Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — WM. TRAUB RECEIVES LETTER FROM PAUL WORLAND [ARTICLE]

WM. TRAUB RECEIVES LETTER FROM PAUL WORLAND

France, August 13, 1918 Dear Mr. .Traub: This finds me at the front after a period of several weeks’ training in a camp near Bordeaux. .1 could tell you a great deal of interest about that wonderful city but I have to save a few stories for the time when I will get back. Wheir we left Bordeaux we went bv train up to where the German advance had been stopped. We have been constantly on the run to keep up with them and have passed thru the battlefield just gained by our troops. There was some fight to get them out and some rush when the Germans finally gave way. 1 could tell you but you would not appreciate the amout of loss to the Germans. They lost heavily in men and for miles back of us German equ’pment can be had for the picking up. We couldn’t keep our advance up forever or we would have the whole German army. Their line was reinforced and now they are in a position to stay where they are for a while at least. I suppose it wont be long until we will all be set to put on another drive and when we do we are apt to go forward. The American troops are strong for what Pershing is supposed to have saia, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken by Christmas,” and when they go into action that is about the way they feel about it. PAUL H. WORLAND.