The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-24
]M'KENZIETELLS OF EXPERIENCE
 ABROAD

Dan J. Mckenzie, a young Cordova man who left to join the navy when war broke out writes to friend here r a very interesting letter dated At Sea, December 14,' and reading in part as follows: .......
 'T am on my way to France again; expect to arrive in Bordeaux about the 22d We have been out ten days.
 we spent about three weeks in New York. I took in nearly all the big shows, including the New York Hippodrome, the Winter Garden, the New Capital theater (handsomest one in New York now), and Walter Pryor's band. I also saw the prince of Wales Quite lot for an old stiff like me in so short a time!
 ."On my last trip to Europe I went to Paris, London, Rheims, Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood I saw where the Hindenburg line held forth, also the Big Bertha and the grave of Quentin Roosevelt. In Belleau Wood I saw a soldiers grave marked War ren Taylor I have never heard whether Warren Taylor was lost or not. Was he? I looked for Johnny Jones' grave, but could not find it. Was he at Chateau-Thierry or the Ar gonne Woods? It was a very sad sight to see so many of our boys graves over there There is a small army of men over in France fixing up the cemeteries and reburying our boys. saw two cemeteries, one at Belleau Wood and another near Fere- enTardenois, only a short distance from Quentin Roosevelts grave They on a little bluff overlooking the battle grounds All there is so far to mark the grave of a French soldier is a crude cross with the name and small disc with a flag painted on it. Some of them have a wreath or two that their friends or relatives have left.
 "The city Rheims has about 150,OO0 peOple-or rather, did have before the war-but there were only seventy three houses left unshelled. Block after block was nothing but ruins, and we were told that there were not over 300 people there now. I saw the ruins of the great cathedral, also of St. Anthony's church, which, I was told, was built about nine hundred years ago. Pretty old! I didn't get to see much of Rheims, as I rode through the town in an auto, but what I saw was enough to show me why the Tanks fought so desperately It would make a fellows blood boil to see the destruction the Germans caused-fOr no reason that anyone knows of. The churches were shot all to pieces. We spent one night in Rheims, and the room we stayed in was shot full of machine gun holes.
 Last time I went back from France we had a dreadful time getting across the Atlantic That was why I tried to make up for lost time while I was in New York We were thirty days getting across the pond. We hit storm after storm, and finally we ran out of fuel oil. Then we drifted for three days before we were finally picked up by another ship and lowed into Boston, Mass. Yet like this ship so well I may stay on her for the winter. On this trip we broke a pro- peller blade four days out from New York, and so far have hit three storms. Yesterday we had waves so large that they washed clear over our ship. We lost our dinner yesterday noon, as it was washed overheard just as we were sitting down to eat.
 "At present we are just passing the Azores isuands, about. 1850 miles from New York. Tell all my friends hello for me-