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Show HARRY COON WRITES HOME j Savenay. France, Nov. 24, 191$ , Dear Dad. etc Well, Dad, they have lifted the censorship cen-sorship at last so will endeavor to enlighten en-lighten you on my activities in the past three months it is exactly three j months today since we waved goodbye good-bye to the Statue of Liberty and' pul-; pul-; led out of Xew York harbor. ; Ou the 24th day of August, we left the U. S. A. ou the British steamer "Cedric" (White Star Line), and af-' af-' ter fourteen days qf traveling all over ov-er the Atlantic ocean, and durng . which we sailed down between Ire-i Ire-i sea and past the Isle of Man. we arrived ar-rived at Liverpool. England, on the 5th of September, and believe me it was a tired bunch of soldiers that ' had to shoiUder all their earthly effects ef-fects and hike to the railroad sta tion which was over two miles :' the. place of debarkation without a hault. From Liverpool wewent to a rest camp at Winchester, England, and it was from here that all of our letters written in England were sent. Winchester is noted as the ancient capital of King Arthur and the 'Round Table' at which King Arthur and his Knights sat Is on exhibition in one of the public buildings of this place. There are many historical incidents connected with this place, among was the invasion by the P.o mans, but I have forgotten most of the history I ever did know. We were in this rest camp just three days and about the best that can be said for it was that it was located in one : of the prettiest stretches of country I ever saw. We left Winchester osf'; September Sth for Southampton, ar-i rl- U13 there after about two hours j ride, and then v.a'ted until evenine to load on the boat that was to tr-ke t'i across the English Channel. We left on a little boat about the size of your fist, as soon as it was dark, and after five hours of flip-flops, tail spins, and sunfishing. the boat landed at Cherbourg, France, and believe me. it was a muss. Everyone did his best to see that the fish didn't starve and it was no "button" that I placed in the contribution box myself. Mitch and I were side by side on this trip 'and took turns holding one-another's j head. We stood holding onto the rai! : and getting as much fresh air as pos-! pos-! sible, and actually at times it looked I as if about a million tons of water were about to fall on us, but ab-e the time we expected it to land we would shoot into the air Oh. about a mile or so. and then the 'tub' would ! slide off side-ways with that descend- ing elevator effect and then we would : feed the fishes again. We hit another rest camp at Cherbourg but only re-! re-! mained there two days. This was our first experience with the French, and they made themselves popular a" once by bringing out wine to sell a11 we marched by. We didn't understand under-stand their lingo, but they understood under-stood American money better than we did. so there was no friction. On ' the 11th of September, the loaded us I into box cars and started us for Jon-1 Jon-1 7ac. France, which is located about SO miles north of Bordeaux. It took about two days to make the trip, and as we were about 40 strong in each : car. the cars being about half the size of the American make, you can imagine im-agine what an enjoyable trin we had You had to sleep with your knees no under your chin, and in a sitting position po-sition then you were lucky if someone some-one wasn't sitting on top of you. ,1 can't complain myself, however, for I lit out for the supply car and stretched stret-ched out on a pile of boxes, therehv getting the best night's sleep I had had since landing in France. After two days of this, we landed at Jon-zac Jon-zac and had to wait for the off i : to hunt our quarters. As we wr--the firt Americans to hit this pli e we were quite a curiosity to the French and after a two hour oaiav- ' with the Mayor and chlefrof police they decided to billet us in an old wine store rooni. on the second Moor of a big stone building of which v ' have a picture. The only wav we had of getting up was by a single ladder ,'Continited fe Trc n.-rM |