The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-28
BOUIC WRITES FROM
BATTLE GROUND IN FRANCE
PEOPLE AFTER THE HUNS WERE
TURNED BACK FROM PARIS
GIVE MOST OF THEIR TINE
TO REJOICING.

Somewhere 10 France, Nov .. 1914
Dear Doug:
You should see The French people
nowadays and compare their general
demeaI or now with the condition
which one saw them in when they
came here like did, when the Ger
mans were knocking at the doors Of
Paris, and the people down there
nere all The time listening Tor tho
siren to dodge in doors from bon
hardments frCm the German sun.
which were Dut short distance
away They have holidays so often
HOW that YOU are frequently called
upon, Viewing 81 from a strictly
American POINT OF view, 10 wouGer
when these people have time to do
real work as they are all the time
ieioicing. and whom not doing that
they are carrying flowers out to the
cemeteries decorating Tie graves OF
the French ana American soldiers
who have made tre supreme sacTi-
flee for .ho cause You NAV not
know H. but nevertheless it is true
that all Frenchmen live but with one
great object in view. and that is 10 81
10 Paris. and when they have
achieved this wonderful "trip t. them
they spend the rest of their days
talking of it to the others Who are
striving with the same object il
view. 30 when thc Germans "ere al
tie portals of this city they We're q
sad people and the one thought be
fore them was that their beautiful
/ Paris would be destroyed. Strangc
a it may seem they placed in The po-
ytion TO protect their idclized CITY
the Americans, the Marines. these
boys are with u here. and they drove
these Germans back But it was
| tough. ana il is seldom YOU see on.
of these wonderful boys who does
not Wear upon his risht avn the
wound stripe. aud some of them twC
or three and vet notwithstanding
this terrible price they are as chill
| and full Of pep as any -year-olt
You ever cast voW ghmmers on, al
anxious. ready and hoping to set an
other crack at the Hun How the.
do hate him Many ot the boys have
suffered terribly by his atrociou
methods OF warfare, especially th'
mustard gas, IL is such a terrible in
strumeut Of warfare 1t seems tina
/ the Hun aviators can always pick on
! the SPOT where the mess hall is ant
| iRey invariably when droppin
Lombs seem to hit it plumb, bu
luckily not at times during mess, gen
orally just before, when they thin
the boys are eating. ON one Of thcs
occasions they blew away the entlr
buildial in which the rations wer
Kept and gas attack followed am
to give You an idea OF their fiendlsl
method, the meat which the bog
had there 20 ear was exposed durin
the same time. and, quite uneXpect
, eddy had absorbed this stutf an
when served The next day many O
/ the boys were knocked out. 1t wa
1 terrible sight in advance quit
4 frequently through the mud whic
4 IS the most predominating thing i
\ France the boys wonld. at first, bu
not now, they are too wise, stop a
pools of water and battle their face
and hands. not payins any pdrticula
Il attention 20 the condition Of th
II water many of these boys have Ia
/ their flesh destroyed and paid tt
II extreme price as those pools wei
Ii pregnant with The mustard "a
| wAich eats the flesh like acid Thes
II pools o. water we're In every hole, {