The Nome daily nugget., 1915-02-23

NIr. O. & Weaver, follows:
 A line to cheer you up in your frozen loneliness. if it be any consolation to you. You may he sure that there are many Britishers in Belgium and France who would envy the peaeefulness of the Arctic regions. | have had rather interesting time and thought you at Nome might he interested to hear them.
 I got myself attached as interpreter to the III cavalry division and we sailed away in all secrecy to Zee Rrugge. | destined to relieve Antwerp The day . we arrived Antwerp fell being blown | to bits by the big German guns, called i hv them Grosstleissige Rerthn CBusN i Bertha, who is Mrs KrnppD The Tom mics name is expressive. Jack John 1 sons" from the black smoke they emit. or perhaps borrowing from the Ameri- can slang name for the champion the Big Smoke" So we and the 7th di- vision found ourselves isolated in the north of Belgium with 240 900 Germans us but to make our way to join our own troops on the Aisnc So off we started. every morning bv or found lis on our way and only at 9 or 10 and some times II would we halt sleeping mostly under high heaven. Being cavalry we every day carried out reconnaissance in force, advancing in the form of large circle. hihting at night in the center of the space patrolled, escaping thus from the possibility of being rushed by Germans at night. A braw sight we made for the Household Cay airy, being the Kings Guards, are usually feet or over and the horses enormous, usually r hands. The na
 tves of Belgium seemed very impressed at our might, for travelling in column of half sections, it would take some 2
 good to us and as we went past farms or villages they would present us with apples and pears, matches. cigarettes or chocolates. in fact Tommy Atkins never had such a good time, as when we halted to water our horses. bread and butter and coffee would be freely given. In fact it was a continuous tri
 umphal ovation and very compliment
 tarv were the natives in their remarks which I of course understood. It was smiling and thicklv populated land and 1t Is awful to think of the desert it
 became behind the German advance In
 full strength we numbered some 2400
 cavalry (Third Division), some 12O00
 regiment of the Household Cavalry had
 previously sent out one squadron each
 to form what is known as the Compo-
 site Regiment We'll our headquarters staff must have been composed of very able men. for they successfully steered Us through Relgium and though we used to hear of various advance pa trols running up against Germans. or worse still. machine guns. we were very free of fighting. We were, however, in a very dangerous position, having no base, no lines of communication and thousands of Germans in the vicinity It used 10 worry us officers quite a lot, as of an evening we would hear that so and so was shot and so many men put out of action We still imagined our troops were away on the Aisne. but great was the joy when one beautiful morning We drew up in the market square of Yprcs. We then learned that all our army had moved mp, that we were under General French and no longer merely lost The market square at Ypres is a beautiful large square of cobblestone pavement flanked on one side by the Clothiers hall and Town hall, two famous pieces of architecture No wonder We felt good then as we formed troop in the square, with such good news in our ears, the tramping of horses and rumbling of guns serving only to accentuate the cheers of the Flemish populace. It was a braw sight and speetular incident has fired it indeliby in my mind. While waiting there q German aeroplane appeared, l the first I had eyer seeu from close. | for they do not often fly at Nome. In l an instant our machine guns had open ed fire and every rifle was emptied at | the intruder the noise re-echoing from | the houses and down the streets was i deafening. The natives turned and fled | fearing bombs from the Taube. In a minute the Taube skinned down at an |