Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-11-06

ant, 0lOIll MdCllllS huii bs'o0''iioNi' i
lust as he was about to leave the i
hospital in France for the front.
The nature Of the wound that |
caused him to go to the hospital ;
was not disclosed. Apparently he
was in the hospital about month.
He inclosed a picture card OF
the hospital indicating beautiful
grounds and buildings at the
watering place. Lieutenant Mlt-
,chell enlisted in the army in May
1917 at the close of his Junior
wear in Delaware College and at
tended the training camp at
.Plattsburg and also at Fort Myer,
from which he received his COM .
mission.
Pougues Les EouX,
October 10, 1918.
Dear Father:
I've Just finished reading the
paper for this date. | can feel,
even way back here in the SOS.
(source of supplies area), the
heart that this news will put into
the men at the front. That's what
helps. as much as food and water
and ammunition. In this last drive
we knew and felt that maybe two
or three million other men were
pushing their way ahead. There's
nothing like it. When you're in a
little push here or small rad
there, or you simply sit by and
hold Your own while the artillery
takes them back and forth, then
there's nothing to it. With news
like this that keeps on coming,
that's different.
If we're going to crush Germany
this winter we've got to crush her
army. To do that we can't count
on lack of food or clothes. All OF
their men I've seen, and | have
seen a mighty lot of them, were
lust about as we'll clothed as our
men. We have lived il their dug,
outs, slept in their bees, used tne!l
blankets. eaten their food, cooked
over their alcohol canned cookers
and sometimes even worn parts o.
their clothes. Their much talked
of Potato Bread is in small loaVe
as heavy as bricks. But our mel
like it very much and | am sure
is nutritious. ..
What we can bank on is spirit
We've get it and they haven't. Gu
men wade into them as thong
every one of them were on nj
own. All they want is the Wor
go. 1t is some sight to lie IN tn
edge of a woods and watch thoJ
sand men advance along a mil
front while you protect them Wit
overhead fire. It is nne TO hear
sergeant say ANY six Of you me
get your guns. We will so owe
and take those machine guns" an
see them all start up. And tlreI
Honestly they are so willing thu
! always feel as though l were AS
ing favor instead Of giving a
order, when we start on job.
The Boche haven't got it. The
aren't afraid. They are as bray
men as ever lived. But they ha'
seen four years Of it and tint
haven't got the interest to mai
them want to keep Gu. The prise
ers come in either with JOY in the
faces or with a StoEd Indifferent
to everything. They are alWa
self-composed and show no fear
all. | talked a good while with
Lieutenant who spoke good I'm
fish. We hear so much of the Gt
man officers attitude toward I
men. But nobody couIl have be
more kind nor more Thought
and consiGerate than he, as
went among them. talked to tht
and. with his own bandages, car
for their wounds. He said Of o
men Yours are the finest mer
have ever met" l think he ref
red to the fact that they fought
dependently and because each m
wanted to.
l read, or rather looked at
pictures, in a pile Of their rect
newspapers and magazines. II
eft them on the table in the dl
out. There were copies too, up
= few days before, of Germ,
papers written in English for
English-speaking people in 6
many. They were all as intere
ing as could be. In them all tn
was evident 4 great selfish Sp
that dictated every word to h
win its own ends. 1t was so evid
that | cannot understand how
people Of Germany can be bl
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