Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-11
.In Eormer Gsrnan !Ient.

| Truman Woodward, writing to ms | parents, Rev. and Mrs W. J. Wood ward, of Attawaugan. says under date of Aug. 2:
 My tent is pitched on the scene of
 fierce Teuton-Anlerican battle. I
 am using the same site and tent l frame that a German used two weeks ! ago. Not six feet distant is one of many German snipers' pits from which the 'doughboys' (infantry) of our division had to drive the Huns. i How they did it I don't know. but l have since explored another hill where
 still more remarkable charge was 1 made. In the face of dozens of ma 1 chine guns three valorouS companies 1 Of our boys crossed an open field Il quarter of a mile wide, up hill all the way, and took the machine guns away from the Prussian Guards. saw the graves yesterday Of many of 1 the lads from those three wonderful companies. There never could have lJeen such a battle as that in the olden times But there is some grim sat isfaction in knowing that as late as yesterday there were 200 Prussian Guards dead on that wooded hilltop. You cannot dream what our infantry have surmounted over here, but Per shing nas named the 18th division The Iron Division" When you read in the papers few days ago of t; unit which covered itself with glory, but which cannot be mentioned for
 military reasons, it was our old 18th division Just what our trench mortar battery will do we don't know, for the big surprise of this battle is that there are no trenches now-only lit tie individual shelter holes and em placements. So we will probably be turned into an ammunition train, or else into infantry
 Maybe later at the old Hindenburg line where the German trenches be-
 gin they will need trench mortars l Our boys are having wonderful suc- | cess. but you must realize, no matter
 what the papers say, the, paths oi
 glory lead but to the grave"
 Yesterday German aViator' eanlt :l right over the woods where we are
 but the anti aircraft guns wounded
 him and an American aviator finished
 him. There are constant fights be
 tween the s"Archies'' (ani aircraft guns) and the aeroplanes. as the lat
 ter try tn shoot down the observation Il balloons We are very careful as vt
 rurnmage around amid the spoils German suck bombs are numerous and the Huns leave them with an "in- ! y in them. Then they go off as soon q: . the curious pick them up. The Amer
 iean artillery surely. shot these towns
 all to pieces. But that's what is mak- ing us win. The French were sen. i timent&l and never would fire on : church. and not much on their houses The Germans, therefore. used to ust
 churches as ammunition dumps ant machine gun nests. Bu3 you don see any untouched buildings now thu
 Yankees have. "got their lander up.
 You ask abaut "tWine and wonlen.' Lets of both in France and Englan6 near training ramps; but at the front . drink is hard (almost impossihle) tc get.
 Last nignt an unprecedented event occurred when I received six letters Some one shouted Mail" I read un til dark--s.S0 p. nj. And, with one ex. ,I ception, they were all nice long let ters. just the kind one should send tt soldier boy Two from home ons
 from brother down in Texas, one iron . Henley at Camp Deyens, one iron Davidson at Camp Meade. and ont ) from. Hopkins at MapleyiIle. All si, iwere in answer to letters Of my own ], I am in the same woods from which
 wrote Nou three days ago. But my l tent has been enlarged into yer,