The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-26
Hdq. 360th Infantry

Mr.. Wade III. Baize,
Hartford, KY,
Dear Brother and family
VIII write you few lines to day
as / am not so busy and thinking
you might be glad to get a word or
two from Germany, | sent you a
card last week giving you my new
address and hope you have receiv-
ed it by this time. / am we'll and
making the best of bad PROPOSE
ton, and I, as well as all boys ov-
er here would be glad to be back in
the and If Freedom again.
1 suppose every thing will work
out the way the BIG TEN wishes
it, L am sure that if we had all of
Germany under control as we'll as
we have west of the Rhine it would
only be a short time till we could
be at home. The people here seem
very well contented to have us
stay here, altho we are somewhat
crowded but still the Dough Boy
spends his money and there are
quite a, few Souveniers for sale
here and the Souvenier Business is
on the boom in Germany. There
seems to be very much friendship
shown the Yanks by the German
people it is nothing unusual to see
a soldier and a German fraulein
walking side by side down the
streets of these little towns altho
it is whispered that it is strictly
against the military rules the boys
are rather aware of an officer
while in company with his fraulein
The children here seem to think
the American Soldier a Christmas
Tree and are very anxious to get
on friendly terms with every Yank
they see. Seems very unusual too
l have never known child to
scorn or fear an American Soldier,
even when we first entered Ger
many and the sight of an American
was something unusual these peo-
pie showed no fear or outward hate
toward the Americans. | am not
putting too much confidence in
these people | am sure if they
thought there was a chance to win
what they had lost they would not
hesitate to do so for the case is n
hopeless one for them. l am still
at Reg. Hdqs. land getting along
o. X. I as intending to take a
trip to Coblenz, on the River Rhine
just as soon as the Clerk returns
from trip to Paris, as it takes
several clerks to keep things
|, straight here. / will tell you all
about my trip when l come back,
/ am sure it will be an interesting
trip as there is so much wonderful
; scenes, great mountains, old His
, toric Castles and a tunnel five
KILOMETRES in length (about 3
miles,. There is a great German
fort there that will house 100000
. men, so / am told, and there are
forts all up and down the Rhine
, river 1t is better that things
were settled when they were than
for us to have taken them by force
for there would have been a hard
fight for us. AS it is the Yanks
are living in the forts and making
, things as homelike as possible. /
am sending a letter to Argin to day
he is in the seth Div. | understand
, and the seth is at Trier, only about
: 30 miles from here. | intend to go
to Trier as soon as possible, il is
!, a large city and very interesting as
, it was once the ancient city of
Trieves. | came through Trier on
, the march through from France.
i Trier is near the Province of Lux
= umburg. Luxumburg is the small
: est nation in the world; 1t is not
much larger than Ohio County and
maintained its neutrality through
| the war, altho Germany occupied
; II and marched her armies through.
Luxumburg's army of $50 soldiers
= and lannon's could not make a
dent in Germany's hordes that she
marched through SO little Luxy
} Just was helpless that was all she
: could do. But she showed how she
stood after the Germans vacated
: her territory and we entered. we
were treated as liberators and Ger
man flags were torn down and the
, Allied flags were hoisted in their
| place. II is hard to decide what to
do with I.uxumburg now as her lit
tie Ruler, which was a girl called
> THE Duchess of Luxumburg. has re-
signed she was accused ,of being
: pro-Germarn and popular sentiment
I forced her to vacate. | could tell
VIA more about this interesting