The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
German Boys Sent Into Trenches With Three
Days Training Writes Red Cross Worker

I chain hanging to him. was not work
| ing at the Care but was in one for one
hour while transferring to come on
out to Malabry.
Belgian Fete Celebrated.
| After breakfast Sunday, Benson,
Doc and l decided to go some place
| so we went to the kitchen and got
a lunch and started for walk. We
had not gone far when we learned
| that there was to be a big time in
Versailles so we started for that place.
We went through Villacanblay past
an aviation camp and watched several
planes start up, and then on down
/ through Gisay and Belair to Bieures
where we can get train on into
Versailles. The train was crowded
! with soldiers going home on short
leave July 81 was the big Belgian
Fete and Versailles was the chief
place Of interest. There were more
automobiles lined up on the streets
than have ever seen together.
They were lined up two deep on both
sides Of the street for blocks just
waiting for an emergency There
| were all kinds Of them-touring cars.
trucks and Fords. Well, after wan
dering aroung the beautiful buildings
of the Palace we went back to the
grounds, for which it cost us two
| francs. We wandered along the ca
| nal which some fool king had con-
scripted 10000 men to build for him
and found a shady little spot and ate
our dinner. At 2:30 a French band
started playing and from then on we
| heard wonderful music all afternoon.
There were five big military bands
there, English. French, Belgian, 1tal-
| ian and American, the latter being
Of the ninth infantry.
There was an exhibition Of the use
! of dogs in the war which was given
| by some French Soldiers. They had
| to go hitched up to all kinds OF carts
and carrying packs on their backs and
also bringing in men. 1t was quite
wonderful to see the way the dogs
had been trained.
The palace is surrounded by some
| very beautiful grounds which have
| been fixed up by one person and an
other. There are beautiful waterfalls,
ponds, statues and flower beds every
where so that in order to see every
thing we had to walk our legs Off.
We left there about six and thought
we would take a train to lngry and
walk from there home, a distance OF
| three miles but we took the wrong
train and landed in Paris. The train
! was one of those double decked little
| things and we had to climb up on top
but as we circled around on the TOP OF
plateau we were aided in seeing the
country. We CAME into Paris near the
Eiffel tower and the Ferris Wheel.
BY the way, We can see the Eiffel
Tower from Malabry but that Is moth
ing for the Germans have been within
sight of it already. We were OF course
too late for supper but the night
Waterman let us in the kitchen to get
some food which we carried up to our
shack.
Thanked for Service
will be glad to get some real U. S.
papers which thee said thee had sent.
We cannot send any papers out of
France which contain any kind Of an
ad in it so if you want French paper
can cut it up and send it.
We can have all the chocolate we
| can get but we cannot get anything
but French and all that you can say
for it is that it is sweet and has the
color.
The pictures taken of the parade the
14th were in the movies on the 18th.
We had an air raid this morning
about eleven and they pulled down
one German we know for we saw it.
Johnson recently received the fol-
| lowing personal note of appreciation
from Hayden w. Crosby, manager of
Red Cross Refugee Relieg Service:
Il wish to thank you on the part of
the Red Cross and personally for the
service you have rendered us in our
| relief work. 1t has been great pleas