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GO FAST 10 KEEP OF THE DOUGHBOYSKRIZ WEARING SHOES OUTAlso Wifitos That GermansThihk Kaiser Has Capturtd NeW- York Oh. Mafttthe fcftllltfy m liaVB o. h*M ttma keep!n* up with .the . Inftotry; In the advances tiioy 'd'ro making how, private Joseph F* K*l* in it letter to hia cousin, Miss Beatrice Kri«, *hC. 120 SixtehtH ely^IiuA WeSfe, ifclli ot A three days’ march durjn# the big Ahlorioandriy6, , Arvti .of hdw H6 wb** oufc.u pairof htib-httiloa boots trying td.koep Up the jpfitie, •JFranoe, Attfcust. Dear Coueim—Wfl have tteen. doing a lot of ffVdlihg ever slnde we •, wore oailed to the front. Whoh that big AmeriQah. drive todk place, we as artillery QB had all wo could do to keep up with our .doughboys. At one time for-three days We iVOro on the mitt and made something .. around . sixty ftiiles. Woffci of it oil, i am duite shbirfc and as is'the QUStoni h*ivA to -.ease ,.tho horsed’ load We Walk jiiosfcty all tiny way, and my short legs had to.inoreaso the oadenoy to bd able to keep up* Neyer in my life did I •. walk. so manyi tnlles In a day as I did tkafc’tljn*. If you remember the hob~natfled shoes fi told yoli about arid how' strongly theyi are studded, well, I finished1-.A • pair ofl those. ■ ’v •0rib good tftirig.w© ths clothe*we want for exchanging: ‘unserviceable-cld'fchas. Just last Week X was fullly' dressed In brand riew set' of clothes* I didnt feel llko going into tho trencher to set them all dirty again. Feltmor* lilco stepping out.. .The frbiit la aboht as lively' 9M usual With the thundering, of the gtins, and* sometimes the Dutch even hook u* n* little gaa. ; Bui we .pay (horn baolc. r have beriii to the frdrit over a’ month, arid I hvtfrt't yet aeeiri a dutohman. The ..only ones Ive seeri. were back of the lines , working In the fields as prisoner's. W6 get to talk to th'b infantry boya a idt So they toll tis abotit them. They say they are big husky guys but verp. poor on. account of getting poor grub. They nro awfully afraid of theYahtts ctftd'Win run the ttirititd they*;see them coming/ They don't seem to* have any fighting spirit, any more,A pal df. mtho who can read. Dutd* » prottly Y/6\i fouffd a Dutch paper hftra* hO tLd It thrdtighi He fdhrtd dti article In it that stire got my ghat It said that Germany has a big army In New York, and that they already havd captured* New York ana atfe bn their way toi Philadelphia* 111 bet . if the people in, Gerrrtatiy knew, the truth they wouia .have the kaiser on thO'CrpiS in no time-Many of the Getrriaris dont know thal Affie^ieahs dfff hSfe yet.. • We Are ndw waiting to bo relieved^‘floon so may get- a ohanoo. at. that furlough. Am as healthy orf a s'oiirdoolc-dhd have plenty-to dt* the-only things that 1 fttitis is thOBO dhodolatea I used* •to-'get in Gody,. We get.it issued hdr«y? once in' while but not enough tc^ oVer'ctetuWrits again td yout* oottaln In th«i country of Franoe.PVT. JOSEPH F. ICRI3,• Batt, fi, 147tK F. A, A. EX F#
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Sat, Oct 05, 1918
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