Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-29
Lieut.. EAGER IN charge Of HOSPITAL

mines to Germany in carrying on the
war-and of what she has now lost to
the gain of France.
In Thionville, no Americans except
a. few signal corps men. So / sought
the French commandant, head Of an ar
tillery regiment of 310's going up to
Mayence in ten days, and he arrang-
ed for our billeting. myself in cham
Der in town-an orderly took me
across the street to the chief of po-
lice and I got my assignment to a
house on the main street Of the town
| in the room Of a French captain who
was away on permission: However,
his orderly was there and poured out
my water, for me, etc, etc. And the
com1nandant had me around TO his
regimental mess for dinner and that
was a very pleasant and interesting
occasion. The meal being excellent,
the French were cordial and in high
! spirits, the surroundings German, the
| Hotel Benz-the place to seek when
you're in Diedenhofein or now Thion-
vile again.
We got going at 1880 Wednesday
morning-and without incident were at
| Luxembourg, the Duchy of the name,
at II o'clock. We passed two hours
there. I saw something OF the city
large city divided into ten parts by a
deep and wide ravine, into which you
look down from the great bridges as
! into a toyland. with it's red rooted
j houses, and real little plots Of land,
and signs of business everywhere.
Food is scarce there-12.50 francs
| for a lunch that would cost half of
that in France.
From Luxembourg city, we went in
to a country of high hills and far
winding valleys--it was an grade
road that again tested Our third speed
low geer. Finally we got to the last
summit and there coa5ted down the
longest hill don't know how many
mies-I know of-winding in and
around lined by high evergreen, down
into the valley of the Saure, where at
| Echternach We hoped to find our Jour
neys end. But E. II. ". had never
been there-but 1 learned at third
corps collecting hospital--tremendou
" busy that day III the darkness of
i've o'clock evacuating several hun
dred sick men--that the outfit was al
Trier (the French Treyes(. SO we goI
supper at the hospital--anG our BID
lets from the town major.
L was placed With a German Tner-
chant and had al extremely fine sleeT
in short little bed with feathers ovel
and under me il a little room, Will
|
| that might have stood there for three
hundred years. I got into Germany fol
, the first time that night, by strolling
over the Saurebricke, the mid -poin
: OF which is the dividing line between
the duchy and the empire which i
! refused to join fifty years ago.
!, We had a beautiful journey down
the valley of the Saure the next morn,
, lng-the Promenade des Benedictinei
l it is called-and it was easy to sc,
why the old monks used to walk there
It is charming country-picturesqu
little villages, hillsides covered witt
vineyards, and the river rolling dow
: to Wasserbillige which means, I be
lieVe, water cheap-'to join there tn
I Moselie, which we had left at Thion
/ Lville. We crossed the river there an,
!. were really and truly in Germany wild
S the imperial eagle marking the bound
$ airy and the French influence and fla
q vor felt in Luxembourg left behind
q Two hours brought us into the out
. skirts OF Treves--or Triev III Ger
4 many, and there the chief of the con
II voy of trucks met US with JOY, an
e with some surprise at our fast tim
u and general success. He directed u
u TO our hospital, in d caserrls occupie
t by German pioneer infantry and use
I since the war as a hospital, a grea
8 place under the lea OF high nil a
g the top of which is the monument. di
= Mariensaute. I found 4 after a liltl
1, searci-there are number of hospi
d tails here and we rolled into the court
J Nard just about fifteen minutes befor
q noon. Thus ended the three day
$ trip with which I made my war-lil;
d appearance in Germany. And frol
.; the gaze Of everybody, everywheI
d along the way, AT my delouser, I ina
y CINE they may have thought I ha
/ some strange and mysterious instrl
$, ment OF destruction, brought fro1
l. America to the end CT German dowr
ID fill
n I was put on a ward immediate
y aftor arr;val for wa are la!uged vii
II Patients, and yesterday 1 was change
II noin = 6eneLal -Waru and placed
lie charge OF che pneumonia servic
There is going to be a lot of it-ar
> we all know what the MOI tally Ia
H. is and has seen for fifty years. ST
e we are doing what we can.