Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1917 — In Sight of Home, French Soldier’s Way Barred Two Years by German Lines [ARTICLE]

In Sight of Home, French Soldier’s Way Barred Two Years by German Lines

Tragedy is everywhere on the French front, but I have never seen greater agony than that of a certain young artilleryman who for more than two years has been stationed on the Heights of the Meuse overlooking his home town, Salnt-Mihiel, writes Lincoln Eyre to the New York World. . Twenty minutes’ walk across the meadows would bring him to his cottage—and to his wife and children. But between them He the French and German trenches. I asked the man’s captain why he was kept there, and learned 4hat it had been at his own insistent request. Having made friends with the aviators, he was able to get from them photographs showing his home, and even one treasured one giving a glimpse of his wife and youngsters outside in their little garden. “Luckily we hardly ever fire upon Saint-Mi-hlel, although it’s Infested with Germans,” the captain told me.