New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-01-01

lis good and sometimes I 90 to have
4 supper there at French restaurant, but
one has to order about three times to
4 get a square neal
got letter yesterday but not from
the states. It was from somewhere in
France and was written by friend of
mine in the old company. He told me
all about the outfit and said they had
moved to some ruined town closer to
the front.
We still go to work every morning
and drill two hours a week. We have
no more guns, gas masks or helmets. I
suppose that my job viii be up when
the peace terms are signed, which I
hope will be soon.
eve are reading the New York
Herald which gives us some news from
| the states as to elections, etc. just
looked at a map of the United States
and Saw San Diego, Cal, on there and
was thinking where l have travelled in
such a short time. They have started
to muster out troops over in the states,
understand. I would like to march
into some of the Alsace Lorraine cities
like Metz and Strasburg and then prob
ably Berlin. But if [ can get back to
the states without even seeing Paris [
will be very glad, and the sooner 1 can
get there the BETTER
Cook Henry Weier, Co. b., 35l Inf,
/ A. r. T., writes the following letter to
his parents under the date of Nov. "a:
Dear Parents: Received your let
ter and was glad to hear that you are
all well which is the best part of it, 1t
is Sunday today and the letters which
we write to our parents today will not
be censored, so | thought that would
not miss the chance. Well, everything
is fine with me and 1 sure am glad I
hit the army when I did. 1 admit I
always am lucky, in fact the whole regi-
ment is. We sure do lot of travelling
around since we came over here. /
don t know why it was, but our stuff
was sunk to the bottom Of the sea on
our way over here, and that is what
i kept us back from the front. Of course,
! quite a bunch of our boys were sick at
4 one time. We are only about 20 miles
from Metz. We could easily locate that
I town on he map. We are only about
II miles from the firing line. On ac-
count Of the war ending when it did,
we did not go any farther and believe
me, it did not end any too soon for me.
4 We left Belfort on the 10th and arrived
4 here the 18th by train. We were within
! 80 miles Of the trenches and we heard
! the big guns just aroaring. This sure
would not have been quiet sector
About IL o'clock on the 18th day Of
the 18th month the last shot was fired,
and we heard the church bells ringing
all over and now we were in a little
1-horse town ever since. I will just put
down the names of the towns we made
stopping places. We arrived at Liver
pool, England, the 9th of August; that
( Is as far as / can remember the dates.
We left Liverpool the same day and ar
rived at Brookwood Camp Stoney
! Castle, left there and arrived at South
Hampton, then crossed the English
Channel, and there was where we lost
our stuff: We arrived at Cherbourg,
France; from there we travelled in box
cars for two days and came to Flavigny,
and Haricourt. At that time I rode on
a fat car. sure was tickled, for I
had lots Of room and got good view
of the Alps Mountains. thought it
was awful to ride on box car 20 #.
long and there were 40 of us in one car.
Believe me, we were packed in like
sardines, as we had our packs along
with US. 4 sure was lucky when we
arrived at Haricourt after it was bonn
barded the night before we got here.
AS we left there for Cousevoix lot
Of us boys took sick with the influenza
so that we had to stay there for long
time. We left Cousevoix for St. Ledger
which was 80 miles distant. We
walked 10 miles the first day and 90
the next and it was what call a Job.
Carrying 80 pound pack, but we were
by that time real soldiers. We know
if anybody walks in the army it is the
{. {, infantry. After we were rested up we
marched to the front at Alsace region
J, but stopped not SO very far from there.
/ The excitement was all over and it
was very quiet sector. We were at
that place for four weeks, We left
there for Belfort and in some way or
other we did not get to move and We
were at Belfort for two weeks. We