Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-31
FROM THE "STARS AND STRIPES" PUBLISHED FOR
 THE BOYS IN FRANCE

Rules specify that no P. G. shall be deprived of his personal effects Iron Crosses and the lfke---but almost any captured German is willing to sac- rifies anything he has for real tobae- co.
 When one Boche arrived before the examining officer and was told to empty his pockets, he laid out five partly filled sacks of American mak- in's, and not much else. For it he had traded off an Iron Cross, his helmet, trench knife, and all the buttons he could spare.
 4 certain American private wasn't satisfied, however, with any modest, vest pocket souvenirs of the battle. Nothing would do for him. he ex- plained, but German machine gun.
 After his unit was relieved he went to a salvage pile, selected a weapon in good order, and carried it, in ad- dition to his full pack and rifle, all the long, weary kilometers back to repos.
 It was not until after he had ar rived that he discovered it was a French and not a German gun he had seized. We won't repeat his remarks when he made the discovery.
 Your M. P. must escort the prison CTS to the rear, and there has been quite lot of a job lately up Chateau Thierry way. One captured lieutenant got quite way down the road with a pistol hidden on him, and in monient of irritation at the guying he was getting from 50 of his own men who were goose-stepping cheerfully into bondage with him, he took pot shot at the M. P.
 The M. P. was wounded, but not disabled, and pistol duel followed; in another moment there was one less Prussian junker in this vale of tears. The outcome was greeted with unaf- fected delight by all the other pris- oners, who were revelling in the first chance to speak their minds that they had had in all their days.
 A private of the buck species was watching plane duel in the skies.
 "Quite sight," said a voice be- side hint, and his head nearly dropped off when he saw that it belonged to the general commanding the division.
 There is story in that same divi- sion, about the same general, which describes how he was seen one day recently walking along and chatting with top sergeant. This shows that a use has at last been found for top sergeants.
 That division did it's share, and paid its price for the doing, when it } helped to drive the Hun back across the Marne. That night someone soft ly opened the generals door, and then as softly closed it. And the word went around that he sat with his face buried in his hands, and his frame quivering with sobs.
 A lanky private was detailed to take captured German artillery of- ficer to regimental headquarters. He had progressed about half mile when the Anterican noticed that his charge was tearing up some papers he evidently didn't want to get into American hands and scattering the pieces along the road.
 "Aint you the cute cuss?" said the American. "Now you just go back and pick them all up."
 The officer may not have under stood the instructions, but he did the gestures which accompanied them, and he complied. He spent the next half hour psinstakingly gather ing the fragments of map, which, when pasted together showed all the Boche artillery positions in his sec