Show ALLAN PIKE TOES WHITES TO PARENTS FROM says that we are in for a long hard fight before the huns are beaten gives other in te foresting resting facts of the war A letter received this week by city attorney edward pike from some where in france written by his son allan pike one of the eureka lads who enlisted last may in the fifth field artillery which regiment ie Is now holding part of the american sector against the onslaught of the huns brings many interesting items from the american front as it was wa about a month ago just prior to th the big german drive among other things he writes I 1 am feeling fine the magazine magazines nearly all reach me the only thine thing I 1 really would like to have Is a copy or two of the reporter I 1 get little or no news of eureka ay other way and haven t received or copy c 0 py tor for two months we get 11 t 0 r no news of the war except ot of your aur own sector and what we can r wa from th the stars and stripes the paris edi tion pf bt the chicago tribune and the new newyork york herald and we only see these once or twice a month the more I 1 see of this war the more I 1 realize what a wonderful war machine the germans must have and that this war Is not nearly at ita its end by the illustrations and the papers I 1 get from home I 1 see that the american people havie only a slight idea of what Is going on over here for instance those stories us bally found in every late magazine about us and our training and move ments when one is most probably sleeping in a two by six bunk in a dark smoky dugouts one of the incidents that some times tend to make things exciting at meal times he describes as tol fol lows the other day the boches took a pot shot at our kitchen A bit big shell took oft off the top of the kitchen and passing on exploded about kev feet away everyone was sitting around on the ground eating and the he cooks were in the kitchen pass ing ng the chow the shell was eith er a fifteen or twenty one centimeter which I 1 Is 3 rated as pretty big but the only damage it done was to the root of the kitchen not a man got a scratch some lucky battery isn t it accompanying the letter as a copy of the stars and stripes the official paper of the american ex forces in france it Is an interesting paper full of the camp life with its serious and hu sides and helps the bove over there some by publishing a few cablegrams of the mos important import int happenings over here |