Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-27
PARIS HOPES HIGH
AS GERMANS FALL
Prisoners Look Pitiful When They
See Americans Land, Hun
Officers Having Lied
TO Them.

NV dear MIS-. lpfNf. hlii st Wv
lighted To receive the letter and the
newspaper clippings you thoughuuliv
enclosed
Thank YOU once more for those needed
shoes. coats and all elso en- route, and
hope TO receive thom all right | have
plenty of influential people to help me
concerning the receiving OF cases, and who
say | should have them. but somewhere
there Is an agreement entered INTO France
and America which seems to hc the most
binding | have ever come across, nnd
Individually like me, cannot have what !
would have If were a simple society
To have a society means great deal at
expense and how much better II is to spend
that money right out for the soldier HIM
self than IN office rents. and the thousand
and one little things useless for tho soldier,
hut necessary when one has society with
various officers.
You can be sure. my dear Mrs. Porter.
that the Barihclemcy family will
alwavs have all they want and all that
YOU send IT specially like them all and
now tho bows write me themselves from
their respective regiments ThcT always
come to sec me when ON permission.
believe them such worthy people What
magnificent work the Allies are doing
and our hopes are running higher. the
morals of the men Is perfect everywhere.
Since the last advance we are having peace
an tranquility IN Paris The homhard-
ment has ceased and We have not had
night raid IN some three weeks
Tho last time tho long distance cannon
frpd a shell fell near me and killed three
persons. but there were only two shells
during the entire day, which was nothing,
since at first We had them regularly every
fifteen minutes ! think now the worst
is passed and | have ever lost the idea
that We NAV 10 subjected to hom-
harcmcnt hv aeroplanc for which every
prccaution was taken
ENOUGH oF DISCOMFORT.
People are already beginning to come
back 10 Paris having had enough nt the
discomforis iof the country really
had no fear and the only procautIon taken
At the house was 10 pack IN collection
Of English ustrc porcelain and carry It
down into the cellar Everything else
rs as We have IL in tlmr Of peace. MANY
people took down pictures and removed
ornaments from mantel pieces and etagerCF
hut | did not
Il Is wonderful how the bows from
home arrive here and although the Ger
mans do not believe VIZ arn coming
preston on the faces Of the German
prisoners IN ports where they scr trans
ports deposit mon prisoner told one
Of my bows tho other dav that tho Ger
man soldiers had hocn told that the
submarine warfare was 80 successful
that America WAS not able to get the
men
Another lie Of theirs was recently told
when the Relgians had nal success,
also the Germans were told that il was
the English dressed up as Bolgians. rs
the Germans had entirely wiped ont tho
Belgian army. so that it did not exist
any more ! only hope now that the
retreat has really begun that their fright
will cause thom 70 run and we will soon
get them back TO the Rhine
| realized how weak and perhaps worn
out am at his time being when thus
! morning went 70 lovely Notrc Dame
| for he PRAYERS 70 he offered for the victory
Of the Allies. and when II seemed 10 me
| million people were gathered. every inch
! of space being occupied even in the monk :
| walk up near the roof. could not sup
/ press the tears To seC the old. the Young
! the wounded. the officers. the poor and
| tho rich all on common footing. and out
| Of the silence 10 hear God in Heaven.
| Mother of Jesus and all down the long
| list of saints PRAY for us. save us.
! came as a cry from every lip there, it was
most impressive.
| Tears even come as / recall the scene
TO YOU If there is a God in Heaven
! He must hear US. The entrance to the
church was by invitation and all the
| Ambassadors, ministers and high officials
were there Monsicgneur Annette the
archbishop of Paris, spoke, and as he
passed out of the church ] was so near
him II seemed rs If ] received a special
benediction as he blessed the crowds
awaiting his passage.
| agree with YOU, We are IN the last
hardest pun Of the war and am begin
ning to feel now the worst Is past We
| have blue days and discouraging events
but they will not last and will not be as
terrible as those already undergone
Yes indeed do need handkerchiefs badly
they are so expensive here and bad II
quality, sometimes think 1t Is folly got
buy them for they do not appear strong
enough TO stand one washing Thank
YOU again for everything | see no way o
leaving the city for rest this summer
and now it VIII soon be autumn am
off again for the front this week, but for
a few days only
Have YOU any ladies who want god
sons! | am asked continually for these
some wanting only letters One case
now appeals to me He has no one in
the world and has tutor who has cared
for him nearly AL his life has just died
He wrote IN his last letter, j do not want
anything, | do not want help but | dc
want some one TO write 10, who will per
haps care for me and relieve me of TIM
terrible loneliness and mental suffering
! give you his name and If any one wantl
TO take him up II seems to me like worthy
easel will write him and do all the little
things from here but / have no time fol
a regula correspondence in spite of mr.
desire. This letter | am writing yol
is my 2,000th one this year
] wrote alone last month 500 TO my big
| family. But even with getting up al
5 O'Clock IN the morning | cannot keeI
caught up in my letter writing and
then when | go TO the front on returning
| home there Is a pile Of letters awaiting
for me to read, that sometimes | am three
| days in reading them. This of cours
| has TO be done when | am eating or j I
the tram car going from place to place
as ! have my packages to make up as
| soon as | get out of the hospitals.
The name of the soldier is "Amedec
Seynard, "a Battalion Indochine | Com
pagnie, Secteur Postal 164 He writes
like an educated man and we'll brought
up. What long letter but | have al
ways SO much to say to YOU. Every
| kind OF greeting and again all my CRATE
| fui thanks for what you do for me and