The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-01-02

that you could drive team and
wagon through. Three Of us were
transferred to 121 Heavy Field Ar
tllefy a,Ss S5 Or sdn inch ac Euns Tine
raids that they were classed as
shock troops. Before going further
will state q few more scenes on this
drive. At first admit that saw
Quinten. Roosevelt's grave. All
that was left of his machine was the
fsteel rims of the wheels, which
| veni}rs. / viii never forget the first
night that the enemy bombing
planes came over and dumped their
hardware Gas we say) all around us.
1t seemed as though they merely
opened the back end gate, and let
them spill. They would be, gone
perhaps an hour or two and here
can imagine how much sleep we
got. | believe it was the 28th of
August that we set out on a big
hike to the Scissors sector. After
eight or ten days of hard hiking we
pulled into position at small ra-
is where l witnessed some real bat,
glasses q have pair of dandy
German glasses to bring home). On
September LIST and August 31st,'
Boo Coo prisoners were. taken. They
said that the Kaiser had offered
c c to quit right then. They are
scared to death of the Americans,
and when they learn that they are
up again them they either come Ov-
er with their hands up or reverse
their speed at once. You have
noticed that by the papers the way
~ n,rvs 1oc m
9Th. We left there on our way to
Wassy where we had rest for a
week. We were taken by rail part
of the way. We were at Wassy
when l wrote the letter of Sept. r.
If it had been so we could have writ
ten all particulars in each letter,
coming all the time but Uncle did
MT deem it obliging. September
liz, we set out on a seven day hike
for the Verdun front. The gun po-
sitions were some eight or ten kllos
behind Mt. McConn, this being the
objective for the 121st Regiment to
fire upon. In the front of four
consisting of $50 batteries or 1000
guns so you, can guess by that of
the enemy s Resistance. After four
hours barrage the Infantry advanc-
ed where the French had been
pounding away for four , years eacs, a a
the positions that had been No
Mans Land" All this time was ex-
ceedingly hard to cross, the. roads
being bombed and rebombed until
words are scarce to explain its like
ness. The engineers were kept
busy here for weeks. We positioned
the next time at the foot of Mt. Nc
| Conn hoIiava 7 mentiOned To Won
about SO many enemy planes being
brought down, in my letter Of Oct.
18th. One was brought down close
to one of our batteries and l now
possess the observers goggles (Im
going to bring them home); we we
above Romgnge at the time hostil-
tiles were ordered to cease. | can
say we were all in luck there for
! the Smelling sure wasn't light. This
was a good sized rail head and the
Germans had all kind of lumber
and tools of all description, so we
built some pretty safe dens. The
Nov. LIST was a. great success, for
thousands of prisoners were brought
/, in. The next day of course, a bunch
of us went up toward the Infantry
lines on a policing trip as we call
it, and we sure got Boo Coo sonVe-
Mrs. l made some good money on
belts and stuff, but of course, in ; re,
stuff that 1 wanted of the othec fell
S rtz Ny Gyee pals m fa b @s 10
tits letter to a peak. I'm obliged
to say that we are camped close TO
a little burg called BussS, some
live miles: west OF barley Dnct:
Lots Of the stuff has been handed in
5 an dthe search will be completed in
: few more days The wind is that
. we are going to proceed TO or near
Bordeaux, a town on the coast;
That looks like we might be started
back before very long. OF course,
we cant tell one thing about it;
: today l must close. One Of our
lieutenants took a bunch Of us to
r Barley Due. for hike and to get
, good bath. We liked just a
l short distance and we hailed a Y
: NJ. truck Il was the last one to ge,
l in, so I climbs in the seat with the
E drivers. We hadn't more thar
Y NJ. girls from Pennsylvania.
E helped them in and they insisted
: that l ride in the seat with them
a AS luck would have it. the pretties
0 of the two sat right on my lap
0 Can you imagine anything like tina
IN france. / never lelL 81 luuSu a
: home since 1 was in Liverpool. It,:
e Impossible to talk to these French
! girls. Well folks don't believ'
e there is anything disappointing
), about this letter. and I'm sure i
o will be marked with credit. / will
a say to mother that she must bea
5. in mind the title of the song W,
J Sing What's the Use of Worrying
5 and when l come home you musn'
a 60 too wild over me-. although
It have went through a bunch of stui
# and faced a lot, but there were
# bunch of us in the same boat
II know you can guess how eager
It am to get back and how glad m
Z out Leon. Tell everybody hello 70
81 me and tell Roy that / Will ~