The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-06-05
LET TIERS FROM
OVER THERE
Crawford County Relatives Of Boys
Who Have Gone to France Receive
Interesting Letters from Them
EXTRACTS FROM soNNEY letter


Interesting Letters from Them
EXTRACTS FROM soNNEy letter
4 Mir. samford Learns That Nephew,
Omar Murray, 10 in France and
Receives Letter From Him =
FROM ~. s. eoNNEY
Nj BUCK GROVE, June Especial to
the Review Lieut.. H. s. Bonney at
tached the the First Engineers In
France, has been writing his parents,
] DR.. and Mrs. A. F. Bonney of this
place, some very interesting letters
telling sof his experiences in war torn
{ France. DR.. and Mrs. Bonney recent
Sly received three letters from their
son, one Of which has been printed In
full. Extracts from the other two fol-
low:
France. April 20, 1918.
Dear Folks: -. D.,
tried to get q letter out Of my
system yesterday, but this machine
was altogether too much on the blink,
so / thought I'd try it again today
had couple Of letters from Tom,
snd they were filed with X.ray dope
20 guess he Is very much interested
IN that. It ID certainly paying pro-
position once fellow~gets to working
It right. He should have no trouble
getting up . good practice in the
X-Ray work, for it takes Specialize
ton these days to make things go.
What the other fellow does not know
I IL what makes it easier to get the
money. In my job l am specialist,
and my orders are absolutely the only
ones In the line The c. c. (com-
manding officer) can suggest things,
but It IS little Willie that issues the
orders that make things possible.
4 got . copy Of the Bulletin, so l
assume that Caswell got my letter or
that you dropped him line. Perhaps
I'm get smother letter to him when
something happens worth writing
about. This every day routine busi-
ness Of lodging shells and listening
to the boches send over few krumps
OF something like that Is darned monot
onous. Gets to be SO much the same
thinG that it is hardly worth telling
about. Perhaps when the big push
comes off and get chance to see
the boches in the open instead Of
through . pair OF glasses in trench,
there may be some thing Of the real
thing worth writing about. AS 1t Is,
Il Ii the same thing every day until 1t
8ets to. be like doing chores on the
Talk about rumors- They fly around
here like bees in the summer. One
day the kaiser has committed suicide,
and the next day he has been In Lon.
don tor bath. One hears everything
from good news to the fact that the
b0ehes have taken Paris. After about
three hours they are usually denied,
and no one knows who started them.
There II not q particle Of doubt
over here as to what the end Is going
to be. 4 Germany is going to be licked
good aud plenty when this thing Is
0yeF. ut may take several months yet
Ia do the job up right, but you may
bet there will be no peace until the
thing that represents the German ma
ton iss finished for good. 1t Is hard
War, and the cost Is tremendous, but
there is not q trace of doubt as to
what the outcome win be when It Is
finished. Every day sees more Of our
men on French soil. and more food
and supplies coming to the allies, and
Germany, with her wonderful system
OF conservation and substitutes cannot
last forever against absolutely fresh
supplies and real food. When 1t is
over, little Europe will be another
vanished dream Of the Hohenzollerns
Just 90 great many other OF their
dreams have faded in face of real facts.
II Ii going to be the allies who will
make the peace terms and no one else.
The weather took fool notion to go
wrong couple OF days ago, and 1t is
colder than the dickens. / did think
that spring was here, but 1t sure does
change quickly here. II ever l get
back ia where 1t is warm for three
days IN Q row. ! am going to stay
Tiers forever. Settle down where they
Wear gee strings and q smile. cGee
Strina Indian Fig Leaf--Dr. Bonney)
w have once more taken up the
move act and have been on q hike for
three days, but as ride horse that
Ms at least three legs, am able to
lataud It pretty we'll, but now have
tender spots where none existed be-
fore. The weather has been fierce
the whole time, and yesterday 1t man
saEd to enoW-now the ground Is frOz-
a. solid. Yesterday during the heavy
show, IN aeroplane was forced to land
and 1 talked to the men in it. They
Had been out since eleven In the
morning and It was then about four,
and had been forced to land twice on
account Of snow. While we were
taking one Of them noticed Q hole in
ono Of the elevatinE planes, and upon
Investigation we found a piece of shell
In the woodwork. They said they
had been "straffed" pretty hard when
over the lines, and then we looked
Nil over the machine and there were
several holes in 1t whore the shells
had many holes through. One piece
had missed one Of them hardly two
inches. That might be called pref
ii close shave, but they said that SO
long as shell did not 60 into the
engine they were all right. sure
wish might fly, but am too old.
II talked with Q French officer who
had been in the battle from the start,
and he said the b0ches came down
the road In solid masses fifteen men