Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-29

from home. I'll venture that this ia the nearest to the truth Of any state ment he ever made Whoever wrote those letters from home-no matter whether it was loving father jvi- Drating with pride in his son wR6m he believed to be a real soldier. ar fond mother who daily prayed that her boy might be of real service to his country-whoever wrote those letters, filled them with the love of hearts that knew sacrifice. that knew true loyalty, that were over. flowing with patriotism; and this boy couldn't stand the gaff. couldn't stand few discomforts, couldn't show him. self a man. I just can't help feeling sorry for him and his kind. I have and so has every one else that went ! to France, slept in the mud and had the rain and snow blowing in on our beds, and waded around in mud LID to our knees and been soaked through to the skin for days at a time with no fire to dry out with and no dry 'lothes to put on, but what does 1t amount to if one is accomplishing something?
 Handful of Men Organize Great Camp
 The early operations the Port St. Nazaire can best be told by Orig. Gen. s. D. Rockenback, in command of Base Section No. at this port, who writes in part as follows:
 Headquarters, Base Section. No. 1, A. r. O. 71, France, 10 April, 1919
 Early in June, 1917. was on board to inspect and report on the opera tion of British Base ports in France and we drew up lot of regulations for handling our own, but I unguard- edly remarked that we had enough instructions and regulation to handle Base port, but what we needed were a few officers with brain and brawn to open the port and do the work The next day I was reminded of parrot story. I had talked too much and got orders to leave Paris the night of the 18th of June for St. Nazaire. There arrived here on the goth of June, 1917, five officers and ten clerks, That was the personnel which started this port, and today the Base Section is being operated by 2,27S officers. 62,000 men and nurses, and 10000 prisoners of war
 "WAen you realize what task the United States had in this war to send men anywhere from three to five thousand miles from it's Base ports in the United States to Base ports in France, and then across France for distance of 375 miles, a country we did not know and whose language we did not speak, and when you consider the enormous number of men and the great quantities of SUD- plies, you realize what a task it was.
 Urgent Pleas of Allies Answered
 This port started on June 20th, 1917. On June 18th, the 1st Omer- ican Division arrived. Keep in mind that the condition of this last Amer ican Division on landing in France was due to the demand of the Allied High Command that we get an Amer ican Division over here quickly as possible so the French and British could see that we meant business and to carry out our declaration on enter ing the war. We were not prepared to equip the men. France said: send the men and we will equip them. Thanks to the French we were able to house the entire Division in Camp l, also thanks to them we had a Di- visional bakery with five days bread supply for 10000 men and with it we maintained this supply for six months. Then demands were made to exhibit the American troops. we
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