Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-25

Harold Clark.
Sept LIST. 118.

Sept 1st, lis.
40 Rue Langier, France.
Dearest Mother and Father:
II I could have a dollar for every
letter l read yesterday I would have
nearly enough money to pay my pas
cage back home. 1t has been just six
weeks that I have been out Of the city
and where I haven't been isn't worth
while going to.
/ must try first and answer some
Of your questions before I tell you
some OF my doings. No Dad. / must
admit that I can't talk much French
but / can understand quite y bit more
than I can '~pariez-vous.-
I still have my letters Of introduce
ton to Major Douglas and also 70
Capt. Collins. Being away from Paris
I naturally have not been ablo to use
them. but IL I remain here any length
of time l surely viii go down and pre-
sent the letters.
I have recovered entirely from my
sickness so don't worry at all sbost
that You can oct, however, that IL
1 do get sick again 1t will be some
other doctor than the one in the AR
racks that I will go to.
! don't know whether you read
about It Or not. but about -four weeks
ago the Red Cross sent u an ambu-
lance section of eighteen ears to the
front. and from the start to h finish.
1t was some trip. We were out for
eight days and that is one week I
never will forget, the only misfortune
being that two of w boys were
wounded quite seriously. but they are
coming along nicely now. In fact n
of them Is now walking about, but
with b help of a cane
One night while going out to the
post my room mate. Harry Court
ney, was knocked out of his ambu-
lance and was shaken up quite badly.
but was able to continue to drive his
q happened to him, and I have told
him that he sure is put OF luck
On a trip like that we naturally
saw all there was to see and heard all
there was to hear. Mother used 70
get quite annoyed when fused to wind
fishing line with the drag on. but
L wonder what she would do IL she
hearing 1868 landing eevry min
ute or So IL q great life as long as
you can keep out of their way and
that Is only a matter of luck. AS I
said before, that glorious life lasted
for eight days and then I was trans
ferred to a base hospital while the
rest Of the boys went back to h big
city. I remained at - for two
weeks and we sure were busy as they
bringing them in by the hun
dreds for about a week. We had
four operating tables and they were
going day and night How in the
world some of the boys lived through
what they did is q mystery TO me.
Lots OF them were cut up so badly
you wouldn't think hat they had
a chance in the world to recover but
the doctors out there were wonderful
and they surely performed some won |
derful operations. And 50 II went on I,
one place TO another until finally
yesterday I returned to the big city |
and Il certainly felt great to get back.
Received the "Ingot" you sent me
which there was Que Of my letters |
I wrote home and I surely was
surprised to see it. BY the wcY. some
fine day you are liable to see q letter |
In the Perth Amboy NEWS written
by yours truly. You see. one day |
was a reporter around the gar
age and he was trying TO get some
dope as to what the boys nav been
doing over here. One fellow said his
was Clark and he sure did give
his reporter an awful line. / wa
not around at the time. but the boys
told me all about IL when I returned.
Someone surely made away with the
birthday package you sent he as II
lever reached its destination. but 1t
be helped as its all In the war.
Love to all.
HAROLD. |