The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-06
News from Khaki Boys

Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. White are in
receipt of the following interesting
letter from their son, Forrest White,
now at Queenstown, Ireland:
n Dear Folks: My furlough is ended
and Pm back to camp again. sure
had an excellent trip. We saw lot
of country and all of the cities and
towns of any Importance. My! the
difference in the Irish up north. They
are thrifty, ambitious and prosper
Gus, and here they are soaked in
booze" and are lazy and shiftless.
You would almost think you were in
the states when you are in some of
the cities. Belfast is a nice little
city. Glasgow is a large modern city
population 100000. The people are
so sociable and polite, well educated
and accomplished. 1t certainly seem
ed good to get back to civilization
again From Glasgow we went out
to. Lock Loman, down the river Clyde,
saw where the Lusitania and other
large ships were built. We travelled
thru the historical places where the
scenes of "The Lady of the Lake"
were laid, out to the famous Sterling
castle and saw so many of the scenes
that Scott writes about We went
thru his country and very near his
birthplace. We went thru large art
buildings and saw statues and monu-
ments of some of Scotland's great
men. We also visited the famous
Edinburg castle and were in the kings
and queens rooms. We went to see
that large bridge Firth of Fourth. I
believe its the only bridge in the
ynx.ld hn %ro
| hour over. | will tell more of my
trip when l get back. This is a dull
evening, foggy and the old siren at
and whines. Did I tell you there was
an English fort about / IL miles
from here on top of a hill at the en-
trance of the harbor? They have
some very large guns there, and as
the entrance is narrow, no battleship
can come in and make raid upon
Queenstown, so this harbor is we'll
protected.
During foggy weather when the
destroyers were here, we could hear
these sirens at intervals out to sea.
This keeps them from ramming each
other. The fort keeps theirs going to
let ships know just where the en-
trance is and how far they are from
shore. At distance these sirens
have such a moanful, Lonesome tone
They remind me of lonesome dog
when he sticks his nose in the air
and sends forth such moanful bowls.
There have been some pretty Sc
we're storms at sea. A west coast |
freighter came in the other day, the |
U. S. S. West Indies. The crew said |
they went thru bad storm which |
swept all Of the life boats off and a
provision locker and everything on
deck that was at all movable.
Admiral Simms has been at this
base several weeks. He is using as
his boat, the yacht belonging to
young J. P. Morgan. 1t isn't large
but cost an enormous sum, is very
deliberately finished and furnished.
The government has been using it
during the war as a convoy boat.
They fly the admiral's flag
Well the latest reports are that
we will abandon this station March /.
expect they will change their minds
by that time tho, as we've planned
on leaving SO many times. / hear we
will go over to Passage on the other
side of the harbor THAT is where Ed
Childers isl and wait for a ship to
take US back. No mother, don't ex-
pect me when the phone rings as it
may be several days before I'll be
calling up 40J. 1t may be won't ,
De home for a long time after get t
ing back to the states.
| am glad nothing more serious !