Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-18

turned into a dressing station and the
 ambulances arrived day and night,
 carrying their patients on down to S.,
 -35 to 40 llilos to safety. The girfs
 ran a canteen at the gates for the
 passing troops and all day the roads
 roared with crowded movements. That
 night we slept in our clothes, cars
 ready to go at a moments notice, and
 slept the night out The next morning
 the artillery was already being placed
 in the rose bed and vegetable garden
 and my orders came to move just as
 big naval gun was being placed in the
 shadows of a big pine tree. We
 moved down the road to a little vil-
 lage. We slept in our cars in a court
 yard housing infantry, supply wagons. and canOns; here was buzz and chat
 ter all night as camions dashed by
 with troops and as infantry marched toward all that we had left behind, and
 we stayed at this place fEe or six days. I was working then, perhaps covering 13O miles a day in Kelly and sleeping a few hours at night, some times by the roadside or in field, try ing to slumber while the most terrible air raids were in progress. You can not imagine what the sensation is Ike to sleep under the stars, to hear ap- preaching slowly the buzz of enemy planes, and to suddenly have a most terrible quick succession of bangs as the torpedOes hit the ground. The guns begin and fire at into the sky We saw a town turned from peaceful civilian life, ~Ha n1a ufr tn hoe Iute desolation, fallen Buildings, scat tered merchandise and filth. Enough bombs can be dropped on a good sized town in a night to make it unrecog- nizable. Bombs are terrifying but one can be so tired that unless they drop within hitting radius of one they are not even thought of. They are worse than being shelled.
 We have six Fords and Kelly The Fords spend the days out near the French lines, in little villages where troops are in for the day or resting for a couple of days. The cars are filled with cocoa, canned milk, etc, and We build a fire on the town square, open the cigarettes and pass put the hot chocolate and cigarettes to perhaps 1000, 2000. or more soldiers. Then we pick up the grille and pots and go to another village. The poilus crowd about with their tin cups which are blackened inside with Picard" Cthe red wine) they get at each meal. It means everything to them and you can't imagine their enthusiasm over 'igarettes-they are wild.
 There are many Americans. They oOk so strong and so young and live y beside the French A new division ;ame in today with a nice fatherly iort of man at the head.
 I am at the Foyer" The balrack ] s long and narrow like any barrack | -ou might see the boys in at home. It l s lined with small unpainted tables | md as l look down the smoky length l lach stool is occupied by its blue | ,Oilu." There are never enough seats | 70 many are standing looking over jnc l ,acks of their comrades who are en- aged in such simple games as check ITS (called "Dames") and "Attague"
 nd cards and dominOes. The soldiers .eep pouring in after their soup" and it about until it is no longer light and st uluSl ClOSE- ANO AA6uA6 uttdu0t OA ! he avions They greet each other, tand about the piano, each offering
 song. There is an Italian who comes ften who has a divine voice; he sings 0 a silent and enraptured room in full 'agliacci voice. If a song is a bit oarse the gracious and serene Francois" slips up to the piano and stops If a Picardy man becomes fficious and noisy l stand up and say silence s'il vOus plait" and Ike children at school there is not a Ound. Strange that soldiers of low st rank four years in the trenches re so sublimely childish and obedient l their regard for Mile Americaine. 'ho sits alone at her table-always Q divinely polite. The room is just uzzing-it's a steady buzz, excited yer the games.
 In the next room is letter writing. II are bent over their paper; some re reading magazines of science and ictures are always used threadbare.
 Well, it is all awful but there is a and a confidence now that ill carry us all through no matter hat happens.