Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-24
AMERICAN STAFF HAD WONDERFUL SAFE AND
 SOUND PROOF OFFICE
DUGoUT WITH CONCRETE ROOF, so DEEP UNDERGROUND THAT NOT EVEN THE SOUND OF TER RlFIc BoMBARDMENT OF ST. MIHIEL ASSAULT ENTERED

WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCE, Oct. 2S Correspondence of the Associated ress.)-An amaz- ing underground shelter or dugout equipped with many luxuries is the home of the staff of one American army corps which took a prominent part in the St Mihiel fight It is lit tie less than an underground city club, with offices, sleeping quarters, baths, restaurants, kitchens, electric lights, telephone and bell boys in the persons of orderlies and messengers and many other appurtenances, of hotel lift
 Its occupation has permitted the staff of this corps to operate in close touch with the fighting troops much more closely behind the lines than such a corps ordinarily ventures.
 From the outside the place was so inconspicuous, standing about 200 yards from the road, that 99 out of 100 motorists would have driven by without seeing it at all. The one hundredth would have seen merely a slight elevation in the muddy plain with two or three dark holes in the ground that might have been old shell craters or anything else.
 In reality the mud and grass cover ing was nothing but a concealment of a 30 foot ceiling of reinforced concrete, the black holes we'll camou- flaged entrances leading down sloping runway to the brilliance of the electrically lighted interior. So stout ly was the whole constructed that an enemy shell of big canber would scarcely do more than chip off a piece of the top, and no aviator's bomb could ever, even hitting directly, do much damage.
 Inside, parallel with the road and traversing the length of the dugout, was a wide corridor - the main street. of the institution, in which the commanding general rubbed shoulders with the orderlies and messengers as they went from office to office. Off this main entrance led minor streets running to the rear and being used, for economy of space, as sleeping rooms for the enlisted men at night. Artificial ventilation provided for the constant purification of the whole dug out, and the smell throughout was clean and sweet
 Off the small streets, and off the big one too, were the offices, con- structed likewise for economy of space. Each was about ten feet wide and quite deep, with a narrow table running the length of the rooms at which the officers and their assistants working, working, all the time, answ- ering the telephone every moment or so, giving instructions and receiving reports.
 Instead of having the operations department in one building, the intel ligence in another, and others scatter ed in as many more, all were here together, in offices with walls as near ly as sOund-proof as possible, under a ceiling just high enough to enable a tall man to walk or stand without stopping, so close together that q moment could put one in touch with the other if necessary yet vastly far apart as far as any mutual or one sided disturbance was concerned.
 aN NAt tAAu OA lut bA6 NoAA AAAeA "Ho the kitchen, compact to the point of being a kitchenette. When the cooks finished each meal the side streets could suddenly be transformed into little cozy dining rooms, each with its long wooden table and marrow wooden benches. In less time than it takes to tell the generals mess was ready, the superior officers mess and all the others.
 No sound could penetrate the great concrete roof, and the great bom- bardment that opened the St. Mihiel show could not be heard. as an As sociated Press correspondent who was there can attest. Yet outside the building the cannon were going great guns" and the whole night was thun- dering with the noise.