Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1915 — Snoring Beats Cannonade [ARTICLE]

Snoring Beats Cannonade

Paris. —The other night I was travel Ing In the direction of the eastern frontier and heard a story of a soldier who disturbed the calm of a bombarded trench by snoring, writes a war correspondent “He used to keep us all awake in the trenches,” said my Informant “You could kick him and roll him over, and he would say, 'AI right, old chap,’ and go on snoring. It was awful, the way he got on our nerves. You can get used to the noise of guns, but you couldn’t sleep through Francois’ snoring. He knew he snored, and was telling us all day how sorry he was he had disturbed us. “Then Francois was put on to night duty, so that gave us some peace. But the chaps he had to turn in with during the day revolted, so we finished by going out behind our trenches and making a dugout for Francois to sleep by himself. He crawled out to it after dark, and we could then get a quiet night’s sleep." x