Weekly journal-miner., 1918-06-05
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and once in the head. but he still came ou, so that | had 10 club him with the pistol and it only took q few licks 10 knock him unconscious Sergeant Hall had settled with the other man. Then l saw one of the i've remaining on the parapet point ing his rife at Sergeant Halls heart, SO 1 used my pistol and between Ser gcart Hall and myself we settled for them. The rest of the party was taken care oI by the other three mem bers of the patrol
 Found Trench Occupied
 We took our two prisoners back to the strong point in the trench. Aiiuc weighed 2I0 pounds and was the picture of health so I made him walk. Vixen we got 10 the strong point someone came running up cry ing Gas That is an awful word in thc trenches. I knew that if ] tool. my revolver of the German was runring a risk because they are tricky. and had never put on my mask with one hand. but 1 did then It proved 10 be d false alarm but would rather put on my mask 99 times for nothing than be too late once. because that means death.
 German Liquid Fire
 He told how one of the brave sen tries in tine first line trenches, who must stand on their post no matter what happens. 1attened on the ground when he mistook his com panions returning from billet for the enemy and how they walked over him and spilled hot coffee on his nccl, and gave him the impression that he was the victim of German liquid fire.
 He declared that trench life is a tough" life, consisting mostly or mud. and water, up to the knees.
 Tells of "Cooties"
 Whited told about the affcctionatc ~Coot;cs, and illustrated the use Of French and English gas masks. He. said that after wearing the English mask a few hours Git clamps on the nose and one brcathcs through tube clutchcd in the mouth air that has been purified by chcmicals) the sol dicr gets very sick. As 1t would be fatal to remove the mask. he vomits into thc chin part of it.
 Sounds dirty" said Whited, but we are fighting a dirty people and ii we are going 10 whip them, we've got 10 get dirty with them.
 The American army in France simply can't be beat When an order is given by the commander it goes all the way down the line and every man executes that order at once and # he has any kick coming about getting too many details he kicks after the order is completed. To win this war we have got to have the solid people behind LIS. To do VOLT bit you've got to be organ .zcd ike we are over there. want to carry hack a message to the boys in the trenches. It is that in every quarter oi the country where we travel the people are one hundred per cent American and solidly back of them"
 A Woman in the Trenches
 Then he told about the work of the Red Cross. how a Red Cross worker penetrated the front line trench with hot drinks for the boys.
 We thought that we had gotten somewhere woman would not come and il sure looked funny to sec her there with ,shrapnel helmet and gas mask and boots.
 The Germans are a barbarous people. They are fighting women and children as well as men. Some of the refugees exchanged for war prisoners didn't have hardly enough clothes on to say that they had clothes.
 There was a Red Cross nurse in the hospital who received a five pound box of chocolates and she was rom Milwaukee. Instead of eating hose chocolates ike an ordinary girl would do, she told an orderly 1 70 pass them around among the pa tents. but she was so popular they made her pass them around herself . How many of you will give a lays wages for the life oi soldier: { you cant go across. come across.
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