Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-23

otyped letter from King George Y,
extending US a welcome. We took
a channel boat from here to lie Havre,
France. There we went to a British
rest camp for day or two, and stay
ed in squad tents q TO tent. From
there we entrained to a small place
named Andelot, riding in box cars,
thirty-six men to the car, and stayed
there for about half a day, when we
proceeded by marching to Millieres.
That was indeed a memorable hike"
as that was the very first of any con-
sequence, with full pack; distance of
Is to Is miles, and no water avail
able for drinking for the last 10 miles.
Upon arriving at Millieres there was
bunch" of the boys who just sat
down in the road and offered the
French women franc to get them a
canteen of water, too tired to go after
it themselves, and was one Of them.
Now commences our period of
Training in France, most of which
was done in Millieres. Every day ex-
cept Sunday, and the days we 'thiked"
we had periods of Close Order Drill,
Open Order Drill, Skirmish Drill, etc.
These were mostly for discipline. We
also had extensive training in trench
warfare, open warfare, taking strong
points of the enemy, bombing, laiason
work, intelligence section, tactics
signalling both by semaphore and wig
wag, and other things too numerous
to mention. This training went on
for period of about two months
and was indeed interesting to most
Of US.
From there we started on a series
of "hikes" commencing with IL kilo-
meters to Essey-les-E Faux, part of the
way in the pouring rain. In day OF
two we left there and went to Rolann-
pont, another IL kilometers, where
we entrained in box cars once more
We passed through the town of Chau-
mont, where there were quite num-
Der of American nurses stationed, and
we were sure glad to see them, as they
were the first American girls we had
seen since leaving the boat. We sang
them a few songs, mostly ragtime, anc
in return they smiled at US and spoke
to US in a language we could under
stand. We were on our way to the
front, and believe me we were q happy
bunch. We said farewell to the
Pullman Cars" at Gondracourt. VIZ
marched from there to the woods neal
Amanty, and pitched tents under
cover of the woods, where we would
be out of sight of enemy aeroplanes
It was here that the orders Lights
Out" and mo Smoking" after dark
were strictly enforced, and more thar
one Non-com was reduced to the grade
of Private on account of an overwhel
ming desire for a cigarette between
dark and daylight. These precautions
were necessary, in order that our pos
ition would not be disclosed to enemy
observers. We moved from there tt
Pangy, where we were in reserve fol-
the St. Mihiel battle of September IL
Is. We left Pagny in trucks French,
and rode all night to a place called
Villotte. Our Company marched from
there to Louppy-le-Petit, and were
billeted in hay lofts for three or -four
days. From there we started to the
front again, and made ''hike" Of
about 20 kilometers at night, arriving
in the woods near Waly about 500 a
m. tired out. We stayed there unit
$500 p. m. when we again started out
on the next "hitch", going to a town
named Courcelle. This place was il
a complete state of ruins. We wen
into pup-tents in an old orchard JUS
out of town. This is where we frs
heard the whirr of enemy shells a:
they passed over US. We left here
in the nick of time to keep from being