The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-11
BOUIC WRITES
 FROM THE FRONT
HERoiSM OF THE SOLDIERS IS THE MAIN TOPIC AMONG ALL
 THE ALLIES
Hot Springs Man Hears French Singer Entertain the Portuguese Soldiers Just After Hearing Sad News.

lawyer, who is now at the front, has written the following very interesting letter to the Sentinel Record, which will be read with much enthusiasm by eyeryDoly interested in the news fron over there"
 August IT, 19lS
 l. S Army F. 0. TIC,
 Am. EXpeditionary Forces, Fr. Dear Doug:
 Received my first copies of the Sen tinel Record yesterday, and the pleas ure of reading it was only second 70 my first letters from home It cer- tainly builds a fellow up. It am very grateful to you for sending same.
 fellow is very fortunate to be over here now Everything is so eXcitng, and the boys are sc enthusiastic over the big work in hand that one feels that if they were not on the scene
 doing their bit that they surely would
 be missing the greatest joy that life could contain for them It is hard work for ever ybody, but then a fellow soon becomes accustomed to if .-hd the leasure Of feoli..,, --nu knowina that 1t is for O1a Glory does away w1tu the tire1 .eel!ug and the fact that at tine s3 sleep is an unknown quantity il simply an incident and not hard ship IL is for the good of the cause 90 why should you not do it. That ie all one thinks.
 | was talking to some fellows yes terday who were with the advance units of the American forces in the of- fensive at Chateau Thery, and among other things they told me of the love and esteem with which the French soldiers looked upon our boys. hg said that in the recent advance an entire French battery had gotten con- lsiderably in advance of their supplies or had lost them and that the boys oi his division found it out at their first mess, and that like the true sports that they are, went over to the Frenchmen and divided their food with them. fifty-fifty He said that after that he does not believe there was Frenchman in the whole outfit who would nos have gone to his deain cheerfully to save any boy in the ont fit, and that when supplies did finally get to them they brought their light wines over and divided them with our
 boys. He casually remarked that when one is on the go, in a sea Of hell fire, .that little wine is certainly not amiss. shortly after this l had the good fortune of meeting at the home .Of a French acquaintance 8 French soldier who had been with our troops, and he told me of the way in which our boys fought. You never heard such enthusiasm, and when he got to what our boys are doing for the French he had tears in his eyes. He said that in the offensive many of the French soldiers lost their coats ana other clothing in the rush That when things quieted down a little the Amer iean boys brought them coats of theirs and gave them to them, and that ai- most as many French in his company had on a partof our boys clothing as there werethose who had on Bremen outfits The boys, hesaid, don't know what fear is, that 1t is a great soldier that America mas sent to stand in the trenches with their men. They fight and die like heroes. The way our boys are going into this thing, Doug. passes ones fondest conception. as a fellow cant imagine what it is like unless he is right here, and when he is here il exceeds what he imagined Hell is like. The truth of the business is if man can make such an inferno as the front line trenches, and Hell is to be worse than anything one can imagine, you just take 1T from me that Hell is some place for a fellow to steer clear of
 Met a gentleman just up from Paris, who was there when the American boys who were wounded at Chateau Thiery were sentdown there to be distributed among the hospitals. ana he said that he assisted in the unload ing of some six or seven train loaus. and in the whole lot he has yet to hear his first whimper, or expression. of sorrow. or regret from one Of the| boys. That when he spoke to a fellow who had lost an arm or a leg about they had winsed him" the fellow would hold the stump Of his arm upI and say, with a weak little old smneI Of satisfaction on his face, "yes. blt| we sure gave them hell before they did it. The heroism of the boys he| said made him feel several inches tal- Ter, and that nothing has been hard for him to do since In fact the wayI every fellow goes at a thing, without thought Of himself, makes it easy forl anyone to do his part, and a pleasureI to know that there is something forI him to do.
 General Pershing was with us when| the offensive was on He is someI man, believe me, Our President. who| as think is always right, has ma6el no mistake in the man whom he mas placed in charge of our destinies ovorI here. He is siply what we, as Amer jeans feel a man should be, and heI