Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-11

Sl ON iO4l5J oIi Olls> dii0 OCdukl4uA@ ire the dirty work.
 One of the natives there fatty re- flsed to give me even a pail of water to wash in. More gratitude.
 While we were ill St Geomes, I was instrumental in getting 50 mem Laugres. ant these were all from our battalion. The club gave 6 big ban Qlet, but as [ was sick at the time was unable to go.
 We stayed in St. GeorHes about two weeks. end then moved up to the front, making our headc,uarters at a little town called St. Jean, where we were billeted in shacks made of logs and mud. Rats held the controlling interests there and we We're outnum- bered hundred to one. We began to send out men as soon as we were un- loaded and covered a good portion of the Metz front.
 Our food was good then and we I were as near contented as we had been since we left the states. Aeroplanes were as thick as bees and at night we were rocked 10 sleep by the roar of a l barrage which is impossible for me to describe.
 l We were at St Jean for five weeks i and then we moved to Rogerville. an other mud-h hole, where tEe rats were very much ir evidence. We were there the day that the arn1istice went | irto effect and the barrage that went both ways on the night of November l 10th was just q roarinG hell l We were l.1lleted in FreriCh barracks and I think that the rats must have l followed us and picked up few of | tl7eir friends en route. They were bigger and hrayer than ever. Sleep v as almost impossible "s these dear 1 little creatures would go over the top of my bed in fifties Nothing was done to get rid of them and they wazed 1 fat
 We went from bad to worse when we ! lett Rogervil;e, for St. George, which was only a short ride, but as we are l 3 accustomed to moving on rainy Sun days it seemed as if we were cross | ing the continent.
 i In St. George we coUrted diphtheria, pneumonia, typhoid innueuza, and the remainder of the ffty-sc diseases on the calendar. Sanitary conditions were at the lowest Eo"si1ile degree. lue we were American goiliers.' and could not complain. Can you imagine ing these stunts with all rights to kick reserved? Nothing free about that. I'll say.
 We were stationed al St. George for ahout two weeks ad then starting out at , a. m. on a Sunday morning amid Govn-pour of rain and hail, we 1 pi oceeded to Piennes, a sm3n mining town about Go miles on the road to I,uxemburg, arriving there at O. cock at night. tired, hungry and frog CT. Owing to the fact that the of l 7. ft7I1 fortabIe quarters, we were again order cd to move cn the following morning. so off we went to AndeH. -la Pishe, or as the Huns called 1t "Dnutch- 9th" | We were quartered there for four days but the lice, cootics, bed bugs, l g1aybacks. etc. drove US out. and we went to Neidercorn. a little town in | I.uxen bourg, where we were quar- tered in a school house for rive days. We were all 100 per cent. lousy, and 2 good part of the time hungry. For some unknown reason. we mo.ed back to Nillersupt. where we are now and here we are. down :tsarted dis outraged, disgusted and practically stranded, wasting our good time when we might be back in Gods land, There aIr i couple 0' mine shafts here, but they were all blown to pieces by the Germans when the place was evacuated. It is sire heart breaking to see some of tue dirty work that they have done, destroying build irgs, and property that represents no military value, but thev surely did have the goods, and I dc not hesitate 10 say that If they hal had enough to eat that the decision would have been delayed for some time to come
 Our outfit is now dong the work Of prisoners, namely, loading gas shells onto freight cars and most of the shells leak more or less. Isn't that a rice job for free-born men in peace times?
 It is amusing to read in inc papers
 that we get from hsln9 about the
 brother1y love existing beCTeen the French and American soldiers. This is
 rot so, if can judge at all from the
 sentiments of the men in our oWr
 company We feel that we have beer
 made to pay dearly for all that we
 buy here, while the Frcncilmen buys
 at one-ha1f the price. He has alway:
 got his hand out and Uhines for more
 if it isn't flied.
 While the war was on | never heard
 q kick from man in OUT company
 but now that it is over we want tt
 go home. At one time the U. s. wa!
 shipping 800 300 men over here :
 month and Ii was necessary then tC cover half of the Atlantic to get here
 Now it is possible to make the triT | in less than one-half. t1e time anf
 cnIy 100. 900 men were shipped bacl
 last month, while Great Britain fa.
 already denobiliZed over a million
 men. Funny, isn't it?
 We are no: particularly interested 1 at this time in a league Df nations ol
 the division of the plums, ut what w
 want is a ticket home.
 I was fool enough to volunteer m,
 services once, but never agair" w
 surely cut sarne nice melons or may
 l.c lemons is nearer rigI,> il this man
 army, and yor can bet that we're any
 thing but satisfied.
 We hear occa sionalIy about some ef | fort being made in the staies towart getting us back home but l don't banl