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Show Houfd You Like His Job? . Some Bad Features to It lyprfcs in No Man's Land LIEUTENANT HARRY CULBREATH of Salt Lake, who writes most interestingly of his experiences on the shell-torn fields of France. "lta-VA 'till Zf Shelling Isn't' So Bad, He Says, Nor Barrages and Gas Attacks, but That Direct Fire He Doesn't Like It. the reliefs during theeilght The Red ( roes and Y. M. C. A. are also doing their ahare. "Uncle bam la taking good care of us. Plenty of clothea. food, money and ammunition, and eteiy one la full of fight and are giving the Hun plenty of hell. ALLIES LIKE YANKS. The French and English recee ua with open arms and welcome America aa their aavior. Every man In the army here Is proud of the way the United !ate and Old Glory la taking hold of the battle and alao the great way In which the folks at home are doing their bit In buying Liberty bonds, in aiding the Red frosa and. In fact, doing all in their power to aid the boys oyer here who will In time free tha world for democracy." FIRST LIKI'TENANT HARRY ri'LHRKATH. former Salt Laker and former Western manager man-ager for I .a Mega Cigar company com-pany with headquarters here, writes una of the most Interesting letters yet received from the battlefront of France. Lieutenant Culbreath enlisted en-listed In the American army at the time Preaident Wilson declared war against the Hun, and hla letter to Jack Whitaker. a local cigar man, foliowe: "I waa writing at thla hour yesterday, yester-day, when 'Jerry" started dropping a bunch of pills' around us. Then there was nothing to do but "stand by with gaa make on. ready for whatever else he might send over to ua. My orderly aavs there la a guy Just arfroea from ua In Germany who works for a firm by the name of 'Schrapnell. Oas Bombs Co.. excavators and Iron 'merchants. Holes dug and scrap Iron delivered all over France. Quick deliveries. Hure execution while you wall.' Thla Is more truth than poetry, as we have been under ahellfire almost every day and night for the paat four weeks THIS WAS BAD. "We don't mind the shelling much and are used to having the barrage on us. and our own artl;iery barrage pass over us. and know what It la to be In a gaa attack. But believe me. I thought my time had come when the Hun opened hia artillery fire- on poor little me one day. "It waa like -this: Xly work a reconnaissance officer takes me out In the open and frequently over the top Into No Man s Land. On thla occasion I had my staff sergeant and a runner with me, and we were evidently picked up by an enemy observation balloon, because he got our range, and the first three-inch shell missed me by only twenty feet and the other close by. Now. thla does not sound very bad. but when you heur the boom of the cannon can-non and hear the ehelle coming, and then wait a few aeconda. It aeems like minutes for the explosion and the result. re-sult. -A VETERAN NOW. "i hsve been over many parts of ; France, have aeen service with the . French. British and American forces and am now quite a veteran. Life In 1 ,the trenchea and In the field fwhen In j the etrpiKwt or reserve) la not exactly , like the Waldorf, or the Congresa. or the Brown I'alace, but we manage to ' get by fairly well until the rain starts snd makes the mud deep and slippery. Tha dugouts vary, aa do hotels some are dark and damp and smelly and 1 other dark and wet and smelly. . I LIVE IN OLD CHATEAU. -At thla particular place we have , company headquarters In an ancient : Tillage on the edge of No Man'a Land. The old chateau, whose remaining one : room provide -our quartera. waa built. In 1117. "Censorship rules prevent me from , writing about locations and acllvltlea, , so you will have to wait until I get back horn for more dope. ' BOOSTS SALVATION ARMY. 1 "Do not ever paaa op the Salvation . Army lassie. Their work over here . la wonderful. Their huts are all along j the Una, even down to the first line , trenches, where we can buy cigars. candy and other eatable. They fur-Blsk fur-Blsk doughnut, coffee fcd Loco to 1 |
