Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-26 | Page 9 | W. C. Morrison Says Yanks Make the Huns Run

W. a MORRISON SMS KS MAKE THE mil "It takes a Yankee with a fixed bayonet to run hell out of these yellow devils," is the characteristic Yankee way Private W. C. Morrison, "over there," writes In a letter just received by a friend in Ogden. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Friend Dick: 'I may stav away a long, long time. I was just uiinging of that song and humming it while at work, so said to myself, 'Bert, here goes, whether I make a failure of it or not.' That song and the last night vou and I were out together in Ogden will long be remembered by me. We had quite a little party, eh boy! Tell the folks to play that record and listen to It once for me. will you. Also give them my best regards and. tell them that France is some place, but not to'leave the states as the United States has them all beat about fifty vears and 100 miles. "I am cooking at on officers' mess now and have been on the job for a week, but expect to go back to my battery bat-tery either today or tomorrow. I vill surely be glad to get back to the outfit out-fit as one can never get any of those Germans working In a kitchen. Me for the fast life up on the front. 1 haven't had any excitement since being here and it is getting on my nerves. One day a German plane came over this place, but soon left when they turned the anti-aircraft guns loose on him. "I thought he would drop a few bombs but he showed, a streak of yellow yel-low and beat it back. 'Say boy you should see some of these towns after the artillery has bombarded them. There are several 'towns up the line we have captured which have not a single building intact in-tact in them. Most or them are nothing but a pile of wood, rock and plaster. Since the starting of the drive in July we have done some fine work. We have the Huns on the run and we Intend In-tend to keep them going. Thousands of prisoners have been taken and great quantities of guns and ammunition captured. I was reading an account where a captured German told the officers of-ficers that many of the Hun companies were only GO and 70 men strong, whereas at first they numbered 250 men each. Boy. there has surely been n wlinloc.nlft cl !i n r)i I ov nvop VirT- rnl it has just commenced. But I do believe by spring we will have given 'Bill the kaiser,' and his bunch of cannibals all the fight they were looking for. It takes a Yankee with a fixed bayonet to run hell out or these yellow devils. "I could write a long account of different dif-ferent battles but our friend, the censor, would cut them out, so I will have to wait until I get back to relate some of the things I have witnessed. Boy, there will be many stories to tell when the Yanks gel home. "I have tried to learn some French, b'ut have not been very successful so far. Only know a few of the most common com-mon phrases and words. I have been too busy most or the time to bother with any of that stuff. It don't sound right to me anyhow. I believe that I can get along with the good old United States chatter all right. "Well what is doing In Ogden now-a-days? I suppose all the joung men have been drafted by now. It will soon be time to begin drafting the older men, won't it? "Guess I will have to stop now and get these officers some chow. Tell all the old bunch hello Tor me and that we are all coming home next spring, bringing Germany's scalp back with us. My best regards to you and all. "PRIVATE W. C. MORRISON." nn