Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-12-26
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The following letter was wrltteE
10y Lieut. l.. v. Carver on Fathers
day TO his father, J. NJ Carver
Lieut. Carver is with the 330th Field
Artillery. He writes:
Being good soldier / must carry
out my own commands AT least. This
morning / posted notice on the bat
terry bulletin board explaining thai
today Is the day an Of ms are ia
svrite to our dads. also explained
that according to the new orders on
eensoring, we can tell all about this
war@all we know, anyway, where
we have been, what we have seen,
etc. In short we can say everything,
except anything 81 criticism about
the policies of any Of the allied gov
ernments. However the only thing
anyone OF this regiment can add over
what he had written is the place
where we are now located.
Rimaucourt, where we are station
ed, is about twenty miles north. Of
ChaumOnt, which in turn can be
found to the east Of Paris-a dis
lance of about six hours run by fast
express. Also we are almost direct
~ south Of Nancy, which was but
few hours auto truck ride from the
front lines. The country here Is n
funny mixture of hills and plains.
The river valleys are very wide.
Then there will be an area of sharp
hills, wooded and wild. These hills
are where the wild boar, deer and
foxes are. Officers of another regi
ment, which was stationed In Ande
lot, village near here went out last
week and shot these boars with re-
Yolvers One killed boar which
weighed over 400 pounds. like the
meat fine.
Yesterday motored up to Metz.
Sounds like ! might have a summer
home here abouts. Oh, anyway our
large reconnaissance ears have been
making trips up and back taking thel
officers, non commissioned officers to-
the front and behind the front, just
to see the effects and gather souven-
IRIS. II takes about five hours of
steady driving to get there and the
same time to return. That leaves the
daylight for seeing We left here
at . 80 a. m, Saturday morning,
yesterday and were near the lines
ut daylight Burr! but 1t was cold
ride A half of an inch of ice is
frozen every night now. That isn't
so tremendously cold, but 1t is plenty
to drive % miles an hour against,
We saw trenches, shell holes barb |
wire. emplacements Of various kinds, !
etc. Everything was ruins-the
fields, the woods, the villages, and
yet this sector we saw was very
quiet, and had been that way for q
long time An active sector where
there had been a great quantity OF
artillery fire must certainly be a de
vastaied region After seeing the
trenches we went on back into Al
sac Here we stopped at a village
and one OF the boys who could talk
German asked a nun who happened
to be passing where we could get
something to eat, or something warm
at least. She invited us in and gave
us hot coffee, and the room where
we We're was heated by hot water
radiator. That was Il surprise. For
her coffee we gave her two lcaves of
American army bread She was as
tonished at It's whlteness and it's
quality. People here have brown,
foarse bread and they cannot imagineI
how we get ours so white. u. y.
army bread is mighty fine stuff any
way, and everyone here, speaking
about natives, certainly likes it, This
nun explained that the peasant in
Germany was getting only black
bread, horrible quality ana very lit
tie quantity. She explained also that
the people Of Germany were starving
and that that was what made the
rulers give up. / am not
so sure Of that, however, because
the people l saw new Metz did not
look as tho they were dying from
Metz is a fine large city,
1t looked that way from a short dis
lance anyway, we could not enter
because no Americans are allowed in
the city. On the way back the boys
picked up all of the souvenirs they
wanted. We stopped the car before
vacated barracks and junk, he'll
NETS, gas masks, rifles bayonets,
great quantities Of ammunition OF all
kinds, clothing, machine guns, can
non, everything, just as the B0che
left when he departed. did not want