The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-20
Old KenCsha Whist Club has
Member who was in France
as Honor Guest at Dinner
Monday Evening.
FRENCH FAVOR GERMANS
Captain Andre Gives Club Members In
teresting Talk On Conditions in France
as He Found Them-Reached France
AS Armistice Was Proclaimed.

Members of the Kenosha Whist Club
honored their one man in the service
of the nation, who had been to France
on Monday evening when sixteen mem
bers Of the club gathered at dinner at
the Elk's Club with Captain Frank
e. Andre as the guest Of honor. Cap
tain Andre is home on short furlough
and he will leave later in the week
for Camp Dix to continue his service
with the army.
Dinner was served at half past six
O'Clock and after dinner was over Cap
tain Andre in happy manner gave the
members Of his cold club some of his
experiences in the service.
~ was struck by the really inter
esting developments after the ARMS
tice" said Captain Andre. II came
to learn that France and Germany were
not nearly as bitter in their enmity as
are Germany and England. You can
see the new conditions in all the rela-
tions between the French and the Ger
mans, the treatment of the German
prisoners in France and the stories that
are told about how the French and
the Germans really hob-nobbed in the
"quiet zones.D The Germans did not
have the hatred for the French that
they had for the English. French sol
diers have told me Of how HNo-man IS
Land f" ON the France German front be-
came place for good fellowship, for
the exchange of cigars and chocolate
and how French soldiers were permit
ted by the Germans to pass the Ger
man lines and 90 back to their homes
in conquered French territory to visit
their families with the assurance that
they would have safe conduct back to
their own lines. f"
Captain Andre declared that the in
vestigation he had made indicated that
the warm feeling did not exist between
the Germans and the English He de-
clared that things he had seen led him
to believe that the French were now as
suspicious Of the English and that there
had been a strange reversal of the feel
ing of the French people toward the
Americans. He declared that the Amer
leans ia France were not seeking any
more Of the glamour of war and that
every American he had talked to was
anxious to get out of France and get
back to America. He asserted that In
his opinion that the French people were
just as anxious to get the Americans
and others out of France and that many
Of them now considered the presence
OF the Americans and others as a sort
of an unwarrented intrusion.
Captain Andre did not see any of tho
actual warfare. He arrived in France
the day the armistice was signed and
a few hours after he and his compan-
ions had been installed in an English
rest camp the bells began to ring and
the whistles to blow to tell Of the Joy
Of France over the ending of the war.
He told of the wonderful celebration
that France staged when the armistice
had been signed, Of days and nights of
celebrating, with the liquors on tap for
every one .and every one taking advant-
age of them.
Captain Andre told of the wonderful
convalescent hospitals of the United
States army where he gave his service
while in France. OF great gardens of
blooming roses in December and Janu-
airy in the heart of the Riviera. 1t was
in this wonderful district that the Unit
ed States set up seven great hospitals
in which wounded American soldiers
were nursed back to health
After the address by Captain Andre
the members of the club slipped away
to one of the rooms on the second floor
of the club and twenty-eight board
game of club whist was served
The guest of the evening made good
on his return to the whist game and
paired with Fl. S. Brown; he won the
high honors of the evening and divided
them with M. NJ Smith and Fred Rein
old who played the East and West
hands The score of the whist match
follows:
North and South