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WALLACE. Departed this life Friday. July
5. 1918. at $50 am. at his residence, 6lS
l. street northwest. ADDISON STAFFORD,
the devoted son of Priscilla Wallace and
the late Peter Wallace and brother Of Lille
Wallace.
Funeral Monday. July g. at / O'Clock. from
Galbraith A. NJ. E. Zion Church. 9Th street
between L and NJ streets northwest. Rela-
tives and friends invited.
The Jasper news., 1918-10-31

general and especially of what the
outside world thought OF them.
The Poles in France, a majority
of whom can speak English, are
fine looking soldiers, good compan-
ions, good fighters and non com.
planners.
I have often wondered how the
American public would have stood
up under the sacrifices and suffer-
ings that have come to the people
of France, Belgium, Poland, Serbia
and Italy.
Many American women in Nice
are doing great deal now, and
were before the United States en-.
tered the war, toward relieving the
French wounded by caring for
them in efficient American style
and offering them some means OF
recreation. One American lady
was aiding a blind French soldier
to enjoy the fun at the beaches. es.
pecially the pranks of the Ameri.
cans in the water, and have seen
The Jasper news., 1918-10-31

several other instances of this good
work which is highly Appreciates
by the soldiers and French public.
A French general once said, Gods
greatest gift to man-an American
woman" and l believe he was
right.
The lady where l ate had been
in New York and could speak good
English, and she told me that the
American women there had been
splendid throughout the war and
had done very much to relieve the
suffering, very charitable and
fast and efficient workers. never
complaining or boastipg. Now
girls, don't get all stuck up and
forget that there is a war still going
on and that your brother and
sweetheart are over here in it and
need every bit Of help you and
everybody else can give them. And
when the next Liberty Loan or
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lists Gt is nearly impossible to be
that way if you stay in Europe
very long, as the water is nearly
undripkable) we had some Italian
wine and beer and neither was
what one could call excellent.
The Italians here are nearly like
the French in living and costumes,
but they are generally darker.
skinned. But here I wish to dispel
an opinion that maintained and
l suppose many of you, that all OF
the Italians were like the familiar
wops, as we call them land sup.
pose Dagos but where / was loca'
ted in Iowa, Dagos applied to
Hungarians, Bulgarians and the
like, but wops were strictly Ital-
ians The majority of the Italians
are fair skinned, especially in north.
ern Italy and as rule bright and
intelligent looking and make splen'
did looking soldiers. The Italian
army has had a harder fight over
more difficult ground and under
poorer conditions. with less support
of both finance at home and back.
ing from the allies, than possibly
any army in Europe, over noun.
famous country in general, and
there have been less huctuation in
their front than any front over here,
and besides Italy is a small coun-
try in comparison and is. not very
wealthy. but since the centraliza-
ton of the Allies aud allied consol-
idation of both com mand and ma.
terial such disaster as happened
last fall can never happen again
and would not have happened then
They are not at all the people we
all thought them to be. So the
next time you see an Italian don't
look down on him as being an illit'
crate because he is an Italian. o.
course some of them that come tc
the states from the island posses
sions are not as intelligent as a rule
, as the mainlanders. So take of
your hats for once to the Italians
We all mailed several post cards
from here and returned to the Dor
der and had our pictures taken will
one foot in Italy and one in Franc,
, bound together by America, 81
to speak.
! From here We went back to Men
@ ton then to Monaco and on t,
Nice. While in Nice, met Pol,
4 who was then attached to the 20
lish American forces in France
e They are Poles mostly from tn
q States who volunteered to com
Z over as distinct army group 0
corps and were clothed and ar
e being paid by the French.
: He said he had been drafted an
e forced into the Hun Army by tn
Is Germans and finally surrendered t
II the Allies and then entered the Pc
e lish Army in France. He told m
If of many things that were done b
the Germans TO strike terror TO tn
" hearts of their enemies and of thei
e cruelty to the Belgians and car
II tured French and English, and c
n their barbarous treatment of tn
II Poles, Czech Slovaks and capture,
h Russians, and of the general ignor
i ance of the Germans of things i
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Clyde Buerge Writes of Interesting
Trip.

Mr.. Arthur F Drake,
Jasper, Mo, U. S A.
Dear Sir: ] am we'll feeling fine
and eating regular if not super
flously. Feel sort of damp as it
has rained continuously for a week.
We are still with the French.
l saw Harry Tabler early this
spring and had quite talk with
him. I have heard from him but
twice since then. l am nearly sure
he was with the Americans in the
second battle of Marine.
have heard from Nathan Rice
several times but have never seen
him.
l just returned from my per-
mission, supposed to have seven
days in whatever place one chooses,
exclusive Of travelling time, but we
in the 18TH don't get it that way.
My furlough started on August II
at 9 p. m. and l was in Paris at
6:ss the next morning, and had
the whole day to spend in the old
burg as my train did not leave
until evening. l was over a big
percent of the town as | was there
in November last year it was easy
to get around, and l never saw
where a single shell or bomb had
landed. A fellow says to me-"see
over there, Big Bertha put one in
there some place." but I could not
see where it was. l think he was
kidding.
l left over the P. L. & M. at $40
p. m for Marseilles and Nice.
You 60 by the way of Lyon, Chalon-
Sur-Soane. Movers, Marseilles,
Toulon, Cannes, Nice. I don't
know whether you know how a
French passenger train looks, but
if you do skip this, but if you don't
read on, Macduff The coaches are
in three classes. Some coaches are
all one class, either first, second or
third, and others have two and
some have all three, the only diff
ference being in the upholsteting.
1t is mighty poor system they
have of spacing their coaches, just
like the old-fashioned stage coach.
Eight people in each compartment.
Some coaches have an aisle on one
side of the car, others have doors
to each compartment. But here is
what sticks in an Americans craw
more than anything else in France
and that is it is too autocratic tc
an American who is taught that
one man is as good as another
and that if you have the necessary
cash and conduct yourself properly
you can 60 anywhere any one else
can.
If you are private second class
unless you have medal of homo
of some kind or on special mission
you must ride third class, no mat
ter if you have money sticking on
OF every pocket. sober as a judg,
and dressed like General Pershing
II, however, you are a privat
first class you may go along will
non CONS, special mission and 6elt
clerks and ride second class.
rode second class most of the wa,
to Marseilles, but rode third GU
OF Paris as the train was so crowd
ed we could not get anything else
but at Lyon we got in class com
partment and continued to Mar
settles where it was necessary (,
change. We arrived there at 3:2,
p. N. and had to stay there unit
1890 p. m. We saw as much O
the city as possible in that Time
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and busy seaport The largest
str. cts are the only ones that are
straight, the balance are unbeliev-
ably narrow and crooked Oi
course as in all cities there ire
beautiful parts Marseill9s is no ex
ception, but it is not ve'y strong
on that part
AS we had to. eat supper, wash
up and get to the train eaily il we
wanted seat, we di not see as
much of Marstilles as we would
have liked to but stopped off com
ing back. We did not get seat
so we rode the steps from Mar
settles to Toulon where we finally
got seat The road here runs
along the sesahore on precipitous
bluff most of the way with numer.
Gus tunnels and forest fires every
now and then. The scenery along
here is beautiful
We arrived in Nice at 2.3o in
the morning and went to the
|O'Connor Hotel. A very nice
place with rate of ID francs
(nearly So oo) day with meals.
Slept till nearly noon and got up
and proceeded to see the city.
Nice is winter resort and has
numerous swell hotels and theatres
and bathing beaches. Along the
water front is a fine promenade,
being about 50 feet wide and about
two miles long with a nice drive
way alongside. There we're sew
eral American tourists in Nice who
have swell homes in and around
Nice and nearby villas.
The Mediterranean is very fine 10
battle in, being very warm, but the
beaches are not so very good being
coarse gravel and not sand as most
beaches are. But that does not
hinder the bathers in the summer
as it is very hot. suppose if
some of the critics of what a bath
ing suit for men and women should
be composed of were there they
would want to have the entire out.
fit ostracised.
The third morning we we're in
Nice we left at 7 o'clock on the
tramway for Monaco Monte
Carlo, Mention and Italian border.
Believe me, that Casino at Monte
Carlo is a masterpiece of architec
ture. The several different rooms
for gambling, having swell decora.
tons, and the floor is of different
design than any l have ever seen
being some kind of hard wood and
cut in narrow short strips laying
in small squares.
There any kind of gambling
tables that you might wish to in
dulge in, but roulette tables art
the most used. The prince tina
governs the several little province
around there. has a theatre in ont
wing of the building and sort o
a throne box himself. The prince
collects reality of 3, 900, 900 franc
month now and the Lord onl,
, knows how much he collects il
peace times.
From there we went to tn
, aquarium and in the basement il
every sort of fresh and salt waite
: fish in the world, present, past an,
future, and on the ground floor i
museum where they have mount
r ed many things of ancient life an
of present times that are nearl
p. extinct now. They have one larg
t skeleton that is about 80 feet lon
e and about 30 feet high. ! forge
T. the name but it was a quadrapec
e In one end of the building is tn
h Parliament building where what
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Letters From the
Boys "Over There"

Friends of Jasper boys
in the Army and Navy will
confer a favor on this Of
flee by allowing us to print
their letters occasionally,
and if you desire the re-
turn of the letters please
call for them.
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crashed back the new division which
had sought to wrest the position from
them.
'.And so 1t went. Day after day.
night after night. while time after
time messages like the following trav-
eled to. the posa command:
Losses heavy. Difficult to get rum
ners through. Some have never re-
turned. Morale excellent but troops
about all in. Men exhausted
Exhausted. but holding on. And
they continued to hold on in spite of
every difficulty. Advancing their lines
slowly day by day. the snarines finally
prepared their positions to such an ex-
tent that the last rush for the possess
sion of the wood could be made. Then.
on June "a, following a tremendous
barrage, hesstruggle began.
The barrage literally tore the
woods to pieces, but even its inn
mensity could not wipe out all the
nests that remained: the emplace-
ments that were behind almost every
clump of bushes. every jagged. rougn
group of boulders. But those that re-
manned were wiped out by the Amer
lean method of the rush and the payo-
net. and in the days that followed
every foot of Belleau wood was
cleared of the enemy and held by the
frayed lines of the Americans.
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u. S. MARINES STOPPED
HUNS DRIVE ON PARIS.
MIR. DANIELS ASSERTS
Pays Great Tribute in Annual Report to
efficient Fighting, Building and
Landing Force Of Navy"

channel ports, but Foch dangled Paris
before their eyes by putting raw.
Americans at Q point across the direet
road to Paris, in the pocket betty cen.
Rheims and scissors. Instead Of driv-
ing back the amateurs" the anna
tours drove them and gave them also
very sound thrashing. Their losses
We're heavy. but they did the work,
ana IN doing it also did three things:
ihey saved Paris; they seriously in
9ured the morale of the best German
troops, and they set a standard and
fixed . reputation for American troops
tnat none other dared tarnish.'
Such is the opinion of the head of
great news-gathering force regard
ing the achievements of the United
states Marines at Chateau Thierry,
where in the battle field of Bots de
Belleau. now named the Bots de la
Brigade de Marine by official order of
the French staff, this branch of the
Navy met the Germans and blocked
their drive on Paris.
Go to Front Memorial Day.
ut was on the evening of May 30,
after a day dedicated to the memory
OF their comrades who had fallen in
the training days and in the Verdun
sector, that the 5th and 9Th regiments
United States Marines. each received
the following orders:>
Advance information. official re-
ceived that this regiment will move
at 10 pm. 80 May by bus-to new area.
All trains shall be loaded at once and
arrangements fastened. : Wagons,
when loaded, will move to Serans to
form train
"All through the night there was
fevered activity among the Marines.
Then, the next morning, the long
trains of camions, buses and trucks.
each carrying it's full complement of,
United States Marines, went forward
on road which at one place wound
within less than ten miles of Paris,
toward MeauX and the fighting line
Through the town of Meaux went
the long line of camions and to the
village Of Neutrality-suspicious. less
than four miles from the rapidly ad-
yancing German line. On this trip the
camions containing the Americans
were the only traffic travelling in the
direction of the Germans; everything
else was going the other way-refu-
gees, old men and women, small chill
dren. riding on every conceivable
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conveyance, many trudging along the
side Of the read driving q COW or calf.
before them, all OF them covered with
the white dust which the canton:
caravan was whirling up as 1t rolled!
along: along that road only one or
ganization was advancing, the Uniteds
States Marines. 4
- Got Into Line June 2. ( I.
"At last, their destination reached
early on the morning4of June 2. they
'dise4nbarked, stiff and tired aftea4.
Journey OF more than seventy-two
miles. but al they FORMED their lfnes
and marched onward in the direction
of the lineHthey- Mere=to hold they
were determined and cheerful. Tnat
evening the first field message from
the 4th Brigade to Maj. Gen. Omar
Bundy. commanding the I'd Division.
went forward:
g Second Battalion, Gth Marines. in
line from LIE Thiolet through Clarem-
bauts- woods to Triangle, to Lucy. In;
structed to hold line. First Battalion,
Lucy through Hill 142. Third Battal-.
ion in support at La Vote du Chatel.
which is also the post command OF
the 9Th Marines. Sixth Machine Gun
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at line Is 1.
Meanwhile the 5th Regiment was
moving lnlO line, NldCllHc guns WCtO
advancing and the artillery taking its
position. That night the men and or
ficers of the marines slept in the open.
many of them in a field that was
green with unharvested wheat await
ing the time when they should be
5 o'clock, the afternoon of June 2.
began the battle of Chateau Thierry,
with the Americans holding the line
against the most vicious wedge Of the
German advance. 49,"
Battle of Chateau Thierry.
THE advance of the Germans was
across a wheat field, driving at Hill
1875 and advancing IN smooth columns.
The United States marines. trained to
keen observation upon the rife range,
nearly every one of them wearing a
marksman's medal or better--that Of
the sharpshooter OF expert rideman-
did not wait FOR those gray-clad
hordes to advance nearer. Calmly they
set their sights and aimed with the
same precision they had shown upon
the rifle ranges at Paris Island. Mare
Island and Quantico. necessarily their
rifles cracked, and with their fire came
the support of the artillery.
1.-The machine-gun fire, fpcessant also,
began to make it's inroads upon the
advancing forces. Closer and closer
the shrapnel burst to it's targets.
Caught in a seething wave of ma
chine-gun fire. Of scattering shrapnel,
of. accurate rifle fire. the Germans
found themselves in a position in
which further advance could only
mean absolute suicide. The lines hes
itated. They stopped. They broke
for cover. while the marines raked
the woods and ravines in which they
had taken refuge with machine gun
and rifle to prevent them making an
other attempt to advance by infil-
trating through. Above, a French
airplane was checking up on the ar
tillery fire. Surprised by the fact
that men should deliberately set their
sights. adjust their range. and then
fire deliberately at an advancing foe.
each man picking his target, instead
of firing merely in the direction: of
the enemy. the aviator signaled be-
low Bravo" In the rear that word
was echoed again and again. The
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seirman drfvs ST. r.fis IA been atob.

German drive % ,rafis hxd been atop
ped 80 =. :.i;1is
y .-s... -.
s1isses E5etas h 1lisan aos
s .For .tte. asxf few d days hs hsRting
forth outposts 4n1 AetSfmfninEi the
strength of thS@SAsiny. N6w. the
h1fiitif,x had changed. The Germans,
Inystffied that they should have run
against stone wall pf defense Just
when they believed that. their advance
would be easiest. had halted. amazed <
then pEApared to defendSfhe Positions
they had won with all the stubkor9e
ness possible. In the black recesses,
Of Belleau wood the Germans haGNese
tablfshed nest after nest Of machine
guns. There in the junEf6 OF zhatteds
underbrush. Of vines. Of heavy foliage,
lions they believed impregnable. And
this meant that unless they could be
routed. ufless' they could be thrown
back the breGkinE .of the attack OF
June would mean nothing. There
would come another drive and an
other The battle Of Chateau Thierry
was therefore not won and could not
be- won until BelleaNpwood had been
cleartdsqf the eAen1yi "a
TT Was June that tie attAsk M
the american troops began agAirsst
that wood and its adjacent sur
roundinss. with the wood itself and
forming the ob1ectivess At s o'clock
the attack came, and there began
the tremendous sacrifices which the
Marine Corps gladly suffered that the
German fighters might be thrown
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Kin Of capture the defenders OF the
.ueetss &3A-tisn swinging the gun
about I'm its position. turn, It against
me remaining German positions in
the forest. !yuchAwas the character of
the fightink in Bsae.u wood; tishting
after Q short -rea4ef the invincibie
Americans finally were taken. back
t9 the rest billet for recuteratien.
Hold Mnea Tor 1any Weary Days.
!. In au the history Of the Marine
iCeF1g eksfe u Ssuch battle as that
QUE sirsHsEesI wood. Fighting day
ana GEAt ,swt thoat relief. without
Gays #tttifout-aot- rations;-the ma
rines met and defeated the best divi-
sions that Germany could throw into
the line. The" herofsm and logged
nsss OF that. battle are unparalleled.
Time after time officers, seeing, their
lines cut p pieces. seeing their men
asleep under shell fire, hearing their
wounded calling for the water. that
they weresMIAble to supply. seeing
men fEhx SHs they had. been
wounded ard phaIf they dropped un-
consejHas..at fer time arieers
sestpEfhSse things, Believing that
haaseSsM gssshea would sAnd, back
tfsefyt snsSn { gsresssxheusted.: But in
sus#a fo tits Mould come the word
that the ftAsss nlNsti hold, and IL posst-
BILE those In ss m INST attack. And the
food. nj tho4tsrest they wont forward
-at1s1ahYksd EVERY time to victory.
Con4paHfNa had-"been SO torn and
lacsf&ted by losses that they were
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Praise From French staff.

"It was, therefore, with the feeling
of work well done that the depleted
lines of the marines were relieved in
July. that they might be filled with
and made ready for the
grand offensive in the vicinity of Sois-
sons. July IS. And in recognition of
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