Arizona sentinel., 1918-02-28

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 Somewhere Over There-The most brilliant war core pondent can only sigh with envy of the humblest Amer an boy at the front The best article he wrote base ,n no matter what exhausted investigation and long ,eence carries no such authority the simple letters he American soldiers in the trenches
 Here are excerpts from real letters written by Amer an soldiers in the last few weeks to their families at hom They tell more plainly and pathecaly than any st istcs the food conditions in France and England Ths hey add message of good cheer among the troops on should be- for the soldier fighting in any land is CT tiled to the best that land give him.
 The first letter was written on Christmas day, but uns the gamu all the way from holiday eStvity bleal st lack.
 Somewhere in France, Dec. 25, 1917
 Dear George: We are blleted in little French village near enough to the front to have to observe the usual precautions regarding aero plane raids, the military force coming by only last night and making us put out our lights at an early hour because of raid nearby.
 Company kitchen is directly beneath my window and for long time this afternoon watch ed the men getting their Christmas dinner. There turkey and mnce pie for every man, for it is written in the army regulations, but God knows IL way corner of the world.
 No one will ever know how much these people have suffered over here and their only hope. We can only pray that not too late. It will be an unthinkabe tragedy if all their sac rfces are in vain hope the folks back home will shake a leg and keep up the good work they seem to be doing according to the meager press reports we get. It seems strange to come to place where it is absolutely impossible to obtain the things have always regarded as necessities. We are off in the country, yet we never get milk or eggs. You can't buy them at any price.
 You have doubtless seen cartoons showing man wearing small lump of coal in place of a diamond shirt stud, or putting an egg in a safe de- posit vault have lived to see such conditions in reality. At one place was billited with a woman 70 years old there little lump of coal which reposed on shelf in front of the stove She burned twigs and looked at the coal to keep warm One day she dug down behind some papers in a cupboard and pulled out an egg, which she show ed me with all the pride in possessing diamond necklace. She said she was saving it for some day when she was sick
 Another convalescing in a Paris hospital, and goin day to the Hotel des Invaldes see the exhibition he German trophies writes:
 Tn the lounging room downstairs American ladies are serving chocolate and sandwiches; and what do you suppose the latter made of? Real white bread, the first have tasted since leaving England. Where and how they obtained it they alone knew; and Pm sure they Will not tell. Or you find definite statement on foo han this?:
 "Altho but recently arrived, l already begin to have realization of how terrible this war is to those actively engaged in it. You in the United States have no idea what these people in England and France are sacrificing Sugar is an unknown quantity. Why, the undssolved sugar in the bot toms of the coffee cups in the United States would be Godsend to us all over here Food is so scarce that the sale of regulated and takes place only at certain hours We absolutely cannot buy at theSe hn11rS Lear nal ke tnnS