Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-15

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them. Also the person who, even Mir.
ohe best intentions, wanders into these
areas without having definite bnsi-
ness tnere Is liable to be arrested and
meet other embarrassments,
German in Trenches. ~
der heard wass that a sergeant was
out side the lines, one night. a verv
dark night. and ran into a German
SOLDIER also Shopping around" The
vailant sergeant Erappled with him,
put the enemy broke away and ran,
not toward his w lines but toward
ours, the sergeant in hot pursuit, Our
men, thinking. it wa the sergeant
hurriedly returning, did not fire, and
Just as the latter was, about to grab
his victim he stumbled, the German
man hurdled the trench,and continued
back into our territory. He is suppos-
cd tby some soldier n%arrators) to be
there vet getting longer on infofTna-
ton and shorter on.food every day.
A visiting American major who
stopped several Soldiers on the road
and asked thenslssa question was the
basis of a story Whioh% in a;.couple Of
days had grown with many details of
how aaG erman spy was dressed in an
American officers uniform with the
insignia of major. After that visiting
officers did not ask questions of SOL
;diers, for there vas not one in the
sector who would not have grabbed
the first iistrange officer who spoke to
him and turkeyfooted him to the
nearest headquarters. AS to, mysterl-
GUS strangers, their +numbeTi was le-
. ID German in Tower.
In one. town so near to the front
that it was shelfed almost daily lights
flashed at night from the tower Of tho
ruined church, not on the side toward
the German line, hut toward France.
The possibility suggested was that
they were. picked up by confederates
farther back and relayed around a
big Circle to Germany. The chaplain
of the regiment undertook to watch
the tower, The second night his wight
was rewarded.
IT was just looking for the pigeons
to eat. explained the man dragged
out of the dusty ruin. He never look
ed for any more intthat tower.
Homing pigeons once were used in
sending messagesce across the lines.
However, they do not fly high and
can be picked off with shotguns. Guns !?
are supplied for that purpose. It is
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is favorable and then attach a mes
sage to a balloon and let it go over.
They say in France that the only
scruple the Germans have against
Smelling a church tower is that-it
may serve as a, signal station for
them. A we'll known story is how the
moment the French would march
from a certain town the Germans
would stop Smelling it and would start
up again five minutes after the men
in horizon blue returned. Finally the
man was discovered who waved q
signal. flag from the church tower
After that the Germans were not ad-
vised.
Regularly those doing this traitor
GUS work are discovered they receive
short shrift. There is not the, news
paper publicity which the more
weighty politicians with higher prices
for their treachery receive: Thief.
trials are neither long, nor expensive
o chronicled in the press. -.
Say. they shot a spy up i'll our
town this morning" impaired by some
soldier is about. all one hears. =