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noiner wun u. It iffThe Maj. rootor here tells a funny!®1111,story about when the Americans weretrying to clean the place up and he jswears It Is true and I have no reasonto doubt him. Some of th. Frenrh care of met to the town Major who la a mill. !•» 1 «“*ht •» co,d »n,»We finally reached our has and we are split up worse than ever. I was lucky enough to get my old billetback and the French madam has beenlike a child everwentary officer and complained that the!Americans were spoiling their drinking .. _ . . . . .Major want- the f rench, one reason he is bet-can’t speak above a w hisper even now. The American is a great favoritei water, naturally the tow ned to know how and natives said thattho Sammies used to much Cresote intheir W. C s that it ran into theirwells and made their water taste bad.Only the first Battalion, is at thistown the other about two miles posite directions.two battalions arediwam-e but In op. I forbidding either •older, orMy company is scattered all over the town and my platoonis at the top of the hill while leted at has so whenever I want to seemv men I have to hike it all the wayj up the hill.After being here a few days and getting sort of squared away we began to train with one of the French regiments which is resting In another small town. It is one of the most famous of all the French army. During this war alone; more than 3*1000 men have passed thru its ranks, that is not saying that 27.000 has been killed but that man) either been killed, wounded or taken prison-Nearly every man you see has ater.j least one medal and one that I noticed had five. Besides that nearly all the companies are decorated. They foughtat Verdun and practically all the otherbig battles.They send for us every day and takeus over in auto trucks to a training grounds which is in sight of the birth place of Joan of Arc. A funny thing about that town is that the sun always seems to be shining on It when it is cloudy every place else. I have heard this talked about by the French asn q 11«ter paid than any other s ddler and spends his money like water and Instead of bu' ing a drink for himself and going home he is not satisfied unless he buys a drink for the house.' ^ VprThere is new A. K. F. order out nowofficersfrom talking or walking with the French street women, also no one isI ;im bil- I aN°w®d to go to Paris except on business.There are two things that an American wants over here and can’t get. one is American cigarettes and the other is reading matter, such as magazines as we get all the news fro mthe Chicago Tribune and the Now York Herald and also the Eondon Mall, ali three being published daily in Paris and we get them the next morning.The only thirg that I can say about the French cigarette is that they are what Gen. Sherman said war was. He must have said that because he was out of tobacco.Just now we are training with allour equipment such as “gas-mask i.steel-helmet, hand grenades and all I of that stuff. It wouldn’t surprise me if we were in the “spring drive only to n lesser degree than what the Eig-llsh and French will be.Well I have told you the storv ofmy life or that is all that I can sinceI have been in France. If this is not what you want you will have to let me know and I will do the best that I cant *Ialtho the most interesting stuff I can’t ,
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 08, 1918
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