Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-03-27

Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv.
them just escaped with his life from
a torpedoed ship and he urged US
strongly to sleep in u clothes, en-
phasizing the danger at hand, but he
was alone in this particular, as the
in the state Oom preferred to
the danger was not so great as
he seemed to anticipate. However,
after we had gotten we'll out to sea
with no casualties, he let US know that
he had authoritative information from
the officers on board that we were pur-
sued by one of the German submarines
but after all that may be a fish story.
All the way over we were required to
wear life preservers and in mid
ocean we had little convoy. AS we
approached the English coast WI wait
ed %anxiously the coming of the Mos
quito fleet of English d~estroyers to
convoy US in, but we waited in vain
for over a day, for no d~estroyers
came, and we found ourselves on the
coast Of England, practically
without a convoy with a full on
the night of the Goth of September.
The only reason why u convoy was
rot attacked was evidently because the
Boche was bluffed. We would have
allen al easy prey.
However, all went well, for the
following morning the destroyers APP
Deared and u convoy took no chances
)ut kept under full sail until about
two o'clock in the morning when we
weighed anchor in Liverpool. We
heard afterwards that a ship had been
torpedoed very lee us, and perhaps
the Germans felt that they had got
Ten enough blood for the time being.
A Secretary's Work.
My work on the boat as Transport
a most interesting, and
my association with officers and men
equally pleasant . We passed out to
the men, books, writing paper and in
stituted a number of games of various
and distributed many maya
zines, testaments and pamphlets.
This two weeks on ship board afford
ed an excellent preparation for the
work which | have since been doing.
| spent about a week in London and
about the same time in Paris, and
then was sent to Dion, an important
city not far from the combat area, for
assignment. | was assigned to the
Educational work and in a short time
made Divisional Superintendent for
this area. | am enclosing you here
with, a copy Of a letter which | wrote
to Mr.. Miller at the request of our
Secretary, which will give you some
idea of the activities for which | have
been responsible.
Is Appointed Dean.
On January 18th | was appointed
Dean of the American students in the
University of Dion, and Exchange
Professor in that institution. Since
that time l have been busily organic
ing this important work and am en-
herewith, a copy of the pro-
gram of our courses. We are now
ready to begin this work. Offices
have been assigned to the Command
ant and to me in a University build
ing and we are simply waiting for
the army order releasing the e
We shall take here, a minimum of
26O American students who have had
their high school training and two
years of college work. found among
them a numbr of men who will proba-
bly come to us, several of old
University boys, Captain Naples of
our Law School and Harris from
Jackson.
Meets DIR. Bishop.
/ spent some days in Paris last week
and had the pleasure of seeing a great
deal of Bishop, who now has charge
of the English work for France, a
most important position. The out
look for the University work is most
promising. The men will be released
from their commands and given $780,
90 a month for at least three months