Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-07-15

I found out was wrong about both. Q
One thing that opened my eyes a
bit was the trouble my mother had In Q
getting out Of Hanover. where she 4
was when the war started. and back d
70 Erppce, She always wore lIttlo a
American Gag aud this both saved and y
endangered her, without Il. the Ger q
manE would have Intcfncd her ns
frCnchwomnn. and with II. she was
sncercd nj and lnsultcd time and o
again before she finally managed TO q
got over The border. She died about /
two months after she reached 81. M. I
Eaire.
Moreover. I heard the fate Of my
older brother, who had made his home
la France with my grandmother. He
hld gone 10 tho front ut the outbfcal;
Of the war with the Infantry from 81.
Negairc aud had been killed two or
three weeks afterwards. This made
II q sort OF personal matter
But what Dui the finishing touches
10 mc were the stories wounded
I Canadian lieutenant told mo some
months later In New York, He had
been there and hc knew. You could 7
not help believing him, you can
why's tell II when u man has .,,r,
thcre aud knows
There was vi much RI, o,..ret rksuud
New York, 10 nnde up my .nl,d nm
OF sud1,n TO 80 oytr and Tot some
for mySclf. Pc.icve mr. I eot enough
rnck"t be5or, I was tb.coneh. Most
ot the really important things 4 have
1one have happened fke thut: l did
them on The jump, you might say.
Muny other Americans wanted look,
too; there were Ave thousand Amer
. leans In the CAnpdlan army ut one
, time they say,
would moi CHIN that went over
, there 10 save democracy, or anything
like that. ! never did like Germans,
+ and never met Frenchman who was
l not kind TO me. and what / heard
. about the way the Huns treated the
4 Bolginns made me sick. used TO get
Q out OF bed TO go TO nn lll-night picture
y I
b But there was not much excitement
E nbout New York, and figured the
@ u. s. would not get into II for a while.
p anyway. so just wanted to go over
n md see what II was like. That Is
i why lots OF US went. think.
I There were five OF us who went to
o Boston to ship for the other side !:
Sam Murray. Ed Brown. Tim Flynn.
L Mitchell and myself. Murray was an ex-
Il garby--two bitches (enllstments), gun
, pointer rating. and about thlrty-hve
% years old. Brown was Pennsylvania
= man about twenty-six years old. who
's had served two enllstments In the u.
s. army and had quit with the rank
. Of sergeant. Flynn and Mitchell were
N both ex.navy men. Mitchell wns n
" noted boxer. OF the 1--WE Of US. am
~ the only one who went In, got
~ through and came out. Flynn and
10 Mitchell did not go In; Murray and
Brown. never came back.
The Ave OF Us shipped on the steam-
Is ship virginian Of the American IIa-
" waiian line. under American flag and
q registry, but chartered by the French
ef government. / signed on as water
tender-an engine room job--but the
~ others were on deck-that Is, seamen.
- We left Boston for 81. Nazaire with
At q cnrgo Of ammunition. bully beef,
al ETC.. and made the first trip without
e anything Of interest happening.
"a As we were tying to the dock at st
Of Nazaire, saw a German prisoner sit
10 ting on a pile Of lumber. l though,
IN probably he would be hungry. SO
10 went down into the oilers mess and
p got two slices Of bread with thlch
- piece Of beefstenk between them and
handed It to Fritz He would not thke
T. t. At nrst I thought he WINS afraid
70 to, but by using scve-al languages and
It signs be managed to make me under.
g. stnnd that he was not hungry-had
y too much to eat, ia fact.
n I used to think Of this fellow occa.
u sionally when WAS In German prls-
% = ON camp, and a piece of moldy bread
~ the size Of q safety-match box was
"a the generous portion Of food they
= forced On me. with true German hos
~ p,tality. once every fory-eight hours.
y would not exactly have refused q
beefsteak sandwich, I am afraid. But
than I was not q hesven.born German.
was only common American gnrby.
He was full II kuitur and grub;
was not fall OF anytHaing.