Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-11-14
LETTERS FROM
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WILSON'S ANsNER To
GERMANY MADE MN
N FRANCE JOYFUL
Pas A. Roth ~ Lesis Soidia Says
Pr~idsut Wil-oa Strsck Nois
az Ccufdenrs.

az Ccuhtennt
Pazl A. Roth one Huzooi ana
Tsnih Supply Train. q son % ths late
1ehs A Roth % he Roth Groccy
CoaPany, tells o. hsw joyful Pres
ident Wilson's motlo u unc0nditiouai
surrender has made the boys a. TIE
front IN a letter 70 l. r Saith. ec5
Loeust street Roth lives al s062 Kor-
sington avenue. and Is q msnbcr q
the kinEs Highway Presbyterian
Church srd q teacher IN is sunday
school Young Roth - wcl known IN
this city. having visited his aunt. Mrs
c ?. Clark. a number o. times HIS
brother, John Arnold Roth. Is In TIE
aviation service, and Is now in Enc
land recovering from a serious acci-
dent
The letter follows.
on ACTIVE SERVICE WITH THE
AMERICAN EVOLUTIONARY
FORCE October 10, i9Is-Dear pr
Smith, The division has finished
warming Up. and has pa. the Hun on.
Of MIN pitched balls, the first lining
they vent up against the B0che. I.
can believe now tina; the Twelfth En-
gineers routed the Germans with pick
handles, fer the boys Of our division,
achieved the sane glorious methods
Of vietory-that is. in a great maLy
cases,
You viii hear lots Of thrillers about
the battle which started the 9th u
September. Some Of the fellows the
away their firearms, as an unneces-
sary weight, and grabbed clubs, with
which they routed numerous machine
gun nests, often in the face Of artjll-
cry fired point blank at them in the
open. In no case was the objective
ungained.
Treaehery did not 90 with our fel-
lows, who were constantly on the look
out for such things. and, Of course,
ran across lots of cases Of triekery.
The Germans and their low tricks
seem as insep .rable as a drunkard and
his booze. l have talked to lots Of the
men who have a hospital as their ad-
dress for some time, and they all seem
to wonder at their luck in getting !
through at all, although lots got
through without a scratch, and a lot
more had only slight flesh wounds
that didn't take them away from the
conflict. As a matter Of fact, lots Of
soldiers went back to the battle after
being tagged for a base hospital.
1t has rained for the last two days,
and the mud is very slippery, so slip
perry, in fact, that the hobs in the
shoes are necessary to prevent spills.
We are messing in an old abandoned
that has its roof blown of and
Of s]hrapnel holes in the walls.
Don't think there is a house in the
row Of Unfortunately mixed
up houses and barns that hasn't some
mark Of violent conflict. Most Of the
towns we have billeted in for the past
three weeks have al one time or an
been practically ruined by shell
fire.
W. arr biileted in an old house
has been almost entirely des-
but which bears a resemblance
10 a stable also. Its rooms have fire
and the Railways have stalls
with the lofts, OF rather the second
containing straw and hay. We
have often laughed at some Of the
scenes which these nreplaces saw.
try to picture one or these French
hommes calling on his file" and
crawling around on his knees. dirty
ing his nicely creased trousers on the
dirt floor.
This billet is not like the one we had
for about a week previous to coming
here. We yer in a big chateau,
which had evidently been owned By a
rich French sportsman. l discovered
a certificate showing that Paul Mag
gison had climbed Mont Blanc. There
were heads ola wild boar, deer, weas-
els and lots Of stuffed birds. We. that !
is. three Of Us, had a small room with
a real bed in it, a stove, wash stand
and lots Of floor space for stretching
out with Your blankets. We had il t~o
soft to actually realize that we were
supposed to be engaged in actual war
fare, not far from the cnemys Enc4.
That was better than we have il now.
that we are in the rest area.
Don't exactly know what the plaEs
are for this division but suppose that
we viii be up and at them again be-
fore long; that is, If the kaiser doesn't
comply with President Wilson's plac-
larism Of Gen. Grants motto Of ur-
conditional surrender. Lots Of rum
ors are going the rounds every day.
an deyery day there is a new setting
for the rumors. Wilson struck an IN
swering note Of confidence with ehe
A. +. F. when he said that uncoa-
dltional surrender would be the only
means Of coming to the peace confer
ence. Suppose that the boys after.
the boys coming 20 far would have
been disappointed If the Hun had been
let of as easily as he expected.
Gifts Arranged For.
All the soldiers have been given GER
uhcateH 70 mail home, whereby every