The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-10-11
somewhere IN FRANCE"
Lieut.. Chas. <. Dunn Lands Safely,
Letter To Mother.

Mrs. ". A. Price of this city ha.
just received the following letter from
her son. Lieut.. Chas. X. Dunn, ano
knowing that his friends here will be
delighted to hear Of his safe landing.
she has kindly gwen US permission to
publish it. The letter was opened by
Censor. as the missing words will in
dictate. The letter follows:
At Sea, Sept. q, 1917.
My dear Mother;-
You will probably be very anxious to
hear from me and to know if We land
in Europe safely. 1t will be some sew
eral days hence when this shall have
reached YOU. At present can't say
if we shall land safely but have every
reason to believe that such will be the
case. We expect to reach our port.
, sometime tomorrow evening.
There will vet be some distance to be
covered, Ny destination. do not
know but ! am slated for Somewhere
In France.
Every care Is taken To prevent any
information as TO our course OF our
location ircm being known. During
the day. of course, there is nothing to
do but pillow along and the path in which
We pillow is far from straight. II re-
sembles very closely the path made by
nna u ho yraa admitted "a tho kar ,.ri,
and hung around till it closed, said
party having INDUCED in the wares
there dispensed very freely. At night
there are no lights showing outside the
ship. All windows are painted over or
have heavy dark paper on them and
then the blinds are drawn. lnsme
everything is as usual.
1t has been very interesting the way
the passengers have looked out for
ships For the first three days we saw
a few ships occasionally but none were
sighted up to. The whole outfit
was very much rejoiced to see
good old AMERICAN destroyers draw
up alongside of US to convoy our ship
to port. We arrived in the so called
'war-zone" or the danger zone as far
as submarine attacks are concerned.
We have had fine weather all the
way. Nobody could have ordered it
any better. Ii has hardly been as cold
as thought 1t might be away out on
the high-seas. | have enjoyed the trip
all the way. There were several on
board whom knew. There was one
day Of seasickness but not for me.
had the pleasure of one "shot in the
arm" or as it is otherwise known an
injection Of serum to prevent paraty-
phoid fever, whatever that is. The
worst effect it had en- me was to make
my arm sore.
think will close shop for the night
and continue tomorrow.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
We have seen an enjoyable sight this
afternoon. The above mentioned sight
was that Of land. The first glimpse
was that OF the coast OF wales. j once
heard Welchman give lecture. H.
lustrated with pictures and song, on
the merits and loyeliness of the state
of Wales. From some of the land we
passed this afternoon he was partly
right but of course il does not compare
with the Bluegrass of Ky. saw a
certain thing in New York that did not
impress me as being very beautiful but
the next time | see It. it will be to me
most beautiful. have reference to
the Statue of Liberty.
The air around here is so thick that
you could cut ii with knife. II seems
that il is about to rain but il isn't. The
general opinion among the English on
board-most Of the civilians are Eng
lish-that this is what could be called a