Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1918 — ROBERT JOHNSON RECEIVES INJURIES IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

ROBERT JOHNSON RECEIVES INJURIES IN FRANCE

Robert Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Johnson, of Lafayette, and formerly of Rensselaer, who enlisted in the army last year when he reached his eighteenth birthday, has been wounded in France. Upon his enlistm'ent in the army he was sent to the Texas border and assigned to the cavalry. Later he was sent to France and made a dispatch bearer. He sustained a cut on his head and an injured leg in an accident in June. In a letter to his mother, dated June 27, he said: » “I just got back from the hospital and I expect you have, been worried •about me. I am all O. K. except for a bandaged head and leg. Three days ago I ran into a Frenchman, il broke his leg and it knocked me (out for about ten minutes. I was taken to a French hospital and was there two days and nights. Was brought back to my outfit this morning. We have been at the front for almost a month, now and since coming up here’ I have not had much time or opportunity to write. I have been under fire several times and am getting used to it now. The first time under fire it sure makes tone feel queer, but I don’t mind it (now. lam a dispatch rider and they keep us busy. I have a twin cylinder Indian motorcycle without the side car. - We are stationed about four (miles back from the front lines and make trips back and forth to the front with dispatches. There are six of us dispatch riders. “The Red Cross is doing fine work over here, 'but the Y. M. C. A. sure robs the soldiers. They charge about double for everything. The Red Cross is all free. I will get a rest now for awhile, until my head and deg heals.”