Baxter Springs news., 1918-11-29
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SOLDIERS LETTERS


Will answer your long letter re
ceived several days ago.
This is a nice pretty day and ! hav
plenty Of time to write so / will tel
you q story about Roy Chubb and
going to the city one evening.
And when we got back the mex
morning about breakfast time our Co
Camp there wasn't no Co.. There wal
q guy out at the crossroads WHIT
claimed he was q N. p. and we asl
him II he knew where our Co. wenl
and he said the last he seen of them
they were chasing Boches of toward
Germany.
By this time he says, they ought Ia
be in Berlin by the way they were
travelling the last the seen Of them.
Well we hit of toward Germany
and the way II looked there had been
war going on all right. We counted
about a thousand 100 machine guns
more or less that had been left by the
Germans.
Well we got where another M. P.
was and ask him If he had any dope
on our outfit. "Sure," he says, II
know where they are. Just keep on
up this road about q mile and turn 10
your left and your Co. is up there on
the hill" Well, we liked on and got
up on top Of the hill and our Co.
wasn't there, so we went on and came
to q town, and we met another N. P.
and he said our regiment was up in
the woods about three killos from
there in reserve, SO we hiked up there
and found out that It was an ammuni-
ton truck train that was camped
there and they didn't have any idea
where our outfit was but said they
might be moved in the next valley
camped in another one Of them places
that had once been town.
Well it was about noon when we got
over there and It wasn't our outfit at
all; it was a transport outfit. As luck
would have it they were serving din
ner so we borrowed q couple Of mess
kits and got in line. Chubb and /
were about to faint waiting for our
turn to come when we got up TO where
he mess sergeant was serving the
stakes and he looked at US like we
we're. a couple of A. o. W. L. guys and
Iays: "What outfit are you two fel-
ows from?"
When we told him he says: "Why in
lell amt you messing with them and
lot hanging around trying to bum a
neal?" We told him we didn't know |
where our outfit was and he says:
That's an old story with me. heard
hat before. You are couple Of guys
eating it away from the lines, I'll
et."
We slipped him bottle Of wine and
e gave us our dinner and when we
7ere through eating Chubb says:
Well, Talbot, We can stand It anoth-
r day." and so we hit of again to-
ard the lines.
On top Of q hill we were going along
trough some shell holes and dugOuts
hen we heard some fellow cough
own in one of the dugOuts. We
lought maybe he might be some fel-
w who knew where our Co. was so
hubb says hello down there.
Gott in Himmel Acht Dunderwitter,
. something that sounded about like
xe. ''What kind Of language is
at" Chubb says. And when this
rd came out of the dugOut and stuck
s head above the parapet Chubb n
ID i nearly tainted. It was a Ger c
an about eight feet tall and he stuck o
s hands up in the air and says he c
IS our Kamerad. And we ask him n
nat he was doing there and he rat y
d of lot of stuff that would Of D
ok a motorcycle speed cop to Of n
pt up with him. One word that ! u
well was Ergebet Ike, or "
mething that sounded like like. He
lst Of been trying to tell US his VI
me. p
He kept saying it so much that q
ubb was going to bust him in the m
se for it but l wouldn't let him be- "a
ise he might Of been telling US he o.
S o. X. He kept pointing toward nj
,ther dugOut and kept saying some
ng we couldn't get. We took him re
the other dugOut and he yelled tW
somebody else and three more Ger H.
ms came up with their hands up. ha
;hubb got a club and said he would 90
tch them If ! would 60 and rustic
'un or maybe they would gang mp we
US. ! hunted around till got hold 10
q good old Springfield rifle and q "a
Of shells and we started of down Sp
road with our new friends, and Oh
up on top Of the next hill and an
another N. P. Chubb said II was q,
use to ask him anything because -
wouldn't know nothing anyway. ="