The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-30
Capt. Asbury Vale Writes
From Center of Germany
of Experiences of
Kenosha Soldiers.
DESCRIBES KENOSHA LOSSES
Letter Relates Story of Wounds Re-
ceived by All Who Have Been En-.
trusted to Care of Capt. Vale
Germans Hope for Republic.

The longest way round is the short
cat way home. This is the latest
news sent to Kenosha by Capt. Asbury
Vale in his most recent letter from
Kottenheim, Germany.
The Kenosha captain and his COM
pany were in sthe first division which
was sent into German territory and
they expect soon to have completed
their time Of occupation and be home
ward bound.o There are several Ke-
nosha soldiers under the command Of
Captain Vale and the letter brings
news to the friends and families Of
all of these.
II Germany these Kenosha soldiers
have learned something of the internal
situation in Germany, The German
inhabitants have been wonderful in
their treatment of us, writes Capt.
Vale, and no room in the house is
too good for an American soldier.
am bifleted in the beautiful home Of
the Principal of the City Schools AMI
he told me recently that the RhenIsh
provinces were forming an indepen lent
democratic state like America and that
he only wished that it would be pos
sible to find a president who would
be half as good as either our Wash
ington, our Lincoln or our Wilson. Slch
a person, he said could guide them
through these first hard days. to as real
and az successful a government as is
enjoyed by the people of the United
States =
The letter brings the good news that
the company will bring back with it
history of the experiences which
the Kenoshans have had in their serv-
ice of the flag. This will form an i'm
portant addition a chapter - de-
luxe in the history being written
here Of the part that Kenosha county
has taken in winning the war.
Captain Vale in order to relieve the
anxiety of friends in Kenosha writes
that of all the boys entrusted to his
care, there will be but one that he
will not bring back to Kenosha with
him unless sickness now intervenes.
That one is Corporal Arthur Junker,
who gave his life for his country when
the Tuscania" was sunk.
All other casualties in the company
arc described as follows; Corporal
John Young will return wearing a
wound stripe from contact with Boche
shrapnel at Chateau Thierry, Corp.
Ernest Grabow, Of Waukesha one Of
the same, received north Of scissors
near Juvigny and Pvt. Dominic Leon
ETH, of Kenosha, gold one on the
right arm which comes from trying to
stop an air-bomb shrapnel with his
head. That, luckily, is all who have
been hurt but how close all have been
to the hospital or to six inch dirt
overcoat can be readily gained when
tell you that twenty trucks out of
twenty seven in the company have
been cut up more or less
The capital adds that there is not
a man in the whole company who has
not had his share of sleepless nights,
of "cootie infested dugouts, Of
driving trucks through shot and shell
over 6 No-Man s Land - or over hastily
constructed roads through the devastat-
ed territories of France. "Well sC'est
lie Guerre',' he adds, and now it is
over and we have seen and crossed the
Rhine.'
Inserted in the letter is the following
clipping from the Paris-New York Her.
aid, which tells in no uncertain terms
what the division with which the Ke-
nosha Captain and his boys are placed,
have done in the war:
"When the American army of oc-
cupation started its march toward the
Rhine on Nov. 18th, one of our crack
divisions, the Thirty-second, was cele-
brating an anniversary. Just six
mcnths before this division first plant
ed the American flag on German soil
in Alsace. On May 10, Wisconsin and
Michigan men came under enemy she'll
fire, and from that date to November Ii
the division has outranged Boche guns.
Only ten days after its turn in the
trenches the Thirty-second chased the
Bocne from the Ourcq TO Vesle. Then
it went to a sector north of Scissors
and stormed Juvigny Plateau, fighting
side by side with the heroic "Poilus''
Of General Mangin. After that victory
with the French it had a rest of ten
days before getting ready for the final
drive.
''The American army's scrap north