Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-16
A SOlD|ER'S VIEWS
 BEFORE THE ARM|ST|CE

County this week from Earl Dermont.
 Am in the Q. M. c. now and of course you know our work is right be- hind the firing lines, always in sound of the guns and often under fire of the long range stuff and aeroplane bombing, both of which we get a steady diet of in their turn, so the work is anything but monotonous. We are now on sector where Bill stands to lose and is gradually losing a very important key position to some territory he prizes very highly and so of course his Germs and Insects are very pestiferous all the time and in every way which they alone know how to be. Before you receive this letter you may read of the fall of very strongly fortified city which they pro- fess to think impregnable.
 1 fancy it isn't when the Americans and the French get to hammering at the gates. Marshall Foch does things in his own way and time and has so far accomplished everything he has set out to do-about on the tick of the watch. He is surely some wonder and must be some relative of Napoleon or another and later edition.
 As I believe 1 told you, we arrived on the scene, here, in time to get in on the second great battle of the Marne-and our Calf. bunch were as signed to Q. M. service for time be- cause the artillery units were all at full strength-so we fell right in back of the famous fight of Chateau Thier- ry, which was one of the bitterest and fiercest of the war, considering the duration of it and the number of men engaged. The Grown Prince lost one of his crack Divisions of Prussian Guards. It was there that the salient sagged fartherest toward Paris. When we got through it was an in- verted cone in the other direction, and at times the Boches did some tall run ming. They were blasted with artil- lery something terrific in that retreat and there are literally thousands of them planted along that line of re- treat.
 The historian who comes nosing around, notebook in hand and wise look on his face, seeking verification of reports, can trace the exact line of that retreat by Boche graves, except in places where they were running so fast that a bullet couldn't catch up with them. All along the line that second battle of the Marne was a Hum-Dinger, and it was the one that turned the tide of the war-so we are all glad that we got in in time to par ticipate and you can bet we did parti- cipate. While it was going on we were working all kinds of hours night and day-keeping a steady stream of supplies going from rail head to front line so that there was nothing lacking when it was needed and you know 10000 men use some ma terial and grub every "A hours in bat tie line.
 The nth division of the, first army corps has earned quite a name for it. self and is living right up to it. They were in at the start and 1 hope they will be in at the feenish-as the French say-whenever and wherever that may be.
 The work seems to be progressing we'll on all fronts now even in chaotic Russia-and when the work goes we'll in Russia we know the day of miracles is not past. When are you going to take to shooting Bolsheviki in the U. S.?
 If you don't get rid of few of them before we get back the soldiers will. The dirty hounds pulling sabotage and factory burning and at the same time loafing on the war-work jobs that are paying them from 5. to 1S, doAa1S a day-while they are comfortably hous- ed and fed on fare that would give a soldier the gout, and last but not LEAST in no danger from Boche bull lets and boinbs-while we take it as it comes over here rain or shine, most ly rain and mud in all kinds of hours and weathersr at $1.00 per.
 Oh yes there will be some reckoning with the American Bolsheviki, other wise known as the 1. w. w. and some kindred slackers, traitorous parasites and vermin-when this army gets
 back they can count on that as sure as the coffee they will have for break fast tomorrow. 1 have lost about a dozen of them myself, when I shall be delighted to hunt up if 1 have few rounds of ammunition left to spare from the Boche scrimmage. From the events now transpiring every where we can see this the great clean ing up of the world. Universal house cleaning as it were, so far at least as this world is concerned and from the way it is progressing now from Huns to Turks and back again, and I am sure every dirty dog and some clean ones too, will have their day and be trimmed according to their deeds and misdeeds.
 The great harvest is on and no one knows how much grain is to be thresh- ed. One great event looms stupend- ous above all else on the horizon of the present day-and that is that we are at the parting of the ways, great wide universal ways at that, wherein those people who would not perish must come out of Egypt and square |