Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-07-17
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM RHINE REGION
Private Carl Titus Tells of Trip
He Has Taken Through
Belgium and France.

Private Carl Titus, with the Amer
lean ENpeditionary troops in Ger
many has written "a very interesting
letter to his parents. regarding a
trip which he recently took through
northern France and Belgium. while
on furlough 1t will prove of in
terest to Record readers. The letter
follows
Saifig, Prussia, June 18th.
Dear Mother and All:
Well, | am back on the job again
after my weeks furlough and |
hardly know how to begin to tell you
about it.
may as well begin at the begin
ming. We went from here to Ander-
ach where we got our pass and took
the train for Cobenz. We STAYED
there one day and night. We went
out on the Rhine TO Stotzenfens
castle and went through it. We saw
armor and weapons of the Crusaders.
II is or was the property Of the
Kaiser. We saw the room that
J Queen Victoria occupied when she
visited Germany 1t was left lust
as 1t was when she was there. We
came back TO Coblenz and looked
around until 10 o'clock next day.
when We started toward Paris. We
got as far as Toul and stayed there
all night. The next day we arrived
in Paris.
While there ! sent table cover
to you and hope-it has arrived by
the time this gets home. II is hand
worked entirely and the girl said it
was part Venetian and part Cluny
lace. 1t was pretty expensive but
I'VE sez." Wen show the old lady
we think of her even in gay "Paree."
We went out to Versailles and saw
the balcony where Marie Antoinette
appealed to the people the morning
she and Louis XVI were taken to
Paris. We also saw her room and
that Of her husband in the same
palace We saw the room where the
Peace treaty viii be signed Of IL ever
Isl and stood in the same SPOT that
Bismark stood when he forced the
French TO accept the treaty Of 1870.
In the Concorde Square wc saw
where the gillotine did It's bloody
work in the French Revolution. We
went to Napoleon 5 tomb. where rest
at last the ashes of that restless
man and TO Notre Dame cathedral
where he crowned himself Emperor.
went up in the Eifee tower 9S7 feet
1t is the highest structure i'm the
world We rode IN the giant Ferris
wheel built at the time. of the Paris
worlds fair. We visited the Louvre
art galleries and saw the original
Mona Lisi by Leonardo DaVinco. the
one that was stolen a few years ago
and caused such stir. We saw the
famous Venus dc Milo and other art
treasures that | cannot enumerate.
We visited the church of st. Gervain.
the one that was struck by the big
Bertha shell, when about fifteen or
twenty were killed We saw the
Pantheon La Guerre which shows all
nations that took part in the war
and tries to show the spirit which
them. was in the Hall of
Justice where the Dreyfus case was
-ried. We came back by way of I
Chateau Thierry and saw where our I
iivision fought in July of last year. !
From there we went to Rheims and 4
Jaw the wreck of the cathedral. In 4
| few days ] shall send post cards '
lome and in those you will see how
was shot to pieces. We went to S
scissors and out over the battlefield G
# that region. We saw one dead r
ierman soldier still lying there and c
we're told that there were many lying
arther out. We saw many orchards
hat were Systematically girdled by
he Germans. "To be continued i'm c
he next issue June 22, near Neweid. y
'ince ! wrote you a few days ago 5
'e have taken a sudden move, have o
rossed the Rhine and are waiting o
or Monday night to come when q
eace terms win either be accepted e
r refused. uf ess more time is
ranted the Germans which we are ,
fraid wi be the case / think they "
re offerod pretty fair terms now "
nd they can take their choice be-
veen signing now or six months q