Evening journal., 1918-10-28
MAI. MILLER TELLS
OF CHASING HUNS
Serving On General Kuhn's
Staff He Has Been in
Thick of Fighting
RELATES VISIT MADE
INTO NO MANS LAND

H.
been in the thick Of the lighting. driv-
ing the Huns out Of France and Bel
gium. In letters TO his wife he tells
Of some OF the lighting and OF some OF
his own experiences.
Major Miller is on the stan Of Major
General Joseph D. Kuhn. who Is com
mander OF the Seventy-ninth DIVISION
II was officially announced at Wash
ington on Saturday that the 18th Divl-
sion was on the lighting line. This di-
vision trained at Camp Meade, and Is
composed Of drafted men from Penn
sylvania. Maryland and District oil
Columbia.
General Kuhn. on whose stsff Major
Miller is serving, is often referred to as
the American soldier who knows the
most about modern warfare. he was
formerly military attache at Berlin.
and followed the armies Of the Kaiser
In the field.
10 is certain II the general has not
changed his mind since the peace dis
cussion began he doesn't want Ger
many to accept an armistice. as this
would cheat him out Of the Christmas
dinner which ne said he wanted to eat
in Berlin. In fact he had the hotel
all picked out for this celebrated oc-
casion. but. unlike the Kaiser. he never
picked the exact date for this festivity.
81 will take my fellows into Berlin
through Potsdam," he said, because /
know how 10 get around the place bet
ter than any Of the other generals. ]
am going to eat the Christmas dinner
al Franz Lorenz's Hotel, where they
serve the best meals in the city. / don {
say when this will be. or how many
will be there. but it is coming some
time as sure as shooting.
Major Miller is considered by HE
friends fortunate in having been as
signed 10 the staff Of usch a noted
fighter as General Kuhn. In the letters
recently received by Mrs. Miller from
her husband. The Sacred Way, re-
ferred 10 is taken 10 mean the ilnden-
burg line, and Thou Shalt Not Pass
as Is we'll known. means Nerdun-
Following are extracts from letters Oh
Major Miller:
Somewhere in France September
1880, 1918.
Nv last letter was written 10 YOU
one week ago from the place / have
been writing you lately, but mueh has
happened since then. | did not tell you
then but ] knew we were 10 moNei IN
fact we lett few minutes after l sealed
your letter with the advance party OF the
division. / recall reading with thrill
the newspaper account OF the march oi
the first American division to the rescue
OF the Allies in Picardy. We moved the
same way and IL gave me thrill as we
moved through parts OF France l have
not seen but read OF and which his
tory will recall. Most OF the trip was
through parts OF France the Boche had
been in and the pitiable appearance OF
the villages showed their tracks. We
move by night only; the rumble OF guns
1aad their flashes were seen everywhere,
as we approached our objective the rum
bic became a roar a driving rain added
10 the episode OF the day and night. My
out-of-door experiences in Nevada helped
me as / came through all right after
four days and nights of heavy rain. We
have witnessed many air battles already
and have been driven under cover since
starting this letter by hostile aircraft
alarms. One Boche plant few so low to-
dav that I could easily see the Maltese
Cross with my naked eye.
We took up our most Important work
so far on Friday, the 18th You have
all heard the news BY this time and !
can saw no more, but we have journeyed
"The Sacred Way" and witnessed Thou
Shalt Not Pass Just one year ago to-
dav we marched down Market street TO
the rifle range at New Castle; the war
seemed very real then and l laugh when
] compare tonight and that night Dur
ing this whole week have been through
shelling by gas, high explosive and by
air bombs. When one hears the purr OF
the Hun motor above our heads we feel
lust as one does in a thunderstorm
once il has landed you wait for the next
one. The shells, however, come whistling
overhead or fall near One landed so
near me / had dirt and pebbles thrown
all over me.
For the past two weeks We have been
under fire and for the past five days II
has been my privilege 10 be in the thick
of one Of the toughest scraps our a. +.
/. will ever take part in. To be well
into lands until recently in Boche hands
for four years and 20 know he will never
come back again is wonderful. II all
Americans could imbibe the hate one has
for the Hun encountered here. there
would be no peace until Germany and
her allies are utterly crushed. / looked
forward to when ! could experience No
Man's-Land and when my chance came |
found myself in the most CHASTITY piece
Of land imaginable. The Huns deliberate
~ bombarded our advance hospital and
wantonly killed the wounded and at
tendants. They would have been well
come TO have hit our ammunition dumps
as that would have been legitimate war
fare, but the hospital destroyed drove
MS mad The opening of the fight was
wOnderful-to hear the roar stretched
out for miles and miles. In addition TO
handling the ammunition train | opera
ted the narrow gauge railroad Thy mem
right up to the lines and also hundreds
of little burros who can go up closer TO
the fighting lines. ] have had but one
bath in four weeks and that in a de-
lousng station.
We are out for replenishment of per-
sonnel and equipment and after we re-
coup they will send us in again. ! re-
ceived, a short time ago, letter from
Captain j. Danforth Bush telling me
the Delaware Regiment had arrived in
France and ! have also had the good
luck to have seen Major John j. LeFevre. !
Letter From Litzenberu.
sgt. Major Harold +. Litzenberg, Of
Headquarters Co, Fifth Army Corps, A. |
=. +. has written letter TO a friend in
this city in which he refers TO meeting
Major Thomas w. Miller. former Con-
gresham from Delaware who. sgt. Litz.
enberg says, is looking well and en-
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