The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-21

in November, last, the whole Allied line, from Lille to Verdun, advanc- ing as one man, in the face of heavy shell and machine gun fire from the Hun lines. Many men fell, he says, but the line never wavered. Fritizie didn't have a chance to shift his forces from one threatened point to another, as he had been accustomed to do in the past, and it was a case of fight or give up. Wallace saw many of his comrades in arms killed right by his side. but through all the heavy fighting he managed to escape un- hurt. He was thrown down on sev- eral occasions by the shock of a nearby exploding shell, but came out of the scrap otherwise unin- jured
 The signing of the armistice halted the Canadians immediately after they had driven the Huns out of and occupied the city of Valenciennes, famed the world over for its lace, and here they were able to rest for while after their strenuous spell of hard fighting. A few days later the Canadians selected as part of the army of occupation, of which the 1st bat talion of engineers formed a part, commenced their march to the Rhine, through the town of Mons, to Cologne. At Cologne they were quartered in a schoolhouse near the west bank of the Rhine, and imme- diately mounted guards on the bridges, of which there were three, crossing the river near Cologne These bridges were links connecting the great arteries of traffic over which the first German advance came. -.
 Wallace put in the time as one of the guards there until the first of March, when the Canadian army of occupation was relieved from fur thur duty. They then began their return march to Havre, France. over the reconstructed area, and boarding British transport at that port, were conveyed to a Canadian military camp at Bramshot, Hants, about fifty miles from London. This camp is a sort of Canadian troop depot, where the mems papers are arranged and they are medi- cally examined for disabilities be- fore being discharged. At Bram- shot they are also arranged in groups for demobilization and sent to Liverpool, where they take ship for the homeland.
 The 1st battalion of Canadian en- gineers, composed of what was left of it after the fighting, with addi- tions made since the signing of the armistice, came across on the trans port Empress of Britain, Canadian Pacific R. R. company's boat, and were landed at Quebec at the end Of April, 1919. From this point the men were sent to Minto bar racks, Winnipeg, where they all were discharged. As his enlistment record showed that he was from Nenana, Alaska, Wallace was given an order on the Canadian Pacific E. R.. company for first class trans portation to Nenana, which he had no trouble in exchanging for the necessary tickets which enabled him to land in Nenana finally on the steamer Alaska.
 In so far as providing transporta- tion to discharged soldiers is con- cerned, at least, the Canadian mill tary machine would appear to be much better equipped and handled more smoothly than the American one. The Canadian soldiers en- listment record was sufficient for all purposes and he was transported at government expense, always trav- cling first class, to whatever place he came from.
 MT. Wallace states that the atti. tude of the German people toward