Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1918-11-01

famous scribe is in receipt of d letter from Harry Hicks, a former Nome Eoy who will be remembered by most of the old timers of this section, who is attached to the Canadian military forces. Following enlistment some mouths ago. Until recently Harry 1 was located at Anchorage, but went 1 outside with Canadian friend last ! winter and. .s the friend wanted to | enlist in the Canadian engineers. 1 Hicks decided to follow shit. Tn hi. ! letter, dated at Seafort Eng's nd. August 8. Harry detaiis his experi. ences and also passes some remarks not exactly complimentary to the Canadian military authorities for theit failure 10 send him to France by fast 1 express He says he thought they were going to keep in Canada for the rest Of his life but he finally arrived | in Erska nd, only 10 learn that he had
 to practically forget all the instruc- tions he had acquired in Ca.nadn
 But, he says, l will soon be on my way. Expect to get away rom here | in about five weeks. Wlil get six day leave before we % aud am going to put the time in London. They
 sure have place 10 make soldiers here. Of course it's not like they hay in in The States, but they .havs all traln- ed men in this depot 10 turn men into ! soldiers. After few days you
 would not know bunch of mep They sure come up with snap. It's a shame the way they handle them iu aCnada and don not learn you a thins when they could be making soldiers of them just sS easy there. prac- tically wasted oyer four months there and what 1 did learn have to learn Ol over now. I don't see why they aoI't send over some instructors. was intending to join the Nears engineer gang but they were bet formed when I joined up. would have liked to have been with that. bunch Of Alas kans, as thete Were lot of them f,ons Anchorage
 We had some trip over on rhe boat [ 2l days rom BrocEvine Oararto. Eff ] teen vessels in the convoy at tue start aud increased ro 21. The aesuuyers put do~u fourteen depth b0nhs cps night and four que morgias. Tbev | sure shook ,he ship up some. altbo I, they were supposed to have been put down couple of miles away from us They say they got" couple of subs i but don't know: did not see them . myself. Things are vert high ia EnsIaRd--hisher than the zaJae. things are in the States. Howevcr, they are lc-osening up q bit rhey have bacon and ham on the free list. That means that you do not have taI give meat coupons for them. But. they just allow them so much per head at that. So fsr our rations ar~ not bad at all 1 am not going to tell, you that We have a banquet O. any {. thing like the old Radiator Club feeds | but you can get by on it. After yon ! have been on Grill for about ten bonrs} you are not very. fusss. You sinst 1 want it. that. all. Evenings fu tbs Y, N. C. A. are II cents here aud if { xsr rhs oil Sad have inst so much of them for food.
 We can hear old Fritz 1the Ger, mansI pounding away every night and you should just see some of the stunts they do in the aeroplaneS over here. They take them easy and from the way they speak of them they are just1 every day occurances" We have a | sang or them autterins around the camp all the time. The boys are get. ! ting so used to them that they won't 1 stop killing a putchman to take lock l at m aeroplane by the time they s~t I over there.
 Booze is sure same bish over here. 1 California brandy Is 5 crs--one ana four-aud the same for gin. Beer cents in the canteen; smoking tehacco g cents Der ounce and bum at that Cant get any Bull Durham here but l 1 am going to get bunch To come Well this is all the news for the \ present Give my regards to Rusty.
 Swartzeil and all the rest of the fasa-
 fly. Drop me line: I will get it.
 J. H. HICKS,
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