New Britain herald., 1918-10-03

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 it is pushing up daisies now.
 That afternoon we were marched
 down to the beautiful quaint old town
 of Winchester Tn the center of the town was a statue of the first king of England We visited the Winchester Castle, built centuries ago, and saw the famous round table of King Arthur Everywhere in the city we saw British soldiers dressed in light blue suits, wearing white shirts and red neckties. This uniform signtied that these men had done their share of the fighting and were no longer able to fight. As we marched along the street women and children grasped our hands in silent greetings. I cannot explain just why, but somehow it gave me the impression that they were expressing deep gra attitude. Oh, how my heart aches for England, for she has suf- fered much.
 Then we crossed the English Chan nel, all I can say of that trip is that I never had such an excursion before. Every inch of the boat was covered with sleeping men, they slept on the floor of the decks, on the stairs, on the hatch covers and even on the rail. It was impossible to move about without stepping on hands or ears. l started to sleep below deck with bunch of other men and awoke shortly after at the bottom of @ heap of men. The boat was sure rolling some. l managed to pull myself out and went up on deck. It was excep- tionally cold and we had difficulty finding space on which to lie down. But by taking some ones head and placing it on someone's stomach and
 taking anOther's legs and hanging them over the rail- I managed by roll
 ing myEelf into a ball to lay down and
 get sos>p sleep. When I awoke in the
 morning someone was lying on top of
 me. After a series of oaths and a very
 mighty push I found out that the per son who was using me foo. mattress
 was no less a person thaS the major. After falling all over myself with
 apologies, the major said: That's all
 right, son, but it's good thing for you
 that I am not a second lieutenant" After we had landed they told us we
 had been chased all night by sub
 marine. The boys were feeling in , pretty good spirits till sOmene took the joy out of life again when they told us we were going to another rest camp.
 We met thousands of British sol diers returning from the front and going home on leave We also met some Australian troops and they are certainly fine fellows. They mix quite freely with the Americans and have no more love in their heart for
 the Tommies than the American sol dier has.
 Everywhere in France and England as we marched along we saw numer- ] ous German prisoners. It is becOm- ; ing very easy to take German prison ! CTS as they tell of the incidents where ! the Germans deliberately march into ! our lines to be made prisoners. The 1 general opinion among men who come 1 back from the front is that the war : will end in a few months. They were 1 greatly surprised to see such large ! numbers of Americans and they say l If Germany realized the number of i men and amount of supplies that the i II. $. is landing in France, she would i imm ediately throw down arms.
 After a two days stay at this camp l we entrained for our billets. where ! we now are. We spent all Saturday night and Sunday and up to a, m. Monday on these trains. The French
 trains are not like the American ! trains Each compartment holds eight men and has side doors for each 1 compartment. There was no way to | pass from one car to another and 1 are not as large as the ones in the 1 United States, but are larger than the British, perhaps I could describe these trains better to you by telling you to
 notice the next time you are in the ,
 and 10c store the cars that are for | sale on the sc counter. It was about ! a. m. when we pulled into Lunery station They say that Lunery means | the Moons Headquarters, when I