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Title: "And they thought we wouldn't fight."
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gibbons, Floyd Phillips, 1887-1939
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Doran
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n one side of a wellpopulated graveyard not fifty yards from his post. A good night, he said; havent seen it so quiet inthree years. We have inter-battalion relief on. Somenew companies are taking over the lines. Some of themare new to the front trenches and Im going out withyou and put them up on their toes. Wait till I reportin. He rang the field telephone on the wall and waitedfor an answer. An oil lamp hung from a low ceiling overthe map table. In the hot, smoky air we quietly heldour places while the connection was made. Hello, the Major said, operator, connect me withMilwaukee. Another wait Hello, Milwaukee, this is Larson. Im talking fromHamburg. Im leaving this post with a deck of cardsand a runner. If you want me you can get me at ConeyIsland or Hinky Dinks. Wurtzburger will sit in here. Some code. Major, Lincoln Eyre, correspondent,said. What does a pack of cards indicate ? Why, anybody who comes out here when he doesnthave to is a funny card, the Major replied, and it looks
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GRAVE OF riRST AMERICAN KILLED IN FRANCE Translation: Here Lie the First Soldiers of the Great Republicof the United States of America, Fallen on French Soil forJustice and for Liberty, November 3rd, 1917 WE WOULDNT FIGHT 171 as if I have a pack of them to-night. Fritz gets quite afew things that go over our wires and we get lots of his.All are tapped by induction. Sometimes the stuff we get is important and some-times it isnt. Our wire tapping report last night car-ried a passage something like this:—The German opera-tor at one post speaking to the operator at another said: *Hello, Herman, where did that last shell drop ? ^Second operator replied, /It killed two men in a ra-tion party in a communicating trench and spilt all thesoup. No hot food for you to-night, Rudolph. Herman replying: Thats all right. We have gotsome beer here.* Then there was a confusion of sounds and a Germanwas heard talking to some one in his dugout. He said: *Hurry, here comes the lieutenant! Hide the can!

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