St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1919-01-03
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writer. But as I'm going to ask
you to send your paper to me over
here ! will at the same time try
TO tell you a little Of what I'm
allowed to, and that is not very
much. The outfit an detached to
left Camp Fremont / Sept. and
SINCE that time I haven't had but
n copy of "Ugebladet''. We donx
get any news here before 1t is old:
80 We don't know much OF how It
10 going with the war. 1 under
stand that the Germans are getting
81 on the west front, that's thu
Kind Of news that makes us all feel
good, tho 4 wish they would drive
them out in the northsea, instead
of letting them retire from there:
but ! suppose if they did us poor
fellows here would not have a
Ichance to use u bayonets. and
that U r would make us sore.
But to come back to the begin
ning. I didn't get time to write
YOU before / left Fremont. so I.
Will lose the enjoyment Of reading
'Ugebladet' for a while, SO don't
forget to send it now as soon an
you can.
Our journey across the pacific
promised pretty good the fret
days, but as we got further out the
acting of the peaceful ocean didn't
answer to the name. The waves
went high and over the top. the
result was quit a little seasickness.
and very often we heard the less
SICK men yell: ooh! two bitzey
comes! Two bitzey comes.' when
the other unfortunates was trow.
ing up. We didn't, have much fun
going across, but we could not help
but laugh when one of the X. Pcs
came down the messdeck with "a
pan full of chow and all at once
SIT down washing the deck with
the chow, or when some poor fell
low would slid, grasp after his side
man and his sideman after the
next man a. S.. O.. till at last S or
6 of them was sitting on their tail
pouring their -slum and coffee all
over themselfs. Once in a while
there was a boxing contest or q
sing song and for about the last
week we had moving pictures every
evening. On the ship I met the
finest army chaplain I think Uncte
Sam has. We all called him dad
the wanted us toc). He had al
ways a yoke or a little story to tell.
He was a soldiers friend, a friend
and father to us all. On our way
we stopped at Japan. All us boys
had shoreleave. Oh, JOY! That
shoreleave will make a whole chap
ter in the diary for good many OF
us. We sure enjoyed the trip after
We had been in the close quarters
Tor 50 long, we was Just like a
bunch of big school kids on vaca-
ton. We were taken from the ship
to the shore in little japanese
boats. The first thing we did was
to hunt for an american restaurant,
we did not find any that looked
anywhere like that. Some Of the
boys found a place where they
could get fried eggs without bread
others would find bread but no eggs.
and a friend found a place where
we by lots of talking and motions
made the walters Ca couple of
small neat looking japanese girls)
understand, that we wanted some
coffee or tea. We got 1t alright.
Coffee and 8 pieces of jelly rolls
each. The price was only 6 Dill,
what we knocked down tho to 60
cents. It vas interesting to walk
around in these close streets, look
on the finer built houses and odd
dressed people with their wooden
shoes on and their small dark
: questining eyes. They were very
friendly towards us, some OF them
wanted to shake hands with us, a
thing they don't do among them
sells. A funny thing was their Q
wheel carriages, but they were too
expensive to- use so not very many
OF us had "a trip in them. Before
midnight most OF the boys
were aboard again, ready to go
ahead to our destination point.
Vladivostok,4 where we landed,
is q very pretty looking city.
Theirs a downtown Y. for. us boys,
there is a couple of American
ladies serving tea and cookies for
us. Gee, 1t was nice to hear them
talk, it wasn't all that armyslang
we are getting SO use. to. We are
settled down for winter and is get
ting our supply. The weather Ii
fine and the mosquitoes are bad, on
was q 5 days ago. even IL its
late in October. My candle is all
most burned out, so l think I'll
quit for this time, but first I'll
say hello and q Happy New Year
Ito the readers Of 'Ugebladet" and
Olh4aa donst Forgot ~ onnd u oyor