The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-09-03

Is IN command or signal corps com.
pany, Capt. y. H. Fuller, member Of
the Honolulu Elks Lodge has sent homo
a document which In point Of absorbing
interest and richness of hufnor is the
equal Of anything published by any
Of the mainland periodicals. His let,
tor was addressed to Deputy Collector
Of Internal Revenue Hanna. Captain
Fuller has Large circle Of friends In
Honolulu, formed while he was station.
ed with the signal corps here. His per.
sonal experiences in recent fighting and
since he got into the thick Of things
will be Found "typically American. -
Following is Captain Fuller's letter:
'Dcar Mark:
~ have been doing some thinking
since getting your ietter-trying to
remember where l was when l wrote
last. 1 have at last gotten the place
located in my mind. You know, you
Z do much thinking over here. 1t
Is not good for you. You might get
to thinking about q good many things
that are going on and there are good
many things we don't want to remem-
Der. The boy who thinks too much or
remembers too much is lost.
Singing to Huns
"WeG, old scout, have Travelled
much since wrote to you last. We
were then at what is called a quiet
sector, but we changed its name. Fun.
ny thing about this war-as soon as the
Americans get into quiet seetor,it be.
cOmes-a He'll of a place. Ever hear
the song: Get Your Head Down ALE
mani Well, we sing that to 'cm with
75s and other stuff.
"a German order captured not long
ago referred to these troops as shock
troops. Believe mel the Hun will run
across lot of khaki clad shock troops
before he gets through with the fun.
Lately every day is alike. This divi-
sion came out Of one big scrap; had
three days to wash up in; climbed into
trucks; travelled two days, landed one
evening and before twenty. four hours
had passed; liked several miles and
chased the Huns several more, captur-
ing a thousand prisoners, two hundred
guns and enough other stuff to Eli the
transport Thomas.
Counting Hun Guns
/ "Another American division was
right on their Flank and had just the
same kind Of job as we did. 1t was
a scrap alright-nothing on the little
rcorporals guard maneuver style we used
to effect. Why, I saw one traffic jam
two miles long. Five hundred guns
were in action on our side. We knew
the Hun had four hundred, because we
counted them, when he left them be-
hind.
of can get hold of the Stars and
Stripes l will send you a copy. 1t will
tell you about our last scrap better
than | can saw some nasty sights
and had 4 little fun once, a Hun avia-
tor chased me and my driver under an
ammunition wagon; then dropped a
bomb down knocking out one of the
horses, Sbut he didn't get me.
Out guessing Fritz
THAT night a Hun dropped a flare
over our camp. A nice feeling goes up
your spine, when you wake up some
night and find Hun flare floating
over your nice little bed. They light
up things so you could see a gnat s eye
lash at fifty PAGES. You know then
that the Hun is way up there some
where. with a good supply of bombs
picking out a spot he will drop one on.
There is a fine game Of guess on be-
tween you and the Hun then. He is
trying to guess where you will be, when
the bomb lands and you are trying to
guess where you will not be when it
lands. To make it more entertaining,
! he usually gets high up and then shuts
off his motor to make your part of the
guessing more difficult. If he leaves
his motor on, you can usually tell pretty
near where he is Then sometimes,
l.: Al
ty interesting by pointing the business
end of machine gun or rs his way.
Boating Own Game
Zone day my men got tired of be-
ing chased into the brush by Hun air
men 80 they went, out into wheat
field close by and brought in a collection
Of guns There were plenty of them
out there laying around, also
most everything else in the war line,
even to dead warriors-American and
German. The boys manned an anti-air
craft battery. There was nothing do
ing until the next day when Hun
airplane came after a French Balloon
close by. Say! the way my boys open
ed up was some dangerous. They are
all good operators and telephone men
/
stuff. say! that Hun took to the
woods did too. 1t was no place for
sober man. The air, earth and fences
looked like a sieve after about Il min
ute. III bet that Hun thought He'll
| broke loose.
Splicing Out Lines
"Wc are now resting and will move
from here In day or two. Wheref
| Quien Sabc! We were in the little
push Of July |. I had one line, a half
mile long, cut sixty-fve times, and my
| men splieed it sixty.fve times.
"All the time we were in the cen
ter of the fight which took place July
! Is. We came out of it few days
/ later to rest and count noses. / only
lost three men; had one gassed and one
had his iron hat taken off and a piece
| taken out Of it by shell. But it did
Mt hurt him-made him cuss because
it broke the wire he was laying. Some
of my men went without cats or sleep
/ for thirty-six hours and ! didn t wash
my face for three days, but We were
lucky.
"On the fifteenth, received orders
to proceed by motorcycle with as many
, men as needed and material enough