Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . o theborder of Lor-raine one paidthe French mili-tary fare; oncein Germanyproper one hadonly to s a t i s f ythe M. P. at thegate to journeyanywhere in theoccupied the imposingbuilding out ofwhich the Ger-mans had beenchased to giveplace to our Ad-vanced G. H. Q.,I had been or-dered on to Cob-lentz, but I foundtime to trans-gress militaryrules to the ex-tent of bringing Grossmutter a loaf ofwhite bread and a can of condensed milkfrom our commissary, to repair mydamage to the family rations, beforehurrying to the station.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . o theborder of Lor-raine one paidthe French mili-tary fare; oncein Germanyproper one hadonly to s a t i s f ythe M. P. at thegate to journeyanywhere in theoccupied the imposingbuilding out ofwhich the Ger-mans had beenchased to giveplace to our Ad-vanced G. H. Q.,I had been or-dered on to Cob-lentz, but I foundtime to trans-gress militaryrules to the ex-tent of bringing Grossmutter a loaf ofwhite bread and a can of condensed milkfrom our commissary, to repair mydamage to the family rations, beforehurrying to the station. Yank now sustained the contentionsof the Verboten signs, instead of lettingthem waste away in impotence, as in theFrench area. All the important Parispapers were on sale at the station boy marched up and down the platform,pushing a convenient little news-stand onwheels. The car I entered was re-served for Allied officers, yet severalGerman civilians rode in it could not but wonder what would havehappened had conditions been FORCED TO FRATERNIZE IN SPITE OF HIMSELF They were cheerful enough in spite ofwhat ought to have been a humiliatingexperience, possibly because of an im-pression I heard one hoarsely whisper toanother, Oh, theyll go home in an-other six months; an American officertold me so. Evidently some one hadbeen fraternizing, as well as re-ceiving informa-tion which theheads of thePeace Confer-ence had not yetgained. The Schnelhugwas a real ex-press. It was likethe ride fromAlbany to NewYork. Now andthen we crossedthe w i n d i n gMoselle, thesteep, plump hillsof which wereplanted clear totheir precipitouscrests with order-ly v i n e yards,each vine care-fully tied to itsstalk. For mileafter mile thehills were ter-raced, eight-footwalls of cut stoneholding up a four-foot patch ofearth, paths forthe workers snak-ing upward between them. The systemwas almost exactly that of the Peruviansunder the Incas, far apart as they were, intime
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