The Republican., 1919-04-17


Fourth Army Corps, Army of Occu-
patton, Germany.
Private Ernest B. Moon. with the
Fourth Army Corps, now stationtd at
Mayen, Germany. under date of Feb.
9Th, wrote letter to his parents, Or
phans Court Judge and Mrs. j. Thom-
as Moon. of near Deer Park, which
is published herewith. The young
soldier was drafted into the service
on August 9Th, last and on September
1st was in England, from which coun-
try he was sent to France and from
that country to Germany after the
signing of the armistice, he having
thus been a soldier in four countries
within the past six or seven months.
With the letter is printed halftone
engraving of the young man.
"Will try and write you a few lines
again. just received this mornig
two letters from home, one dated the
4th of November and one the 9th of
January, and you may be sure l was
glad to get them and to know that
you all had received a letter from me
and to learn that you are all well.
"We have been travelling from one
town to another ever since the armisi
tice was signed until we arrived here
at Mayen. Do not know how long we
will be here. Some say we are to
move soon, and hope it is true, and
it will be toward home
81 am so sorry to learn of so many
dying of the influenza at home. have
not had it, for which am thankful.
/ had my picture taken and will send
you one should they prove to be good.
was out all night recently, having
gone to Coblentz with another soldier
for some supplies for the Y. NJ. c. A,
when our truck went wrong and we
had to stay out the entire night 1t
was pretty cold out in the snow and
storm, but we got in the next morn
ing about eight o'clock The weather
| here has been fine all winter until
| about week ago, and now there is
about three inches of snow and cold
About seventy-five of our company
went to Coblentz yesterday for a joy
trip and l expect to join the next par
ty. The men say they had fine time.
"Well, don't know when | shall
get home, but do hope it will be soon
some time next summer, l suppose,
but do not worry about me-"
Under date of February 10th, after
expressing a regret that his captain
had met with an accident and broke
his leg, Private Moon said in a letter
to his father:
"The cooties are certainly loving
and stick closer than brother. I
wish was out of the army and then
perhape l could get rid of the pests.
1--WE are not in as good a town as
we have been for some time. 1t is a
small town, but is said to be the rich
est for its size of any other town in
Germany. The land hereabouts ap-
pears to be rich and is a great farm
ing community. You said in your let
ter to give little history of where l
had been and what had been doing.
| harly know how to start, but
was in England three or four days
travelling most of the time There is
some beautiful country in England
Then we came on to France. We Ian
ded in a little old town where we were
stationed month, and after we left
there we were in one place but few
days when we would move on toward
the front. could not begin to tell you
all the towns we were in in France
but none of them were of any size
We were at Bruchy, France, when the
firing ceased and were within hearing
of the guns. The night before the ar
mistice was signed there surely was
some powder burned, but just at the
time the firing was to cease it stopped
on the second and you could not hear
another sound so far as firing was
concerned We had not been in any
active service at that time, but if the
armistice had been delayed a few
days we would have been in it. We