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Show Letters From Bingham Soldiers The following Is a letter from Bert Swan, "written from a rest camp in France alter spending a stretch of sixty-four days in the trenches, to George B. Chandler: -' ' ' ' "Since landing on French soil I have been quite busy moving about from place to place, sometimes riding rid-ing on box cars on the railroad, 30 to 40 men in a car, which are about as large as the flat cars used on the levels of the Utah Copper hill with a top on them. So yon can imagine how crowded we were. The other ways of getting from place to place are by trucks and walking (moetly walking. walk-ing. "The parts of France I have seen are very pretty and productive. Rolling Roll-ing hills of forests covered with green grass, valleys mostly meadow land, all high places being drained 'of water are cultivated, which presents a, checkered appearance. The whole country Is a network of rivers and streams. There are, I presume, almost al-most every "kind of tree known growing grow-ing on thw -mountain tops and hill sides. All forests are supervised by the government. While the timber is not very large in dimension yet it is very dense, tall and straight. Numerous Numer-ous sawmills are in all. timbered sections. "The people are somewhat queer in some instances and not very modern except in dresa, and on special occasions occa-sions I believe they outdo the Americans Amer-icans in this respect. (Method , of farming farm-ing vjery ancient and Improvements very crude, which limits the amount of production. All work is done by women, children and old men who are not fit for military duty. "I have Just returned from the front after having Bpent sixty-four days at the trenches. Am now at the rest camp, typical of all the French camps for that purpose. ' Do not know how long I will remain here. "Censorship is very strict So I cannot write as explicitly as I would like, but the tables seem to be turned turn-ed on the Huns. It gives one renewed courage and determination to try with all possible assistance he is able to render to bring thip war to a speedy ending. "I anticipate that business Is holding hold-ing up as always and no doubt gingham ging-ham is maintaining her high standard of productiveness and abounding in prosperity. "My health has not been the best of late, due I think, to continually changing of water and food diet, which, along with our own mess, we are too curious In sampling French eatables." |