The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-07-12
YOUNG GOLDSBOROUCH
HAS BEEN UNDER FIRE
Phillips Lee, Jr., Writes TO His Fa-
Their of His Life in France-His
Ambulance Hit by Shrapnel.

In an intensely interesting letter
to his father, Ex-Governor Phillips
Lee Goldsborough. Phillips Lee Col
dsborough, Jr.. a private in Section
574. United States Army Ambulance
Corps, somewhere in France, writes
graphically of the life he is living
there.
Young Goldsborough enlisted in
May. 1917, few weeks after the
declaration of war. He was 20 years
old at the time and a student at the
University of Pennsylvania. He has
been in France about a year
His letter follows:
We have now adopted the French
system of eating-that is, only two
meals a day, one at ! / and the other
at 5. However, you can get coffee
from the kitchen any time during
the morning that you wish. The
French have been living on that
scale for long time. We have had
it only week and a half, but every
body seems to be fairly healthy, so
am sure it is all right.
"On my last trip to an outpost ]
ffhad more excitement than l have ev
er had. The roads were crowded
with troops, machine guns and wa
CONS of various kinds; whole divi-
sion going back In the trenches. The
boches were evidently on to this
change, for they were sending over a
bunch of shells. The boy that I was
with and myself had to 60 up to a
dressing station to get some men,
and the German shells were landing
! in the field right alongside of the
road 1t was just about dusk, prob
ably 9 o'clock. and we could see the
! darn things kicking up an awful
dust, and you could feel the concus-
sion in your head for some time af-
| terward. We sure did tear up that
road at a good clip, passing troops,
wagons and everything else. One
piece of shrapnel hit the car, and we
| lOuuu IL Stunning ShS hS<A%
morning.
"If anybody tells you that they
are not afraid of shells, you can GER
tainly put it down as so much hot
air. l do not believe there is man
living who would not be pretty well
shaken up with those things alight-
ing around him. The French have
been at it four years, and they sure
| ly do get down on the ground when
they hear a shell coming. They do
| not waste any time about it, either,
for they have evidently learned from
experience that it does not pay to be
too brave.
THE French soldiers are certainly
funny birds If they did not get
their pinard (red wine) they would
stop the war tomorrow. They tell
you so, too, adding, mo pinard, no
fight" and they undoubtedly mean
it. Since l have been in France /
cannot recall ever seeing French
man take a drink of water. When
they see Americans drinking water
they think it is the biggest kind of
joke. Nor 10 they understand
why we do not like the pinard. To
me it tastes like SO much carbolic
acid, but I have to drink it some
times to keep from insulting a
Frenchman.
French tobacco, as l thing 1
have told you, is another unpleasant
! luxury that we have. One French
cigarette and drink of pinard will
| Just about kill the average Ameri-
can citizen. 1 never have the nerve
to try both of them together.
! My hair has just about grown out
again, after having shaved it off
month and a half ago. 1t improved
! the hair so much (not to speak of
other things) that 1 think l will do
it over again. l am feeling fine and
am perfectly well in every way"