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We landed in France this a. m Everybody was sea sick, the waves carrje• dear over the. top of the ship. Welfcave here tonight, nobody knows where, whether it ts south or north. I hope north. It will be a long trip is all chat I can find out. 8 p. m.; We ha\etiDCj!•'.* .. , yl ? * ' J* -w* ■ }' -i 'v - v v; .o/* 4^lcfeen here all day. A fine French town, one of their largest sea ports. All the dfficers got passes for the day. We had a great Time making change. We had »0 change our money again from English to French. The prices here aremuch cheaper than in England We wore certainly robbed in England I bpught a Henry Clay cigar, the onlyAmerican made one T could find and It• jost me two shillings (45 cents*. Cig-, atrettcs. fifty to 60 cents per packageThe only cheap place to buy things isthe Y. M. C. A. Everything is Ameri-•»n prices, candy can’t hardly be bought and it is out of sight—one-half dhke of chocolate, thirty-five cents: j Aothcs about the same price. It is fiftuch different than 1 expectedfar we can t see much signs of #ar only at the ports. The people feed K The only thing you never see men in civ ilian * lothes between theSr es of IS and 45. Hundreds of men I ting as guards over 55 years old. ,,,The railroads are different from ours •yid are not nearly so good. The coaches8e made in separate compartmentsght men to each room, and they only
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 07, 1918
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