The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-05
FROM The A. E. F.
Lieut.. Wingart Writes of What
Is Going On in France.
Trip Over Sectors-Take Iron
CrOsses-Suits Turned.

Some bits of interesting news con-
tanned in a chatty letter from Pink
Wingart, from Chaumont, France, are
as follows:
Very shortly. if nothing happens, 1
will have an opportunity to see the
entire A. E. F.-S. o. s., battle fronts
and all-in one continuous trip. It
will give me a very good opportunity
to coordinate the whole endeavor of
the United States over here. It is
trip that is being arranged for news
paper men in the service so that they
may have a clear idea of just what
we did. So many people. you know,
have just seen spots here and there.
The idea of this trip is to give a full,
broad, birdseye view. as it were. OF the
entire machine. I think it will be very
interesting.
Two Thousand Crosses Seized.
Now comes the news that the mu-
nicipa1 authorities at TreveS, Ger
many, where part of the seth division
is stationed, have confiscated 1000
iron crosses in the shops. Some time
ago the authorities expressed their de-
| termination to suppress the trade in
| iron crosses, which they considered
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cent action was intended as a warning
to shop keepers.
DoughboyS who go to TreveS ex-
pecting to find thousands of iron
crosses, which they take home as SOU
venirs of the war, will be disappoint-
| ed. Altho the crosses have disap-
peared from the shops individual SELL
ers still have them.
MY, but this must be a blow to the
German merchants,
Trier, or Treves as the French and
English call it, was originally a Ro-
man town and across the street from
| the Porta Nigra hotel, where stayed.
still stand the ruins of the Porta Nj
| gra gate which the Romans put up
| to keep the German hordes out. The
gate didn't do the work, however, and
now the city is what you might call
q thriving German village of $4,000.
| In that respect it is like Topeka. Also
| it's street cars and asphalt pavement
remind one of the Kansas capital but
not so the rathske1lers and the MUNICH
ner signs, nor the wine shops.
Some Big Britishers.
We have a party of high Britishers
| Just down the hall today visiting with
| the Cine before they start on their
| trip to the American fronts, the same
| trip was on a couple of weeks ago.
/ In the party are such birds" as Am
bassador Davis, Viscount Peel, the
general of the British army, and 9TH
ers. Quite an imposing array I should
say. Eft vous?
We are about to receive visit
from the king and queen OF Belgium
that is, the Cine is-and he lives
| just down the hall from my office.
| They are coming down to g. H. @.
next week so the report goes We get
most of the big ones here sooner or
later. Up to date we have had the
WTolA E4a1 n
| the Marquis of Londonderry. This
| seems to be a season for visitors and
| of course G. H. Q. of the American
| army is place that must be seen
| by all means. 1t is the directing force
| of the A. E. F.
! The trend OF the times Is shown
very we'll by an advertisement that
appeared today on the front page of
the New York Herald (Paris edition..
t was headed; The Aerial Service
is have 365 francs ($73), get into the
big Goliath at o'clock in the morn
| ing at Versailles and be whisked off
| to Brussels. arriving there at 11:45
O'Clock. You leave Brussels the next
afternoon and reach Paris in time for
| tea. Passengers are urged to book in
advance for the trip. Who says we
will not be flying around in the air.
| with the greatest ease, some of these
| days?
A New Wrinkle Here.
Some Paris tailor shops have started
a new economic measure that might
be well emulated by the tai1ors in To-
| peka. Recently In one of the Paris
| ''snap shots in newspaper, the fol-
lowing item appeared:
"Modestly hidden. but just where 1t
can catch the inquiring eye. there can
be seen now in the windows of some
tailors shops the notice: Suits
turned Before the war who ever
| thought of having a suit turned. But
now it seems there is a new economy.
Officers as well as men coming back
from the army are faced with the fact
that clothes cost everywhere a fam
tastic figure-and they have 1914 suits
at hcme that are just a little shiny. a
little shabby. Turn Them says the
obliging notice of the tailor. and there
is this to be said. too, for the turned
suit. that it is usually of far better
cloth than anyone can buy now for
| twice what it cost in the gay days be-
fore the war"
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