Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-06
FromOver There
Letters of interest from Americas
soldiers who are with the allied
force in France.
Every Even -ng will be glad to receive
and print lettersof this character.

bows "ovcr there might prove INTO rest
ing and comforting to the mothers OF
soldiers who have glnc to France. There
I am sending you this translation, 10
print if YOU see fit to do so: July 4, 1918.
! "On this foretc day of your couD try, IT IS
| a duty and pleasure to send To you my
| thanks for the wonderful aid which you
have given us, and TO tell you how very
| congcnial are your young and hand
| some soldiers with all the French people.
They are o kindly, SO simple
doing everything possible to make them
selves useful Yesterday | saw one OF
! them lift an aged woman's basket and
| help her carry it. In the open place be-
! fore the Cathedral, which is near my
| house, these huge young fellows play
/ ball every night with the children who
| adore them and cluster about them,
CRYING avcc moi. monsieur lc soldat!'
! They laugh and joke and amusc them
| selves, as If they were well content, and
| we love them. Truly. | assure YOU that
| all our thanks 20 out 10 your country,
| and all our hearts 10 your dear soldiers.
| The writer of this letter has gwen two
| Sons to France One was killed Mt the
| Sommc. The other, lad of nineteen, was
gassed at the Chcmln DIES Danes, but is
recovering and IS most eager 10 rcJoln
| his comrades,
Charles Murphy has received n card
from 4. Villone, Wilmington hoy IN
France. lie IS member / Battery l..
Goth Artillery lie reports that he is in
excellent health and wants to be re-
mcmbered to all his friends.
Corporal James ] Barllc Of tho Second
Divi on. Twelfth Field Artillery, Regular
A my. who lives AT 1000 kirkwood street,
and has Just returned from lot Of ha rd
fighting against the Germans IN France,
has many Incidents Of army lIfc 10 tell.
He left France on August u and expects
to bc assigned to duty as GunncrN IN
structor lie brings with III as souvenirs
dcntcd helmet, q cap taken from
captured soldier and a British gas mask.
He also left a good many souvenirs IN
L ancc.
Corporal Barker SAYS that he person
allv saw the bodies Of Germans shacklcd to
their guns at Balcau Woods There IS not
an American soldier who does not want 10
come home, Corporal Barker saws, but
there is not one IN Franco who wants to
come home before the Job IS finIshd.
II was at Scissors that Barker was
knocked out for awhile when q chunk Of
shrapne struck his helmet lie was un-
hurt, except for the shock. Barker SAYS
the American artillery FIRE is unusually
accurate. From Scissors Barker sand
his battery was shifted 70 the AlSacc-
Lorraine sector, which is more or less
rest center.
The American soldiers arc N the best Of
SPIRITS Barker continued. You don {
hear any grumblng
Lieutenant RAYMOND II Bcvcrlcin. Of
1917 Lincoln street. returned home Tucs-
dav from France lie had been overseas
four months and was with the S0th In
fant ~ division.
Lieutenant Brycrlcn at ono tune was 4
member Of the National Guard Of Della
ware lie gained his commission n Fort
Meyer, Va, in Angus s. 1917. after which
he was stationed nj Camp Ice, Peters
burg Va. before gong across
Ii has been reported that Lieutenant
Bcyerlcin was wounded and that was the
reason al his return tins country but
this report Is denied hv hIm tie has
been sent back with POO other officers to
become instructors in training camps and
cantOnmcntS in tins centre After q seven
daV furlouCh al home he viii report 10
nearby camp
There are three othe Delaware officers
with the S0th Division Lieutenant Paul
] Rutan. Lieutenant Paul Hamilton and
Lieutenant T. T Carlisle, Of Milford
When Lieutenant Bcverlein left France
all these men were well and happy and
wished 10 be remembered TO al their
Delaware friends
Lieutenant Bcycrlcin said that our
bows are doing splendid work over there
and II is II. 5 that is putting the
pep" in the war He said all the men are
receiving the best Of treatment, and one
feature that will surely appeal 10 all
housewives is that the men are still eat
ing wheat bread ard are getting plenty of
sugar.
Coxswain William O. Levy, I. s. \.
has been visiting his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs John Levy at ChristIana CoXs-
vain Levy has crossed the Atlantic seven
times since the war started
He was on the cruiser Chester before
the United States entered the war and
during much Of that time was in the Med
itcrranean, not far from the scene of the
Allied effort to capture the Dardenelles
He also was IN the Inited States con
tingent which assisted in the work Of
saving war refugees from death IN the
desert.
Since last April he has been in the
United States transport service and now
is Oh his fifth round trip across the At
lantic during the last six months
James F Mclaughlin. at one time
manager Of several local basketball and
baseball teams and now member Of
the 3Oth Engineers American Expe-
dictionary Forces in writing TO a friend
here relates how the convoy which ac-
companied bis ship, encountered q sub
marine His letter in part reads:
"On the sixth or seventh day out
the convoy spotted sub and wc wit
messed d pretty running fight from the
decks for Is or 20 minutes ! think we
got her but We were not positive for the
sub was fairly good distance off and
not visible to the naked eye in the open
sea"
Jimmy also tells Of meeting several
Wilmington boys among them being
one Of the Fronme boys from over
Brandywine who Is in the navy and
q member Of the crew on board the
ship in which Jimmy crossed lie also
met one Of the Doc Doughcrtys. which
one he did not state. who played with
Brownson and the Salisbury Catholic
High School George Smith and Bill
Spittle, local athletes passed through the
rest billcts where Jimmy is stationed, en-
route TO the front