The Arizona copper camp., 1920-10-23
Taken For "Frog Eaters

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toward the front In the vicinity oil
Bayonne and Nancy, at the village OF
Roselieures, we started afoot on good
French roads. At our first stop, we
met American troops. Through their
generosity, we were supplied with
smokes for the first time since we
had landed in France. On our twelve
days hiking we met Americans con
tain day we had to assume our places
on canons and caissons and we looked
like French troops except that we
bore the Polish eagle on our shoul-
der straps and one on our helmets
While we were passing the United
States boys turned out en- masse to see
the Frog Eaters! While sitting on
caisson, said to one of the near
est Americans, in English, How dc
you like France?' I.had spoken Eng
lish without thought and they replied
'Oui, oui,-yes. Then l remarked
Gee! You fellows forget your Ameri-
canism quick! One said to another
Hear this frog-eater talk Yankee,
I'll bet he's from good old U. S, A.
Then the explanation as to whom we
were followed.
after arrival at Rosellieures, we
explored the German 'Kultur--house
bombardment and graveyar6s all over.
''Just about 41is time some Of our
troops were placed at the front Some
were Polish, some French, some
American. Here I saw some more of
German 'Kultur.'
"On Sunday, March 1, my brother
paid me visit. He was with the
A. E. F.. with rank of lieutenant and
was stationed near the city of Dijon.
AS his visit was very short, jour
ueyed with him to Nancy This city
was heavily bombarded from the air
by Germans. In Nancy l visited one
church through the wall of which a
bomb had passed unexplloded. 1t is
there now, or was at the time of my
visit, and one French lady told me
that it was miracle that the shell did
not explode.
"In October, 1918, we received or
ders to proceed to Metz, but the game
was up with the Germans, so we
started for Poland on Easter Sunday
of 1918. We entrained at Bayonne,
Icing the second transport for Po-
land, on soldiers special box cars,
and late that evening we started
through Germany. via Frankfort-on-
Main.
Across Germany
Germany was country well built
up, clean and well kept, quite a con-
trast to some of the demolished vii
lagos we had previously Observed
but the populace regarded us with
much reserve and the arrogance
peculiar to German psychology This
is especially directed against the
Poles, as their native land is the key
stone in Europe and stumbling
block for German 'Kultur' to 'drang
mach ost-'advance to the east Not
withstanding all of this, saw child
rem and elders beg us for bread most
of the way through Germany. After
days of eventful travelling some of
the transports were blown up by the
Germans on their way to Poland-we
arrived on Polish soil where we looked
into glad faces. After we passed the
Russo-German boundary at Kalish, the
poverty and destruction was bewilder-
ing. In the cities of Warsaw and
Lode, we at first thought that the
people were attacking us as when the
trains stopped they would rush up
and crowd around us and ask all
sorts of questions, who we were, what
we came for They were informed
that it was General Haler's armys
from France. They soon learned the
truth, however, much to the disgust
of the nobility who had ridden the
country On our way to Kowel, state
of Podolia, we gave away what we
could to help the poor people. After
a week in Vladimir Wolynski, we
went to the firing line some miles
from Vladimir Here we first en-
countered General Petlura's army, a
faction of Ukrainian independent robt
bers, etc. General Petlura is fighting
for Poland since his defeat.
'In Ukrainia there are several par
ties: Some with the old czardon,
some with the bolsheviki, some in
dependents, but the majority are for
union with Poland.
Into The Ukraine
"Ukraina is great agricultural
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