Evening journal., 1919-05-09
MADE
fine APPEARANCE
Lieutenant Dasey Tells In
Letter of Meeting Some
Delaware Boys
HE SERVED ON
5 DIFFERENT FRONTS
Special to The Evening Journal.

Special to The Evening Journal.
DOVER, May 9.-Unted states SEN
ator josiah o. Wolcott yesterday re-
ceiyed a letter from Lieutenant Robert
Dasey, 10Th Field Artillery, 32d Dlvl-
sion, which contains some 1atterin9 re-
ports OF the 59th Pioneer Regiment
,Delawarel. The letter bears date OF
April &c. and follows;
Dear Senator Wolcott:
Il know how much interested you
are In the Delaware boys in the 69th
Pioneers. so | though ] would give
you some news about them as ] was
fortunate enough 10 run acrQss some
OF them last week.
MY division l23d) has been in the
army OF occupation az Cablence, Ger
many, since November. We are now
enroute home Our orders were 20 go
from Cablence up the Rhine and sail
from Rotterdam or Antwerp. But the
orders were changed, and we are
routed through Brest. We turned In
our guns, horses and equipment near
Toul last week, and as our first tas.e
1f war was in the Toul Sector near
Metz a year ago, we decided 10 ride
WAEL IO rIf NIAN UAl IAANN oAAA htNAs
the graves OF our first casualties. We
rode over in an ambulance and found
many changes in the country. The ma
tives have moved back in the towns
and Il Is beginning 10 show sings OF
life.
eve went in a small place for some
thing 10 eat and while there several
soldiers came IN and ordered dinner.
They seemed 20 be all OF very good
appearance and made a business-l'ke
impression. One OF the officers with
me commented favorsbly on their ap-
pearance. and out Of curiosity asked
them "Mhat Organization and l was
greatly surprised when they said seth
Pioneers-Delaw 10 seemed flne %
see them and ! had quite a talk with
the boys. had seen them once be-
fore the lighting up IN the Argonne
near Verdun, and they have made
good as an organization and deserve
much credit for the work they have
done. They have seen plenty of ex-
citemont and you viii be proud Of
them when they come home.
Their chief topic OF conversation Il
home. and when they VIII get there
They regret very much that they were
not a flrst-class combat regiment with
chance 10 light. instead Of being m
the battle danger zope with other work
TO do. I surely would love 10 have
seen them as a fighting unit I knoN
they would have more than made good,
II they had been given the chance.
"My artillery fought with eleven dif-
ferent divisions fslso the French) and
five different fronts and we have had
a pretty good chance to size M the
nghting ability Of The various divisions
and very few organizations showed az
much snap, force and obedient train
ing as the seth Pioneers. No regiment
in the 18th or T9th Division is their
equal for appearance.
"Weil. we are az Brest. and hope 10
sail in the near future. Conditions here
are very good. We were surprised
after hearing so much criticism from
the lighting units the same as you do
from the cssuals and the others who
were sent home FIRST and fllled the
papers with so many ridiculous i'm
probable silly stories about what they
had done during the war. when the
majority OF them had never seen the
front
with very kindest regards,
sincerely,
bob Dasey."