The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-25

slant cry for tobacco and cigaretI,
papers He may write from trenches
filed with dead or dying comrades OF
from improviSed hospitals whore he
and hundreds OF more sturdy young
sters lie MANNED and worn. but what
ever he may say he is certain to men
ton sadly that cigarettes are scarce
and pipes are few.
This mad desire of the British sol
der for his tobacco is emphasized in
a copy of the Weekly Press of Guern
sey, England. for Nov. s, which has
been received in New York by Henry
Didot, counsel at the French consulate
general, who was until recently con
sui at Guernsey, The entire paper is
devoted TO letters from soldiers at the
front or In the hospitals, and they are
all incongruous tales of battle and ter
rible deaths and pleas for more John
ny Bull flags" instead Of the bitter
French cigarettes they get occasionally
One letter from a lance corporal in
he Fourth Middlesex regiment Is an
Sllows:
When | tell you that the last three
weeks we could not even get ciga
rette paper you can probably guess
whether was glad TO get your ciga.
rettes and tobacco" CThey were sent
him by his fiancee.l Il don't usually
smoke a pipe you know, but Ger
taiuly will smoke the one you sent
me whenever | can get anything to
fill It For weeks we marched through
villages cleaned Of everything that
looked like cigarette paper or tohac.
CO. could have sold any one OF
the cigarettes you sent me for three
pence. English flags before French
any day, say Matter Of taste, | sup
pose"
Then, having disposed Of the impor
tant matter, he continues:
My experiences are not up to much
Been seeing some fireworks. and last
week was lying on hill watching the
Germans shell town. II was some
fireworks, but didn't care for It much
prefer TO see 'em at home. A Ger
man shell fen behind me, and when /
get home III enter for the hundred
yards and drop another near by. |
didn't time myself, but was over the
record when hit our dugout The
boys in the old Orchards yell Mind
the cherry hogs" when the shells come.
and some Of EN- don't mind quick
enough Everybody takes things in
good part We get plenty to eat, but
/ It is mighty cold Of nights hope II
won't be long, and certainly long TO
be back to dear old England"
A corporal doing scout duty in Elan
iers on German bicycle which he
captured writes Of the terrific slaugh
| ter after he thanks his cousin for the
/ pipe and tobacco he received, 81 tell
you." he says there's nothing like q
/ pull Of tobacco from home"
Have Struck Submarine"
Describing the sinking Of the Ger
man submarine HIS, a seaman Of the
destroyer Garry says;
| Zone of the patrols moving slowly
out Of the harhor suddenly signsled.
Have struck submarine
I'VE could see the submarine making
for the mouth Of the anchorage, her
/ periscope showing above the water
/ We went after her full pelt We
cruised about and suddenly saw the
submarine come to the surface. We
made straight for her ST full steam.
when the crew came up TO her deck
her captain, think. waved a white
I pocket handkerchief. We swerved
/ tust missing her, and turned alongside
/ TO take of the crew. As we got neal
the submarine suddenly went down
throwing those on top into the water
I'VE rescued them and learned that
enc Of the sailors had gone below fol