The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-05

United States is the greatest country in the world. OvsT two million A. D. F. oioliers feel the same way. The money spent by the United States on the men overseas will bring it's result and will be an investment Every soldier that cAme through well and is returning safeiy should be a better man physically. nor ally ard mentally. It has been an eduea- ton for the soldier and his meatai ca pacities and ambitions have been aroused and he has ! hroadc: r.ew If life. They wisT make bet-as, citizens.
 Every A. E. F. soldier will bring back tha desire to see better roads built in the country The French nave wonderful roads. They are simply marvellous. Our regiment of engineers worked on the French roads during the war and after the armistice was signed. From Amiens to Peronne runs a straight icad for B miles. The man reads are 20 feet wide, well ditched or the side and there is a nlot of grass C feet wide with a row of trees on either side of tkc read. Every where in France are these good roads. Shell fire had little effect on them. The Germans on the retreat would mine and blow up the cross roads, but the engi- neers would quickly build around each side of the crater. l would like to see 3 straight road without a kink from here
 
 France 80 miles without a surve. On ac- count of the excellent roads troops could be moved from one point to another by truck very quickly and thousands of troops were moved this way. Our diyi- sion was transported from near Amiens to near the Bellicourt by truck a few aays previous to the attack
 INSPECTING THE TUNNEL
 '.On the day following the Capture of the Bellicourt tunnel by the 18th and 12oth infantry, assisted by the 105th eng neers,, Captain Smith said, Il inspected the tunnel It was one of the most com plete defenses that the world has ever known The tunnel was full of cham bers, many of them elegantly furnished, while others were only barely furnished with sleeping quarters. Many of the chambers contained electric lights and other conveniences.
 Probably the most famous of the rooms was the one in which the Amer jeans found two great boiling pots around which were found pieces of bodies of dead German soldiers. On the edges of the pots was what appeared to be fragments of flesh and there was head, arm or leg or two in the greasy liquid in the boilers. The story weni out that the Germans were cooking dead bodies to extract the grease
 MEN BLOWN UP
 q don't think that is true,' said Cap tain Smith. When I went with others to inspect the tunnel we found the room near the mouth of the tunnel. An exam ination of the room showed that there had been an explosion either inside ol out. In the ceiling overhead was a place that suggested that the sheli had en tered the room that way and it is my opinion, and the opinion of others wht made the examination, that the mer were blown to pieces by the shell. I'm conclusion now is that the room Wal used for a kitchen, and that the me1 were probably engaged in their dutie' when the shell exploded, scattering thei bodies over the room in fragments. Give the Alabama soldiers glorious welcome when they return. It will be thu event of their lives, and they will ap preciate it as long they live. Win ston-Salem entertained the North Caro- lima soldiers, and it put Winston -Salen on the map with me forever. The youni ladies of the city must greet them. Re member they haven't seen any real girl in a long time.