South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-22
ELKHART LAD
WRITES OF BATTLE
Was One Of American Force
That Participated in Cap
ture of Chateau Thierry.

ELkHART, Ind. Aug 22.-From
across the seas on the firing lines
OF France comes 4 most gra phic
word picture OF a battle IN which
"A member of the Atherton ] OF
TINS city had a prominent part
PVT Floyd C'Warpy'D Miller OF
company C.. nth infantry. who an
swered the call TO the colors last
March. is the writer of the penned
picture which was sent 10 l. Bern
ard Dolan of this city.
His letter. in part. reads as fol-
lows
We'll. Bernie. YOU no doubt will
be surprised 10 hear from me. ]
have neglected the bunch, but II
surely has been "A very busy place
around here, in fact. so busy that
about the only thing one can do is
10 trust 10 God and look forward
TO the best 10 happen. Bernie. /
have surely gone through some hell
the past month. We went through
one OF the worst artillery battles
of the war. and we sure were very
lucky to get out alive. Their was
hardly "a tree i'm the woods we were
i'm that had not been hit nv shrap-
mel. fragment of a shell or a high
explosive shell.
81 have been over some battle
fields that don't think YOU could
ind an interval Of over 20 PAGES,
but what YOU see an exploded shell
hole. At night YOU just get TO
sleep nicely when some shell eX-
plodes close 20 the hole that YOU
have dug i'm the good old mother
earth for protection. and someone
wells. gas, There are all kinds Of
excitement to keep your nerves I'M
strung. / have gone through Cha
teau Thierrv and crossed TO the
north side of the Marine, and every
where YOU come 20 the ruins OF the
Boche Chateau Thierry LAYS an
a bsolute ruin. Nearly every house
is shattered from shell FIRE and what
is not. the Hun has destroyed with
his hands I saw some OF the hne
homes that were not under shell
ire. They had been ruined with
axe and bayonet. In one house
everything was topsy-turvy with the
exception of a piano and some Yam
kee cleared away enough OF the
debris TO Get a seat and he sat
there PLAYING some good old tunes
like Are You from Dixie 1t put
pep mn the boys TO hear a piano
once again.
Yesterday . was really surprised
saw "a lady here on the lines. q
writer for the Saturday Evening
Post. n came down through the
camp with a Y. NJ. c.. A man and
was dressed I'm the regulation col
or. wearing a little overseas cap and
CARRYING q "a mask You ought
to have seen the fellows look al
her and cheer her as she passed
Bernie YOU know what Gen Sher-
imam said about war He should
have lived 70 have seen this one
to hear the artillery hre The Yam
KEGS fire on the average OF 10 shots
ta the Huns one and 10 makes some
noise Back OF ms Is a biz battery
~ French siN-iuch guns shooting
ON q range averaging from 10 TO
rs Yards and certainly tear up the
around back OF the Huns Sever
af times they have cut them 90 or
their supplies and then went aft
er them They have been driving
she Huns So fast that We have had
hardly am, rest ro keep up with
them
fu cIcsiuS his most interesunS
eps,le the soldier urges Mr. polan
Oh send him n opinion ~ the
American press regarding the end
of the war. and Expresses q long
.rs to again slt iu front Of The old
club e-e~.de surrounded by his fei-