Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — Modern warrare. [ARTICLE]
Modern warrare.
Fresh troops were coming up to replace a regiment of color that had been unsuccessful in a recent attack. On the way in one of the debonair arrivals undertook to extract a little information on the subject of said attack from a member of the retiring force. “Hey! What’s the matter with youse guys, anway? Ain’t your outfit got any punch?’ The discouraged one rolled a baleful eye In the direction of this unnecessary addition to his trials, and replied: “You tell ’em, boy! You tell ’em! But we didn’t get no suppoht. That there ahtillery didn’t give us no garage!”—Saturday Evening Post.
