Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-09-13

news, she told a reporter for the
Ledger.
Of the many letters that are being
received daily by relatives in this
country from men VINO have gone
abroad, it is safe to say that non con-
tain more vital information and items
of interest than several which have
been received by relatives of Doctor
Nathaniel Allison, a gradson of the
late DR.. Nathenial Allison, of Mexico,
who went with the Washington Uni
versity Base Hospital Unit.
DR.. Allison sailed May 10 on the
u. S. M. S. "St. Paul" with the Wash
ington University Base Hospital No.
81. Army exercises were taken every
morning, and regular officers gave
lectures on military behavior and du-
ties, according to the first letter, which
was written aboard the ship and dated
May %. Besides the two Base Hos
pitals-Nos. 10 and 21-there were
81 Ortheopaedic physicians aboard
who were going for services in vari-
Gus English Hospitals.
"Our Navy gun crews fire the six
inch guns each morning, aiming them
on barrels thrown down the wake of
the ship, and they hit them almost
every time" the letter says. "0ur
gun pointers are so accurate and de-
liberate that n has great conf
dence, and 1 believe a U-boat would
not have any chance"
|. On Friday, May 25th, they reached
the edge of the U-boat zone of activ-
ity, and they all slept in their clothes,
and took other precautions, a part of
the same letter written later said.
Every day life boat and belt drills
were given.
Arriving at Liverpool on May 28th,
they were met by a Colonel and Major
of the Royal Army Medical Corps and
taken to a hotel, where they were
guests of the British Government. A
torpedo boat destroyer, which 'nursed'
the St. Paul in, fired three shots at
what looked like a %periscope OH the
last day, the letter states.
DR.. Allison and party went to Lon
don May 20, a letter dated next day
says, and there met Nh. Page, "our
Ambassador" Mrs. Page gave a gar
den party for them or May 81.
"Great Britain is awake and doing
wonders" the letter continues. "They
will never give in and they seem to
feel tremendously glad that we are
in and they expect the war will be
ours equally with theirs" And it is
going to be, DR.. Allison continues, de-
claring that, having sensed the feeling
of the country, he can see no other fin
ish.
Americans and American flags
were much in evidence at the Memo
rial Day services at st. Pauls, he
said, the church being filled with So
called Canadians who came from Tex
as, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri.
"The choir sang The Star Spangled
Banner and a band played Dixie.
One fellow dressed in kits and being
an officer in a British regiment nearly
Rugged me, and said, Brother, l am
from Champaign, Illinois, After the
services, the English people gaze
three cheers for Mr.. Page, the Amer
lean Ambassador, when he came out
on the steps. 1t was wonderful"
Another letter written June 8 said
that he would soon be going to Rueni
France, to a tent hospital of 14OO beds
i He tells of attending a decoration in
v%estiture in Hyde Park, where the
King decorated three hundred and
fifty heroes, and said the services
were very beautiful and impressive
: At the Empire Day celebration, q
procession of flags was marched W
to the alter for blessing; it gave hin
a thrill, he said, to see the Stars ant
Stripes equal and alongside the I'm
ion Jack, the highest official compli
> ment for England to pay us. Thu
Germans are always spoken of a
"The Hun" or simply che"
The next letter was written from
Rouen, France, and was dated JuE'
~. He had arrived at the hospita
there in charge of Ga nurses the da,
before. "There are four big genera
, hospitals here" he says, "and alto
gether, five miles outside Of RoueI
and they are surrounded by big train
ing depotsI infantry and artillery
There is constant movement of thous
ands of men on the roads, and prac
tice of all kinds, firing, etc. 1t j
all very warlike. To give you a
idea of this place, we are located o
the Rouen race track, and where 1 al
writing this is underneath the gran
stand where the officers mess is sill
uated; the dentists shop is the ole
weighing-room and the nurses al
confined in the Paddock. The tent
for patients are spread out over tn
II 4 IlNIa hNaNIEf
has 1400 beds, and they come right
from the field in ambulances, ar
right now with all this fighting the
are Coming pretty fast; 200 yeste'
day"
DR.. Allison had been at the hospit
four weeks when the next lette
dated July 7, was written. He tel
of a school Of instruction the Briti'
Army is giving on gas attacks. A
ter hearing several lectures on &
subject they went down into a tren
full of high power, chlorine gas al
passed along for several minut
through dark places and curves su
rounded by the deadly stuff, he sa.
but came out all to the good. "T
! Hun is getting more than he ev
dreamed of and also liquid fire
large quantities, and he is not at
: pleased that he has his fiendish j
, genuity turned against him" sa
DR.. Allison. "He even hints that
al