The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-05

Lieut.. Leslie Tice
5sads Interesting Letters 10 lIs Pr.
eats IS to Life N France.
From q number of letters re.
ceived by MIR. and Mrs. Claude
Tice from their son Leslie Tice,
who has been in France for the
past two or three months, the
following quotations have been
taken as descriptive Of Leslies
life in the army, he recently hav-
ing been com missioned as sec.
ond lieutenant. In q May letter
be says he is stationed with
three other jolly young men who
ere awaiting commissions, his
companions being eastern men
and two of them graduates of
Harvard. In one of the letters
he gives the bill of fare of Sun.
day luncheon in the officers mess
hall. which goes to show that the
American soldiers at least are
not being starved. The menu
was coffee with sugar and cream,
Dreaded steak, well cooked and
tender, maccaronl with tomato
and cheese, mashed potatoes,
bread and butter and two large
pieces of juicy peach pie. He
says Of course we realize that
swe are able to have these things
because you folks at home are
observing meatless and wheat
less days and conserving food In
every way, and your cooperative
work with the government.
Leslie writes on mothers day:
| have been censoring the moth
er's day letters the boys have
been writing, and it seems that
every fellow who has q mother
wrote to her this morning. 1T
would do you good to read them
just to see what splendid lot OF
fellows America has sent over
here. The letters generally end.
ed with ''lots of love to my own
dear mother,-your, loving son. ;"
On May IS he writes: We
have been given our commissions
Mine is second lieutenantin field
artillery, and a little later he was
given orders to act as battery
commander for a week, during
the absence of the commander,
during which time he had $50
men, hundred horses and about
$500, 600 worth of wheeled mat
erial under his supervision, and
he suggested to his father that
that was more responsibility
than the conductor on the Sisse-
ton branch had placed upon him
when he took out his train. he
writes that he got through with
his weeks responsibility with
success, and was glad he got the
experience it gave him.
In q later letter he said he had
been talking with a number of
the American boys who had been
out on the front trenches, and
they have begun to see what this
war. really means, and that if we
come out of it at the wrong end
(Which we will not of course) we
will be doomed to live in a hell
on earth. In one of the letters
he says his captain had been tel.
ling him of the bravery of some
of his own battery comrads who
had won D. S. G.. crosses, and
also of the brutal treatment the
Germans had meted out to some
of the Americans whom they had
taken prisoners. maltreatlng
them in a shocking manner and
then turning them loose to wand
er back TO the American and
French trenches, where most Of
them died short time later.
He says they can ia k and preach
about our waging war on the
German aristocracy, but when
such murderous atrocities are
being committed by its soldiery
it is about time to make Germany
and it's kultur a dead study.
They make US all feel that we
want to get to the front as quick
~ as possible, and yesterday |
turned down an offer | had to
proceed to Saumur and act as
instructor as it would mean at
least three months before |
would have the opportunity to
get to the front Saumur is one
lof the worlds famous riding
schools, devoted to instruction
/ in eQuitation and dhippopathology.