New Britain herald., 1916-07-14

| The nights were cold and we wore overcoats with raincoats over them. l One Frenchnan who had lost his l overcoat saw a German officer re- turning to the German lines. Running, he overlook the officer and pulled off | the coat, but forgot to captre the German. The German shot at him twice, one bullet passing through his arm.
 1T think the war will be over Tn three months. The French army is just beginning to fight. It has large force that is ready to get into the fight at a moments notice. The Rus sians also have 35O,00O men who have not been put into battle. The Ger mans do not wear helmets any more. I do not know the reason for this, un- less helmets are to expensive to make. Most of the heavy artillery firing IS done about 10 o'clock at night Thee French usually start the Curtain fire about g o'clock, but real firing does not get under way until about 10. There were times when you could scarcely hear shot and all of sud- den the battle grounds would ring from explosions.
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 No Sign of War in Paris.
 About three weeks of my time was spent in Paris. There is no evidence there that France is engaged in war. All theaters and cafes are open and patronized. No orchestras are al- lowed to play at cafes, although they do play at theaters. The prices of everything in the eat and drink line are about as they were before the war. There were several MexicanS aboard the train from Paris to Bor- deaux and they said the real MeXi- cans do not want war with the United States. It is the half breeds of the Villa type who are trying to bring on war. The people of Paris are willing to pay big price for souvenirs from the front, but they are scarce as the French soldier is not allowed to carry home souvenirs. I was offered s3O for the German rife I brought home.
 Some of the American ambulance drivers who have money, not only pay their own expenses, but furnish their own ambulance. The ambulance sec tion with which I was connected was attached to the 64th division of the 31st army corps, comprising a part of the first army. The wounded are
 
 from the trenches. One of the first aid stations in which I was located was a few hundred yards from the German trenches. Some of these stations could be visited only at night, as the Boches' kept a sharp lookout for them and would shell the roads ever which anything tried to pass. Shell holes are the greatest danger that sn ambulance driver has to meet, especially at night, when one drives without lights, within six ki1ometers of the trenches. Conveys at night are also a danger, as a horn cannot be used.
 "I was ordered one day to place seldom visited except at night. My machine was leading when suddenly the Germans caught sight of us and opened with artillery. About dozen shells landed on either side of us within forty yards. In my excitement I drove beyond the dugout and was obliged to turn around in narrow road Just as I got in front of the dressing station I iammed my brakes when a shell struck square twenty feet from my machine. I finally man. aged to get into the dugout and stayed there until they had finished operating on the wounded soldiers for whom I had been sent. Photograph ing was forbidden, so l did not get as many pictures as I intended. One is forbidden even to carry a kodak in the war zone.'