New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25
Elmer Schmjd of Springfield Min,

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and now in the service writes to his
brother, John r. Schmid, from France.
He is member of the Headquarters
Detachment, G-2, Sind Div, O. A. s.,
Am Elk. F. and his division had Just
moved back of the lines after taking
part in the last big drive. up thru the
Argonne Forest and toward the Belgian
border. He says there was considerable
excitement for two days after the sign
ing OF the armistice and they were still
cerebrating at the time his letter was
written, November IS He says:
Just now we are away back in the
S. Q. S. area filing our division up~With
replacements We lost quite few
men in that last drive. Our division
was just pulled out Of the fight about
week before it ended. I expect quite
a few of our divisions over here will
be sent to the German border to do
guard duty there, as you know we
are to occupy thirty kilometers. in
Germany according to the terms OF the
arnistice, but | hardly think any of
the old divisions over here that have
seen much real active service in the
line will be sent up there. We have
quite number OF divisions over here
that are still in training and never
have seen any service that will be
used for that duty. If we are sent
home in the same order we came over,
our division ought to be one of the
first ones.''
M Lehrer of Springfield had two
sons in the. service, one of them still
being sOver There but the other hay
ing been honorably discharged De
cember 5 Of this year and having al
ready returned home Otto M. Lehrer
was in the first draft and went to Camp
Dodge in September 1917. He was
transferred to Co. II, 345 Infantry at
Camp Pike in November of the same
fall. He became Corporal in December
and was again advanced to Sergeant the
following January. The latter part
OF May he was transferred to Camp
Dix, N. j. and on Aug. 80 sailed for
France with the 97th Division and is
now stationed in France at st. Nazaire.
His brother Alfred enlisted at the
University Of Minnesota June Is, 1918,
and was transferred to Camp Funston
in Kansas as Construction Quarter
master. He was mustered out early
this month and is back at his business
as hardware and lumber merchant at
Springfield. Both of the boys We're
so lucky as to enjoy perfect health
while away and neither suffered any
injury while in the care Of Uncle Sam
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Windland received
a letter Saturday from their son Alfred
H., who is at Camp Grant He writes
that he is requestinga Through and hopes
to be hone between Xmas and New
Years when the other boys will be
back on the Job and he can stay at home
longer. There is no chance of his being
mustered out. at any early date as he
is private stenographer. to Captain
Parker of the Mess Supply Co. and will
have to stay on the JOB until the work
of returning the soldiers to their homes
is completed. He is we'll and has gained
% lbs. in weight
Lieut.. John x. Neumann writes a
very interesting letter to his father,
John F. Neumann of this city. Lieut.
Neumann is located at the Base Hos
pital, 1O7 A. P. O., 7SO, France. His
letter reads:
Since have written home last |
have travelled over large part Of
France. | have visited the ruins which
Caesar left up in Brittany and also
have lived in the barracks Napoleon
built From the northern part CT
France we. moved to the south central
part and here we are in the midst, of
the places Joan of Arc made famous.
"Our hospital is one which can hold
$4,000 sick and with the men, nurses,
and officers to attend to this number the
camp presents quite a city.
Il have had the fortune of seeing quite
bit Of the clinical work and the wounds
are very, very interesting.
In our camp we have ne Of all
nations, probably more Spaniards and
Chinese than any other Then come
Greek, Algerians, etc. We also have
German prisoners, plenty in number
They all seem fairly contented. They
have good beds, and good food, and are
dressed warm. Sundays they go out
alone on the roads leading from camp.
l don't believe many would care to run
away.
| The news of the armistice was the
cause for great celebration The French
people have actually lost, that is. killed
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