The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-08

Marsh Cozier, well known in Mos
COW, where he lived many years, bu
now resident of Bovill, has received
the following very interesting lettel
from his son, Marshall, Jr., who j.
still in France. The letter follows:
Pauillac, France, Mar. 7, 1919
Port of Embarkation Maybe,
Dear Dad: Received your letter
today, dated January 31st. 1t is &
big wonder that l received it at all
after all the moving around that
have been doing in the last two
months.
| do not remember whether | wrote
to you from the last two places
have been in or not, but rather than
have you miss some of the interest
ing facts connected with them / will
elucidate few remarks upon the sub
ject of "Homeward Bound"
| We left Issoudun two months ago
yesterday bound for the port Of en-
barkation, which same happened to
be Bordeaux; or to be more correct,
| a village about eight miles from Bor-
deaux called Yvrac, where we were
| billeted from January 9Th to Febru-
airy 18th.
From Yvrac we hiked about a
| thousand miles to the famous "Cootie'
Mill, where we had ourselves exam
ined for all the ailments known to
the medical profession, but the head
line act was the "Cootie Hunt"
While we went thru the baths and
examinations our clothes were put
thru baking oven to cremate all the
"seam rabbits" which might be try
ing to stow away for a trip to the
good old u. S. A. If fellow needed
new colthes he got them, and if he
needed a haircut he got that too, in
fact, he got it whether he needed it
or not. Of course / got mine. When
they get thru ordering you to have
your hair cut they tax you one franc
for the privilege of having it cut by
some guy that was probably tin
smith or steeple-j jack in civil life.
Believe me, there were some hand
some looking lads came out of that
mill, and more different styles of
hair-cuts than | ever knew existed.
We stayed at that camp for eleven
days and then an order came for us
to proceed to port of embarkation.
We at once proceeded. After a hike
rived at the docks, where we were
greeted by the Red Cross, God bless
them, and they gave each man a cup
of hot coffee, a sandwich, a pack of |
cigarettes and handkerchief. II
changed my French money there for
good old green-backs, and at present |
time I have quite roll After we |
had rested for about three-quarters |
of an hour, we went aboard a tug |
and atoonee thot.we were going down |
the river to board transport. The |
disappointment of my life came when,
after about an hours ride, they put
us ashore at this place.
"This place." by the way is "some
place" 1t was naval aviation sta
ton, but now it is used OF stow troops
away until a boat happens along that
will take them back home. Our quar-
ters are in big assembly sheds that
were used for the ea-planes, and
there are about ten aero squadrons
mere besides four or five balloon
squadron and a. bunch of artillery and
from the Fifth army corps
and the Sunshine division.
We are about two hundred yards
rom the river Gironde, which flows
nto the Bay of Biscay. There have
,een several boats pass since we land
ID, but l guess they don't know we
ire here because none of them stop.
There is no place to go here at all.
The Y. M. C. A. and the X. of c. is
losed up on account of quarantine,
nd we can't go out and scout around
ecause there is no place to scout
round in except down to the river
ank, where you can find me most
ny time of the day that l am not
n duty. Jail will hold no terror for
lie when l get home, because in Jail
GU know just how much time you
re getting and here you don't know
thing; may be here two months and
lay go out tonight, it is that uncer-
ain.
General Pershing was here Febru-
ry 18th and made big inspection.
II the troops turned out in full pack
nd stood at attention in open-rank
,rmation while the C. in C. gave us
lie once over. He didn't say any
ling to me as he passed but he wink
|, and knew he would have stopped
II chat but he was in a big hurry.
fter the inspection he made
,eech to the troops and thanked
EN- for the part they had played in
'dliuS IHe nun, he Expressed HIS
.art-felt appreciation as General
ID as representative of the people
home who were not fortunate
ough to come over.
The commander of the naval sta
IN here is old Fighting Bob" Evans
n, and from all the pictures have
er seen of Admiral Evans, his son
dead ringer for him, he is only
captain.
The Monsoon tide is coming in now
d the river gets somewhat high.
starts to come in along in the even
: and is at high tide early in the
'rning, then about three or four in
: afternoon it is low Every time
comes in it comes up higher until
} twenty-first Of this month and
IN it gradually goes down to normal
ain. There are marks on the steel