The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-21

COmpIlSneO MS mission or was driven
off, because at the end of that time
| he left.
He Has Some Luck"
! we have been moved from the
headquarters town and have had the
! luck to become attached to fighting
| or flying division. BY that | mean
| division that goes from one place TO
another in case of an attack. That is
much better than being with a division
! that stays in one place and it gives MS
n chance to win distinction for sector
| IS and we will see more Of the line.
! AT our permanent camp we are
| living in a barn about three or four
miles back of the lines. At the present
| moment am on duty at an advanced
Poste de Secours am about q mile
from the German trenches and can see
very plainly the houses Of {; town that
! is in German hands.
| I'VE have two men to ar ambulance
| and go out on 24-hour shifts. | have
charge Of my ambulance and the other
man Is under my orders l have n car
behind hedge so Fritz can't see n.
When we go out on duty we eat, sleep
and live in the cars. When an am
bulance is all closed up it is really
very comfortable.
}s~We haVsA Mule Gasoline stove on
which to make coffee and chocolate
and boil eggs when we can get them.
Although the stretchers are covered
with dried blood they make us COM
Portable cots. When anyone is hurt
a French soldier comes and either
shows US the way or takes us where
l - - IL.
wounded are called here. Then we
take the man or men as the case may
be back about six miles to a hospital
There Is always a car on reserve
that comes UP and takes our place ir
case we so. Today has been very
quiet. We sit here in the car and talk
and smoke and read and on the whole
have a hard time killing time. If yor
! want to know what it is like, drive
, the Packard out on tile flat and sta.
, within fifty feet of it for "a hours.
"Of course there is the incessan
: sound Of guns. There is French bat
t terry about four hundred yards to m,
right, another behind me and a thirt
: over to the left. They keep up a stead,
banging all the while and every nov
and then Fritz sends one over. How
ever. no is not coming within sever
hundred yards of either myself or tn
batteries he is trying to hit
II have a hole about as deep as on
house Is high to go down into in cas-
he gets In range. 1t sounds exciting
but it Is not at all. There Is none o
1 the flying shot and SHELF stuff tina
you see in the movies.
J "As sit here listening to the bang
ing for all the purpose of killing Frit
and then hear him banging away t
kill the friendly poilus that pass b
here. 1t seems the most monstrousl
senseless thing in the world. IT is In
sane and was all brought on by a ma
who l believe is insane who mised hi
people. The devil must be fought wit
fire, however. and I hope that he
getting his fill .
T, II am supposed to be in a town bt
| did not know it for over an hour.
was shoXn a hedge and told to driy
my car behind it and wait for calls.
looked about bit and discovered 10,
piles of red mud that had once bee
houses. 1t is a populous place. how
ever, as l discovered by keeping m
eyes open. In the middle of ever
III
of rocks is a door leading down mi
the dugouts, and the unshaven, srhYlir
faces Of the polus keep peeking o,
from all sorts Of unexpected place
They remind me of gophers. the wa
they keep popping out.
'They call us their American cam;
rades and can not get over the ia,
that We are volunteers. It is wor,
more to go. out after some poor fe
low. and although his face Is viii
and drawn with pain and his your
body shattered. to hear him say Amer
~ icain camerade' and see him try
~ smile. That is what repays us and
~ count myself far richer than the higl
=. ~ paid German general who specia
-. = ICES in killing and not saving"