The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-16
SAEvANOEARNf.
GIRESUNDER'E|RE
One In Letter Tells Of Exciting
Adventures AT Front When
Hun AIrplahes bombed Town

sicolond r Dublin Of The Salvation
Army issin receipt of Q specul letter
from Captain Violet McAllister, one of
the women workers with the troops in
France, portions of which read like
despatch from the regular war CORES
pondcnt. The, following arc extracts
frem the letter. q,
1--WE, haYe, Just left the town-where
we were in so close. to the front line, be-
cause IL had become very dangerous and
he authorities didn t expect that there
would be. on brick left ON top Of an
other within a few, hours, so VIC left at
midnight after the planes commenced
dropping bombs We walked out and
hiked down the road amid the nOlse and
rattle and banging of shells, made our
way to the place where The Salvation
Army Zone headquarters are located.
We hiked most Of the way, and then
mule team passed us and took US on
and we rode to within six kilometers Of
his place and then hiked the rest of the
way. Can you imagine two girls start.
ing at midnight and fleeing from the
City of Destruction and landing at our
destination about four O'Clock in the
morningf II was real exciting to hear
nc kOrhe planes whizzing over our
heads and the anti-aireraft guns piliug
INTO them. s.t
Ready for Gas ,s.r.. a..
"0ne town we passed through they
rad Just stopped bombarding n few
moments before our arrival and VIC
walked through, thinking that they
would start again at any moment, but
not so; we landed here safe and sound
Mfish, yOu. could have seen us; we had
our English gas masks in the alert posi-
zion ready to clasp on at any moment
for we had been warned that gas was
likely to be shot into every available
spot &" 80 ."t.s,
- When the boys knew that we were
leaving the Hut that was being shell
I'D, they poured in and told us how they
would miss US. One captain, represent
ing an officers mess where we dineC
htctheir invitation, brought us a couple
i,f boxes ofrcandy as n farewell offering
aud just as i was leaving he said: Gee
/ we will miss you like the devil. Well
{ eouldn I help laughing md told hin
that was certainly some. comparison
md he blushed up as red as a peony
and said, We'll now, you, know what
I mean. L don't2know, just how to say
fustt how much we shall miss you.
Proud Of Our. Boys y 49,.
l. HThe victories recently won by 0u
oys are stiIl holding and our boy
retdoiug some. wonderful work. Afte
saking their objcctives, they held fas
/ ind the Germans made ten cOunte
i lttacks with tank T., but were. rGpulset
andndriben back ieach, time. i am 5,
proud ofSthcm, Nobody can possibl,
ealize what 1T means until he ha
,een right on the spot and seen will
issaown eyes. sa The one thing tina
impressos me. most is the optimism O.
he boys going through suchla hell.
|. There. was a terrible baEragc Pu
pver by our men lastpnight.g All arounC
JUS here are great long range5 guns anC
1T about three o clock this morning the,
Started in, and kept up a constant fir
or several hours. Yesterday we hear
She anti-aircrafti guns going and fel
nd heard the Jg-Gugr Gugp of an aero
Dlane. Wishing to, see. what IT was "
ushedr out Of our chateau The FrPne
lanes and anti-aircraft guns bOxel hin
n so that he couldn't get over the lines
md finally brought him down. The
Ound that it was a British plane fix
IHd up to look like a French plane an
he aviator was a German dressed in
ET. s. soldiers uniform. Talk ab0u
crvc, that fellow surely had it. Th
eason they caught him was that the
ignalled TO him and he could not Civ
he counter sign. Consequently the
new something was wrong"