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don't worry anybody SO much any more.
Its awful funny how quick soldiers get
used to things and even fighting amt so
bad after while especially if you don't
weaken.
would like to see a fello weaken up
here anyhow. He would have a swell
chance becaus about the first sines Of
weakening that he showed he would be
sent out on some wire fixing job at night
into Nomans Land or he would have to 90
along in a patrol or be made runner
and have 10 travel around all by himself
or some other fine job Like that. He Ger
tanly would tip bis NIT if be weakened
for even secund and he would probably
spend the rest Of his nafuril life regret
ting what he had done in bad moment
Anyway Gertie am going strong and
I have not saw any Of these hunns yet
that would run very far from. They
certainly is a lot Of hokum about these
hunns Gertie and you take the averige
hum and one Of US cowboys would run
him TO death. We are about six sizes
larger than he is to start with and then
most Of them is either 80 old they got
grandchildren themselves or else they are
so young that they are the grandchildren.
But you take us Americans and especially
the Selected Army and we are all picked
soldiers right in the prime in life and we
all volunteered for the draft and if they
,,ot nm ~ b;rr, o,,,r h,r, that mn , ~ afr,,I
Of they keep il pretty well hid.
/ CUES them birds are afraid to start
anything since we got into the line and
all they do is TO act like a bunch Of
towards and stay way back and shoot big
guns at US and miss us about mile.
cues lots Of the shells has missed US more
thar that because some of them went way
back where our batteries is which is q
mile and a half and maybe two miles from
where the front line trenshes is that they
was shooting at. 1t didn't take me very
long to get so / wasn't afraid of them
birds just as soon as / saw what poor
shooting they was doing. i bet If they
would put me on one of them big guns
and let me site down the barrel with my
nakid eye that I would come nearer hit
ting the hum trensh than hit some bat
teries way back Of the lines ike they done.
/ don't know Gertie whether it will pay
you to write me any more letters or not
because by the time they would get over
here might be dead and forgotten in
some Frensh soil and then of corse you
would have written all them letters for
nothing me lying in heroes grave like
that. Sometimes I get kind Of sad Gertie
when I think that you might never get
to see me again but don't want you to
morn for me even if the worst comes to
worst but I want you to be gay and Lite
harted and have good time and not 60
around in no widows tweds morning your
hart out for me. They is going to be
lot Of soldiers left and you can pick out
some nice boy from Brooklyn or some
place like that and you can move out
there from the city and spend the rest
of your naturil life out there. But Of
corse If you want to you can drop tear
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they get n whole fresh army corpse and
they attack you on one of your TANKS.
thot knew what them birds was
when We was hack in the Frensh bIllets
hut found out since / been sleeping in a
dug out up here in this outpost position
that them coolies back there was nothing
but playing at war. They was just kids
Of the class of % that would not be
called out to do active duty in the trenshes
for about four more years.
But oh these babies up here. They
could bite there way through q battle ship
in twenty minutes and no matter how
deep you dig your dug -out them little
pets go right on down and get familiar
right away. And you never can round up
more than one or two OF them at time
and even if you do capture a couple you
always got about thirteen millun left.
Only this morning my Lutenant sent
for me to come in and see him and just
rs | went in there and saluted brung
my hand down from my salute right
snappy and hit my pants pocket that
had few Frensh sues in and il kind of
made them jingle and l guess all them
coolies tbot it was the dinner bell ringing
becaus they all started in feeding and /
couldn't no more stand still there than /
could have walked out on my face. So i
kind Of carefully reached down to take n
few off that was getting more than the
regulation war time allowance.
STAND up there at attention." the
Lutenant barked at me. whats the
matter Of you anyway
"Nothin, SIR / said back, "only my
new issue silk underware is scratching
me-"
Well this bird got sore then and he said,
Something is always biting you any
way"
"Yes SIR l said, "a couple of miliun is
biting me right this second
Then he got awful sore and sent me out
and afterwards the First Sergeant said
that was going to be bomber now and
that / was to have bad post that was
way up at the back edge of the out
post and was very dangerous and that
probably it would cost my life.
Well I should worry Barney becaus I
am getting so week already supporting
all them coolies that ! would just as soon
die quick and have it over with as to go
into a long period Of dekline and slowly
waste away. A quick death and a snappy
one say /. Yours, BENNIE.
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REND BARNEY: Well cues they
4 are going TO keep us in the front
line trenshes q. rest of our naturel lifes
or at least until some yellow hunns come
along and kill us all off We been in
here five days now and Steve Gardner
found out this afternoon that they are
going TO make us stay five days more.
J'hatll be ten days but I CUES the real
reasin is that they don't want to put green
troops in this bad sectur when we al
ready been here five days and know all
The ropes about trensh fghtin.
CUES told you in my last letter how
] got doble crossed and how they took
my rifle grenade post away from me and
made me regular bomber and put me
in another post all on acct. of some bone
head Frensh soldiers who was wandering
around in Nomans land where they did
not have no business being and how they
got me in lot Of trouble etc etc. Well
] should care Barney becaus would just
as leaf be killed as a bomber as q rife
grenader and as long as people make q
sucker out Of you it don't make so awful
much difference just what kind of a sucker
they make would just as soon be shot
for goat rs n lamb any old day, that
is what | mean Barney.
II is kind Of funny out here Barney
how some fellos that you thot would not
be afraid Of nothing gets all het up and
dizzy just as soon as the old shells begin
to come over. am surprised as far as
] myself am conserved old pal becaus rs
long as they don't hit right on my dome
don't care nothing about them 80 awful
much. But some of these brave soldiers l
CUES have got bad case Of the dtopsy
becaus everytime anybody shoots big
ono no matter from which side they GER
tanly drop.
You know they got duck boards in the
bottom of the trensh and for long time
] couldn't fggcr out where they got that
name but CUES know now. Every time
one Of these shells come over some birds
is sure to holler Duck and then if you
don't watch yourself you let yourself
down kind of fast on these boards that
look Just like ladder laid fat down. So
after a millun soldiers had ducked to
them ladders they got to calling them
duck boards.
But all such things as that is of little
Importance compared to what the coolies
do to fello. / CUES if it comes to q
strate game Of which / would rather
fight, the Germins or the coolies, that I
would chose the Germins hands down.
You can mostly see them hum birds when
you fight them and then you can keep
shootin stuff at them but when it comes to
these coolies they never show their heads
and they keep attacking you in new places
and about the time you get one Of them
backed up against the wall and have his
hands over his head hollering Kamared!
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Bonnie Strong for the Chow.
SOMEWHERE in FRAEsE
Wednesday


Wednesday
DEAR MANA: Well we have only got
three more days TO spend here in the
trensbes and then we got way back in sup
port for ten days and then we have an
other ten days in reserve before we are
moved up into the line again. That means
that we have twenty days fine rest be-
fore we come out here again and l CUES
that is what you would call leading the
life Of Riley, eh Mama.
certainly would say Mama that this
trensh bushes is nothing like it is cracked
UP to be by a lot Of birds who is soaring
the innocent people back home 10 death
by telling what ruff place it is to be in.
You should ought to see the food we
get up here for one thing Mama. You
would think to see all the grub that they
bring up TO US that we was a whole flock
Of Crown Prinses who wos being give .
birthday banquit or something like that.
Just 90 thru eating my supper Mama
and we had hamburgers and potatoes and
rice and bread and jam and coffee and all
we could eat OF it. They bring the stuff up
to US in big ten gallon heating cans that
keep everything hot and they have a spe-
eial detail of men that don't do. nothing
else but bring up the food from the COM
pany kitchen which is way back Of the
line where the company headquarters is.
OF eorse they don't allow no smoke up
kere becaus IL the Germins saw some
smoke they would probably drop in q
couple Of shells which is not very COM
Portable for the cooks.
Honest Mama this fighting over here Is
a cinch except of corse when they got
some big offensifs on and then maturity
somebody is hble to get hurt. But you
would be surprised even in these big bat
ties Mama to know how few get killed
of and how many they is whose wounds
is slight and who are all right after a
little rest in the hospital.
And maybe they have not got some fine
hospitals over here Mama. The army has
got lot Of bears and then the Red Cross
has got all kinds Of hospitals and rest
places and seaside shores where you can
60 and lay around in the sun and have a
fine time and get well all on the Red Cross.
So you don't need to worry at all Mama
and if any little thing would happen TO
me I would be ali o. K. becaus / would
be looked after almost as well as if you
was there to do il yourself.
Well good by Mama and love to all,
Your own SOLDIER Boy BESNIE.
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Il Wouldn't Pay to Weaken.
In THE TRENsHEs
Tuesday

IN THE TRENsHEs
Tuesday
DEAR GERTIE OLD PAL: Well / am not
pushing up no Frensh daises yet old pal
and about the only anbitun I got right
now is when do die to have the papers
say I was the oldest National Army solder
that served in the big war thst was left.
We are all kind Of settled down to this
trensh fighting now Gertie and while we
are not just what You would call crazy
dizzy about il we don't mind it near as
much as we did the first two or three days
that he was in. OF course it takes q
little while TO get used to having these
hunns taking shots at your bean and
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I and Steve Lay . Trap.

TRENsHEs
Tuesday
DEAR BARNEY: Well old pal ] CUES il
any of them Germins get sneaking around
my post they viii wish that they had
picked out some other company besides
old F, Barney. Me and Steve is laying
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
Zero Temperature Is Register
ed Almost as Far South as
Birmingham, AIa5 New Or
leans ShiverS.
HIGH WIND DRIVES
LIKE ARCTIC BLASTS
Inability Of People to Get Fuel
Is Expected to Add Greatly
to Suffering; Mercury Falls
in East,

Washington, Jan. 12.-The coolest
weather experienced in the United
States since 1899 extended from the
Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast
and from the lakes to the gulf. Zero
temperatures were registered almost
as far south as Birmingham, Ala,
while in North Dakota the thermom-
eter went to 32 degrees below zero
and it was only 12 degrees higher in
l3narx 4arts nf the middle west.
The cold wave was accompanied by
a high wind in many sections, while
in the west there was heavy snow,
which blocked railroad traffic in sew
eral states on both sides of the Mis-
sissippi river. Inability of the rail-
roads to deliver shipments of coal
urgently needed in many sections,
particularly in Ohio and Michigan,
was expected to greatly increase the
suffering caused by the storm.
Temperature Is Falling.
New York and New England tonight
had not felt the full severity of the
cold wave, reports TO the weather bu-
reau showed, but temperatures there
were falling rapidly and much colder
weather was forecast for tomorrow.
In the south the cold extended far
into Florida and the cold along the
gulf coast was severe, the thermom-
eter registering IS below rreezing at
Mobile and 90 below freezing at New
Orleans.
In Chicago all business virtually
suspended early in the day. The big
department stores closed at p. m
All schools were closed for week and
the $4,000 children urged to help
clear the streets to avert the danger
of conflagration and permit the de-
livery of fuel and food.
Nine Deaths Reported.
Nine deaths were reported as re-
suit of the blizzard.
Temperature Is Low.
Arctic temperatures accompanied
the storm, ranging from 81 below zero
at O'Neill, Neb., to ~ below at san
Antonio In Kansas and Missouri
temperatures of 20 below were COM
mon and central Illinois points re-
ported from 10 to 26 below. Mime
sofa reported 80 below on the Iron
range.
Slowly rising temperatures at St
Paul, Mimi, and at Flagstaff Ariz',
were the only hint at relief from the
blizzard, which was sweeping east
ward.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
PERSH|NG CANNOT
ACCEPT OFFER Of
RUSSIAN OFFICERS
Law Does Not. Permit Other
Than Citizens Of United
States to Hold Commissions
in Army,

lbT so'hlNo JOURNAL SPECIAL LHABgp WlPEl
With the American Army in France,
Jan. Ely the Associated Press }
because of the law that does not
permit any but citizens of the United
States to become officers in the Amer
lean army it has become necessary
to refuse the offer of Russian Off
GER representing a large number of
brother Russian officers in France, to
place a group Of officers at the dispo-
sal Of General Pershing, to be used as
he might see fit. The decision also
affects the plan of the United States
army to take over the Russian army
in France, to be utilized as a labor
army at the same rate of pay that the
American labor battalions get,
Many Of the Russian officers would
have proved of great value to the
American forces as instructors, ava-
tors and interpreters.
When their representative was in
formed by American officials that 1t
would be impossible to grant the re-
quest of himself and his comrades, he
explained:
Il had hoped to be able to fight
for Russian liberty under the Stars
and Stripes, and would gladly become
citizen of the United States for the
privilege of serving her armies. I am
now man without a country, but
am unable to fight. | shall offer my
., h.,
Young Mems Christian association and
endeavor to be of assistance to the
men who are fighting"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
FELIX D|Az NOW
IS THREATENING
VERA CRUZ CITY
Rebel Force Operating Against
Cauanza Said to Be in
Twenty Miles of Mexico'S
Largest Port,
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Washington, Jan. 12.-Felix Diaz
with an army of some 1000 men was
reported in official dispatches re-
ceived here today to have progressed
to within twenty-five miles of Vera
Cruz, after defeating a force under
Gen. Heriberto Jara. Diaz was said
to have seized the railroads connect
ing that port with Mexico City and
was credited also with O plan to at.
tack the port.
Reports of the activity of Diaz Gre
ated unusual interest here because re-
cent information had indicated that
there is an understanding between
him and Manuel Palaez, the CONTROL.
ing factor in the oil field district in
Tampico. Officials, however, did not
believe that even If Diaz took Vera
Cruz he could hold it.
Diaz organized a revolutionary
movement against Carranza more
than a year ago, but until lately his
operations were confined largely to
the territory near the Isthmus of Te-
huantepec. His failure to coordinate
the many factions opposed to Presi-
dent Carranza caused officials of this
government to regard his efforts as
of little consequence.
Recent reports, however, have in
dicated that his agents have been
having some success in gaining sup
port, especially in the north. His
chief lieutenant is Con Auro1;o,o
banquet, who was prominent in the
armies of Porfirio Diaz and Victori-
ano Huerta.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
Russell Held Without Pail

El Paso, Tex, Jan. 12.-William G.
Russell, cattle man and banker Fof
Lubbock Tex, was held to the dis
,trict grand jury late today without
bond on charge of murder in con-
.nection with the killing of Charles
.Qualey. local mining man, who was
shot and killed on the night of jan
uary 2. Russell came here to buy
cattle several days preceding the
shooting.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
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tsv MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,Hel

lev noRNlHe JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiEsl
Chicago. Jan. 12.-Railroads enter
ing Chicago abandoned all attempts
to operate trains today. The lashing
of below zero wind made it impos-
sble for workmen to make any head
way in their efforts to clear the
switch intersections of snow. Scores
Of passenger trains were reported
stalled in drifts throughout the CEN
tral west.
Attempts to move freight were
abandoned early. Passenger trains
were kept running as long as they
could be moved with two engines on
the front and one in the rear. Snow
piows were ordered out with three
engines behind them, but their work
was futile. The wind piled the drifts
behind them as fast as they could
push it from the trucks ahead.
Efforts Are Abandoned.
AS conditions become worse to-
ward nightfall, the railways aban-
doned all attempts even to keep their
lines clear and concentrated their ef-
forts on the relief of passengers ma
rooned on trains along all lines from
twenty-five to 100 miles from the
city.
No distress was reported among
these victims of the blizzard as most
OF the trains carried dining cars and
a plentiful supply of fuel.
At night the usual crowds of trav-
elers assembled at the railway sta
tons in Chicago and being unable to
set trains or hotel accommodation,
hundreds spent the night in the sta
uons, sleeping on their baggage At
the Illinois Central station the rail-
way officials opened fifteen Pullman
cars for women and children.
Trains Are Blockaded.
The New York Central reports that
several OF its trains, including the
twentieth Century limited, are block
aoed near Elkhart, Ind, and that no
WORD mas been received from them
since early this afternoon. Efforts
are being made to transport food and
fuel to the trains. The western ex-
press from New York, due at n. m
FRIDAY, arrived this afternoon.
Several Big Four trains arc staI,od
east OF here, but the road reported
that 1t had no definite information as
to their whereabouts.
Freights "Somewhere."
Three passenger trains on the Mo-
non route are blocked on the ont
skirts of the city. Three freight
trains are reported somewhere, on
the line. They are believed to be in
Indiana, but officials reported that
no word had been received from them
since morning.
On the Pennsylvania no trains have
arrived in Chicago since this morn
ing. The Pennsylvani also reports
lack of communication with its trains
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
ALL TRAFFIC WEST OF
CHICAGO MAY CEASE

. Washington, Jan. 12.-AD pas {
9 senger traffic west Of Chicago {
. win have to be abandoned unless 4
o the serious storm in the west &
o abates tonight, Director General :
Q McAdoo was told today in re- Z
9 port from A. H. Smith his assist
/; aflt IN cnarge OF operations.
. Mr.. Smith told Director Cen {
!. eral McAdoo that meager reports 4
. coming through from the far west 4
9 showed that many trains were 9
. tied up; that wire communication 9
Q had been seriously interrupted Z
. and that snow, high winds and 9
Q ice were making traffic almost {
. impossible.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
TO ATTACK PALAEZ

Ell Paso, Tex, Jan. IA letter
received here from Mexico City stated
that the Mexican government was
concentrating troops in Mexico City
and at other points to send them into
the field in the Tampico oil district
against Manuel Palaez, commander Of
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13

London, Jan. 12.-Leon Trotzky,
the Bolsheviki foreign minister, pro-
posed at the peace negotiations that
the present armistice between Russia
and Germany be prolonged for an
another, month, according to an t,x
change Telegraph company dispatch
from Petrograd. The central powers
accepted the proposal.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
CAPTAIN WHISTLER, Who
ROBBED ARMY BANK AND
KILLED FOUR MEN, ENDS
It ALL WITH BULLET SHOT
FIFTH VICTIM OF OFFICERS "
HATCHET RECEIVERS ENOUGH @
TO PUT OFFICERS ON TRAIL

Bloody Crime Follows Hold Up of Inmates of Banking House
After They Had Been Ted Recognition Of Robber Causes
Him to Attack Helpless Victims With Axe; Four of Them
Are Dead and Fifth Is Dangerously Wounded No Report Is
Given OF How Much Money Was Taken or of Amount, if
any, Recovered; Order That All Captains Report at Head
quarters and Have Finger Prints Taken Is Followed by Sui
eide; Leaves Note for Woman.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
BUSINESS PARALYZED
IN CITY OF CHICAGO

Chicago, Jan. 12.-Chicago took
day. It's commercial and industrial
blood was frozen in its veins. The city
had so per cent recovered from the
blizzard of last Sunday when the new
storm arrived with the added cruelty
of a mercury drop to IA below zero.
No storm so far reaching in its eff
fects ever before afflicted the city.
Fire Marshal OConnor, speaking of
snow buried hydrants and impossible
streets, issued a statement calling on
the public for aid and asserted that
the menace of conflagration was
the greatest since 1871. Fine snow
fell all last night and all today, and
while the column in the official ther-
mometer rose slowly to zero as the
day wore on, the industrial mercury
sank.
Everything at Standstill.
Most statements of the situation be-
gin with the word no" No trains,
no taxicabs, no coal, no produce mar
ket, no milk, no cattle. hogs or sheep
received at the stock yards, no
schools next week, no department
stores since 8 o'clock this afternoon
and innumerable minor noes" There
was even no further work of the city's
snow shovelers for it was regarded as
merely humane in the bitter cold to
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
LOCAL REPORT.

A summary of local weather condi-
tons for the twenty-four hours ended
at 8 p m. yesterday follows: Maxi
mum temperature, Sc degrees; mini
mum, 6; range, so; temperature at
p. M, 4S south wind partly cloudy
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-13
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver, Colo, Jan, 12.--For New
Mexico; Sunday fair, except snow
northwest and north central portions,
warmer east portion; Monday gener-
ally fair.