Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-11

most of them wore the expression OF
relief Characteristic of the imperial
soldier for whom the war has ended.
A narrow shaft Of light led US TO a
tunble-down dwelling in which Col
nnsl Screvs of the Alabama infantry
had esta hlished his headquarters for
an hour or so. The colonel demon !
strsted that southern hospitality has
survived even in this least hospitable
wars, by inviting us to spend the
night on his floor. AS the MOOR wa
already occupied by the colonel him
self and most of his regiment we felt
il was hardly right for us to accept.
Stumbling along through the dark
ness we discovered, quite accldentaliy,
the brigade headquarters for which
We mad heon searching at Exermont
an, sommerance. The general was
| ABSENT his car being locked up in
| some traffic lam. A lieutenant, VIII
! once had been reporter on the New
Yorp Tribune, was in charge of head
Quarters which consisted of good
seed room in an erstwhile German
barracks.
lieutenant in Charge,
i There was no heat, no light save an
4 inch OF candle, and the only food the
4 I,ientenant could find was half an
) onion. But there were maps galore
and a telephone, and 80 all was well
Comforts of life could wait so long as
THE necessaries were on hand. The
lieutenant told us the best way to
proceed to the front. We left him
reclin ng nonchalantly on a wooden
: bunk made in Germany and medi-
: tatively munching the German onion
Hiking ankle deep in mud along a
= narrow road crammed full of gun car
riage trucks, ambulances and wagon
:. trains is slow business. 1t was nearly
= midnight when on the plateau south
+. of landres- Georges, we reached
the first of the enemy defenses our
$ bows had oveITun with redoubtable
= dash. 1t was network of barbed
:, wire, shallow trenches and machine
= gun pits, and it, was a Kriemhlld pc.
70 sition
y Brief glimpses, illuminated by a
Z pocket lamp. showed us how COM
,s pletely the preparatory bombardment
. of two hours had levelled wire and
learthworks alike. Shapeless things
:, that had been German flesh and blood
a mot long before spoke silently of this
a Ifrightfui agony our shells had brought
i ito the foe.
!. Doughboys Are Cheerful.
" Landres-St. Georges was peoplet
,al with shadowy Neings who huskilS
asked one another how they could
find HEADQUARTERS, or Company A. OF
field hospital They were doughboy'
" lost in the darkness. All of them wer'
le cheerful and all were animated b,
z, the stirring spirit of victory.
10 Through all that rainy. miserable
N night ! never heard complaining
u note Yes. there was one 1t CAM
~ from no less a parsonage than Lieut.
ID James Hennen Legendre. and hi
complaint was In the nature of protes
1t against the raindrops that persisted
e. in leaking through the roof OF tn
G shell-t torn house in which Lieut.. lie
A. gendre was quartered. He said on
IL ought not to be finicky about a thint
L like leaky ceiling, or pay much at
tention to raindrops, but as a divi
re sonal staff officer he objected to tn
er indignities of Indictment weather fiv
IN miles back from the firing line.
III However, despite the rain, the Lieu
e. tenant, who quilted the life of NeN
40 York clubman to enlist as a privtt
y, and who has since won a commission
OF assured us he was happy to be aliv
&C. and to know that his division ha
I'd swept the Boches back another eigh
as Kilometres Five milesl since moor
VI Legendre gave us directions how I
m proceed, and we left him buttoning hi
nj raincoat tighter around his neck.
Our next stop was Imecourt. TIL
5iroad thither was lined with trucks an
en- wagons mired in bitches. More tina
NJ once we stumbled over men lying o
c. the edge Of the road, sleeping sound
n ly in the mud, with the drizzle wet
es ting them through.
ed Az I,oecourt in the preat chatea
x that had withstood many tons Of hig
to explosives we found Colonel and Car
tain stretched on the stone floor be
It's sides a kindling wood fire, We joine
as them and were soon asleep.
ell Dawn came. and with 1t breakfast