New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-01-22

stayed more than q week in one place.
When we left Camp Upton we went to
Boston where we went on the boat,
| The Grampvan,, which was an Eng
lish ship and we had some time with
those Englishmen. They said they had
never seen such a crazy bunch before.
We we're the first Americans the boat
took over before they always took Ca
nadians and they were kind of scared.
They sang and said prayers all day long
and they always did what they were
y told to do. When we Americans got on
the boat we began to play cards and
swear and raise all day long
and none Of the Americans were ever
satisfied with the meals and they bought
moro candy, cigars and cigarettes in
three days than the Canadians did in
a whole week. After we were on the
boat for two weeks we at last landed
in Liverpool. Here we got a train and
went to South Hampton, got on a boat
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! again and went over to LIE Havre,
France, stayed there for two days and
got on a freight train in box cars. We
stopped at little place called Eau from
Gaumash where we stayed in tents for
one week. Then we went to Pende from
there it was about six miles to st. Val
le. After being there for week we
got on a train again for two days.
| don't know the name of the place
where we got off but we hiked again
and came through Toul and went to
{ Vale st. Tine where we stayed week
| then we went to Corneville from there
/ to Roulicourt and then to Bouscenville.
Hero we went into the trenches where
! we stayed one week. There we had
our first experiences. It was not so
bad when we were there, but those
:; that relieved us got badly gassed. AT
ter that we went in some woods not
far from Verdun and then to Pontza
Mousson where we saw some fighting.
Later on we went to the Argonne front
a little ways north or northwest of
! Verdun. Since then we have been in
| half dozen places and now we are in a
little village
He closes with regards to all his
friends and asks them all to write soon,
Private Arthur Windhorn who be-
longs to Co. B. Engr's. and is now To-
Gated at Salurohe, Germany recently
wrote very interesting letter. It was
dated Dec. 10th. Quoting from his
letter 'sToday I received four Reviews
and enjoyed myself for few hours
Formerly our company was stationed at
different place every few days and
mail was not handed out as it is now,
that is second class matter, it was gen
orally put in a box and everybody
looked for his newspaper and the per
son that was little late generally did
not get his. I lost couple Of my pa
pers on account Of being late but some,
times I found one in another fellows
tent that lived near New Ulm and was
glad to get news from around there.
AS there is a general understanding
among the men to help each other out,
nothing was ever said,
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He adds that he is waiting with an
xiety for the paper Of the week Of
Nov. 18th to read how the New Ulm
people celebrated when the news Of the
armistice reached them. The boys at
the front had been hearing rumors Of
an armistice for many weeks that when
the final one came they did not want to
believe it as an actual fact.
! II have been helping to win the war
by keeping the roads in repair and
keeping the traffic moving. The com
/ pany am in was in two drives and I
certainly got a good opinion Of war.
1 ''Wc have been hiking through Bel
GUM and Germany. We stayed in Bel
GUM three days, while there heard
some sorrowful tales Of how the Ger
man soldiers treated the people. When
: we came into Germany often thought
Of these things with shudder and now
j can hardly believe that the German
soldier could treat the people as we
were told They do everything possible
for rs and we never dreamed of being
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