Arizona republican., 1919-06-10
GAME BUNCH OF MEN
 ARE BOYS OF 340TH"
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Continued from Page One) 23 rounds, and when you consider that | the worlds record, established by gun ners of years experience, is 32 shells in ! one minute. you can appreciate what ! the boys did.
 March Into Germany
 For 24 hours after the order came | to cease firing on account of the arm istice the regiment laid low. They were l not taking any chances that it might | be a mistake, or that Fritz might start l something. They stayed right on the l job until the complete data reached the | front
 "On November 18th, they started for Germany. They marched for Il days steadily, making an average of 27 kill i ometres a day, carrying full equipment and on foot. Starting from Hatton- vile, France, they marched across l part of Lorraine, Belgium, Luxemburg, and into Germany, where headquarters were established at Schoenecken, Ger many. It rained every day all day ex- cept the first day, too.
 "Of course, the outfit was not in the best of condition as to equipment after so long at the front and the long march, and work of re-equipping and getting into shape started at once. Lots of the men had French and Ger man haversacks and other stuff they hay picked up to replace what they had lost, but the outfit was soon in fine shape again.
 Visit Points of Interest
 Much time was spent in training and maneuvers, for our orders were to be ready to go into action at minutes notice, day or night, if it should be- come necessary. Nevertheless, many of the men got leave and visited points of interest in Germany, Belgium and France.
 "Billeting was an interesting matter. The soldiers all lived in the houses with the German inhabitants. The bil- letting officers would go to the house and ask how many rooms they had for soldiers. The head of the house would protest volubly that he had no room at all, that his house was small and his family large. Parade your family" would be the order.
 ''They would line them all up and count noses, weed out the neighbors kids they had run in for good measure, and assign the family a number of rooms, and take possession of the rest The German men, who had returned from the army, unless they were sick were told to sleep on the floor or any other place they liked, and the beds taken for our boys. We could not see any reason why those fellows that had been making us all that trouble should have the beds and our fellows sleep on the floor.
 Glad to Meet Governor l The Germans are whining and de- ceitful outfit, and up to the time we left, had not seemed able to connect with the idea that they were licked, seemed to think it was draw. They know better now.
 "On May 9th, we left for Brest, France, to embark for home. We were in Brest only three days, when we en- parked on the Agememnon and the Amerika and made the passage in eight days. Brest, at the time we were there, was one of the best organized camps have ever seen.
 Governor Campbell was on the dock to meet us, and I want to tell you that the boys were sure glad to see the gov ernor. Even the hard-boiled Demo- crats were tickled to death. I saw Neri Osborn shake hands with the gov ernOr for about five minutes, until some of the other boys figured it was their turn.
 He went with us to camp. al l was a very great help all along in getting action that would hurry us toward home, the place we wanted to go. The Rocky Mountain club surely treated us in the finest manner possible, putting on an entertainment program that was 1 fine"