The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-01-17

erful s%earchlights kept plying their
long shafts Of light through the dark
ness. The tramcars got my goat and
reminded me of a New York sight
seeing buss, with their two stories.
The money proposition puzzled a
lot of us but it did not take us long
to learn the value Of the different
coins.
We crossed the English Channel of
the night of Oct. 10, landing at Cher.
bourg in the morning. After hiking
five miles we came to another Brit
ish rest camp where we spent ten
days, and during the whole time we
had miserable wet weather.
The first thing that impressed us
in France was the wine shops. Every
other house has a wine room and it
seemed like the people live on the
stuff. After being in Cherbourg a
week, they marched us to the rail
way station and loaded us on box
cars. We left in the afternoon and
rode for four days and nights before
reaching Langres. We were side
tracked for hours at a time as the
Red Cross trains always have the
right of way. Everything here as in
England travels on the left hand side
and it sure seems funny to us.
On thA ~ nor0r1 L1,o,oo x-o loJ
a chance to see something OF the
town Of lie Mons, Tours, Buorges,
Nevers and Dejon, and several other
large cities. l for one saw more Of
these cities than the rest as l got
left at a small station called VERNE
and it took me six days of chasing
around all the big cities to finally
find my outfit. There were two of
us and We had a regular time riding
the passenger trains and eating on
the diners.
Well, after reaching our base train
ing camp we went into intensive
training and got ready for the front.
They shipped us up along about the
end of October and l had a chance to
"go over the top" several times. We
were in a sector about 20 miles south
west of Metz. 1 had some thrilling
experience and narrow shaves.
On the fourth day l was there l
took sick with a fever and came back
to Langres by truck, l reported to
the camp infirmary and they showed
right in bed, fed me salts and
pills but-I seemed to get worse. AT
ter about a week of it l broke out
with a rash and they proclaimed it
measles. They shipped me here by
ambulance and l am now at camp
hospital No. 7, which is in a small
town called Humes, have been treat
ed fine ver since being here and am
feeling better every day. l have a
good bed in a warm room and the
food is the best I've had since leav-
ing the States.
had to be awfully careful and not
get the pneumonia, which so often
follows measles and nearly always
proves fatal. We are greeted every
morning with a heavy frost and the
weather is getting colder every day.
Well, the armistice has been sign
ed and things are about over. We
are all mighty glad for you can't
imagine what awful conditions exist
in and around mo mans land"
Some Of the boys will be going back
soon but / hardly expect to see Ho-
boken again before spring or early
summer. l will probably go direct
to Cleveland and work there as 1
have nothing else in view.
l have got so l car speak French
a little and get along fairly well with
the people, at least l can make them
understand, if I want to buy any
thing. They are very enthusiastic in
getting our francs and centimes and