My correspondence has been greatly interrupted of late because of an extensive tour of France and I have nothad the opportunity for having letterscensored. I have had the finest trip of my life, kilometers miles by motor almost entirely across the country, visiting: a hundred towns,spending nights in a dozen of the best’* o'' • •towns and cit-ies of France and seeingher chateaux, cathedrals and snowcapped mountains. Have oaten and slept along the roads, in the best of hotels, in private homes, both of peas ants and of the most refined, and have learned much of French customs and language that 1 did not know before It being the trip of a lifetime I shall have to write of it on the installment plan, this being my firs: payment. 1 can tell you much more of it when I return bringing with me a couple hundred scenes, and can name the places I was In. I cannot tell you the progress of the trip but can tell yousome of the personal experiences not connected with military matters1 have now traveled 4.000 miles of water and about -.000 of land and am beginning to feel so far from home that I almost doubt if the world is round after all. but the world and illit holds are going to mean a whole lot more to me for having made all .his distance I have been across Fugland