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HAD NO COUNTERSIGN.Local Newspaper Employe Spends Some Time Under Arrest at Fort Adams,Rome idea of the *51 riot ness with which guards on duty at Fort A daw and. other forts in tills vsldnlty are doing their work, n comparison withtimes 1 jefnre the war, la fi*ivnn In nn incident which happened to an cmpki'T connected vrth one of the local newspapers. This young man was strolling around near the frot, when the order came to halt. HaJL he did. and the next question was; ‘‘Who goes there, friend or foe?” The reply was ‘’Friend anil the command of the guard was; “Advance. friend, and »ive the countersign.*' Th© Newporer did not know tlio countersign, and at once the sentry called the coporal of the guard andturned the man oycf fui* we keeop-Ing.At headquarters, and later behim’ the bar*, the young man explnincd in what iHwifcion lie wa* employed, and an officer from Font Adams called hir employer and asked if he was one of the staff. The reply from the office which preveived the humor of the situation. was to hold the prisoner as :t had man. Hours of effort later resulted ir calling another member of tlu* staff who explained matters satisfactorily so ilint the ynumr man was released a sadder and considerbly wiser man.
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Newport Journal and Weekly News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Fri, Jan 18, 1918
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 28 Jan 2023
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