The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-05

mans are. I will write as many of their
 tricks as l can get in, but in their se-
 quenee. In this drive 8 sergeant and I2
 men were sent up a valley and told to
 empty machine gun crew. They suc- 2.
 ceeded in getting in and when the boys
 were ready to fire the sergeant gave
 orders not to. The men lowered their
 guns and wh they did so the German
 sergeant shot our sergeant through the
 heart with a Louger pis.ol and yet they took the rest prisoners We had some
 wounded Germans to pass through our hands; they were sad faced men about 50 years of age. One was shot through the leg and died in the ambulance, poor fellow. lie had a photo postcard in his pocket Of his little girl; it was mailed last Christmas auG' she wished her father a Merry Christmas and said she hoped God woGid let him ccnae back on his next birthday Poor little girl, her father has sope because a nation has allowed al insane egotisEi to hurl it to destruction.
 There were several hundred prisoners but we did not them. They all say we are not Americans, but British in disguis
 One German we cared for spoke Eng fish. lie said. We are beaten; we know i it., the Kaiser knows it, but We ruled the world until the United States came in. lie said the Germans underestimated 1 America he also said he thought we would run like some others but found out they were mistaken" He said Ger
 man propaganda scoffed al the idea of
 America having a large available force. l The next day the 360th infantry, holding ! adjoining trenches made their drive; here we run upon a different proposition 1 The drive a great success, but the Americans pushed over the mountains | and there was no available road for the 1 passage of ambulances. They had about i 1S0 cases but we could not get them until daylight. You people cannot conceive l No Mans Land Imagine Red noun
 tain cut crss-cross with trenches, few feet apart, the tops being meshed with
 a cobweb of barbed wire
 1 We were dependent upon the engineers l to clean road. 1 went to X to seek
 road but there was only one. which l as yet had not been unbarricaded. Early i next morning l went with ambulances
 and litter bearers to search for a road. ! This momentous day will be described 1 in letter number ? Love to all, your ! loving son. ALVIN.
 Alvin E. Belden, first lieutenant NJ R. C., Ammunition company 359. sanitary train 315, 90th division.
 Y. w. c. A. ACTIVITIES
 l The last party given by the extension ! department under Miss Jones was l party after ones own heart in that there were nearly as many men as girls present. quite like before the l war days. Even the game of Going 1 10 Jerusalem is doubly exciting when l a goodly number of men are in ths l line and marching around the chairs to the music. which stops suddenly. ! causing scramble for the chairs. 1 The household party on Friday night 1 was woefully lacking in men. only one | brave young man being present among 1 A girls, but nevertheless the party was voted one of the most thoroughly en- | joyable. due to the clever games in- | stituted by Miss Jones of the extension
 department and Miss Wolfram of the ! physical department. the most attracss 1 tive game being a future husband pic- ture gallers Heads of men cut from 1 magazines were wrapped in red paper, < bodies in white paper; each guest hav- | }Hg beeiis&f furnish hesf sMs.ssI q sheet of | paper and dab of pasfe, drew red ! yellow and white package and pasted i the head body and trousers so as 1 to make man. The art gallery thus framed was enough to puzzle any group 1 of judges, but in this case the one real l man present constituted q committee of one to award the prize for the
 best looking husband.
 The New Years vesper service was conducted by Dr. Edmonds, who