The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-10
GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918
LIEUT.. WALTER DUBARD
BACK FROM FRANCE
GRENADA BOY SPENDS SHORT FURLOUCH WITH HIS
MOTHER BEFORE GOING TO CAMP JACKSON. GETS
OVATION AT GRENADA OPERA HOUSE TUESDAY
NIGHT.

First Lieutenant Walter Dubard
after four months service on the fir.
ing line in France is back in Grenada
the first of the Grenada boys to re-
turn from the, "Great Adventure" He
came direct here from Washington
to spend the short furlough he has
with his mother, Mrs. Annie H. Nc
Donald.
Lieutenant Dubard was interviewed
by Sentinel reporter Tuesday after
noon and from this interview the
following is given Sentinel readers.
Lieutenant Dubard and about fifty
other officers of the artillery and in
fantry in France, was ordered to re-
turn to America by Gen. Pershing to
act as instructors in artillery camps.
Lieutenant Dubard will be stationed
at Camp Jackson at Columbia, S. c.,
but he will be in Grenada on a short
furlough for several days. He and a
Virginia officer were the only south
erners to return.
Lieutenant Dubard left the front
April and sailed for America April
ported to the war department at
Washington and received his instruc-
tions. He arrived in Grenada Tues
day.
When the young lieutenant, tanned
and as hard as rock, looking the pic
ture of superb health, made his ap-
pearance on the streets of Grenada
Tuesday he received many warm well
comes from his friends. He said af-
forwards that the affection displayed
by Grenada people reminded him of
the Frenchmcn.
81 wasn't kissed-that's about the
only difference" said he.
Although Lieutenant Dubrd has
seen service on two fronts, one for
a six weeks stretch and another for
four weeks, he has not received a
scratch and is bigger and handsomer
than ever.
Wonderful Inspiration.
"It is wonderful inspiration to see
the great comradectip between the
French and American soldiers" said
the lieutenant, "and ] want to say
that the French people are glorious.
Germany will never conquer France,
for the spirit there is invincible.
"Our people who think they are
great sacrifices over here
should spend a few weeks in France.
Every man, woman and child in
France is making great daily sacri-
fees daily and doing it cheerfully.
| will never forget the noble women.
They are working daily at mems
jobs, in order to let every able bodied
NAL. fight the Hun. And the men
are fighting froma1s to so. The mid
die aged men who can't stand the
trench work are driving munitions
wagons. France will never yield.
I am absolutely confident of that.
The French people love Americans
with a love amounting almost to ador
alton. 1t would touch the heart of
the worst cynic in this land to see
the way the French take on over the
boys. Our entry in the war filled the
French with absolute confidence. You
hear them say everywhere: Wait un-
til the Americans get into the fight.
They will drive the Boch across the
Rhine
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lish troops. but the few that l have
seen and the great deal that l have
heard concerning them lead me to the
belief that they are the best disciplin-
ed troops in the world. But practi
rally all of the Americans are with
the French troops and they are the
oest pals in the world"
Praises American Navy.
That the work Of the American
navy in transporting SO many troops,
munitions and supplies, practically
without mishap, is considered one of
he remarkable feats of the war by
,ur allies, was the statement of Lieu
,enant Dubard.
"The transports are coming right
through the submarine zone," he said.
They are manned by expert gun
lers, and each ship has nearly score
If lookouts on duty all the time.
"On my retEn voyage, the Ameri-
AN officers assisted the lookouts, and
he biggest scare / had since left
vas when I was called upon to climb
lp $50 feet on a swaying ladder to
he crows nest. My name was first
n the alphabetical order and one
light I was given instructions to re-
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