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Show IRTHHfl LARSON 0HHE File FRONT IN FRANCE A letter from Corporal Arthur Larson, Lar-son, a lormer nr. Tit for the Southern Pacific company al one of the Nevada stations and now at the tront in France with the signal corps as a telegrapher, has been received by one of the officials of-ficials of the company at the local headquarters. The letter was written Within three miles of the front lines and under German shell Are. The corpora! cor-pora! stated that he expected to be called into action at any moment as a telegrapher in the front trenches and would get to see the excitement. Tho letter follows: Somewhere in Frnnce.' March 21. 101s Dear tTlend Am now only about three miles from (he front, the nearest near-est I hare been to the trenches, within with-in artillery ranee of the Germans. Bx-p. Bx-p. ei to be called into action at any moment "The fi r-1 wonderful sichl I saw was the French shooting from the ground with anti-aircraft guns at a German airplane, right above us. The shells could b" j-'eon exploding in the air near the airplane and the latter dodging by zlg-zaggine This is a dally occurrence, occur-rence, sometimes several occurrences a day and the enemy is brought down quite often in this manner. "Am getting so I love to hear the thunder-like roaring from our artillery artil-lery ;md I miss It when it quiets down Am certainly having some wonderful experiences and it gets more wonder ful the nearer I get to the front. I wouldn't have missed this trip for anything, not even to avoid the maximum maxi-mum price some of us may have to pay tbl It, savins nothing about the purpose for which I came here. "The American troops have a vigorous vigor-ous fighting spirit and crave action and excitement The Freneh near us have been Irvine to keep this part of the fnni Quiet, but the Americans are making it as lively as possible. "My duties will be principally telegraphing, tele-graphing, probably in the front line trenches. So I will get to see some of the excitement. I don't seem to be able to forget the good old music from the Morse sounder, and the ofDce duties around a railroad station and telegraph tele-graph ofllce a person generally does not miss theso things until he is deprived de-prived of access to such. He generally sees the disagreeable things about it when he has access and the good things when far away from it. Give m '73' to the bovs. Your friend, (Signed) CORP. ARTHUR LARSON, Co. C, 1st, Field Signal Bn., A. E. F. via New York, N. Y " |