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SOI THRILLS
OF NIGHT LIFE
(By United Press)
WJTH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Dec. 16.—(By Mail) —
Night life in a first line trench has
its little bag of thrills for the begin
ner.
Poilus say night trenches are mon
otonous but all poilus have seen live
lier things than trenqh life.
To an American correspondent,
spending a first night on the fringe
of No Man’s Land precisely as no
doubt hundreds of thousands of Amer
icans will before the end of the war,
a nocturnal trench has all the melo
dramatic elements to keep up interest
and drive monotony away.
Darkness seems to settle down
quickly over the frowsy, weeded, grey
strip in front which nobody owns and
nobody treads in daylight. The low
dirt ridge just behind a tangle of
wooden stakes and barbed wire over
across melts quickly into the failing
light and nothing is visible except your
own sandbagged parapet and the rag
ged maze of your own barbed wire.
A battery of French guns bark
sharply in the rear. Firefly Hashes
! wink a mile behind the enemy’s wire,
i The French gunners are saying “Good
Night” to a Boche battery and the dull
“Boom,” “Boom, "Boom,”—then the
squeal of enemy shell above tells you
the Boche is answering. Unless unfor
seen things happen tonight the gun
ners will "rest on their arms” until
daybreak. On ‘quiet” sectors like this
it often happens.
vvitn darkness down the night shift
are eating supper in their dugouts and
rigging out in sheepskin jackets to be
; gin the silent night watch over the
parapets. The dugouts—corrugated
j steel and sandbag construction at in
tervals a few yards back of the first
i line—are smelly and dark but filled
j with life. Its human life and insect
life, the latter making little difference
so long as steel and sandbags shod
| vagrant shells. Men say they can get
! accustomed to insects but the bite of
' a shell is different.
I The United Press found the inevit
i able American sign in these dugouts
tonight. Pencilled names on the wood
en bunks suggested New York's East
Side, St. LouiB, Cincinnati, Milwaukee
and other purer American names sug
gested early settlers on the praries of
the Middle West. In fact, it was In
the trench just outside that a small
body of American "Sammies'' on No
vember 3 fought desperately against
| overwhelming German odds in Ameri
ca's first little battle of the big Eur
opean war.
Tonight the poilus of France are
again eating their evening soup, meat
stew, bread, cheese and drinking their
rations of Pinard on the bunks where
names like Janovicy, Meyers and Mea
1 (lows are pencilled. Probably soon,
khakied figures will again occupy
| these dugouts carrying on the watch
j over the wire ahead and over a his
toric little American graveyard, two
miles in the rear, where eleven silent
earthmounds lie under as many rough
hewn crosses, each bearing a name
and the intertwined flags of America
and France.
The night poilus have taken their
places a few yards apart along the
parapet. The day’s poilus have filed
into the dugouts for food and rest.
A machinegun is "rat-tat-tat-ing'’ its
evening tryout. All machinguns are
frequently tested at ngiht. A fainter
rat-tat-tat-tat” shows that the Boche
is doing it too. A bright fiery streak
roars up nearby and a small white
parachute floats gently down with an
incandescent flare lighting up No
Man s Land for a hundred yards
around. Somebody saw a suspicious
move beyond the wire, an officer ex
plained. The officer orders a few
rifle grenades fired as a warning to
prowling Boche, perhaps trying to
learn something or to cut the wire.
T he poilu heads, silhouetting over the
parapet at intervals against the black
ness beyond, “duck down” for an in
stant while the grenades explode with
cavernous roars. These missiles flew
into a hundred pieces each and wipe
out life for rods around.
More machineguns are tapping, their
warnings or having their “tryouts"
here and there along the line. The
Boche again, as if nervous, is doing it
too.
A half hour follows without a single
spark of fireworks. But it breaks out
again—both sides watching, flaring,
bombing, machinegunning suspicious
things in that uncanny black stretch of
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No Mans Land, fringed on each side
with nightwatc.hers who trust nobody
but themselves.
Another period of silence except
low voices „f men talkjng )n ..trench
whispers. I hey've learned to "trench
whisper by constant practice. A poilu
apologetically explained, as he rear
ranged his nest of black egglike hand
grenades on the trench shelf before
him. that American soldiers talked too
loud at first. But they finally learned
to "parlor doucement" he added.
The Roche is active again. A flock
of hand grenades roar themselves into
silence on the other side as fiery light
streaks perform arcs like Roman can
dles and then float gracefully down
under their parachutes into the Ger
man wire, a rifle grenade explodes
half way across No Man’s Land and
Boclie machinguns take up the tune.
The Roche having told the French by
the display that no German soldiers
are prowling in this part of No Man’s
Land there Is silence again until time
makes things uncertain.
“’1 he Boche has no reason to be ner
vous yet," whispered an officer. “Our
first patrol goes out at two o'clock.
Would you like to go along?”
Patrolling is one of the milder games
of hide and seek in No Man's Land
(at night and it's something most all
American trench soldiers will learn
before the war is over.
✓
DAWN OF U FRA
IN REPUBLIC DF UHUGUAf
(By Associated Press)
MONTEVIDKO, Uruguay, Jan. 25.—
Thousands of revolutionists, members
of the Blanco party who have been
living in exile in Brazil since their
unsuccessful revolution of 1912, are
expected to return from hiding as a
result of the approval of the new fed
oral constitution by referendum vote
of the nation.
One of their leaders recently stated
that there were 12,000 Uruguayan rev
olutionists living along the Brazilian
side of the frontier, where they had
been ready to take up arms and in
vade Uruguay at short notice. Their
leaders say the exiled rebels prob
ably will return to their homes in the
belief that the secret ballot provided
for in the new constitution will give
them representation in the govern
ment, which Khey have coveted for
many years, and to attain which
they have undertaken previous revo
lutions.
The caches in which they have bui'
ied their arms stretch along the fron
tier from Uruguayana to Rio Grande
do Sul, where they were ready for al
most instant service; but it is be
lieved they will never be opened, as
‘he revolutionary leaders assert that
ine days of revolutions have passed
Liuever in Uruguay with the adoption
• the constitution.
! or !sa!f a century the Blancos have
V d rn port In the government of the
-npublir because of the strict control
"hich the Uolorados havo maintained
over the elections. The secret ballot
prov ided for in the new constitution
., nsldered to be a concession to the
ni-,i cos. whose leaders promises to
sunn^rt the other provisions if the
secret ballot were granted.
One important clause of the new
constitution provides lor the separa
tion of church and state. According
to some political leaders, the winning
of the secret ballot will bring about
the dissolution of the Blanco party.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo., Jan. 25.—So
that drafted men may have a working
knowledge of French before they are
landed on French soil to fight the Ger
mans, a class in elementary French
recently was opened at the state agri
cultural college. Miss Sarah L. Ket
tle, professor of modern languages. Is
responsible for the new class, for
which no charge is made. The mem
bership is not limited to dratt men,
and several others have joined.
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NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Gottschalk and Clonniger conduct
ing the Alaskan hotel at Cordova, Al
aska, and the Alaskan bar, McCarthy,
Alaska, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent and all bills owing
the firm are payable to R. L. Gotts
chalk, who will also pay all outstand
ing indebtedness, as Art lonnlger has
retired from the firm.
K. L. GOTTSCHARK,
ar tclonniger
Cordova, Alaska, Jan. l, 1918
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per month. Six months, $5, if paid in
idvance.
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(By Associated Press)
SAN PAULO, Brazil, Jan. 25.—An
gelo Pedro Pinto, one of the last and
most desperate of the bandits who
have been terrorizing the people of
the adjoining state of Parana for many'
months, has at last been killed by the
police, after a chase that was as ex
citing as most of Pinto's escapades.
Hardly a week passed that travelers
did not bring stories of encountering
him. He always worked alone, but
his absolute disregard of danger madej
him a terror to everyone who went
into that part of the state.
Recently his robberies had become'
so frequent and the killing of his vic
tims so numerous that the Brazilians
called him “Agnello the Man Killer,”
and the police were ordered by the
state government to take him dead or
alive. A searching party of five men
started in search of him.
After a march of twenty-one miles
the searching party overtook the ban
dit in a lonely section known as Cani
vete, which had been the scene of
many of his most desperate achieve
ments. Agnello was hiding in the
house of a friend, and the police un
dertook to wait until he should leave
his refuge, but their presence was soon
reported to the desperado, who
mounted his horse and set out at a
gallop to meet the police.
When told to dismount and consider
himself a prisoner, Agnelo dashed for
ward, shooting at the man who at
tempted to arrest him. Dismounting
and using his horse as a shield, he
continued shooting until the police be
gan to close in on him, when he re
mounted and galloped away, still
shooting with a revolver, when a rifle
bullet kiled him and he fell from his
galloping horse.
cum HE URGED
TO AID «IIA REFUGEES
I WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— Appeals
to the school children of the United
States to make garments for needyj
children, women and old men who
| fled from the invaded districts early
' in the war are being made by the Red
Cross. Some of these people are in
I France, others daily cross the Swiss
1 border. A recent cablegram from
Paris states that an average of 250
I children arrive daily from behind the
I German lines at Evian-le-Bain and that
| “in the first week of the American
' dispensary over 2,400 children were
j examined, more than 1,900 being be
1 tween the ages of 3 and 13 years.” The
! refugees are destitute and ill. They
1 must be given both food and clothing
1 before being sent on to their "billets”
In various towns and villages. The
i French government, which is putting
' all its force into the fighting line, can
not care for these wrecks of war. They
1 depend for all the first needs of life,
for food, shelter and clothing, upon
I the American Red Cross.
The Red Cross will continue to meet
these heavy responsibilities as long as
the people in America stand behind it
with money and supplies. It is calling
upon its newest members, the girls
and boys in the school auxiliaries, to
clothe these children and their pa
rents. The American children are as
sured that not an atom of their work
will be wasted. Every garment turned
in to the Red Cross for this purpose
adds to some refugee’s fighting chance
for life. The Red Cross Association
says:
“Keep in constant touch with the;
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nearest Red Cross chapter to find out
Shat articles are most needed. Use
only the warmest and most durable
materials you can obtain, following
lirections in the American Red Cross
pamphlets Nos. 602, 497, 408 and 409.1
The appeal from these destitute
French children, whose fathers are
fighting side by side in the trenches
with the fathers of American children,
ihould set going the little fingers on
ihis side of the water.
English schools took up this work
early in the year, sending in a few
months 10,000 "kits" to Belgian and
Serbian children.
Normal school girls in France came
o the aid of pupils driven from
schools in the invaded districts, mak
ng clothes for them and receiving
hem into their homes. American
school auxiliaries are beginning well.
The Chicago school auxiliaries turned
in 17,122 hospital and refugee ga
tween the beginning of the school year
and December 1. The children knit
even as they walk to school.
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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
STUDY FRENCH AND DANCING
SEATTLE, Jan. 25—Soldiers and
sailors are being taught French and
dancing by the National League for
Woman’s Service at the Seattle Sol
diers’ and Sailors' club, established
here recently as a part of the war
camp community movement.
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