The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-26

from what we expected. Everything
was great as far as living conditions
were concerned, but the place was sim
ply jammed with drivers waiting for
q chance to get car to run and many
explained that they had already been
waiting month and that there were
SO many ahead of us that we would have
to wait two months or more for a car.
We then learned that the American
Ambulance Corps had taken over diff
ferent kind of work to relieve the
French army.
Oath Prevents Information.
cannot tell you why it was neces-
sary for the American Ambulance Corps
to do this because of an oath [ had to
take before entering the war zone
Briefly, joined the service with about
90 other Yale men who came over on
the La Touraine.
I am now regularly enlisted soldier
in the French army and under fully
commissioned French officers in com
mand, and in the part of the army call
ed the army service, or Transport Corps
but we are all in an American division
ard, by the way, l found my two
cousins, 2. G. Simmons and Lucien
Lance, from Kenosha, Wis, in the same
corps.
The section to which am attached is
a movable one and moves up and down
the whole French battle front, only be-
ing used where the increased fighting
demands it, so [ expect to see the whole
from; before long, but have the priv
leae of quitting at the end of six
months if I wish.
The work of the transports consists,
of course, in transporting munitions
from the depots to the big artillery EN-
! placements, or the smaller batteries, as
the case may be.
The trucks are monstrous five-tonners
but very easily handled, as have found
out. We move along the roads in con
voy or truck train fashion, 20
trucks and 40 men in each section 1.-TWO
drivers to a carr.
The work is slightly more dangerous
than the ambulance work, as the con
vows are under concentrated shell fire
about one-half The time their work is
being done, and as we sometimes have
to carry tons of lyddite, ammonia and
dynamite for guns and trench mines,
there is not much chance if truck
should be hit, but really after all, the
percentage of chance is much in favor
of the drivers, as the work is all done
at night.
It is almost pitiful to hear some of
the French soldiers talk about the
grande armee des Etats Unie, as they
expect it to take the place Of the whole,
to thus give France relief.
or great part of the French army and
Things have come to such state that
in the very front French lines men of
so are serving, side by side, with boys
younger than myself.
100000 Men Lost by France.
An aviator who came out here with
US on the troop train told us that
France had borne the whole brunt Of
the war up till last September, when
the English first really got into action
and that France has already lost 4,000,-
600 men.
You can have no conception of how
beautiful this country is until you have
actually seen it. The country is indie
scri5able in its perfect green cultiva-
ton ard az fer Paris, there can be no
other city in the world like it in beauty
, Riding through France today you would
hardly know that war was going on
if il were not for few conspicuous
things see absolutely no men Gun
less physically unfit who are not in
uniform-the fields are cultivated,
street cars and subways and a thousand
other things done entirely by women.
Another thing that visitor to Paris
will notice is that at least four out of
every five women on the streets and
boulevards are dressed in deep mourn
ing.
Drivers Drill with Guns.
But here L go on writing lot of