Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

| Saw many wounded men in Bor-
| deaux. There must be hospital
| nearby. The. large number of women in
mourning is very noticeable. Very sad.
| Many seem so young and they are
| pretty. too.
Ordered to Training Camp.
81 received orders this morning to be
| ready to depart for the training camp
at Sandricourt next Wednesday morn
ing. We will be in training for two or
possibly three weeks and will then go
| to the front. OF course, we are all very
| get into section S. This has more ac-
| tion than any of the other sections I
want to get somewhere where there is
something TO do. / hope they won't
| fight once a week or so. i am going to
! volunteer for every duty that / can
regardless of the dangers. OF course.
I'll be careful, but accidents must hap
pen. News reached headquarters this
| morning of the injury. by shell burst.
of another Dartmouth student His
name is osborne. and he is from Mont
clair. y. j.
The du Point Powder Company has
established a restaurant near the rail-
road from which the French soldiers
| depart and arrive from the front. A
meal can be had there for very small
here. There are some American girls
interested also. | went down there the
other day with two other young men to
volunteer for any work at all. They
put me to cutting bread and meat One
of my friends had to wash glasses and
the other one strung beans and hulled
peas We We're introduced to some Of
the young French ladies and. of course.
had dandy time. | can't speak French
very we'll. but I got along all right
Many of them can speak English.
Il have been awakened every morn
ing by the humming of aeroplanes. In
don't even take the trouble to look at
them. They fly in groups all day long
over Paris
We viii not get our uniforms until
Saturday. Hardly day passes but
what some secret service men stop US
and ask to see our passports We wear
the Red Cross buttons. but that is not
enough They have stopped several of
the boys in uniform also.
Gen Pershing is here with his staff.
He creates about as much excitement
when he appears as did Joffre while in
America. The French love America
They treat us dandy-think we are
about the best people on earth.
Two Meatless Days.
We get no meat at this hotel on
Mondays or Tuesdays. No candy can
be bought on those days. Butter and
milk only once day-in the morning
never thought l could do without my
gallon Cor two. is it?) of milk a meal,
but l have suffered none since doing
without. We eat war bread and like
IL real well. II is very good
one would think | knew French. I
get along pretty well. Have been tax
ing lessons at the Y. NJ. C. A. for
week. The Y. NJ c. A. has a branch
here and is doing great work.
When we landed at Bordeaux the
the argument 90 we had with the
submarines. Our captain wirelessed
the facts ahead and a convoy came and
met us. In short. we We're attacked
by two submarines only saw one:
the other was too far away to do any
damage. We shot five shots, and after
the fifth a little yellow smoke, a large
white spot, and no more periscope
However. the sub shot two torpedoes
at US before going below-one missed
our stern by only thirty feet / watched
the periscope all the way until we hit
II and never felt scared at all. Somei
how. / felt that we would get it. 1t
was $500 yards away but looked only
far because I've tried to run IL in many
foot ball game. but $500 yards is a
little farther. Distance on the water
is very deceiving anyway. After we
ducked and was never seen again
Three hours later a French freighter
was sunk in nearly the same place
The crew and few passengers put off
IN life boats and then the sub came to
the surface and shelled the life boats
and 1S5 were killed. What do You
think of that for warfare? When they
told US this we all nearly took sick on
the spot Even had we succeeded in
getting into the life boats we would
have had to duck cannon balls. so what
chance did we have? 1 don't fancy
these arguments" very much.
We are staying at the Hotel de
Palais. between the EiffeI Tower and
the Palace de la Concorde. \ very fine
hotel
The French liner Chicago left New
York on the 10Th. 1t is a slower boat
than the Espagne and will not get into
port until Wednesday-that is if II
succeeds in getting by the subs. I do
hope there will be a bunch of letters
for me. Letters are certainly at a
premium here. ] am going to number
mine so you will know il one goes
down This is No. ,. No. l was mailed
on the boat.
1T is just about time to eat-you
know how l always appear when that
time comes around-so l hope you'll ex-
cuSe me.
Hard Work in Camp.
Under date of July . Mr.. Cloud
wrote:
Il don't remember when I wrote to
you last; it must have been ten DAYS
ago. Have just returned to Paris from
! the training camp of the American Red
Cross a Sandricourt Disc We were
/ there ten days and worked hard Seven
| Of the boys We're fired for complaining
! and characterization The French
want no kickers, and / don't blame
| them Most of us came over here to
| suffer hardships and that's what we
| got at Sandricourt We received ord re
, de movement yesterday afternoon and
! had 70 leave this morning. Very short
notice. but we didn't mind. because we
were going to Paris. We understand
! that we shall be here three days and
! then go to the front We are hoping
| that we Will not leave until after next
| Saturday. July IA. the great French
! holiday.
1T is exactly one month today that
| ! sailed from New York I have only
received one or two letters. No ships
| have been sunk, write; get any on.
| to write. 1t don't feel very good to
see all the rest OF the company get
| letters and me none.
| The training camp at Sandricourt
| where ! spent the past ten days. is Just
! on the edge of the war zone. The can
| noninG is very audible. ! would like
| to tell you about the things / saw
I