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Show CAT AS "SNIFFER" HELPS SOLDIERS Nfelt AbiW'PoHM Gas fflirmin Lee, American Ambulance Hero, Writes Interesting Letter ' WWW Wwjrritdrt New t&kfcmWrtsob'IofTNertJ York city has received a letteEfronr on American volunteer In FrancofNbK man LeyiS!fWfien;.yeMaJpaJ) sono. newspaper map, .who lias been driving on AmerfffltM' QfllHF nTnbtihftce'Yorl the last fclne mbsUisriavWlW nU celved tlie Croix de Guerre. Tb, Jo-, ter follows: "Ifa a&;apn&ve.tJtuUtettimbd from a tifmfl-;ir.jiopd, yroe.p, write. Willie I nttenipl tlUsUwc-men are busily cngaa'lithVirtJmh'ctf torpedoes Just,outlde of the 'dugout.'. I call it Vdngorit-i-ia 'reality It's .otto; a cellar buL,it',8drr"esOt, Wpoae- keeps the 'dcU'ta'Trroiu,hittlnour course, a direct 'hit toutdbvi differ ent thing. The BoeliWdroppcU a tern pas shells oVor'nboutWdhlgUt.Y;Xlae you ever henrd a rattlesunk.p?Stycll,' a gas shell has the snme0fToet. . Nr one has to tell you uhatVltHa, you' know. It Just goes 'put' and lets. out a greenish vapor. That's v chough-down chough-down In thodugout put m jour masks and watt inUlftUieBoichfc.'aro finished. But li's'nhnVtfj WeWVHo candle burning, and fcVory one sitting around with masks on the cat hugs the Are whllu Junius, the uiudicliiu dog, has his mask on, too It's n, special spe-cial one and lie !:uow9 enftai:i iut io paw It ofT. He's a leal war dog.. Official "Sniffer" Appointed'.' 'U "During these sessions tlif-re Is nl- waya an olllclal 'snlilur' up'polhtiJ, who has to tako off his nuibk, euiy onco In a while, go to the door anil r fcce .lf.thq.stult Is till around. The lUerdaT Wwcrc- in 'doubt,"? o ' we I'"(ireiv:t7iW'itlcAit.l'Hlie enme-.bfick ,su quickly that no one had any dnjbtj that It still was there. Oh 1 It bothers Jerthe'gas-'morcthnu'thf shells." lt'a 'a'prettyptjeujvnyito.mako wur. "A Iloche avion canio'bvcr'lfibtow n1 ' we stay In the other night and dropped four bombs. One lilt on the house next t the or$ lhe'ciifcf'ma!Hr(jclnHiJiT,ilhe 1 rest ,A f w iuiidii'd jfeet nym, Wr . ilcnts.fjm ohojjwis l.iutij Wq.cuildd J thfe'luck of-Secflon UuvlnA fithtnjo "To say, the name of the street all the bombs fell on lsl'rdd dd'ln, pombc.'-ri j "I had an IntpresLuiai experience 'n- few days ago, IrVlfijctV atf'thojtlme,(it' was too Interesting.1 K III rememboA rightly I clobed by last letter up In j order to get a little sleep while I had the chrfbapv.; VlU(I jiadu't.beep asleep, moro'''thiralatf hour'WlJbiill'.was 'awaki, ened by the noise of 'nrrlvees not sheHsbut shrapnely. There was a battery Bpt flifcfroi&'usjidjjie Baches wero trjlng to silence It by making' the gunners take tat coer; hence, the trance to our dugout IiaVlng bnce been German .now faced the wrong way 6aldftnfrancfirBeinrcyered, byri b!unkt."i;nchnot' kept-coming near I er, and you can't Imagine a weirder sound than tho whine of bursting Bhrapnel. Buret at the Door. youJcoulienr piefccrfallidflbltneJ jop, of the dugout.. The last onecburst tho nearest right in front of tho door. B4 M)Wtcr- hMp6i ripped through that litankef llkeJa clown going through a paper ring at. a clrrfnBHeNri(J(rtJ and ftstfllT FortnMttly.-tbhSw -tilsot htJcWt-'in the morning we picked .plecee out of gunners came down in the morning to look usurer, android lis ttu Bochea badta'tMkceed4dlji drlvjufeth.n from their guns for a moment. We all agreed with the braacnrdler who re- "The sumo weather continues. Bain, ball, snow and mud Inches deop. ThinkCorthppoarwpuntlW lofitaihl BurWdVWlp thbinPwhrl love- tVnW "Near Solssons. NOHMAN." |