Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-09

at this place that we were BOMBED by
Fritz from ah airplane for the first
time. We were new to the game then
and very carelessly left some lights
burn and when we arrived at the
| place it was dark and we used lights
as we were not used to working In
1.-THE dark as we are now. 1t was soon
latter our arrival at this place, tired,
hungry and foot sore, and a few
minutes after our arrival we suddenly
heard the humming of the plane and
then boom, six OF them, and the
next morning we found large aerial
bomb within one hundred yards of the
buildings in which we slept that night.
However, he never bothered us again
at that place as we always kept our
lights out at night. From this place
1--WE came to a point very near the lines.
We were then located near the town
of Albert. This town is north east Of
Amiens, that beautiful city which the
Germans fought so hard for but
never captured. AT the time of our
arrival at that place Amiens was under
shell fire of the enemy and was
pretty badly ruined Albert at the
time was in almost mo mans land"
for the lines, that is the German lines
run through the city, for our patrols
used to go down there nearly every
night. On the night of the 21st of
August l was up on the lines when
we were recalled and went back to
our company and thenon the % to
Regimental headquarters. 1t was on
the night of the % that the English
to whom we were attached, drove the
Germans out of Albert, over thehills.
There were but two hills on the other
side of Albert and from there it broke
away into wide plain for miles,
reaching nearly back to st. Quentin.
Well we heard that barrage, which
lasted nearly As hours and then the
English had advanced so far that we
could no longer hear even the heavy
guns. 1t was in three days that they
chased the enemy away over the
country and past the beautiful little
city of Peronne, which was then being
used as big German hospital base.
and where the British captured many
hospital supplies We left the Somme
front that being the front on which we
had up to this time operated on was
called. 1t was here that we learned
what war really was. It was here
we learned what aerial bombing was.
Every night Jerry was over our heads
dropping bombs all around us. It
seemed as though Jerry had a special
our train as we pulled out of the city
of Amiens the night we left that front.
From there we came over here to the
other end of the line and went into.
the scrap known as the Battle of the
Argonne, which took place north of
Verdun and which was one of the
battles which was to cut Metz off from
the Germans. However this letter is
getting pretty long and l will continue
Il next time or when you write asan
tell me where / left off and / will tell
you some more of this story. You may
find it quite interesting and you may
not
Talk about moving pictures for
Christmas, Well, we may at that if
we get back far enough by that time,
but so far have never seen a NOV
ing picture show since coming over
here and really don't expect see any.
/ hear that they have lots of them
back in hospitals and back areas, but
in forward areas soldiers are deprived
OF those pleasures, and we have been
in forward areas since we came over.
except when we came from the Somme
front over here and then we were on
the move all the time. have gotten
SO now that it seems though there are
no such things and that I could get
along without ever seeing anything
like that. However, we will soon be-
back in the good old u. S. A. again.
Love to all the family.
CORP. CHRIST H. HAFFNER