The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-10-17
WALLA WALLA BOY
SHOOTING UP HUNS
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get this letter and don't you forget
your hubby sure did his share of it.

In another letter Sgt. Blgler says:
I guess you people have heard how
on the morning of Sept. IL the Ameri-
can Yanks went after them Huns. All
us (deleted by the censor) started at
once and the air was just full of whist
ling shells going over to kill and gas
Huns. A big thunder storm was just
like child's play to that night-just a
roar of guns and the flashes you could
see were awful.
We fired real fast, too, so by morn
ing our. guns were awfully hot again
and our chests hurt again from con-
.cussion. And, as usual it would not
be a battle if it did not pour down rain
and make the gun pits big mud hole.
Ny gun sets under a big tree and ev-
cry time we would fire we would get
a regular shower bath. But it didn't
take long before the concussion tore
all the leaves off Of one side of the
tree. The conclusion is so strong
that it wo uld put out a candle in
aaa
Jug over here 100 feet away.
Well, here it is fall and grapes are
getting ripe. But we are nowhere near
a vineyard. We are stuck in some big
hills. Just our luck, all spring we were
in wine country, and now we are
where nothing grows. But it won't
be long and is not very far to Ger
man brewery. We expect to be there
soon. Ha! Hal Well, we all think the
war will be over by next spring. Yanks
are getting stronger every. day and
they are good fighters.
At one place French regulars were
to take place and they could not do
lit afte trying all day-lost quite a
few men, too. Next morning an
American colonel says, "Let my regi-
ment try it," and got ready and the
Yanks had it in three hours, and they
kept it, too. The French think Ameri-
can soldier are bon soldier! Says he is
so wild and throws everything away,
rolls up his sleeves, his rifle in one
hand and his cap in the other, gives
a yell and goes over and the Huns give
l. up or run like the devil.
There have been an awful lot OF
prisoners passed along the road here
the last few days. They say they can't
stand that awful artillery fire, and are
getting tired of this war and so give
up in big punches now.
You see, this is funny war, every
thing is done in the night. We go into
where we shoot in the night and every
thing stops at daylight, and just as
soon a. it starts to get dark noise
starts. Every road close to the front
is like busy street at night, and as
soon as day breaks you would think
everything was dead around there
i And Just think, so awful much trave
over such crowded roads and not one
: light of any kind and very few accl'
dents.
i Yes, the gas is very bad and puts
lots of men in the hospital. But the
.. Huns are getting weaker every day
and we are getting stronger SO she
can't last much longer. Everybody
over here thinks it will be over by
spring. So let's hope SO. You people
81 home n1dst be brave and do all yor
oon to help and we will do our best.
! Saw hundreds of Hun prisoners al
1ro,.l, and saw some towns that yor
have read about that we shot up. No
wall standing in some Of them. The
French never would do that and tina
j !, vbv thew could not drive the Huns
r ont BUT us Yanke sure tore them Out
: NV the roots. It's 2 shar'e. hlt hettel
5 !, - few r'eces t'e- OF then
t hove them. ~.
O 81 ss -