The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-06
AFTERMATH OF WAR


Coblenz. He thought that would be his
winter home and hoped it would be as
he had enough moving. He writes at
length of conditions and says The
German people tell us that they
thought we would be fearful and hard
towards them but now when they see
that we apply our principles of true
democracy. *"* They don't know what
we think He says that the Ameri-
cans have won them through kindness.
Ladies of st. Boniface Congregation
have made arrangements for holding a
series of banquets, one every SIX
weeks, beginning on February IL, for
the men who have returned home from
military service.
Corp. John Arndt has been located
by his parents. He is in the Debark-
alton Hospital in New York City. He
was reported as seriously wounded
many weeks ago.
Mai A. L. Nash has cabled that no
more mail be sent to his old address
and it is supposed that he may be en-
route to America.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert dip had not
heard from their son Walter since he
embarked for service overseas last
summer until last week. He related
his experiences since leaving. He is in
the motor truck service. He says he
has not been in the front line but has
been in such close touch with the
fighting that he has learned and seen
war in as grim and CHASTITY a phase as
one of war excited ambitions could
hope for"
The county Food Administration
went out of existence at midnight last
Friday. Mr.. Henry Mulholland served
as administrator for a year and made
a splendid success of the work. The
state administration is on record as
saying that the service here was the
best in the state,
Walter Houghton, Jr., for months in
a German prison camp, writes that he
is at Vichy near Paris and is getting
so fat he can hardly button his coat.
He expects to be ordered to rejoin his
command in Germany instead of head
ing for Manitowoc an unpleasant pros
pect 70 him.
A letter was received last week from
Archie Fischer from Coblenz, Germany.
He got his baptism of fire at Chateau
Theirry and from then on was in on
the real thing to the end.
Private John Franz writes from obi
val, France that being on guard last
Christmas day he had his salute re-
turned by President Wilson, General
Pershing and staff who passed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Lawrence re-
ceived a letter from their son Curtis
last week from Dierdorf, Germany and
dated December 80. He writes of the
march into Germany and adds: Il have
been on the big fronts since last May.
| was at Chateau Theirry, Soissons
st. Mihiel, Salient and twice on the
Verdun front, ! was in the Argonne
forests when hostilities ceased. He re-
lates several narrow escapes. Lawr-
ence is in the 12Sth Inf Hdq. Co., 32'd
divisions
Corporal Osul Bredeson, grandson of
Mrs. o. Torrison, spent Sunday with
relatives here. He was badly wound
ed in action in France and spent sew
eral months in hospitals over there. He
is still receiving teatment at the hos
pital at Great Lakes, H., and gets
about with a cane.
That the material being gathered
by the War history Commission, which
material is to be permanently filed
Ill Ine IuDllC bluIdly, Will ShoM oOAiS
interesting details, is exemplified for
instance by the war record of John A.
Clark, son of former Clerk of Court
Clark. Younk Clark is a private in Co.
M. of the 18th Inf. His regiment is
part of the 29th Div. popularity called
the Blue q Grey Division, suggestive
of the union of the North and South
Mr.. Clark was thouroghly trained,
having been in four camps in this coun-
try, namely Custer in Michigan, Cor
don in Georgia. Mcclellan in Alabama,
and Stuart in Virginia, He landed in
Europe on the 2Sth of June and within
a month after his arrival he was kept
actively engaged. From July 25th
to September 23rd he saw active SER
vice in defense of the center section
in AlsaceS Then from October 8th to
October Goth he took part in the cam
paign North of Verdun. On October
Sth he was in the reserve at the battle
of Notebook hill and two days later
was in the battle of Molleville Farm
and the week following in that of
Grande Montaone On the 23rd he took
part in the capture of Etraye Ridge
and three days later in the attack on