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Show MEM IN TRET1CHES ACCLAIM AMERiGA V By Spceial Nm service. NEW YORK. June t. How the Frenchman in the trench! appreciates appre-ciates America'! entrv Into tH wnrM war la revealed by a letter from a one time atudent of Columbia unlrer-ity, unlrer-ity, who la French by birth and returned re-turned to hla native land when the summons came. He la Pierre Can-bone, Can-bone, and until wounded he nerved aaan aid to the general ataf f. His letter, let-ter, written In French, waa addressed to the department of political science at Columbia univeraity, under which he took courses while here. A translation trans-lation reads as follows: ."Permit a one time student In the department of political science and a man once a combatant whom sickness sick-ness has recently removed from the trenches to thank you for all the moral support that the energetic con-duct con-duct 'of America has brought us recently "Surely many of your compatriots have often shown during the course of this war what place France has held in their hearts. My comrades and I have never held It against the American government for not leaving Its neutrality until the present time.! We know too well the horrors of war and believe that everything should be done and -esarything triad ao aa e avoid such a scourge for a nation. "It is Just for such reasons thst the news Just arrived from the United States gives courage to our souls, strength to the most discouraged, and Is for France a new Indication of victory. vic-tory. More than ever it seems to us that we are fighting not onlv for our country, but also for the liberty of the world. "Since America has' placed herself on the side of the allies, the French armies see In this decision the greatest great-est of victories; a victory in which the French genius will have triumphed over German thought "I believe that I am the spokesman of my numerous comrades, and it is for this reason that I have permitted myself to write this letter and that! beg you to accept our profound thanks." -1 |