The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-07
TELLS lLL|ANT FIGHT HE AMERICANS
ham Boy in Field |l Writes of Fight
 balities of Ameri- Ian Soldiers
fighting the hardest,

fighting the hardest,
 i've battle of the war and
 going to win. If the Ger
 pass. someone else will have
 hew it happened. for none
 will be alive.
 above is an extract from a re-
 letter received by Judge and Mrs. H, Stiles from their son, Lieut. M P. DStiles who is at the front in France with the American forces
 Lieutenant Stiles is a graduate of the University of Alabama and re- ceived his medical degree June 1915, at the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He served nearly two years in the Pennsylvania hospi- tai and went to France January, 1917. to serve as surgeon in the Red Cross hospital This hospital was taken over by the American government in July, 1917. and Lieutentant Stiles was ordered into active service. He has been at this base hospital until the latter part of May, when he went to the field hospital near the American troops
 Tn his recent letter he tells of the hard fighting the American boys are doing lover there" and states the field hospital in which he is serving is near the hottest part of the fighting handling cases right off the battle field"
 Lieutenant Stiles is well known in the city, having been born and reared here and numbers his friends by the score. While a student of the uniyer- sity he was member of the staff of the Age-Herald, working as a reporter during hisessaca tions a Id gave evidence of being a post csbable newspaper \ man had he cAosen.<writing as his vo- The fdllowirg extracts from his let ter to His mother reflects the spirit Of the American troops at the front:
 France. June 8. 191S Dear M }hmma: received a letter from you yes erday which had been sent out to e from my old hospital and was vel glad indeed to hear from home *t
 reg t that at the present I can only VT Fe you note as I am work ing day and night. I have only had my shod off once in the past week and twic have operated 4S hours with out stoy ping. except to eat. am still at sw place about which wrote you. upI near the hottest part of the < fightingH handling cases right off the battlefield. We are handling Ameri- ' cans ntJw instead of French All the fears I had that the Americans would possibly be Iit- tie gun shy at first. gone. They nre now putting up of the Amost brilliant fights of the war and with an absolute disregard of danger. Even the German prison CTS with whom have talked admit that they are about the hardest fighters they -ha%e ever met, and the thing I like r&ost is that they have forgotten ali this <saSfRfvc- ness of enemy 5tufH that the American pnpers were writing from sims tap lime, and are killing VI Germg6s and begging for more to kill and often when coming out of the an}aesthetic they curse the way.
 We'll. I will probably be up her for sometime yet We are now fight ing the hardest, most decisive battl of the waF and are going to win. the Germjlns pass. some one else vii have to tell how it happened. for non of us will be alive, and every Ameri can and lFrenchman on the front fee the same way
 Will write again when I get chance. Remember me in love ito al the family and write as usual You loving son, PORTER