The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-06-26
NEWS OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
Interesting Letters from Our
Boys at Home Camps
and Abroad.
From Col. B. O. Clark.

mlnatlCn Tor the regular army day be
fore Yesterday. Don't know that ther,
VIII be anything come of it, but as i
4 didn't cost anything to take it | de
cided to try it. Major Jump took il
also. There were eleven in the bunch
this time. There should nave beer
twelve, hut Major Houck was away.
happened to look over the generals
shouider and saw my rating which
was the highest of any on the list. Ot
course, | feel very cocky and am all
sv-ciled up.
viii probably start on Tuesday fcr
two weeks trip by specia. train from
Tours. Am going over the entire s.
O. 8. and the battle front. Guess
that will he hard to take Ten off
GERS from this station will go and the
party is to be made up of officers who
have been on duty in the S. Q. S.
Indications are now tnat we Will be
all cut Of France by the last of July.
Sc # won't be long before we will be
home. | want to stop in New York for
g while. Will also see if there is
any chance of staying in the army I'M
til hear from this examination. Will
visit grandmother Clark tor a 1ime
and then if there is nothing doing, will
come on to Idaho.
Saw an officer q day OF so ago who
had just returned from duty in Italy
and he says conditions there are very
bad. He was glad to get out with his
life. Says he expected to have knife
stuck in his back any -me. The papers
do not begin to print or publish the
news or information. He was an
Italian but born in the u s. He un-
oerstood the language, so that he could
get pretty close to things. According
to him, Italy is ripe for a revolution.
They have torn down pictures Of Will
son and in one place they burned the
American flag.
We are cutting down personnel. This
week we released over one hundred
and fifty enlisted men and several Of
ficers, Medical Department, to be
formed into casual companies for re-
turn to the U. S. | think that Jack
son and Powell are the only two Idaho
boys left and both are quite anxious
to get back. Just now all troop move
ments are held up until after t
neace treaty is signed. According t.
13 divisions left in France besides
Casuals, pioneer infantry and engin-
GERS or other labor battalions.
Sergeant Rein Jackson, who is one
Of very few Emmett boys still in |
France, writes the following interest
ng description of his visit on leave at
Monte Carlo. His parents are expect J
ng word from him that he is on his
way home:
April s. Pm spending another
week on leave, this time at Monte
Carlo on the Mediterranean, very near
Nice. l arrived here on the 3rd and
cave on the 10th. The hotel where
IN staying overlooks the Casino, the
,reatest gambling house in the world.
t is a wonderful building, very beau
iful, especially the interior. went
through it yesterday morning at $3.50
long with couple of hundred other
oldiers. From $3.50 until is the only
ime that American soldiers are al
owed to enter and there is no gamb-
ng going on that early in the day.
My one end of the building is devoted
, gambling rooms, the other being
ne of the finest theatres in the world,
the class of entertainment.
his theatre is open only to civilians.
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning we
ent over to .Mentone, trip by motor
pat that takes an hour. This place l
also in the leave area and very near q
lie Italian border. Taking the trolley
lr from Mentone we reached the Ital- q
n border and then hiked shout half y
lie into Italy. While there | wrote &
veral post cards-one TO you which Il
ay reach you ahead of this and set
~ wondering. But don't worry
e evening of April 10th unwillirgly
| have to start back to Nevers. We
pc we won't be stationed there much =
nger, but we can never tell. Even - :,
hen we do leave we aren't sure to go - -
me. :.
Last evening we saw a show th?t Az
IS very good, put on by the 33rd =,
vision. A new show is to be here ~
light which we shall go to see The
M. C. A. has the use of many of
: fine French "Casinos" for use as
: soldiers term them "Y. Ms" The p
e they have use of here at Monte =,
rio is swell. It incluass theatre -
d dance floor and thu usnn1 reading =,
d writing room a1k 1nn1her for
. canteen-
Army bands sn& sne furnish an