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Excerpt from The War Book of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917 1919 The. Good ship Matsonia now lined up with a cruiser of the latest type and five other transports and day after day pursued a zigzag course to the Eastward. The solemn procession moved onward with little adven ture, and the l06th grew accustomed to crawling around in the dark, for lights were out after sunset, grew accustomed to sleeping in its tiers of bunks in the hold, or on warm nights to rolling up on deck, and to the elastic organization which in active service replaces the straight lines and regular intervals of the drill field. But two events broke the orderly progress of the voyage: One was a sudden blast of whistles and reversing of the engines of the Matsonia shortly after dark of the fifth day on the ocean. The l06th crawled up on deck to see what it was all about, just in time to note the stern of a strange vessel slide past the bow within hailing distance. The other was the mysterious breakage of a pair of opera glasses used by the lookout on No. 23post, Main Deck. Who did it? For the entire remainder of the journey, the Adjutant's office was kept busy sending out memoranda, writing indorsements, return ing letters for revision, asking questions, conducting investigations, and filing reports. It is a detail scarcely worth mentioning that the voyage ended before the mystery of the opera glasses was solved, for the breakage was more than compensated by the innocent occupation which it provided for so many persons, who would otherwise have suffered from the tedium of uneventful days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.