Show War as She Aint I Told by American Boy I Following Is la a letter from Philip O. O Mills addressed to Eliot Norton in which he graphically tells of or conditions conditions condi condl- lions at the front Mr Mills Millie I In Is on one or lie the volunteers In the American I olun r Motor Ambulance corp cori I re in France N. N N s S. S I Ibar Eliot Elio Through i hun hun- hUll I I rel the highly colored article aritte in n nI I magazines and rs Ih the e rave American boy boI boys at 81 the front frt- Iome me floating Into our curls corps url moil mel t temporarily within Iun sound und and i t I sight of or the he guns lx bt beyond ond the town mt f I IThe The They are our I and relaxation I do im i. i believe oui American public loves lo to 10 he be bulldozed i and stuffed The half l baked aked war correspondents corre- corre corNI j I who write the rot rol a hunt the he ambulance e drivers at the thi fr front nt have hae an Imagination that Is II stupendous 1 dous doull and awe inspiring The They hi uil hf head hend nd their artiel's WAR AS SHE AINT I Stories of or regiments returning crom the trenches crowding around ambulances ambulances lances to thank them are arp bull I pure purl and simple The They are arl either cither too tired I t to ta do anything except keep walking or Os else are apt to sling the usual soldier Jokes jokes same same the world over o I Any fellow who cannot distinguish the sound of one of his own guns goIng goIng going go- go I Ing off oft from a shell com coming in is apt to spend a miserable life if Ir he be stays long longIn In these parts Most wounded are too busy bulY keepIng keeping keeping keep keep- ing their own nerve in both hands hand to bother about ballroom speeches The first wounded load I had any aims acquaintance acquaint acquaint- ance with bad had one among them who vho spoke a a. little English and his first t question waa when waa when does the train tram I leave for Paris Rules of r te road there road there arent aren't any motors any motors pass pUll horse wagons be because because be- be cause causo they are quicker Camions pull pullout pullout pullout I out when hen they hear you if it the they hear and can pull out t tOne One man has written Ambulances I come a after troops after amm ammunition well what is there and food toad wagons left on en the road after all these but I ambulances This road business s is all alla a matter of expediency If It you can squeeze pas pall a string of ot camions you do 10 lo otherwise you fall In line and wait walt your OUr chance NO PASS WORDS Because you vou see a star shell It doesn't mt mean n you are within sight lIght of the tho Bosche and right behind the first line hint by a long shot for you can see them twenty miles from behind the lines Sentries asking for passwords on roads under tire fire Is If foolish foolish and and you jou IU can go rt right ht up to any front line hoe i trench If you mire are a big enough fool without In about any pass pas passI I word takes It for granted you ou wouldn't be bl around there unless II U had Imd u It One Inc night I went from Ll t out l beyond Verdun toward the lini 1111 hii's l lack hak through the he town OWn and half mv I ti mm liar Due and no one oue wanted 1 h j I to kru r w anything yu mm u mt make muke all life lire serious out i litre In lr 01 ind m iiI It 1 this liLa driving by the stars wit WIl with II hi tn ti roil Iron grip on the steeling I h imel mi nt please some people hut but butI I an it t see It wh why I w i iou ou ou oil could have hae seen our tim Hit timer other day indulging in Ii an aim II limi ii game of ut one-old one rat eat when fl five fi came sailing over O hn Ih x thi-x hogan began dropping bombs bomb tr om lIn did a O in record st 8 le ma mt I. I 11 1 all directions direction and did not 1 tit nit fur T checks heck either But Dut it d di l into a I pursuit race in l t w. w minutes inT 1111 IT ct M 1 the the id idea n. though that thai they the i ome ox over or er every ry afternoon they afternoon they don dont donl t. t Dunt nt get t t h the 11 Idea that the daring I Jill little driver er lives In R a of ot shell hell strewn n Fm ads da hing dm hing through fires flroa of or bat bai bai- bai i naJt for fur he ht don't dont thank dont thank heaven I 1 dun don t f the they ever er put put a I fire fir mii n a road an ambulance had to dh roads under undera d I I They I have haxe e put h a shelling for hours and da days day at l imeri eri mIS K but Iut no mo ambulance or anything i 1 eis through a that barriage that s scold I 14 HO ran Cull t go o cold f fat all t MAKE NO FUSS At times the corps has hu been through periods of ot night and day work all aU night and anti da day but It hasn't lasted more than two t or three weeks at a time and and t th the x V. xoi oi UI k has lues been dangerous to a degree It has been a miracle that It tt has hu come coma through Ough with no casualties but mostly It Il goes on Its way doing it Its dally daily task and making no fuss over It but It-but but the French government go and the army di division dl- dl vision to which It i Is I. attached are ar more than appreciative of everything it does docs as 0 time till corps citations prove pro and they ha have 8 repeatedly Expressed their confidence in It by putting It in every big attack for well WelI over a year jear ear since the war var ar was WWI started started and and It ho hat has made good They have aN asked ked for tor another section see sec lM tion I. I f e. e thirty ambulances and sixty 01 volunteers u under the American Red ned RedCross Cross Cross and and to be commanded by our Chief Richard Norton and that I I. I In another proof that the Harjes section going since the beginning of the warland wart War and Norton's Nortons section the same Rame have filled tilled ever requirement and proved that they could handle their Jobs right The Time work Is ts interesting and has hM a good element of chance but it Is II not ant filled with nights and days of ot daring deeds but good solid helpful effort where It tt does doe count aunt And of ot course our close association with all nil the business of war ba has bas a anever anever never neer ending thrill thrill for for we wo arc are a part of the great game |