The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-23

AOoS VI SAO
partment, a 15-months' rambl'
through Spain, Switzerland, the Aus
trian Tyrol, Greece, Turkey, Syria
The Holy Land, Egypt, Ceylon, India
Burma, including a tr1I
across the unexplored backyard" Of
China, assisting General WrangeIs
refugees to evacuate the Crimea and
feeding them for a month in the
harbor of Constantinople, a flight
by American destroyer to Beirut, a
Christmas morning pilgrimage from
Jerusalem to Bethlehem, a drift
down the Nile, an attempt to get
through the snow passes to Kashmir.
and a voyage of discovery to the
headwaters of the Yanktse Kiang-
these are some of the experiences Of
Bruce C. Hopper, soldier, traveller
and writer, who is making a visit in
Billings preparatory to making fur
Their travels.
Mr.. Hopper was a student in journ-
alism at the State University for
three years at the end of which he
went to Harvard (1916). He tells
his W story. replete with thrills,
briefly:
while at Harvard, in 1916, l en-
listed for the French. army but did
not get my credits Strengthened out
until spring, and then sailed with an
ambulance unit. Over there / shift
ed to the cannon service on the
Chemin des Danes, and chucked, big
shells about during the drive. In
August, 1917, I petitioned for train
ing as a pilot, and when the Ameri-
can air service vas organized switch
ed over. I eventually got to the
front with the 96th squadron, day
bOmbardment, rated as a captain and
flight commander-and did my bit
dropping sweet messages Of T N TT
among the German babies who hap
pened to live near munition plants
the Rhine, or too close to Hun
troops on the march. Strafing the
Hun vas hot fun. but rather hard
on the morale, with so many good
lads going west like flaming stars.
sat the Armistice we took a last
crack, and then I went to the hospi-
tai for repairs, old injuries from a
nasty smash I had had early in the
year. I was invalided home, class G,
but chucked the embarkation orders, i
went A. w. o. l.. to Paris and wran-
gled General Patrick, chief of the air
service, to let me apply for discharge
n France, as I had enlisted in Paris.
stationed me at Or1y, close
enough to the Cafe de la Paix, and :
sufficiently far away for me to claim
he rs per CEN flying pay on each +.
l was evidently lost. for
he Acknowledgement was combing (.
he files, and watching the ships, :
or me. I was marked a deserter, or
ONE such horrible thing, simply be-
the orders were bawled up. /,
In fact, I was once almost court {
nartialed for desertion of post in 3
he face of the enemy, being at the .
ime in the village near the airdome !
I'd, when a twilight raid was order-1.
d, contrary to all precedents.) Any- .
ray, I was discovered on the streets \
f Paris, in good company, and i'm :
lediately thereafter I received orders =
report to general headquarters at =
to write the history and !,
manual of instruction for future =
in day bOmbardment. That
cries of pertinent remarks on the :
deficiency of the technical depart ,
.ent etc., went to the War College /.
Washington. I then applied for
to the Sorbonne detach-
ent and spent spring Of 1919 at
Ie University of Paris, learning
either Plato nor Aristotle, but the
Lstom and Of the French
in the Latin Quarter. | was
scharged in July, at the Camp Of
night, which was Giecres,
ID counted all my francs to go to
1ford. Over there the mighty dons
We me a kind but disinterested ear
le rector, however, at Exeter col
ge, was gracious enough to ask
lat I had been doing. l told him /
d spent my time wiping out Ger
In women and children. He then
i'd he guessed he had better admit
} after all that CORY service to hui
lnity, and accordingly / became one
the cap and gown in the city of
eamy spires.
Gail went we'll with my lust for
and my pursuit of the ever
citing symptoms of culture until
} spring vacation. Another Har-
I'd man and 1 decided to spend the
weeks in Italy. there to confirm
suspicious about art, and get the
liam point Of view on the real
herhood of Brutus. We at length
lived in Naples, and sought out the
taurants on the cliffs hanging over
town. There we tasted the blush
Palermo, which caused Horace so
ny r%aptures. He fell to general
e%cologues. The stuff went
aight to our feet, and gave US the
nder-itch. We shook hands across
macar oni, and swore to take a
around the world, travelling al
rs with the natives in each coun-
studying their language, and eat
their food. BY that time we were
back at Oxford. We reached
is. 1 took Cass out to several old
nts in the Quarter, and then show
him the facade of the Sorbonne,
b the air of a real estate man. He
he liked the looks of the build
and fhop cnCCocfod We g0 to the