The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-24
SERCT. N.kNERlCK GIVES ACCOUNT
 LAST BATIIlES
Has Numerous Adventures and is Now Located at General Headquarters; Says All Soldiers Prefer America, and is Not I'm pressed With Beauty of Lauded French Girls.

Sergeant Michael Amrich, Medical Division of the A. E, r, has written a most interesting letter to friends in the city. Sergeant Amrich is a former well known young man of Bridgeport, and was a popular vau- deville entertainer about town. He enlisted in June, 1917, trained at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, and has been over seas over a year. The letter follows:;
 T want to go home, Everybody over here says the same thing. We are very comfortably located in an old castle near Cruzy Chatel and 1t is some billet. We are up on a hill about three kilometres from. town and the castle was built in 1925. It looks 1t, too, and whenever we sneeze we are afraid the stones will fall.
 we have hiked all over northern France, and are having a wonderful chance to see the country, The last trip was fine, but didn't walk, as I rode the ambulance
 T had a streak of luck just after the signing of the armistice, My pal,
 
 have been pretty lucky In staying together, and when an order came for the transfer to brigade headQuar- ters we were appointed, and 1t is some job.
 But life over here was not so much to my liking some time ago. In August we turned into night hawks At night we would hike and get to our destination before daylight. pitch tour tents In the woods and hide dur '1ng the day We were in reserve for the St. Mihiel show, then on the 2Sth of September we staged a show of our own. The morning of the 25th found us in the woods near Germonville and that night we were told to get ready for action in the morning. position, and had barely got started when Jerry started to shell the woods. I got into a trench and was covered with dirt, but the firing stopped presently, and we hiked again until about < a. m. The or .chestra of shells played an overture for about one hour, and when the curtain rose at a. m. we were all set on the stage. I guess the audience didn't like it very well for soon things began to come our way, but that didn't stop us, and we played for four days, aud we left them with a prom ise to play a return engagement The curtain dropped in Consenvoye on the Mouse river.
 we went back to a line of trenches near Crissy which was still under shell fire. I'd have given 'beaucoup franc to have had my pie ture then. I hadn't shaved or washed for almost a week. We stayed hero for nine days and l slept on a mud pile in q dugout. About every half hour some bird would yell Gas I remember one night some one gave tho alarm and we all put on our masks. Some time after I happened to look down st medical man and saw he was still sleeping. It's a good thing there wasn't any gas or that guy would have been S o. L.
 The night of the 9th of October we had to move again. Of course Il was raining. We hiked over neal Mont Facca- and on the 10th we pu over anotEer show. q two-day stunt We had T hard joh to put it through and I worked my hardest. Our dress. ing sta ticn was just north of Nantil. lois. Later on we were compliment ed on our work:
 "On the 18th we hikcd through Mont Tancon. Before the war 1t mus have been q pretty town. As we go to q hill opposite I happened to look around, the sun was shining on i and it sure did look great
 Later we passed through Brigau1 near Triacourt Les IsIets Ia Chaladt and Fu&aHcy. One day we saw ove1 200 airplanes in the air. On the l 0ti we were in Appomont Wood. and w heard rurGo~s of the probable cessa ton of hoFtil.ties. Then you should have heard the barrage we loosed everyone let loose with his gun. Boy it was some noise. Of course the rll mor was al wrong and on the 1tt we were all back at La Chalade Then when the end did come no ont believed it until inc 18th when WI saw the official paper giving the con ditions of the armistice. Maybe i wasn't some grand and glorious feel ing.
 We g0t orders to go to Paris tt parade and act as the President 'E guard but the parade has been post 5 poned although one battalion was re viewed by Mir. Wilson in Chaumont.
 "We bought q good dinner Christ mas. The man that owns the plac gave US turkey. duck. chicken. dress inE, spuds. soup. cake Die. grapes oranges, nuts. coffee and wine an champagne Some dinner.
 say. who ever said the Frenc girls wsre pretty? once in q whl you see a pretty one, yes. once in
 while. and that's all.
 "It looks as if we would stay owe here for quite some time but yol never can tell in the army. Bes