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Show W.J.BHMMK TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE IN IR ZONE W. W. Browning has just received an Interesting letter from his son, W, J. Browning, who is with the medical corps in France. With tho lifting of the censoring of mails the son's location lo-cation became known through this letter. let-ter. That he has seen the most interesting inter-esting parts of the war zone, and been witness to some of the epoch-making battles, is evidenced by the letters, which is as follows: "I am now located with a Scottish battalion and enjoy the work, but would sooner have more work at present pres-ent There is more work with an ambulance am-bulance than there is here. I do not expect to get out of this couritry before next summer sometime. All along I have said it would lake from six to eighteen months before wo all got home after the fighting had stopped. "Now that the censor has permitted us to mention places, I will give you some idea of where I have been. All my work In the line was spent around Ypres, it was close to there that I had to spend tho most miserable five hours on September 27. "Have been in Boulogne, Clais, Cas-sel, Cas-sel, Mennin. Hasbrouck, Roulers, Cou-trai, Cou-trai, Tourcong, Roubai, .v.oucroh and! hundreds of small places which probably prob-ably do not show on your maps. At present we are between Tourcolng and Mucron, in a small village called Her-seaux. Her-seaux. When we came into this place wo were following up the Hun. Have never seen such thickly populated country as it is around here. There aro dozens of small villages which are just a continued string of houses. There are three towns so close together togeth-er you -cannot tejl where one town starts and the other leaves off until you are acquainted with them. "We have not moved for three weeks which is something unusual as we generally gen-erally move every few days. This is the most miserable climate I ever saw, wot and foggy almost all the time. "This morning we did an. eight mile hike between 9:30 and 11:15 all in a nasty drizzling rain over cobble rock roads. Have' only seen one decent road in the whole country. It is fifty years behfhd the time here In regard to horse vehicles. They still go in dog carls and here they make the dogs work, that is what few they have. Hand carts are the principle mode of transportation transporta-tion for everything from moving household house-hold goods to taking in the crops. Oxen do the larger part. of the farm work; of .course tho livestock is a minus quantity in all this country the Hun has been through. Even chickens are a novelty and eggs are worth 40 cents each and you could not get enough to make a good sized meal from a farmer at thai. What horses are left are not for very much work or were hidden for four years. Tho Hun will be the most despised creature that ever lived for generations to come. "The people here are very Industrious Indus-trious but how they live I cannot tell for such a tiling as sanitation is an unknown thing. An education may certainly cer-tainly be obtained in just traveling around which one could not acquire in any other way. Have seen sights never nev-er lo he forgotten. Men returning to their homes not much more than a bag of bones, womon and girls who look as though they had been through purgatory, purga-tory, ot so many of the latter. There, is hardly a place In the country that has not been looted by the Huns; everything ev-erything of value which could be taken away is gone. They say 'Make him pay for it' There is only one way and that is to make him a slave to these people and have him ostracized by all mankind. Willi it all France has suffered suf-fered more than anyone else. In traveling trav-eling around you hardly ever see an able -bodied man who Is not in a uniform. uni-form. "Here 1b something you may not have heard. I got it from a third parly, par-ly, the first one was present at the time delegates from Germany met Foch. He kept them waiting an hour nd then starting tho conversation he lsked them what they wanted. They jald they came. for terms. He informed hem that there were no terms. They iskcd for conditions, and he replied, There are no conditions.' i "If you came for an armistice here t is." "After hearing what it was, they1 ivept and told Foch it was too hard on hem. They appealed to him, saylng hey were speaking as men, not Germans. Ger-mans. Then ho told them that they ivere dealing with a Frenchmen and not men." |