Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-08-23
TIRED OF MESS KITS
SOLDIERS NOW USING
FANCY CHINAWARE
1t. Nachazel Writes Interesting
Letter From "Over There"

he IOllOWlnR interesting ietteT lTOHl
julius Nachazel was recently received
by F. A. Kenyonl.
France, July 7th.
My Dear Frank
Your letter of April Doth received
today and sure was pleased to get it.
| received much mail in lump because
its the first I've received since being
here. =
From my hut here where | am writ
ing can hear the shells sing and burst
but they are directed at some other
object. Every now and then machine
gun barks out few rounds. Never a
whole hour goes bye that something
doesn't "sound off,"
received my first darn good shelling
some time ago. Went through a bar
rage to get away. One man hit-not
hurt any-and we were all o. k. Since
then I've been to French Machine
Gun School for few days. Spent the
Fourth at the School which was held in
small town that the Boche held in the
early part of the war. found some
old Boche relics such as mess kits, etc.
i'm trench there which | stored away
with the people was bileted with. |
hope to be able to get them later to
send to you. It's hard to send any
thing more than a letter from the
wilderness you know, but when Pm
off the line III do my best to add to
your collection. II | don't you will
understand that it was an impossibility
and we'll hope it isn't.
Capt. Winters boys are doing fine
work. | got "A letter from Joe Cum
Minis yesterday. He was promoted to
First Lieutenant. He says some of the
East Jordan boys are wearing the Croix
de Guerre. guess the old gang is
there, eh!
came over here loaded up with
clothes, ETC., and as it's impossible to
lug around much stuff, have lost most
OF mine amounting to several hundred
dollars. But war is war and we learn
from experience.
I'll tell you what | can about where
we are. It's in beautiful wood. No
stumps; and my headquarters is fairly
livable place. must run around a
lot to inspect my positions and running
over these hills is no joke. | do my
best to get over them but believe me
without horse it's tiresome work.
We plan on snooze always in the
day and alert at evening as all should
do, | presume. The "Jerrys" (Boche)
are always busy. have seen some
nice aeroplane scraps. wish you
could be here now. It's 1000 p. m.
and I'd take you around the place; you
couldn't see your hand before you,
but we'd make it o. k.
Then tomorrow I'd take you to a
village where there's a big pottery
plant. Wrecked of course. Our boys
have found all kinds of table chinaware
SO have dispensed with mess kits for
awhile. Leave it to these chaps
they'll make stable comfortable and
very often they sleep in them, too.
These chaps eat off chinaware that is
famous and probably brings very high
prices in the States. But they should
worry as the plant is full of it-every-
thing from teapot to soup-toureen
| Of very fine china.
The villages are a sight; although
shelled often they seem to stand up.
The civilians left long ago. Iguess the
Messages are cold place in the winter
which, by the way, is some time off.
Well, Frank, restrictions keep me
down SO that I'm afraid my letters are
not as interesting as they might be
but I'll add little here and there in
other letters so you'll at least get q
little idea of our experiences. | might
be able to write book on this but will
postpone it.
Give my kindest regards to Mrs. X
and tell her that from this safe place
about 5000 miles away, have the ter
nifty to ask her TO let me come up fol
one of her good dinners-say about l ;Ot
p. m. tomorrow.
Must close as have couple of mile.
to make and its II 90 p. m.
Goodnight. Yours sincerely,
1T. j. T. NACHAZEL
P.S.--The poilus make beautiful thing.
from leaves SO shall send one along
It's a perfect oak leaf pressed anC
made in this shape right in tn,
trenches. You've heard of "co0ties.
Well have also but they inhabit m,
no more. I'll train one and send /
over.