TALES FROM A DUGOUT BY ARTHUR GUY EMPEY

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<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">icture a dugout

in one of the front line trenches of France, damp and evil smelling, hardly

deep enough to protect the inmates from a three-inch shell-burst. This hole in

the ground will comfortably house four soldiers. Put seven of them with full

equipment and a machine gun in it, and what results? I dare say in civilian

life there would be only one outcome—TROUBLE. Well, in the army on the Western

Front, this situation spells GOOD FELLOWSHIP.<p></p></span></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">If it were only

possible for a giant dictograph to be invented, the transmitter being placed in

any dugout of the American Army in France, while at the receiver, across the

Atlantic, the American Public “listened in,” many a heartache would disappear,

worry for the “boys at the front” would more or less vanish in mist. If the

mothers, fathers, wives, sweethearts, sisters and friends, could only hear

these conversations, their hearts would be filled with joy and pride for the

fighting men of America. Of course, at times, few and far between, they would

be slightly shocked, as most eavesdroppers are, but on the whole, they would

listen to wonderful sentiment, clean and wholesome Americanism.<p></p></span></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">It has been my

misfortune not to have occupied an American dugout as yet, but I have crowded

into one with the Britisher, with good old Tommy Atkins. We are of the same

family, the same blood runs through our veins, so Tommy's ideas and

conversations are identical with those of our brave American boys. Therefore, I

hope that in a way these Tales from a Dugout will help fill the void of the

absent dictograph.<p></p></span></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify""><span style=""font-size: 13.5pt;"">It is only a

matter of time before our boys and our Allies, God bless them all, will

victoriously return to “Blighty,” and be received in the arms of their waiting

dear ones.<p></p></span></p>



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