Show from mitchell benson and myers la IA ferte barnarde prance france jan 18 28 1910 times timea Pera wari utah we haw have been trying to find time since the war ended to write a few linea ban to the times but being busy all the time moving from place to place and being inconvenienced e fenced in many ways that we could cool d hardly get to do it until lately so ao we will tell you a little of our travels and how we appreciate the fact that the war is we I 1 left new york on the ath of july and we are am now in n france AIR x months for which we have now our gold tri trip p for or six BIX months overman duty in the six MX months we have been here we have trailed practically all over france and part of belgium and we have traveled every way but first class the nearest to first class clan was waa when we were hiking if you could take a trip with us on an one of these french freight trains you would not want to take the second thecae the cars are about halt half as large as an ours our and the the label on them reads like thin 0 choux 40 homme meaning meanings 8 horses or 40 men and by bv the appearance on art the inside they use them largely for the transfer of horses imagine a four day trip with 40 men and equipment equip men t in ID one of them just standing room some same relief when we reach our destination even it if we do weep in home barna chick cn en coops ani other places the french haw have set bet apart for the american withers soldiers we have been on the front from three drives st forest and nd flanders at st michiel we wre istre held in reserve for a few days at the beginning of the drive the art drive heiny being so f som saul that the 91 division wait ordered to lu a place in the Orr gonne ganne where bownes busin efla was wag more running here we imlej A bin big drive on the of september and for about ten dav s and nights we were in a hf life sd baille 1 it t belld mems that the there r B no limit it t lu 0 human endurance an and when h you d alim get in where the nhelly or are bursting burB ting and ana bullens whizzing you have no time to sympathize with yourself our division DiVi tion reached their objective on this drive but encountered very heavy losses leaves sometimes sometime it looked like chances were very lew few for us ua to get away uninjured at times when divisions on our flanks fell back the slat pushed on without faltering when we were relieved from the rest we were then moved to belgium as a a shock division to fight with the british and fr french a chin in F flanders reached belgium to in the vicinity of cypres ypres traveled I 1 in trucks truck over what has been called no in mans land for over three years yeara and the distraction distinction and desolation is IN indescribable in that part of belgium what was once a prodoc tive live and pretty country is just juat a mass man of shell shelf holes and the cit cities as and towns mashed to gravel and debris we were re thrown into the line at apera aper on the of oct suit and started another drive we were the first american troops to fish fieh in belgium and have the distinct tion of being the first american to fight under a king we saw th king of belgium king albert aar the queen when they were re a scotch division and hear him address them after the review we were at andengard An Jenard denard belgian whom hn the armistice was signed city we had just captured just few miles milea from the heights a 0 Wamil waterloo oo where napoleon wa sov defeated the news new of the armistic was wait indeed a pleasing event in at 01 life in europe we have seen as much of europ rowe as we care to and the thine that most interesting interest intE to us ua now is to ge ec back to carowan parowan where R Rr vielle never blows we are now at a pop pol in france where we go through th necessary requirements of f recurt me ing and hope ti be hom soon with best beat wishes to all we re main JOHN MITCHELL Ml STANELY BENSON THOS THOR H MYERS M G co B A PO P 0 A E F |