Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-20

ther back down the line at a supply
 station of New Yorks 77th another
 band was going at full blast. This
 was negro band, attached to an en-
 gineer outfit, led by one Ferguson,
 .gold-toothed musician of Cincinan-
 ti. They played Sousas Stars and
 Stripes Forever" with saxaphone
 putting in lot of jazz.
 Tonight on the front lines Ameri-
 can soldiers are rather deJectledly watching the Germans in wild cele- bration. The German soldiers are firing off ammunition by the ton, lighting the sky with rockets and flares. The Americans arc. not all lowed to celebrate in that fashion Further back of the lines a few flares were set off and an occasion al shot was heard, but the front lin2 regiments silently held the positions they had when hostilities ceased. They have patrols out as usual. Dur ing the day at several places along the line,2 especially i'll the St. Mihlel sector, Germans came over to the American OutpOSts with Outstretched hands. They were all smiling jubi- lantly They traded iron crosses, knives, helmets and other belongings for American cigaretts. Americans talked with them frequently, but no Americans left their lines to go to the Germans. They were not allow ed. There were few very old men and few children ill the town. A soldier, who said his name was A.. c. Larsen. snatched up one as soon as the order "fall out" was given and kissed it. He said he had kids of his own.
 Too Good to Believe
 The first American flag displayed at Stenay was a little one, carried by Y. NJ. c. A. man who was with the first line troops. Hhe showed it to an old woman, who gazed at 1t wonderingly. Some of them obvi- ously didn't believe everything that
 was told them was true. They had been practically prisoners for four years.
 The chateau, which was owned by l Madame Henri de Verdier, widow or q Frenchman who was famous ill that part of the country, was un- damaged, but all rooms were filtered with belonging of German officers. While the Americans were looking l the town over a number of French officers scrambled across the Mouse
 and entered the town. Many houses at Stenay displayed French flags. A woman storekeeper who had a stock of them insisted on giving them | away to the soldiers. She wouldn't
 take any pay
 It was curious situation, with the victors so quiet and the losers so feverishly celebrating their de- 1 feat. One German said he expected to be home by Sunday. They were | all unutterably and sincerely glad that the business of killing was end ed. So are the Americans, for that
 matter, but the men in the front line 1 were not giving as much vociferous expression to their gladness today as 1 the Germans.
 They seemed to take it as matter i of course.
 Veterans kidded New Men. Company F, Sixteenth Infantry, which had the first engagement of l any unit in the American army ln l this war, marched out of the battle line this morning with the rest of 1 the regiment past the place whore l ,Miller's band was playing. There l are not great many veterans oi l that first engagement, which was just raid A fresh division was march
 ing in as the Sixteenth came out The old soldiers kiddedd the new
 men. They knew fighting had been
 suspended and were in jovial mood
 Battery c. Sixth Field Artillery
 which fired the first shot i'll tht
 war, as far the Americans arc con
 cerned was not in the line when the
 finish came. iaisl'.
 Sergt. Arch was the man who hl,ll
 ed the lanyard on that occasioM Al
 fas as known. he is still aliyeS lu i The men of the S9th Division wer,
 walking through Stenay ill skirm 1 ish line when Il o'clock came this
 morning. Stenay was about the lar