The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-14

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 opens his head about how fine Eng land is, let him have one ln the jaw Canada 8 good enough for me-
 have lots of time now 80 ] think l'll put In Q few remarks about Lon dan. All the streets there are very narrow but there is lots of traffic They have very few street cars, most ! ly motor bussea that hold thirty or for. ty people When ] was iu London for four days leave of absence ! went up with one of the men in my section. a civil engineer who is very we'll ac- quainted- He certainly was able to show me a good time
 Nov. 3O-Stll company orderly ser genont until noon, then went on pick ct. The guard camp blew down dur. Ing the night and our ten prisoners made Q dash to get away. We had a general mixup but managed to get ali of them back, When we landed here wo started tho platoon drill, and will say that you can move men quick CT than in the old company drill. 4 company is twice tho size of the old company and is divided Into four pla- toons. with an officer in charge of each and a sergeant second in com mand. Each platoon is divided Into four sections. A section would be the same as a squad in the old drill under section commander After we got this new drll all down fine the war office put us back onto the old drill The only reason ] can pos. slbiy make out ia this, that in pla- toon drill the officer controls the fire, and the old drill the section command CT controls both fire and men, So far we have had a few night attacks and are supposed to have three march es a week of from fifteen to twenty miles, and we ought to so out three nights a week. We are having such bum weather that we have got In very little of this drill It begins to look now as # WIG would not get out of England before spring, but when we do get out we will give Germany chance of defending her ground. J have sent Harry Q picture of the picket that was on at Shrewton. ] hope he sends me some cigarettes az the smokes VIC get over here are very punk. Mother writes that she hasn't heard from mo for over @ month. have written her every week. won. der if the postoff.ce department could be holding up mail.
 Dec. 2O-Acting Sergeant in charge of west canteen pickets. Rain as usu- al. The company has not drilled since Tuesday, the 18th. It is rumored that VIC were going to move into huts. It ought to be Q lot better than living the way we do now. Have written Harry to send me my automatic. Very likely we VIII so to tho front soon, and it might come in handy in a bay onet charge. There is no telling J have sent a bunch of Christmas cards to Harry to distribute for me.
 Dec. 21-Well. we moved to the huts on Lark Hill Received a box from Harry with Christmas presents from him from Blanche from mother from Brownie and from lot of others.
 Dec. 25-The whole company was ln one of the large huts, where we had a Christmas dinner We had tur- key and a fine feed, the first good meal in long. long while Two thirds of the company were drunk. The sergeantmajor told me we would leave for France on Jan. go.
 Jan. ], 1915-No parade today. As Few as possible are on guard. l am company orderly sergeant. Every body has a cold in camp. About half .he company are on leave. We had stew and potatoes for New Years linner. The mud is damn near up to our necks Put Burry in guard. room for being drunk when mounting guard.
 Jan. 2-stn company orderly ser geant We are having no drill. The whole battalion ,s doing fatigue work Put Private Fletcher in guard room Or refusing to SO on guard. Have Q bad cold. Mall my old diary to Hur -y Rain an afternoon.
 Jan. S-Company orderly sergeant lntn noon. Handed it over to Sergt Edwards. ! nm not feeling very well have a bad cold. Had to get up and put Private Ham in guardroom at 2 a. m. for being drunk and creating a disturbance.
 Jan. Went sick th.s morning and stayed In bed all morning. They are stnl turning everybody in the battal- ion out for fatigue work. It seems as # the Fourteenth was doing all the l work. The Thirteenth battalion is out i bounds to every one, on account of a supposed epidemic of meningitis.
 Jan. 5.-Went sick this morning. Battalion still on fatigue. Everything around here is flooded. One of the Canadians was drowned near Ans. bury last night The boys in my hut gave a shilling and we rented a piano for 21 shillings a month. It is a lit. .le more like home now.
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