplanes, but
the worlds billions looked upon such
persons as idle dreamers and. if the
present day work or fight laws had
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yeii this >.--Or1.sx.-Bn across NO Mans
Land and Tommy would Immediately
tumble into his trench and keep his
head down.
If an English regiment was to be re-
lieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would
tell the Saxons, and Immediately vol
ley of Bonner und Blitzens" could
be heard and ii was Fritz's turn TO get
a crick In his back from STOPPING, and
the people in Berlin would close their
windows.
Usually when an Irishman takes over
a trench, just before "stand down" In
the morning. he sticks his rifle over
the top, aimed in the direction of Ber-
lin. and engages in what is known as
the mad minute" This consists OF
firing fifteen shots In a minute. He
Is not aiming at anything In particular
just sends over each shot with q
prayer, hoping that one OF his strays
will get some poor unsuspecting Fritz
in the napper hundreds of yards be-
hind the lines. II generally does; that's
the reason the Boches hate the man
from Erin's isle.
The Saxons, though better than the
Prussians and Bavarians. have a nasty
trait of treachery In their makeup.
At one point of the line where the
trenches were very close, a stake was
driven into the ground midway be-
tween the hostile lines. At night when
IL was his turn, Tommy would crawl
TO this stake and attach some London
papers to IL, while at the foot he would
place tins of bully beef, flags, sweets,
and other delicacies that he had re-
ceived from Blighty in the ever looked
for parcel. Later on Fritz would come
out and get these luxuries.
The next night Tommy would 90 out
TO see what Fritz put into his stocking.
The donation generally consisted of a
paper from Berlin, telling who was
winning the war. some timed sausages,
cigars, and occasionally little beer,
but a funny thing, Tommy never re-
turned with the beer unless II was In
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side of him. His platoon got Whit of
his breath one night and the offending
Tommy lost his job.
One night a young English sergeant
crawled to the stake and as he tried to
detach the German paper a bomb ex-
ploded and mangled him horribly. Fritz
had set trap and gained another vic
tim which was only one more black
mark against him in the book of this
war. From that time on diplomatic re-
lations were severed.
Returning to Tommy. I think his
spirit is best shown in the questions he
asks. 1t is never 'who is going TO win
but always show long will 1t take?"
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CHAPTER Xxx.
"chats With Fritz

We were swimming in money, from
the receipts of our theatrical venture,
and had forgotten all about the war,
when an order came through that our
brigade would again take over their
sector of the line.
The day that these orders were is
sued, our captain assembled the COM
pany and asked for volunteers to, go to
the Machine Gun school at st. Omar.
| volunteered and was accepted.
Sixteen men from our brigade left
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offizier had at last succeeded In wax
Ing the captain, reminded him Of his
bet, and warned him that he would be
the laughing stock of the officers mess
II he did not accomplish his object, but
the captain was trembling all over and
Insisted on returning to the German
lines. In the darkness they lost their
bearings and crawled toward the Eng
lish trenches. They reached the barbed
wire and were suddenly challenged by
our sentry. Being too drunk TO realize
that the challenge was in English, the
captain refused to crawl back. Finally
the unterofiizier convinced his superior
that they were in front of the English
wire. Realizing this too late, the cap
tain drew his revolver and with NUT
tered curse fired blindly toward our
trench. His bullet no doubt killed our
captain.
Then the bomb came over and there
he was, dying-and a good job too, we
thought. The captain dead? Well, his
men wouldn't weep at the news.
Without giving us any further infor-
nation the unterofiizier died.
We searched the bodies for identifl-
cation disks but they had left every
thing behind before starting on their
foolhardy errand.
Next afternoon we buried them in
our little cemetery apart from the
graves of the Tommies. If you ever
go into that cemetery you will see two
little wooden crosses in the corner of
the cemetery set away from the rest.
They read:
Captain
German Army
Died - 1916
Unknown
II. /. Z.
Unteroffizer
German Army
Died - 1915
Unknown
X. /. r.
Continued Next Week.
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FOOD WILL WIN
Isl VIZ x CO.