Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — JASPER COUNTY BOYS THERE [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY BOYS THERE

When A. E. F. Staged a Big Peace Celebration in Le Mans. A very interesting letter appeared in Saturday evening’s Indianapolis News from the pen of Thomas W. Hendricks, a former reporter on the News, who is now with the A. E. F. in France. The letter told of the peace celebration at Le Mans, where Hendricks ’was stationed at the time of the signing of the armistice. The 30th division and, the 84th division —which were' still. there November 28 —were mentioned in this article as being in Le Mans with the 150,000 American troops ’there and taking’part in the celebration. D. J. Babcock and John Kriz are in the 30th division and Flbyd Meyers, Arthur Battleday, Homer Fisher and Gaylord Hilton are among the Jasper county boys in the 84th division. Hendricks said that the first day after the signing of the armistice the Americans took no part in the celebration of the French, Italians and Belgians, feeling that the day belonged to them. The American soldiers mixed with the crowds as sight-seers and spectators, and next day they “broke loose.” Hendricks said he had read of the peaces celebrations in New York, Chicago, London and Paris, but he would back that of Le Mans aginst the whole world. There are some other Jasper county boys in the 30th and 84th divisions, besides those mentioned

above,* but The Democrat has not their names. In the . 84th division there are a great many Hoosiers, and in this article Mr. Hendricks named many of the officers.