Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-08

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 woods. amongst the heavy artillery larrage. projcctilS bursting on all s,''es. One air raid and t.yo g1s alarms. Tat ,s why we h.Ve a soldier on e1.Jrj in these woods. Our artillery ta.rdge Is wonderful. We give the Huns hundred 10 one for an answer. Our artillery is blowing up a good
 many acres of land and destroying a good many villages, hut the Tanks arc certainly doing wonderful. Yes. more than wonderful, if things keep up VIC will be home by next autumn. I an sure you can't imagine Mir. Rhich
 ard when I say that our boys are s=Hf.na 8 hundred prciectils to one of 'he Huns. ! know what ! am talking about. So fsr the nearest Hun pro- iacJ.lc that has fell to ma so far is about 1J0 feet. Of course you can al- ways hear item core. You hear their EIn ban and then you hear the pro- ie5tile whistle along the front They are firing over our head at all times. But of course very often they fall short and we get them. Our casualty is only one so far, we lost our regi- msNtal sergeant, ! suppose it will ap- near in the Bulletin. He was one of the most liked sergeants in the com pany. in fact the best It Was a great sorry 10 the Supply Company to lose this sergeant. He was one of our Nor wich boys. he is gone now. But he will always be remembered by the boys of the supply company of the 56th Ar tillery Regiment not only the com pany, but he was very popular with all the boys and had 9 great many friends in this regiment Now Mir
 Richard a little news of the front if l am not trying to put too much over on the censor. I hope that he will let my short message reach you. We move here quite often today in one place a week in another place and so forth. We are lucky here We have water a mile down the road you know MT. Richard that I don't mean to be dirty but I really am some days, we cannot wash every day here. It would sound funny to some people f we told them that We washed only once or tricc week. But you get no chance 10 wash Or sleep some nights. You have a night of that is as good as a lWo-day pass to US, one nights SleeD
 But you don't get one nights sleep out of a dozen when you go to sleep it is one or the other air raid or gas alarm and it is not comfortable sleep ing with gas mask On I have seen hundreds of Germans. dead ones of course. the Tanks trim them down so fast that 7 think the Americans will have to form a new grave digging regi- ment, No joke. We often see great souvenirs, watches, chains and so cn but We are forbidden to touch them they are mines set by the Boches and of course we are wise to them. You can tell the world that it must be bell on the Boche side because we have wonderful artillery and lots of II. Our food is good today up here on the artillery front, we had steak, not sirloin steak like MT. Richard you cut for me. It is rather touch. but 1t is considered as good. We get our meals regularly and often go on con voys. so then it IS about two good meals day, but we should worry. You know wherever we move at all times whether we land at morning or at night the first thing that the Supply Company does is each man makes a dug out for his safety of air raids and we male it sharapnel proof. You know this woods we landed here at 4.30 D. m. the other night, had supper at , D. m. and at : D. m. had a dug out made 1-2 feet long and feet wide and feet deep. 1 and my sleeping Buddy (Hansen) We'll George Iapage came in the following day at night he was on another convoy and did not find time to dig a dug out so he came to me for safety and he surely got it, George being pal of mine YOU know I couldn't refuse, so picture of us in that size dug out. George is we'll and enjoying it like the rest of us You can just imagine how we en. joy it when the shells go whistlins over your head a hundred feet. Yor think that they are about feet. w most generally throw ourseif on tho ground. lay fiat on or belly and WI often feel cold, ha, ha should you wor. ry? I often tell the boys here I wisl l was working for old Pop, excus, tht name but as the boys all know you MT. Richard by that name so W, often use it. So Virtune has a truck gee. that's great. It is just what h, needed for that route. There are plen
 Sy of trucks over here. I passed convoy the other week on my wal down to the rail head after ratiops. was soc trucks long and that is onl, one convoy out of a dozen a week kSo2yoa ysee. how it4isnUess have n som, Eseunderfm military roads sover here il