Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-21
GIVES HISTORY
Of BATTERY IN
ACTION ON HUN
Letter Relates Entire Experiences
of Islanders and Moline Boys
While Overseas.
LEAVE FRONT ON OCT. IL
wore Than Month in Battle of the
Arconnc ForeSt-Chosen 10
Enter Enemy Land.

log Of Battery T. One Hundred
Twen,y-thi-d Field Artillery While
in France" might be the title of d
letter written by Corporal ", W
Nuench since censorship laws We're
r,ssinded IN France and the sol
d;e-s permitted 10 write letters
without restriction
In his letter. Corporal Muench,
Who lived al s2g Nineteenth avenue,
Moline. before entering service,
traces the movements of the battery
in france. from the time that
horses were issued until il was re-
leved from lighting duty in the
Argoune forest
His letter. written to Miss An
META Donovan, 1888 Twenty
seventh street. is appended.
our letters are not censored so
will De able 10 tell YOU about my
travels through France.
we LETT New York on the morn
ing of MAY p. There were IS ships
in our convoy and we we're on the
5. ;. Scouau-au English boat. We
were en- the water Is days We
landed ID Liverpool. England, and
went al once 10 a rest camp. We
LETT this rest camp and went to
another one At Manchester. / was
on the baggage detail and went
ahead Of the battery.
We left Winchester in about two
DAYS ana went to southampton and
boarded q boat for France. We
landed al LaIIavCe and went to a
rest camp there We stayed at La
Hayre two days and were then
loaded into d b0Xcar- men in
one-they are about half as large
as ours. We travelled like that for
Two DAYS We hit the outskirts OF
Paris but We did not stop. We kept
on going until we got to Ornans-
! was fortunate on this trip 1 rode
with q few ether y. G.. O.s in a
coach We saw some wonderful
scenery On that trip. l have yet
my first wooden building 10 see
IN France or England.
We detrained at O-nans and
pitched our pup tents on hill side
until morning, when we were taken
by trucks Up the mountains to Epe-
nov near the Swiss border. We
got busy right away and started III
getting ready for the part we We're
10 play IN this little fraCas.
First We got our horses ami We
started in learning TO ride the
French way and to teach them the
american tongue A short time
later We got q few pieces, meaning
Cannous 10 YOU, but in the army
they call them pieces or guns. From
then On we were very busy learn
ing the nomenclature Of them be
cause they were French guns and
are different than the ones We had
IN the states. I left EpenOy and
went away to gas school at Ian
gres. was gone two weeks.
passed through a great deal Of
France a. rG.- trip making about
five hundred kiIULc-eTs- | stopped
over in BescansOu. DiiOu, Is-suT-
til and Chauu0ut-al large cities.
The school was not at Lans~es but
up On the front on the Marine, not
far from Chateau Thicrry. / was
there when the big drive started
and had some real experience with
gas. Then 7 came back to my out
fit and started teaching them all
about gas as it had been taught at
school and as il was used at the
front
Start for Front.
I'VE left Epeuoy for a six weeks
course al LaFalehon on the range.
This place is Tho West Point Of
France We finished this course in