Show DR TR V CLOWARD TELLS ELLS m ABOUT ABU M BATTLE LIFE A most interesting inte letter was received yesterday from dr R E cloward by dr II 11 B goetzmann the extracts from froin letters rece received led at the cloward home were in type before this tills letter was received but carbon county people will not think two articles with news of the hap over there as seen by bv the men inen from hero aia ato too much the att only wishes it could have hae two or three lette letters ra t to 0 pr prin I 1 t each week there seems to be I 1 it foundation for the wont that Df cloward was wounded the postal card received at his home was ono on of 0 those printed and anti provided by the government it had several sanke ments merits on it th tint thit it tho tile one sending it might cross nut those which did not apply to his ease case and let the rest mat stand A lino line was drar ii through the sentence 1 I have hae been severely wounded and tho the statement thai tha he was quite well was ellow pl lowd da stand 11 U was as mailed mft r the letter here printed dr I 1 cloward writes in franco france june 24 1018 dear goetzmann Go this indeed is an all experience I 1 had my first experience yesterday yeat erday of being under fire tire wo we were passing near the german lines over an bopf op L space exposed to their vie kiev ve came to a turn in the read A board was lying across with some sonic nalla sticking up the driver stop stopped pec the car to remove the board bard aa As w we stopped a shell about a 4 bundled feet in front its lemarl aali the precision biti which they thoy j eg land those shots things are erequiel quiel on this sector now Il although Jit houch we ex hect more u excitement soon M ba dreams arc are at last c ilag true surgery surgery during a I 1 rusl berun wo run six hour shifts there an aro sik six si K operating squads in this tills hospital Coutin continued tied on pago page 81 dr cloward tells continued froal from pigo p igo ige 1 aj crises cases of a minor nature are kept here till they arc are well the serious ones are operated on then evacuated to the base hospital in tho the rear one of our hospitals for minor injuries brits was shelled this morning but no one ais v is hurt the dovila davils hao hae no respect for anyone nor anything ho he othea day some of our troops captured a bunch of germans in a grove the gunners were chained to the tile buna guns so they had to debt fight to the end one of tho men was coining coming in o 0 with his wounded comrade on his A bullet struck the wound ed lad killing him and entered the back of the other while he was being dressed his only thought scene ed d to be well thea the got my buddie buddle their comrade is their buddie the germans call us devil snakes they certainly fight like h when there is a big crowd of them and they have plenty of ammunition and big guns Wh when enthey they see the cold ste steel elof of t tha he Sam mies they begin to cry Kom enid jd and are ready to quit fluit if it we had a couple more million millio men hera hero wed soon have it oer with france is a beautiful count country rv I 1 lont dont blame the frenchi for dentine fighting to maintain it but it is awful celd an overcoat has felt very ery comfortable all day today but really I 1 am telline telling you of the beauty is hist the buildings are quaint 0 old id structures very substantial made surrounded for the roost most wrt by nigh walls and massive gates which lend an atmosphere of ms mastery and id the forests are artill cial trees planted symme tribally tri cally and nd of uniformity the farms are small intensely cultivated artistically arranged no fences roads ard ara narrow but well made in fact everything you look at the first thought is 1 I wonder whit is its history the natural beauty we are acc accustomed eis tamed to in america is not here aleith neither r th the C bf life nor activity sei set america jus lat and all the time will be my blogin I 1 rom now on I 1 must close cloie the shadows of evening are falling the cuckoo is singing his last song son the 1 I jau at bei aci of the peasants and the clack of their woolen shoes q ringing through the narro street as they plod their way home through the fields I 1 am sitting by my little window alone somewhere in france write soon and remember me kindly to all my friends As ever signed R E CLOARD |