Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-15
Longs For Vaudeville Show,


 Private w. R. Gordon in a breezy letter to John P. Lyston of this city says that he would give two months pay to be able to see good vaudeville show as he has been up in front" for the past two months where daily bouts with Fritz are 8 common occurrence, Private Gordon's letter follows;
 June 1S, 1918.
 Dear Friend John: Received your fact that we have spent the greater part of the time the past few months Up on the lines haven't done much letter writing. but if you will keep up your courage and let me hear from you occasionally will always be there with the ome-back even if little slow
 Anr up on the line now but having a rather easy time of it this time. My gun is situated in the second line, our dugouts are in the ruins of a small village and the trench runs just out | side. We get little shell fire here every day. Fritz doesn't want us to | forget we are in a war. The only | time our gun would come into action | is in case of an attack and the front | line had to fall back to us. Was talk | ing to one of our infantrymen the other day. He was in the trenches a little ways up the line from here and he was telling me about an attack | they put on the other day. They were | to go lover the top" and clean up the German frst-line, getting what pris- oners they could. Their officers an nounced to them just previous to going over that they had a million dollar barrage' All arranged to have the way for them. They went over and when they got there the Germans had all "vamped." They kept right on go- ing to the third line and succeeded in capturing thirteen-year- German soldier whose mother told him when ke left home to give himself up to the Americans if he ever got the chance. The American doughboys immediately styled him the million dollar kid"-so Doc" there's a problem In mathema- | tics for you. If it cost million dol l lar barrage to get a thirteen year old 1 German soldier after penetrating to 1 the third line trenches how many Lib erty bonds will it take to capture the crown prince and the other three or four worms that belong to the same club when you've got to go beyond the Rhine after them.
 This old game gets pretty monoton- ous at times, hope to get short fur Tough some day and get into regular town You see, Doc" since we have been sover here what time we haven't been in the trenches has been spent in small villages, most of them nothing but ruins from shell fire. l would give g. couple of months pay to see one Of those vaudeville shows the Davis the atre hand out for a quarter and that's inot exaggerating a bit And to make matters worse received a letter from a friend of mine from Norwich the lynnIU him ,inIIf Bill Gleason Bill wrote me, telling me of having been commissioned a lieutenant in the army and as he might get into foreign service soon wanted to know what hotel l stopped lat when in Paris so he could look me up should he come over here. Now wouldn't that make you sore, when the only "hoter' you have ever stopped in was a barn. considering yourself lucky if there was little hay or straw in it to make your bunk a lttlef softer. Bill will have to go some to square himself with me after that break.
 So you are still putting out the lights at the K of c. club. We'll. Johni old top, you want't to do some pretty tall training along those lines to com pete with me when I come back. You 7 see this old war game over here IS , right in it's prime between sunset and I sunrise, daytime on the western front resembles Sunday afternoon in Windham. We just start to come to , at midnight and at a. m. are right in the pink expecting a little catch , as-catch- can with Fritz" which is apt i to take place any morning between that time and sunrise.
 Well, John. guess have done enough raving for the present. Don't forget 10 write a line as often as you can find time.
 Hoping you are in the best of health with kindest regards to you and all Norwich friends, from
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