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»* a r.KJTWOknow just where to go at a minutes •warning. This is all for today.August 24: The sub has nevershowed up since so I guess they must have gotten her or else she is afraid to try again. 1 suppose the homopapers had a big headline ubout it or 1 will have after we land. We get the wireless every morning with the fullscores and it sure is great, over 1000 miles from home and wc get the nows as quick as you do. Tills is quite a trip and 1 would not have this war go by wthout being in it for any price, in fact I never \youid forgive .myself and when I corae back 1 sure will have some news and also a souvenir from Germany if it has to be one ol the Kaiser's ears.Sunday morning, August 25: Allis well and a fine sea in fact the sail- | ors say it is what they expect. By 1 the way I have not been sea sick at all so far and I won't now. I got a little sick Friday morning and threw up the beans we had for ‘breakfast and 1aside from that I am fine.We are going to France Instead of Italy as we expected and I know that I on one side of the ships in our bunch is Ed Conley and I would love to seehim, but no chance as we sail about twenty rods apart, fifteen big shipsand battle ships and torpedo boats as | escorts. |August 26: WeM once more I willstart writing and say that everything | went along nicely until 6 o'clock this I morning when our enginec went out | of commission and'we stood still just drifting out here in mid ocean until noon today •when they got »t fixed. The other ships went on and were out of sight. I was on watch and at 10 o'clock I sighted a battle ship coming behind us. Ah soon as I reported it you should have seen the spy glasses come out and many a man anxiously awaited the approach of it to see what flag it carried. Finally the good oldstars and stripes could he seen and believe me a mighty shout went up as j that great monster with twenty four j big guns, some as big as sixteen inches, went by us. Shortly afterwards We got started and are rapidly gaining now oil. Mm rest of our fleet. But there was cause for some worry as transports cannot carry very many guns, only four each and small ones, six inch, which would be of little use to meet a warship However it would 'be a miracle to me to see a Her- « man man of war out. here as the English fleets have the complete German navy bottled up, but you never can tell when one of them might slip byand believe me if it wero not for England's complete mastery of the sea over here we would have considerable to worry about. * This Is the t fourth day out and'nine more to go so will close for.tomorrow 1 go on watch from 2 o’clock In the morning until four. *September 1: Well T have not written any for about a week so will nvritosome more now and seal this letter.This is Sunday and we are about two days out, or about 600 miles. There has been much excitement all weekand l did not write much except a letter to Uncle Mike, which l am sending back to New York with a sailor on this boat. You will get Ibis letter much quicker that way as it will not bo held up a couple of weeks and censored in Franco.We have shot at several supposed to be subs and a Nonvelghnn freighter that 'WO passed on the 28th wUs sunk on the same night by a eufb. The ship was unarmed of course, or the dirty curs would have boon afraid to fire on it. We met our convoy this morning from Franco, a whole flee! of torpedo boat destroyers, battle ships and hydroplanes, so we have very little cause for worry from now on. The trip as a whole has been very Interesting, though not as exciting as *wo thought it would be when we first started out. Tell the lads to send me a layer of bars of horse shoe tobacco as I understand It can hardly bo bought over here. There are all kinds of cigarettes, but I never eared for them and they can send the chewing parcel post and it will come O.K.I am going to close this letter for this time and give it to a sailor to mail when he gets back to New Yorkand In closing I will ask that you write as often as possible and remember that there are a great, nutny hardships that will come before 1 get back. Rome have come already on this 'boat, I (which I cannot tell and if you do not hear from me regularily it will be for j lack of time only and can assure youI that I will always he out there in the thickest of the fighting doing my duty to the last for my countryK home and friends. Will be home after I pay Berlin that visit.RICHARD LEEINTERESTING BITS OF NEWS FROM OURSOLDIER BOYS IN NEAR ANDFAR CAMPSDICK LEE TELLSOF TRIP ACROSSand I am on duty two hours out of every twelve in a station up on the top deck. Have to report everything I Fee no matter what it is. The old sea looks pretty nice at present.Aug.23: Second day out. Well thishas been some day believe r.c. At first we picked up seven more ships New port News with 20000 more men making ^0 00) we have now. Everything went lovely until 7 o’clock tins evening when a Mr. Submarine showed or rather the periscope of it did for the transport near when it cameup took one shot at it and the torpedo boat destroyer dropped some depth bombs and what became of that sub we probably will never know. But I do know that instead of being scared like you would expect a bunch of then to be, that every darn man With the exception of some of the drafted men rushed to the deck to see the sub. Talk about excitement I guess there was some and there are 2500 on this ship too. When a stfb is sighted the whistles and sirens on the ship blow and everybody is supposed to get by the life boats and rafts. We are drilled every day so we will be ready in case \vc are hit and weMr. and Mrs. Mike 1/Oe on North ABtreet have received a very interesting letter from their son Richard, who recently arrived in Franco. The tetter is as follows :Dear Father and Mother: Wednesday titb 2lst on board ship in Hobo-kan harbor. We came on boat this morning at 6 o'clock after walking six miles from Camp Merritt to the Jersey Shore and taking a boat There are 29000 of us on board eight ships and we will pick up a bunch of ships at Newport News. Am in the best of health and that is all for to-lt;la .Aug.22: We are out in the sea now,just left New York harbor and the Goddess of Liberty and believe me we will be some happy outfit when we si'e that picture coining back. It sure is an inspiring sight and it makes you feel that the U. R. A. is a fine place to live in. The sea here is calm, 'but we will Bee some rough weather before wo reach the other side. 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Monmouth Daily Atlas
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Mon, Sep 30, 1918
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