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Show 1TI1 FOfl YANKS TO HELP WIN THE GREAT WAR Mrs. Phoebe Henderson, 3023 Jefferson Jeffer-son avenue, has recently received a most Interesting letter from her nephew, nep-hew, a sergeant with the Canadian army in France, who had been there three years and five months when he I wrote more than a month ago. He expresses ex-presses a desire to see a great American Ameri-can army in France to help the allies rid the world of the infernal Hun." The letter follows: "Somewhere in France, April 17, 191 h "C company. 6th Battalion, Yorkshire York-shire Brigade, ; "British Expeditionary Forces in i France. "Dear Aunt: Just a few lines in ans-I ans-I wer to your most welcome letter and I thanking you very much for your pai -I cel. And I can tell you I was much IUT-I IUT-I prised and very pleased, for it is the first 1 have received from America. for you all seemed to be lost to me forever. for-ever. But I am pleased to have the opportunity op-portunity of writing you and my dear j Aunt Jenny. It brings back to me happy hap-py memories of what seems to me an age ago, for I have been in the war three years and five months, and the memories of my youth, and, only too short, married life runs by as a dream Excuse the sentiment, but the memory mem-ory of you and my dear Aunt Jenny make me forget for the moment that I am a hard and stern sergeant of infantry in-fantry training and leading men into action to rid the earth of the infernal Hun. "I am sorry, my dear aunt, I cannot give you much news of the war, for I think you will get more news from your newspaper, for one only knows what is going on in his own sector. I have not come across many American troops in our part of the line, only a few American R. E.'s, but am hoping to see a big army of them out here I soon to relieve some of us war-worn I soldiers, "We do not get much in touch with your Red Cross people, for they are well back from the firing line." The field ambulance men do all the work near the line, and get the wounded men into the Red Cross train. that is. when your people come in And I can tell you it is a great joy to have i sweet nurse to luck you in and attend to your wounds after being knocked about a few days by the field ambulance ambu-lance and stretcher bearers. I know all about it. 1 have had two shrapnel wounds in the leg and have been in a Canadian hospital. And I can tell you the nurses were real ladies, and more like mothers to us than nurses. Wo got a lot of comforts and extras. A lot cf 'he 6tuff came from overseas, and 'hanks to their kind treatment, I was fit and well In six weeks "Well, dear aunt, I think this is all I have to say at present. Give my love to Aunt Jenny and all cousins, arid believe be-lieve me, ever to remain, Your loving nephew, "P. H. HENDERSON |