The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Wentworth O
East Dover recentlyA Received letter
from two ofstlieir sons in France, Cor
poral Everett Wentworth and Corpora
Forrest Wentworth, both of Compan,
II, l03d infantry, written under date d
Sept. p. The letters follow.u u
Dear Folks. 4 = e
last letter, but this has been the frs
opportunity we have had toiobtafaI paper
and envelopes. In fact, i almost had tc
shed few tears to beg this off the ~ ,
You see whenever we go to the front il
Is hard for the 'Y' to get anything t.
us
If you want to be sure of a constant
correspondence, it would be good plan
to stick an envelope an dtwo or three
sheets OF paper in with an occasional
letter Then you see we wouldn'e be alb.
solutely dependent upon the "Y.''
| Probably you have learned by this
time from the papers that we hit Fritz
another crack few days ago, one that he
didn't like very well. We did it 40 rap
idly, too, and with such splendid artillery
support that we lost very few men; four
killed and Is or 20 wounded being the
total hurt in our company. That wasn't
very bad was it, considering we were in
the front line during the whole attack ?
In two days our company advanced IL
kilometers and captured 600 prisoners,
besides laying out quite few more.
Neither Forrest nor | had scratch,
although Forrest had three men wounded
in his squad and had one killed in mine.
We had TO pass through a German bar
rage at the start, where we suffered most
of our casualties. After that our air
planes kept the German balloons and
planes out of sight, SO the Huns didn't
know where TO fire and so missed us
entirely; and we followed our own
bursting shells so closely that in only a
very few instances did the Germans have
time to get to their machine guns before
we were on top of them. Usually when
they tried to come out of the dugouts
where they had taken shelter during the
barrage, they found am American wait
ing at the entrance with gun and bayo-
net, and what few machine guns had
time to open up soon ceased firing after
we had taken a few healthy cracks at
them with our Springields. Most of the
country was woods, an ideal place for the
Americans to fight in a it is the nearest
to Indian warfare.
After this scrap. | will never cuss New
England hills again. All the first day
we had to cross hills-up one steep bank
and down the next. And talk about
barbed wire-well, / never saw so much
in my life. tore my leggings all to
pieces. and my pants weren't in very
coed condition after the drive
We went so fast on the drive and the
roads were so rough that we never saw
our cook shack till the end of the second
day. Fortunately for us about noon of
the latter day .We, entered q town where
we found all Kinds 81 German food
sausages, corned beef crackers, bread
jam, cigars and cigarettes. Ny, didn't
we have a feed and we didn't have to
worry about drink either, for there was
all kinds OF beer and pop soda there
the first soda | have had since leaving
the states. bet | drank a dozen bottles
before night.
If you think the Germans are going to
be starved into surrender. YOU want to
get that idea out OF your heads at once.
We found one building full of canned
corn beef and small hardtacks. the best
crackers we have had over here. One bin
had over 800 bushels of potatoes in il.
Nearly every German we found had at
least half loaf of bread with butter or
Jam for the same. We passed soup
kitchens half full OF half made soup and
big coffee watts with excellent coffee