Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 85, Hammond, Lake County, 19 September 1918 — Page 8

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Letters from Soldiers

Written to the Home Folks From This Side and the Other Side of the Water.

From Lieut. Warren Beaubin. ! Tf!s iettfr to hl. s-isier. Mr Kj w a rd ! Shaffer, Rivrs the first real inform j

t:nn reea to thp lleaubi'n famiiv ty '.h jour.g man regarding: very seri-ov-.s illness, which lias been of sevrtal mnntns' Hu ration. Kranrf. Aug. IS, ID IS. Mr Dear Sister Mtitian' I wHtfl this by rand';'; lifht because ;h" cirap liphts p.i out at 0:30. so phase xruje the Jrrcnular j'enmanshii. I ant to let 011 in on some uo.i nw 1 rem o'.ci France. The allies are just '.ckins the Germans to a Iinu!i; It is a Iru-t. Since July 1 they have taken around 75.000 prisoners and l.Soo nuns f different i a liber, bf sides acquirinK ('" nsiderabie territory. The Amoi ic;in t enter is a success here, and believe me 'he Oernn.ns are waking up to that fact. (Mir soldiers are Just unarming this o'uniry row. and trod, candy, tobacco, Icthing. etc.. me b irK supplied from t'np V. S. army commissaries in sufboicnt quantities. Weil, sister. I am still in this camp bespit;, living in a tpical wooden anioninont such as you see In tho s-ates. practically living in the open n.r, buiMtiiK tip after my long- illness, t.nd I'm fast p-Uin back to my former "nd'.ti.n. My less don't stand much, a'.rhoush I can walk lone distances, but viiPti 1 try to run they fail me and bc- '! heay, and to recover my strength must take time and exercise continually. I have had ceptic pneumonia and in a -rious condition in May and June was lust a skeleton. The doctors had to run vie down to break up the fever, but now mv face is being filled out and my l'mseles growing hard again. You folks did not dream how near you came to losing a son and brother; it was merely --rit and my previous physical condition 'hat pulled me through. You sen why 1 couidn't write often, and when I sent those two cables couldn't write at all. Have been in thrro hospitals and Just 'lire days following my evacuation firm f.rst hospital ths camp was homb--d. and although my barracks didn't happen to be hit, everything was torn 'tp in grot shape. I only f0tnd this out some time afterward. My commanding officer now is the one at th" ifmp hospital who will direct where I .'m to be sent when I am discharged 'ioni the hospital, whether it will be I'-i'y. the States or duty back of the l.ncs. You see the doctors say I con id not stand the hardships of dugout life fer some time and could never ward off tas, as it would immediately knock out my lungs in a short time. My hardest experience was beins moved from a "mpcrary rio a base hospital on n stretcher, in ambulance a distance of miles. 1 was proud to know I stuck : out. A Pr. Butler of Hattisburg. Miss.. ri been a patient here for two months with rheumatism, and we have become frreat pals. He is- a man of excellent judgment ar.d has taken great interest m my case. I hope to be able to take fhrt sick leave soon, probably in southern France at Aix Lcs Bains, but don't Vr.ow where I will be sent for duty: no ('oubt back of the lines. Am almost satisfied I will, to my great rejrret. and will net see front l.ne life with my old artillery for some time, and consider myself most unfortunate. I.ordyl hut I'd lik t be h"m this evening and then ccm back. I like France in the daytime, but when night ("rues cn I am longing to be home for a c od visit with you and the family, one .cd a!!. However. I am seldom homesick as I am associated w ith a fine crowd o" splendid officer?, which has J.e'ptd considerably. I ride out for pa

tients mar.y tines in th" ambulances. o hive ser n m.U' h sin rounding territory, very crjoyabi.--. as the country is de'ightful. Last right drove fur on kilometer to a fry wonderful city, built many, many vears ago, the view '-r rolling country so beautiful with i's tillages dotted with red tiled i-oof?, (h tr. li spires, woods and go'd looking wheat fields, now being harvested, both old Lnd new methods used; here a man swinging a scythe and rake combination t"hb h cuts and rakes a bundle ,,f li. at, followed by a woman or child who tie the bundles. ne can s-e Millet's "'ileaners" or the "Anjrelus" in rality here. Pome peasants use American reapers. All along the way are the wonderful French roads lined with majestic fees planted at sinil! intervals. Incieed, the who! scene, is like a park. The villages are so old and rather unkmpt. Cows, chickens and family live in the same building, living the same old way of their ancestors. On one side of the house is a stable and on the other the living quarters, with kemuls containing rabbits near by. In great contrast, however, are the magniP.cent gardens in the rear. This morning I

vaikcd about four kilometers to iIim ii' xi nil, where I bought .Vmrnau cleats, matches, soap, etc.. and while there, near t V'l em h hospital, witnessed a h'rench soldier's funeral. 1 find it hard to understand them in conversation, but can talk the language rather well myself and keep up the study. Have visited Lanres near here, situated at the source of the Mouse and Maine rivers, wonderfully old and historic, built on a small mountain 1.MI0 feet high surrounded by old Koma.1. walls or ramparts, the citv containing many buildings of the K.th and ltfth centuries and many art treasures and niasterpiei es. The views from the ramparts for miles along the valley were beautiful. I could not describe this interesting place. i, send a printed guide book with description. A few nights ago I sat out near the roadway and counted some 600 Fiernh motor trucks, didn't know where ihey weie going nor what was up, very dust laden and the drivers with their steel bine helmets They were from the front and were after troops som where. All day and nijjht trucks thunder bv with I". S. soldiers, food, ammunition and supplies. Also we see passing continual! i motor despatch riders, ambulances, generals' autos. field medical laboratory autos. etc. Mnvelows armv system, too vast to comprehend. Our ammunition supply M unlimited and Liberty motor planes are arriving rapidly. The V. S. army has built a railroad yard near a certain city that is postively the greatest one in tho world, and actually our own express trams are travelling the rails of France. The Ked Cross trains are magnificent Pullmans for use of the wounded I". S. soldiers. The medical department is surely saving thousands through its efficiency. I go in often and watch the wounls being dressed, such peculiar ones, and nearly all wounded and gassed patients recover. This hospital contains over 300 and I learn many interesting experiences. Gee! Just think of the number of boys over here, but many I never hope to see. I gain much information of movements for I ran travel about in the car and see activity, and believe me we are fciving it to them. It is said we send over just ten times as many gas and lush explosive shel-s as we receive from the enemy. At mess I eat splendid beef from the States; comes packed In ice. so hardened it is difficult for the cooks to carve, also cannei goods from I.. S., so vou see how necessary to have ships to carry food to feed one and a half million men. We have splendid eats, well cooked, and my friends very generously provided me with fresh fruit during my illness. I have collected some war relics. Anything you folks receive, jet me know. I haven't gotten mail from jou for a month last letter written .Inn H5 from mother, yours later, but keep on writing for letters from hme mean so much. With much love and affection to you a1-!- Your loving bVother. WA KRE.W Lieut. Warren Beaubien. 5 4th Artillery, i-. .. C., Battery A. A. E. F., France.

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From Lieut. D. A. Towle, Jr. July 5?. 1915. Am ab! tn raise :p a littie in bed and can write a letter, so I'm going to try to catch tip with my correspondence. In the f.rst place I will t-P vou all about our little mix-up with Kiitz on July 15, when I got mine. W went over the top at 4:35 a. m . with no artillery preparation whatever, simply a creeping barrage. T was in the first wave. For about two kilometers we met with very little opposition as the Roche was taken by surprise, we having had no preceding barrage. Then they caught us in a terrible cr.ur.ter barrage, and w-e were obliced to cease advancing. I was trying to reform our !'nes and consolidate our position whn I got mine. Lieut. Brewster was killed almost bes:d me and I was tryinjr ,t' reform his platoon with mine I had just finished putting a first aid handae on one of my sergeants who was shot through the hip when I caught it. A high explosive shell landed within 1 n feet of me and I knew nothing for for over f!v hours Two of my men tiled to carry me mio a irman dugout, which, unde.- t h r i rcu m ?t ances. w a an u n w : s e thing to do as the Boche kne-.v its location and bad Us exart rane and ihey made the most of it. I regained consciousness about 12 neion, and' shortly afterward the ! Ii" scored fl direct hit on the dugeoj(. A H. II. shell completely wrecked it. killing five men and wounding several others. 1 have a confused memory of crawling over dead bodies and the Ing.s of the deg-out and getting

out on the niniiinJ I ciawled into a shell-cratej aooat three lods an a and lay for two hours with n dead Cierman and a live one I don't know which 1 feared the most, a the dead one was m terrible shape. Finnllv Fritz threw over a gas shell near us and 1 thought it was all off. I was too weak to kill the live ilniiinn and ;et ins mask and the dead one had none So I just pressed nv. faie into the damp, fresh earth and soon the wind bleu the go.. n w a I soon no! a l'ltle strength e.n 1 crawled at'out Una yards, over a ride and to the teai. All the time a Hoche machine gun nest was stuping at me as 1 crawled through the knee-high gram lib hands and legs were slightly binned wheie I had ciawled through the mu-ca;d gas on the ground. I fainted again from loss of blood and my last r'colli-i tion was of seeing thoss terrible h.g bla k (German planes ending over the battlefield onlv C'"''i feet in air. seek.ng to dtop bombs In the shell craters where we were trving to reform our l.nes 1 was picked up by BiancaidWrs about S p in., and carlied to first p.id station. From there I had the satisfaction of having a Cierman lieutenant and three privates carry me on a litter back the regimental dressing station. From here I went back to the division field hospital and from there to an evacuation hospital, and then direct to I'arls. reaching there about 4 "0 a in. afier an all night ride in truck and motor ambulances. Fart of the way I had as a companion a ciaied Hengalese trooper (negro) who was shot through the head and was stark naked Very pleasant The French have several divisions of the Sengalese. Moroccan and Algerian troops here, used principally as shock troops. They will not stand under continued shell fre. I have lieaid. During our advance, my platoon too lour (if rmnn women prisoners, whether simply prostitutes or machine sun carriers. I do not know. I would not have believed it had I not seen them and sent them back under guard. They were dressed in short flejcj-giay skirts bnd blue blouses and caps. They came out of a machine g ,i n nest and strong po.nt. It is an estthlished fact, however, that the Boche is using thousands of prostitutes, medically examined and certified, up in his front lines Well, as vet I have not killed any of these Boehes who throw tip their hands and yell ' Kamerad " I am glad to say thut my men do not follow my example, howev er. Simptyv sive my personal prisoners a kick in the knee cap to cripple them and send the'm to the rear Personally I can see no end to this war for at least two more .years. While we have over a million troops here, still a large per cent of these are noncombatants, serving back In the S. O. 3.. and the troops of the line are of comparative little importance as et. Perhaps thiee or four million troops of th line will begin to swing the tide, but it's a long way to Berlin This is a wondeifu! hospital we are in here. Major Theodore P.oseveit. Jr. and Captain Arc hie Roosevelt are both here. I have met the captain and find him an excellent fellow. Officers here say both of them are regular daredevils in action. They both feel badi'.' now over the death of their brother, Quentin. who fell behind the Boche lines. Ambassador and Mr. Pharpe visited us the othe- dr.;. and shook hands. Gen. FVishtng called but did not go through this Officer's ward. Mrs W. K. Vandeibilt. who practi-ally support this hospital is here in nurse uniform every day I have had several talks with her. I have a severe jagged gash in mv left foot about five Inches long. .Several bones are broken and it will be two or th-ee months before I can hobble again. I mav never be able to campaign again, that is. stand long marches, with pack, and drill a!I day on mv feri Well, write to me often and give me all th" news. nememher me to your mother I hope that her health is much improved. I cabled my wife about mv injury, r.s I did not want th War Ppartment to notify her first. As it .-'. I suppose she has started to swim across the Atlantic. i"od 1'i' k to you and write me often Lt. P. A TOW LK, Jr. Am Mil. Hospital. 1 Nouilly. Paris To his e.o,stn. Zeph Campbell, of TOast ( "h )-a -;o.

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