Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1919-01-23

| was not loI gbu ouAN NVuiN" N~'e
home for long time, as | am having
a good time, and expect to have until
| return. Wen. dad, It is almost time
to go to work, so | will close for this
time, hoping everything is o. X, and
that get to see yQp before long. SO
good bye.-Iarry.
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From Jesse n. EngIe
J. N. Engle, well known here and
la Y. NJ. c. A. worker, writes to c, G.
Wyandt from Paris, December 10:
I've been a Partisan for twenty days,
and had / time and ability to de-
scribe all about lit would take too
long. | was first TO be assigned 10
German prison camp "Y' work, be-
cause OF my German. That's what
my Pennsylvania Dutch did for me.
Bnt ] was afterwards told that as !
signed for Italy, ! must report there.
but after | had spent two days In
getting passports, etc, from the Am
erican embassy, Italian and French
Consul and French project Of police,
where ! stood I'm line two hours and
then got In quicker by one of our
party tipping an official 10 francs,
($2). j was then told that a wire
from there ordered all men going
to Italy to stop. SO / am stopped,
and my personnel man says, now he
wants to send me with occupation
troops in Germany. | will know In
a few days Ny red workers card
has not come yet No man can leave
Paris without such a card.
For the time being ] am assisting
a few hours a day with Christmas
boxes, for refugees, orphans and con-
valescents, to make them happy
Christmas. There are from 1000 to-
1000 Y men in Paris and you have
no idea of the crowds and jams and
line-ups. Line-ups for meals, for
mail, for theaters, for toilets, for cam
teen, for buses and what not. More
than twenty hotels are taken over
by Y. NJ c. A., Y. w. c. A., Red
Cross and u s. army, and some very
large ones.
was at one grand opera. At least
third were in khaki. On the street
one is kept busy receiving salutes
from non CONS and saluting officers
Soldiers are here on leave or going
home or to England or to another
place in France. I've met men from
every state. After getting lost 1000
times and walking a million miles,
I'm now a pretty good Paris guide.
cannot walk six blocks without be-
ling stopped six times by some U. s.
man who wants to know where this,
that and the other is. use my maps
and guides vigorously, and am hard
to lose now, though its the easiest
place to get hopelessly lost. Many
a man in desperation has grabbed a
taxi, street car or subway and asked
to be taken to his hotel.
President Wilson is still here I'll
not attempt to tell you Of his re-
Iception. You, of course, have read
of it. / saw him twice in New York,
also Now l feel acquainted with
him. l also saw the royal procession
when the king and queen Of Bel
GUM were here and today comes the
King of Italy. Holidays half the
time; its raining hard now, but that's
normal weather here. Sunday Wis
tied Versailles. It's too great to try
to describe. When l think of all that
has transpired since Louis XIV start
ed to build 1t in 17SO-the most bril-
liant courts in the world and all
crowned heads have been received
there. Louis and Marie Antonette
also lost their heads there. Benjamin
Franklin and Lafayette were honored
there. The seeds Of the American
Revolution were dropped at Versailles
and brought about the French Revolu-.
ton. But I'll not write a book on it.
now, though I'd like to write a small
one. I've seen many other sights but
won't write about them either I
was at Sunday evening service two
nights ago and heard ROdeheaver,
Billy Sundays former musician and
right hand man, last evening l at
tended a series Of boxing bouts. -Four
Frenchmen defeated four Americans,
Two were knocked out in the second
round, and I felt much Inundated.
About 5000 soldiers and other y. s.
people were there.
l heard 200 men are being held
at Havre waiting for room and ac-t
commodations here, but think re-
cruiting has stopped in U. s. Al
though rumor tells one anything.
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