Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-29 | Page 14 | Boche Fire fails to Break U. S. Morale

BOCHE FIRE FAILS JO BREAKjLS. MORALE. German Artillery Efforts Directed to Prevent the Yankees Sleeping. That the Huns, prior to signing the armistice, took particular delight in shelling shell-ing American lines and camps at night to prevent the men from obtaining rest and to break their morale and powers of resistance re-sistance if possible, is slated in a letter received yesterday' from D. Richard Gill, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David R. Gill, 25S North Eighth AA'est street. The IclteY is dated October 7,- a little more than a month before hostilities ceased. It, comes from "Somewhere in France." with the signal platoon of headquarters head-quarters company of the 321st infantry.' "There have been air machines flying i over us all day," the young soldier writes, "and our antiaircraft guns have been banging away at them about every minute. min-ute. The Germans seem to think it ts most fun for them to -disturb our sleep at night by the roaring noises1 of their bombs and shells, evidently iu an attempt to break the courage and morale of the boys. But in this they are mistaken, be-causo be-causo it only makes us go at them a little more vengefully next day. "AVhen the shells go over our heads they sing a whining song and whistle uncannily, un-cannily, too. The Hun tikes to blow big iioles in the roads and he Invariably makes" it a point to give us an explosive serenado at nights when a fellow wants to sleep if it is his turn to sleep at night. "Oh, 1 tell you, France is a nice, pretty country and all that, but I'll take mine in the good old U. S. A. as soon as it is over and I am released to come back. I don't know what day of the- week it is half tho time and never know' the day of the month without asking, we are kept so' bus'. "Our boys are shooting at an airplane while I am writing. It is evidently a Hun and I hope' they drop him to keep company com-pany with the others they have brought dqv.