Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-10

mask on you feel the Effects of the gas
when it gets dense. One day a battery
close to mine was surprised without
their masks and nineteen were victims.
Two of them died, but the others recov
cred.
81 have seen all the soldiers of all
our allies" said Lieutenant Dubard,
land 1 am proud to tell the folks back
home that the American soldiers do
not suffer by comparison with any.
Germans Big Men
1.-THE German soldiers are big, husky
fellows, being larger on the average
than either the English or French. But
the American are just as big men as thu
Huns
"The Arnericans-at the front are big.
strong and determined and they are
rearing to go!' They feel absolutely
Confident that the folks back home are
with them unanimously, and they are
anxious for the entire American dele.
cation to get to the front so they can
show the Huns just how the Americans
can 60. if the odds are anywhere near
even"
Dubard spoke interestingly of the
work of artillery. He is with the light
artillery and handles the famous French
"75's."
when our infantry attacks" he said
I'VE put up what is called a box bar.
rage, the rear side of the box being
just beyond the enemy's trench. This
keeps any of them from escaping, and
after the infantry cleans up everything
in this box and returns with the pris-
oners, we put up a rolling barrage
right in front of our trench to keep off
a counter attack"
Has Not Been injured.
Duhprd has NOT hean
iured although he has been in many
warm artillery engagements and shells
have exploded all around him.
whenever they shell u.s." he says,
I'VE always send 'em back twice as
much as they give us. Before we got
there this sector was a quiet one, but
we have made it a mighty lively place.
and we keep the Germans up in the air
all the time. They never know what
we are going to do next.
Some of the German prisoners we
have captured are boys in the neigh
borhood of sixteen and seventeen years
old. Just kids not long out of short
pants
Paris Still Lively.
Paris is still a lively place." saiT
Lieutenant Dubard, despite the war,
1t is still fairly naughty, for it wouldn't
be Paris if it wasn't. There is an
American jazz band at the Casino that
is all the rage now.
English is spoken by a great many
of the French people, and sometimes [
have been addressing a Frenchman and
with my French vocabulary,
when suddenly he would say:
Speak English, young man. 1 can
you"
The German Offensive.
off 10 ~ I'D
before Dubard left France.
81 will always have it in for the Huns
did" he says 81 had just finished a
six weeks sojourn on the front and was
given the usual period of rest. We
went to Paris and had visions of three
weeks delightful holiday, when, on the
first day we arrived there the Huns be-
gan the attack and we were called back
/ left Paris the day before that big gun
of the Germans started Smelling the
city"
Duby says it's great life
Even if you are killed it is worth
it," is the way he sizes it up.
Lieutenant George Bell of Atlanta, is
over in France, and Duby said he was
doing fine and in splendid health
He is enjoying himself immensely
and asked me to tell all his friends
hello"
Are you going back to the 'front.'"
Dubard was asked.
Sure" he said. "I am glad to be
back with my friends. but if 1 Thought |
l was not going back it would break
my heart"