The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-12-26

from the point Of their demobil-
ization to their home towns.
Their railroad tickets will cost
two ceats per mile by direct
route.
Demobiliz9tion will be from the
nearest amy camp to the home
sections of a majority Of the men
in each unit.
railroad station and we had. our
first experience with English rail
way service. Engines and coach
es are so much smaller than those
used on American railways. The
coaches are divided into compart
ments, each accommodating eight
persons. These compartments do
not have communicating doors,
but door opens directly out to
the station platform. Tickets are
taken before train starts, as con-
ductor cannot go from car to car
while train is moving. Our train
left the station at Liverpool at
$50 on the evening of the 23rd
of May, and we rode all night.
Next morning we passed through
the outskirts of London, through
several other large English towns
and reached Dover at 10:30a. m.,
May Oath. Here we were fed
and quartered in barracks, and
remained until II O'Clock a. m.
of May 25th, when we took to
boat and sailed across Dover
strait, SO miles, to Calais,
France, arriving at the wharf at
1880 p. m. On our way across,
we passed a German floating
mine, which our boat missed by
about twenty feet. We had to
go at full speed to keep the L.
boats from having too much
chance to play with US. Had the
mine been directly ahead, we
could not have missed it. When
we landed in France we were
cheered by men around the docks.
From the dock we marched two
miles to a rest camp and slept in
canvas tents that night. We
were now within earshot of the
big artillery duels taking place at
the Front, more than a hundred
miles distant.
May 9th we went to Aud
Rique by train, arriving there at
l o'clock in the afternoon. Then
hiked five miles to a camp at
Nordausque, where 16 of US were
quartered in a big circus tent,
where we remained until the 4th
of July. While in this camp we
were sent to school to learn work
in the Intelligence Department.
We were taught to locate and re-
port all enemy posts. movements
and general activities Of the ene-
my, as well as to report cOndi-
tons concerning our own troops
in an advance, or an attack on
either side. We were to follow
up close to the Front or firing
line, and, use field glasses and
telephones to observe back-area
movements. Our title is Division
Observers and there are seven
others besides myself in this de-
tachment. We also have a part
in the handling, examining and
searching of prisoners. While at
this place, l had my first oppor-
tunity to see Sir Douglass Haig
and General Pershing.
June 1st, got my first mail
seven letters-two from home;
two from Elizabeth, and three
%, no! While here we had
opportunities to see our airships
in real battle maneuver, and to
see our first Fritz air raid. On
the 4th of July we went to Wat
au, Belgium, and stayed until
July 9th when | was sent to the
front line at Ypres (eepers) in
Belgium. left .Watau at 2;30
p. m. and reached Ypres at 6 the
same afternoon. 1t was here
that saw my first ruined town;
had my first experience under
shell fire; saw first dead killed in
action; first German prisoners
and many other of the awful
scenes in war. While here we
we slep in Dugouts, and were
continually under a harassing
shell fire. While here. saw