Show j War Scribes Busy Boys i In Zone b w u EW YORK yonI Jul July 27 The 7 The experience N NEW I. I If ence enco of ot a war correspondent who iho 1 risks his life er e every second he la ti I on dut duty la Is i a feature of oC war wholly overlooked overlooked over- over looked or underestimated b by those who keep In touch with the happenings In the theatre of or conflict The TIle war ar correspondent Is 18 out to set get ct the IRe liens lien's and ho hI gets It ft regardless of consequences But hI his path Is s not a a. rosy one This fact I Is strikingly shown hon In n a recent t letter Jetter from Hen Henry n w G. G Wales one of th the International 1 News Service staff correspondents to ril ru d. d S. S the manager ger of or the tho service Tho letter Jetter follows My or Dear Chief Jut ChIef Just a few o ow lines linc to tell you ou the tho situation here a as 15 It exist exists although h It may be largely changed ere reaches you ou 2 27 j 28 S t the e French after after- On May or artern n announced II attacks ck developing de In Flanders I against Ypres and between Soissons arid anil so h having m my credentials fixed for tor Or the tile American an chateau In the I British area I went up there thero Immedi M at l I- I I They h never received the tete telegram I T Iwas was ns coming so T I finally got Jot there via motor trucks freight trains and ambulances I lances J and then found Cound the German aerman German I I thrust In Flanders had been mere merely a n. ai tt lr i t. t feint and anI tn that the main blow was on the i I 1 beat It back to Paris Parl with two to If we wo could other correspondents see sec i do an anything from Paris with the Sols- Sols I P fons attack and then we wo returned In a ai i course of ot da days s 's to the American chateau I wa was ex exp expecting ex- ex up lip at the British front as p credentials to the tho British correspondents correspondents correspondents' cor cor- I cor-I through respondents respondents' chateau to come any tn- tn time I i I I r t r remained there a I. I f few days dava until the German dr drive e toward Chateau Thierry got ot more thore serious and American troops were ere mentioned In the line there thero 1 b 0 and nd Jo JIO when hen we Wf received Information up there which I T cannot write you OU but butt 1 t t which warranted our ret returning to the scene of activity Immediately Immediate I T 1 got ot back to Paris late at nl night ht and I heat bent It out as near Chateau Thierry as ts I I T would ouM get et b by train motor truck am- am and motorcycle sidecar decar next da day I T arrived d just after the marines had made a n. terrific attack suffering tr t hea heavy losses Josses and gaining certain valuable vatI vat val I ground I got Jot the story ston and re reI returned returned re- re I turned to Paris via la Il er e every I known non form of nf locomotion Including bicycle cle except cx- cx aeroplane and antI submarine 11 el When Shen h n I trl tried d Jo 10 to file me m my story with story with iv the line lino about O bodies captured captured- 1 the censor Advised me nothing SI because use he thought I was wac accredited to the British only onh and could not work with the Am Americans Four or five n hours hOUTS later Bert Ford came In with part of or j 1 the story not story not through h nn any fault of cit his as he hart had been beon covering co other othe- I n lAor nii I I. I in k fh u nu Thierry L 1 V. V which had not engaged n In th the th I II I fl fight ht the S Syracuse Brigade ade among amonS I i. i i others others sQ so I T gave c a Ford m my lead and my i cOl copy and he shot hot them through h. h Meanwhile Parke Palte arrived from Neuf- Neuf eur- eur chateau and we talked the Alt atlon over O and decided that as Ford was I. I hard I s1 ouid stick tick JI v prett pretty ift there there the Hie American en end 1 of or the British I 1 front being dead and dead and Parke would ouM return return return re- re reI I turn to Then Theil a day or so o olater I later the they ordered us out of or Paris and If Installed our headquarters here with x a. courier service ser to Paris t twenty five wen t fl e ii fm niles miles awa away three times a t. t day day dar 9 a. a m. m i I. I 1 p. p m. m and p. p m m. It was wase e very beh taken oft off the end of i tough luck i c th thi wire Ire but out It had to be ts v Ford has gone gOlle to for tor a ai I i couple of or days das to get some Iome things and I II I a a. little rest and he will see aco Parke Perhaps Parke win wilt keep down there v. v M him there and will win come back here ri 1 himself J We e are covering three American vY I i fronts from here the tIe n one beIn beIn be- be IU i In Ing almost three hours hours' auto ride from fromM r. r M J here There ma may bo be other American I ii fronts i come to to life aroun around here an any r the thc time time that that will depend on what ff Ji l B Boche cho does doeR I i 1 trying am-trying am to get et a statement over o 1 d' d that I got oL from a general of the ma- ma ma-I ma that the United States needs to Pt wake up and give us a good heavy gas as I like mustard gas one gas one that will stick around for man many hours from twelve twel to hours and put men out of ot acI ac- ac i aeroplanes lC I I. I tion Hon as well as to send us artillery Instead of making jis us and nd HI j I T borrow machines and guns suns from irom tile uie LI 1 French I I think the stor story will get set through I as lUll It has been su submitted to Jen general ral 1 headquarters with ft the censors censor's O 0 K U that It 11 should go 0 MaJ Bulger formerly orf of or f the New ew York World Is here In charge chare IT of or the press section now now and Gerald Morgan Is chief censor You Tou of or course Gibbons of or the Chicago heard beaM of or Floyd I Tribune getting setting his eye ee shot out I wrote him tell telling In him I wished he would Jet get the Croix d do de Guerre and Floyd Flod rapped back I i 1 might not get the tho right to wear the Croix do de Guerre Gu but I sure nuro will have hae the right to wear a monocle which wasn't so ba bad for old Gib at that erguson and Ford were In an auto r pili a a. couple of or days ago 10 and antI Ford ord Ia has haa h his nose and upper Up lip swelled up tip t I from kissing tho windshield rRth rather r I forcibly Ills His beezer beeter Is la quite swollen i but ho hI Is absolutely 0 O. 1 K Fergie I landed on his dome so IJO was unhurt alII alJ al- al J thou though h knocked cold for five 1 or ten II m minutes I flu to S. S It Jt Is no bunk that the French arc I tickled pink tink to 10 see our doughboys over o here and while whilo I would never ne f dare dare- to write It for fOI Lear fear of or being called a l sob cob sister it Is absolutely true truo that the they got get out In tho tue road and cheer tho the boys marching all along I Even Iven en tho the Fren French h always alwn's salute all American of officers of- of tI ers which the they dont don't do to British Bel Belgian lan Hall Italian or An any other orn- orn c cers r The publication of or a dally daily American has been a n great reat boost hoost admits particularly as ts asIt asit I for us us everyone crone It Is couched so modestly You would I lau laugh h to see sec American dou doughboys hbo's who were probably clerks In a t. t bank a year ago aho now flow hustling up their own food II beside the road anti and the truck motor-truck trains are cooking their own stuff tuff and pinking making their little tents tent to sleep In at nl night ht or sleeping under the car cars or orIn orIn I In them You can seo see them when they arc are billeted billeted bil bil- bli- bli I with the French helping the French women peel potatoes potatoe and string K I beans and antI wash salad and fooling with at nt night reeking off to tho the l kids and the nor northward norward ward to see the tile and hear the antiaircraft antiaircraft anti anti- light up the tho sky i aircraft guns SlIn ban banging ln awa away i Sincerely yours HENRY nY G. G WALES W. |