The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-02-07

but maybe I can do so in person next spring.
 Give best regards to all the boys. With best personal wishes to your self, Mrs. Riley and daughter and Mother Riley, I am,
 Yours,
 CORP. J. B. BROWN,
 Battery ID" $40 Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces.
 Larry P. Smith, formerly auto driver for Cansler & Webster, and a brother-in-law of Harry Martin. volunteered and joined the regular army in Fl Paso before the draft. He was attached to a motor train corps, and has been in service in France for several months. He is also with the Army of Occupation in Germany and writes from Montaboin on New Year Day:
 Montaboin, Germany, Jan1, 1913. MT. W. B. Kelly, Clifton, Ariz.
 Dear Friend Kelly: Some day and some place. This has sure been a dreary start for a New Year. No place to go and nothing but beer to drink. One redeeming feature is that we are not compelled to subsist on Dutch feed, but have plenty of good old American "chow."
 On Dec. 12-13 the First Division crossed the Rhine at Coblenz. No ceremony, no brass bands, or any thing else that we would expect to see or hear upon a day like this one was. Just plain old business all the way through.
 The celebrated monument of Kaiser Wilhelm lay to our left It is an immense affair of bronze and stone, a beautiful article, one must admit, but it's charm is lost when one real 1zes just what it represents.
 Fort Ehreibrietstein lay to ones right. High in the hills, it commands the surrounding country for miles I have heard it said that the fortress will accommodate 100000 men very easily. It is known as the Gibraltar Of the Rhine, it surely is we'll named.
 When we passed through the town Ehrienbrietstein) which lays at the foot of the hill. upon which the fort is located, the old Stars and Stripes were being hoisted upon the. fortress walls. That moment Bill was worth lifetime. One forgot all the h-- of these last trying months. Forgot tQ rQmanhor ohouf tho ,r~,,bo. os | times one was forced to drop in a mudy old shell hole or ditch, forgot for the instant the wounded and killed comrades and, whatever else one must endure on a long, busy front, for, was this not what we had expected to do-"cross the Rhine?' The day I landed in Europe I had this thought and wish in mind. My wish had come true sooner than l less true. As you are no doubt aware, the First was the only division of Ameri cans in the lines for some wees last year. -.-. - From the quiet Toul sector to Cantigney, near Amiens, early in the spring of 1918. There the Tanks took their first town Cantigny. We were the only American Division on the front.
 Our real worth was unknown Were we fit? Could we be expected on the job? At that time we were attached to the 10th French army and the French commander was skeptical. We were given a chance and the world knows the result (America's Answer.)
 From Cantigny, July 14th to Sois sons. Cantigny was bad but Soissons was h-. From Soissons to the Argonne and Dardinells as we'll as St. Meriel and the First Division never gave the enemy an inch oi ground, always took it from him. All through the Argonne, from Var ennes to Sedan-all IT, with g capital. Our losses were heavy, but we all wore a smile for that Boche was on his way down hill and oul goal was in sight.
 Finally the mutt said enough the armistice was signed and the scrap was, as the French say ''Finis The Army of Occupation was orga nized (the 3rd Army. The First Di vision was to lead. Our marcf through Alsace-Lorrainne, and Lux emberg was uneventful, unless one wishes to remember the welcome etc. Through the streets of Luxem berg. (city) and elsewhere we march ed, not as conqueorers, but as de liverers. We crossed the Moselle river at Gravenuachea into Germany