East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1919-03-14
Interesting Letter
From Overseas

interesting letter to friend giving
lis experience on the sea and in
foreign lands. The Times is per.
United to make the following ex,
cerpts from this letter;
Continued from last week,
| In Edingbourgh l ,isited the
Edingborugh Castle and Saw the
'ells where many noted men wert
held prisoners. This is q Castle
With seven walls and double iron
Intes. The gates are concealed in
arches same as an arched doorway
snd are about 10 feet apart. They
have iron bars with arrow Shaped
points. In old days the enem,
was lured into these gateways and
either caught by the iron bars OF
between taem,
| On December first the Nevada
New York, Arksn sas, Wyoming,
Texas, Florida and Nebraska broke
homeward bound pennants anc
departed from the Grand Fleet.
We were escorted to sea by tht
two choice division of the British
Navy and also by three French
ships. On Thanksgiving day the
British Fleet gave ban quets TO,
the American Fleet. The Nevads
| vas requested to send six hundred
nen to FL. NJ. s. Furious and | was
me of the lucky ones. | have
,ever been shown more courtes,
han that dav by the'sailors of the
3rltish Navy. really the British
we're always courteous and mau,
| les of friendship were made thai
day that will never will be broken.
On December the fourth we
'nchored in Portland, england.
lere we found the Utah, Oklaho-
ua and the Arizona. Here We
we're given short leaves to London,
\ Portland and We, mouth, England, ,
pu December tenth all the y. s.
MenSo'war sailed from polClaud
4 sud met he President and his
4 oariy at sea. lie was aboard tn.
ieorge v ashington aud was es.
I 'orted b, the Pennsylvania. W,
formed a guard of honor to tn,
PRESIDENT and escorted him in.
o Brest, France. One liberty par
~ was sent ashore in Brest and |
vas lucky again. We OILY had
hours Liberty there but | saw
good portion and had o lot OF fur
.rylng TO talk French. With what
French could lake out and the
english the French girls could
speak We were able to undertanc
,ach other after some little diff
;ulty. The French girls say that
Frace would have been q natl on OF
che past il it had not been for tht
Americans.
we arrived In Brest on Decem-
Ger the thirteenth and on Dec. the
,ourtteenth we again broke home.
ward bound penants and sailed for
lome, Three French ships haC
heir lands out playing The Stal
>pangled Banner as we left tht
Jort. we were escorted to sea b,
several airplanes and seaplanes
We were supposed to have gottel
% New York on the 23rd. of Dec,
,ut while at sea we received ORDER
aot to 20 in until the 26th. IN
rider that the Hon. Secretary OF
Navy, (losephus Daniels) NIGH
eat Christmas diuner at home with
lis wife and review the Fleet On
ihe twenty. sixth, It was yer,
gldely published in the newspa
per that the feet was not able to
get in on the early date becaus,
II rough sweather, Thev stateC
hat it was the toughest weather
,yer encountered by the American
tleet and that the torpedo boatt
chat left Brest with US were moi
,ble to live in the heavy seas and
we're forced to 60 gouth in searcL
u warmer and calmer climate,
There is not word OF truth in tht
tatement. There were no torpedo
,oats with us at time. We hau
Dand concerts on the quartes decks
,vsry noon and evening which
would have been impossible hao
he seas not been calm. The trutL
ls that about 10000 men wert
forced to spend Christmas Cav at
sea tor one mans pleasure when
many others could haye spent the
day in New York.
Every one had a fine time in New
York and most everybody got t.
20 home on a furlough. The
Month in New York will never be
forgotten.
On January thirtyfrsL we saileo
from Naw Y0rk aud ann ,orad IN