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Show BLEU DAVIS WRITES OFSERVIGEADROAD In Letter from England, Bingham tad Tells In Graphic Style of His ExperienceFinds Exper-ienceFinds Many Things Different From What He Had Heard Says That the War Is Not So Bad and TJHe Likes it. ' ed that a sugar ship waa sunk about an hour behind us. That waa the day j , before we landed. That may be Just gossip, you can hear anything In the arm v and you don't know anything. We are here in the land where they say you have a "Jolly good time," instead in-stead of a "hell of a good time," and ! everything else la "bloody" or "blooming" "bloom-ing" And believe me. the Knglish soldiers and our boys don't mix very good, and you can take it from me 1 don't care a h of a lot for an Kng-llshman Kng-llshman myself. And as for the women, wo-men, they want to hug and kis you i every time they' meet you that is ail 1 1 have seen. And as for tobacco, a five-cent hack of Hull Purham here costs you 24 cnU. That Is the only one of those trains, and then we got off the train about 2 o'clock Xmaa morning and marched to camp. There was no cheering, but silence. They can talk about people cheering and meeting you over here with a band and a big crowd, but ifa all id. L You do all your traveling at night and j In silence . When you land over here you are a soldier and not a darned fool. We had turkey and candy and nuts for Xmas dinner. o the eats were not bad. And we will have a good time no matter where we are, and we have a good place to sleep and 1 am feeling fine. I hope you are all feeling feel-ing as good as I am. I don't have time to get home sick. This is all the ivjuer f have, so I will write more nt'xt time. Your loving son, Glen Davis. I P.S. Toll everybody hello, and tell itlicin the war will soon be over. That lis straight goods. r?tan1ey Olen DaviH. son of lr. and lr.H. . I. Itevia, of Bingham, who is now one of the American soldiers In England, writes a most interesting let-It-r'to his people here. Glen is so well known and so well liked here that the people of this community would read witii interest anything he niiKht write, Iiut the letter we are giving is so much liko him and reads ho much like lie talks, and tells o many inleretins iMiuiBM about his experience In the -army it will make interesting reading natter for people who do not know Mm. His li-tter, which was dated Winchostcr. ICimlund, IH-cember 2i, J!U7. is as follows: Dear Folks: Tins is the firnt timo I j,aVe had a chai.i to wriu? since I Janded We have been on the move vr 'since we landed. W- Kot here-ato here-ato and round. Only saw one. Bil-TtiMiine Bil-TtiMiine That, is tlu-y av they did. I didn't We ab.o heard afl'-r wo land American tobacco here that I have piH-n. and every fellow you meet it's "Give mo a smoke." AVe haven't got, wiy pay yet and Cod only knows when j we will. ThU is just a rest camp we ar in I now, where tl.ey Htud the soldiers! froni the front that are wounded to recuperate. They tell us all about the warfare In the trenches, and it is not hall' n. bad as you people over there think it is ilh.it I can't tell you anything any-thing about that. Hut the thins that has interested ! me mot over here was their trains. Tbey are little dinky thiiiKs. The engines en-gines are Just Ifke the dinky engines at tho I'titii I'opper. and their cars are about the. size of an ore watroti box. lint they sure travel with them at about f'e rate of fifxy miles an hour. nj.t eve I rod for eight hours on |