Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-01-15
EGGS SELL AT 40 CENTS
A PIECE In BELGIUM
Says Owen Hisle, Who Writes Anoth-
er Interesting Letter of His Army
Life To Relatives Here.

Mrs. Armer Hisle has received
very interesting letter from Private
Owen Hlsle, brother Of her husband,
and who wrote from Belgium, where
he was stationed with the American
army, after the armistice was signed.
Private Hisle has seen some of the
bitterest fighting of the war and was
cited for bravery in battle. His let
ter will be read with much interest:
Cruyshautem, Belgium, Nov. 26.
Dear Zelia:-
l started a letter to you just after
the armistice was signed, but one
thing and the other prevented me
from completing it; so will endeavor
to do better this time, and finish this
one.
The censor's ban has been taken off
now, so / can write most anything |
desire, except criticising the officers,
systems. etc. But unfortunately now
/ haven't anything especially to tell.
When / returned from the hospital
(Which was some months ago) to my
section, | was luckily enough to find
them on few days repose in a small
village bv the name of Crouy sur
Ourcq, about 10 miles from Meaux,
and about the same distance from
Chateau Thierry. l had the pleasure
of seeing Meaux several times, while
only visited Chateau Thierry once.
Meaux marks the Germans farthest
advance in 1914, while Chateau
Thierry marks the extreme point of
the Germans final and last 'great eff
fort to reach Paris in 1918.
Our repose ended on October 7th,
when we were started out in q west
ward direction; some rumors were
that we were going to st. Quentin,
while others We're that we were going
to Belgium, which came to be true.
While on our way here we passed
through the following principal cities
l-Compiegne. which for a long time
had been under the range of the Ger
man big guns. was pretty badly torn
up and very few civilians had return
ed then. From there we continued
on to the old town of Beauvais, which
we had seen much of last March; for
it was there that for five days we
took our wounded from the lines
northwest of Montdidier. Next we
went TO Abbeville, a principle base
of the British forces. From there
we journeyed more to the north to ST.
Omer. where we spent one night.
From there on to Rexpolde, a small
French village two miles from the
Franco-Belgian frontier. We stayed
there for several days, with no place
to sleep except in our cars, and the
weather was cold and rainy. We were
thankful to have cars to crawl in.
Etrnr,, &hn,so - 4
across the Belgium line to Lion Beige
While there the big Belgian offensive
began and our division was a reserve
division, so all we had to do was to
follow up the advance; that we did
for a week or more until we arrived
at Thielt, then on the 23rd of October
we went into the lines and there we
stayed until the armistice was sign
ed.
We are at Cruyshautem now, have
been here for two weeks. At first
we expected to follow the Germans up
and occupy territory north of Col
ogne. Germany, but now it looks like
we are going to return to France,
somewhere around Paris, perhaps, for
the parade in Paris when peace is
signed. That is what we hope to do,
for being frank with you, we don't
care much about Belgium; the people
here are not congenial like the French
roads are awfully bad, everything
in general torn up; last but not least,
eggs are 40 cents apiece. So you can
Judge prices on other things accord
ingly.
(Several days later). We have not
moved up yet, but conditions are a lit
L Il
repaired rapidly and few trains run
close to here now. You should see
what complete destruction job the
boche did on the railroads around
here. 1t looks as if, they had put one
ton Of bombs under each rail- some
of the rails are wrapped around tele-
phone poles, while others are on near
by houses and in the fields: some cf
the holes made on the tracks by the
|exploeions that it takes ten men a
week 10 m up.
Our vckk is not so bad now, as We
ha,Acq1yi the sick to evacuate, except
FOR occsSional civilians who plaJ With
hsn3 rrr2Hdes and some oklAR 0>t
pleoisses s1d act wounded Xs fS1s
Only 5 few niSht trips ncsx nj they
are r,ot bad II are fertunete
enough to have Eehxy On yeur esir, for
EGhfs arc permisgnble 20 be used now
but uhfoEtunAte1y there are only shree
or foRf men in our section WIZ. have
been able to get bulbs and rcdectors
for their cars.
Well our work is the least Of our
worries now, the big question IS.
"When viii we be able to get home Z"
With the signing Of the peace our