The daily Alaskan., 1918-02-26

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 Somewhere In France, Jan. l, 1918. To the Editor. .. Daily Alaskan,
 Skaeway, Alaska.
 Dear Sir: . 'I'
 promised you when I saw you in January last, I would drop you a line occasionally, only my loca- ton has changed from Atlin, B. C., to Sunny Old France, but the sun has failed to apepar since I came bAre. and instead of nuggets of gold, Fritz throws them at us in punches. but the assay is darnable doubtful. l think those nuggs are refractory upon assay.
 Since the Union election in Can ada we are feeling kind of good here. It shows the people back at home are Ho+ all slackers.. Things look splendid here, but you people must alwags remember that we are vol uhtEers and as such show our pa tr'otism in our work, be it in '1ntry In front trenches, or the Tommies bringing up supplies to him who. is intrenched, in the open, under shell fire, In open sight by day, subject to sniping, shells, bombs, gas and even machine gun fire from ayiators.
 I am in the No. Company. 9th Bat, c. R. J.-B. E. F. No. 22035Sl Frasce. This Is my address which prudence of censor compells us to put 's center of letters.
 . Glad to hear from some of you oldt,mers. I have an old chum here from q Yukon of Pelly river fame, Fred E. EneYoldsen, No. 22O3450, but unfortunately we may part any days as he is transferred to the 29th battalian, Can. Inf. Corps-TO- bins Tigers, but l may follow in the same company later if luck fla vors. EneToldsen and myself could not he transferred to the infantry n Canada or England owing to age, hut we came across with the c. R.. Us. only lucky enough to select a battalion of northern fusiliers who Tad been transferred to the 9th battalion c. R. Us. This was the 22Sth Nor. Bat, N. F.
 Enevoldsen in England had me listed on the same, as I was ab- sent at the time on fatigue leave and he went on reputation of of tIcels given by returned soldiers 10 him, and we hit the right spot all right. Those men had seen ser vice, and sure enough we hit the very company of the battalion that's next to Fritz all the time, and sure enough we suffered less casualties by far than companies of other battalions, same troops, com ing uD behind.
 The colonel of the company in conjunction with our officers has had gall enough to connect their steel with Fritz's, take his officers quarters, and loot their comforts, something we are stictly opposed to unless we get a share ourselves. However as we had more than W could pack and had to make Yukon caches we will overlook it for this time. War, however, is kind of two sided, one day you chase Fritz, next day he comes back at you, but never as far as we went, and where this used to be the game of a few hundred yards, we go by miles now. This reminds me that in one of Fritz's heaviest offensiyes we were right behind the infantry, which is our place of course, only we were going the other way. Some of the 3rd company, 9th battalion in conjunction with some snipers, less than 50 in all, held off a thousand Germans till the Irish Guard came up On the other side of the same V'llage. Some imperial Labor com paLies did the same, till the Welsh guard came up; their officers and men received medals for bray cry; our officers, which were over an hour behind all others in re- treat. and yko covered their men, got no mention whatever, the only ones who really deserved it, and why? Because no Imperial Staff officer was there at the time. But after the war these chronicles will adjust themselves andscredit will be given where it Is due. Canadiaan soldiers are far too fair minded not to see justice done.