Williams news., 1918-05-10
MCLEAN TELLS Of WORK

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 Below is a letter from Lyle Mclean in which he writes of training camp life which will in terest everyone at this time.
 April 2O-18 I've returned last night off our ten day hike. We came in a half day sooner than we eX- pected to and a day and a half sooner than the California out fit would like to see us but they couldn't help it. Our first day hike was seven miles and we had to fight every inch of the way for five miles. The 8Oth brigade tried to stop us and we shot them up considerable and ran the 160th Infantry so far out that some of them are still coming home, I guess. We camped about 12 a mile from the ocean. Nearly everyone went in for a swim but I didn't as I had two fingers that got in the way of a bayonet and I wouldn't go in the salt water until they had healed a little more. The second day we were out at 5 am. and broke camp. We started on a force march to Del Mar. It was only ' miles but we made it in l hour and 50 minutes with full packs. They weigh 40 pounds and our guns weigh 9 pounds. We camped near the shore and I went in the ocean for my first time. We were up at 5 next morning and on our way at seven. We had some awful roads and hills but we got thru in record time. We camped at a place called Santa Fe ranch ard a dirtier place I have yet to find. Our camp look ed funny. All that anyone could see was trees and pup tents. We were there all Sat urdav. We found river and a swimming hole where we put in our leisure time. We laid a. round all day Sunday. and Mon day our battles started. We fought the 157th, and the.num- Der of miles we walked is dam hard toNfoure. We beat up the 157th and did tall hiking to do 1t. We had to march 8 miles out before our problem started, then we had that 8 miles to go back. One of our companies and one of the 157th got tired of shooting blanks at each oth- CT and got throwing rocks and was only about 35 feet apart when the general stopped them fighting. The next move would have been 2 rush, then a free for all would have started. We took over 400 prisoners and got in for dinner on time. The 157 was supposed to keep us away from dinner as long as possible That stunt was impossible.
 The next day was a draw and the third battle not even a shot was fired. We had 4 casualties.
 1 strained cord in the back of nav heel the fifth day out. I hobbled around for nearly fifty miles and finally it cave out.
 The head of the column was in Camp Kearrv 5 hours ahead of schedule. They were stop ned once by the enemy and little battle took place. The stopped the fight and asked how many companies were behind the first one. the whole brigade is behind, start your fight The enemy put up a white flag right then"
 Other instructive accounts are on hand and would be used but space will not allow it.
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