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Show INTERESTING LETTER FROM :h!eoT; joy. mm , (Lieutenant Don G. Williams writes an Interesting letter to his parents, Mr. ahd' lMra. O. S. Williams, - from France: ' My Dear Father and Mother: Well, here I am in France at our rchool. We are as far away from the scene of activity as we can get. Get out your map of France and look up the most westerly cape and locate Brest, now follow down the coast around that cape Finestere and into a bay then look up Vannes in IBret-Irand. IBret-Irand. Just north of Vanna is Mencon where we are located. ' We have a fine camp, nice barracks. bar-racks. We have large rooms, two ' offices in each room. The roon.s are equipped with tables and shelves and electric lights. Each barracks has Its own shower and wash room. There ere twelve rooms in a barrack. We I left Liverpool and went down to l Southhampton. The Country was beautiful and green. We disembarked disembark-ed from Southampton after a night's rest in the American Rest Camp and arrived safely at a port in France. There our accommodations were fine. We rested there over night and left ' next day for iMencon. We spent two I very uncomfortable nights on second clans French railway cars There Is no place to sleep and we Just dropped ourselves over the seats, six of us in a compartment Just twice the size of the ordinary Pullman section. It took us two days and a half to travel what ' would ordinarily take a few hours In ' the good old U. S. A. We lived on canned wlllle and bread and canned stuff. We had a good time though. ; Every caie here serves wine Just like water (in quantities not strength) 1 have got to like some of their good : light wines. ' There are a number of Ofma" ' prisoners here, they do all sorts of work and appear to be very 1 ai .1 S There Is a story that one escaped and ! came back In about a week with eight other Germans. I am learning how to get alone ; with the French language fairly well. I can make myself understood in almost al-most all cases. It is strange not to tie ubio to niak3 yourself plainly an ; derstood. What I want is reading matter, so send mo anything in that j line you want as magazines and ' newspapers. Enclosed is a French Franc (paper) it is worth about 1" 12 cents, it Is a. local note issued by the chamber of commerce. It Is not j good in any other locality other than i Vienna or where issued, j I am happy and well. It is good and j hot here and we have to wear our I blouses and belts nil the time. I am not an areiul observer any more. I am attending a school in l'irjig II,".") or 6 inch howitzers) orientation, and spoclalitiig in nnterial' t!mt is the construction and nomHiituro of the French 155 rim gun. It fires an so hi), projectile. Have reee'ved no mail yet nwl :;m anxiously wail inrt. (! 'idiyo, w!h lot.) of love., jour son, IK.). l'iv-'t !.i,it. l": 11 (5. Wi!i;;!ts. It.'.tli F. A. Advance Sdio.-l IMaclnnt Arnericjui Kxpi d it iopa-y lore's, J Via New York City. |