| Show i Capt R R. E. E Wight's s Interesting Letter The following Interesting letter was received this week by Attorney L. L B B. B Wight from his brother Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain tamn R. R R E. E E Wight now In France rance France July 18 1918 My dear Lee LeeI Lee Lee- I wish I 1 might write as interesting interesting interest interest- ing a letter tetter as you OU do but it In me My life Ufe since leaving home has been pretty full of events and perhaps I will be bo able to tell you something of them when I return I have seen and see soe every day the of the battle field The Tho I boys come back to us with every conceivable wound and W we do our I. I best bost by them best Is 18 And way the our just the superlative best because every man at the tho head of a department depart ment went In the tho hospital Is a specialist In his particular line Une And we work as men never nover worked before The days are aro not long enough for us If anyone anone hero here were to suggest an eight hour shift he ho would be ostracised or or sent home as a slacker Men whose practices paid them and per ler year work here for the time wages of a brakeman until exhausted exhaust exhaust- ed and then get up and work on until the last man Is taken care of And be tle last man treated gets the sat ear careful attention as did tho the first firer I 1 I wish you could get a good view of America You have havo to come here hereto hereto hereto to get It I have seen spen America in the camp just from home home on on shipboard I in the danger zone when he knew the German shark lay In watt walt for him marching him marching through London on his way to shoulder the burdens of England receiving England receiving the caress of the French as he leaves the transport transport- building railroads and digging trenches trenches trenches-a a fighting man or a broken brok brok- en enand and maimed occupant of othe the operating operating operating oper oper- table It it dont don't matter where wh re his bis shoulders are square his eye Is la bright his brain works Hes He's a man Lee Hes He's so much a man that the I German war-machine war made Imitation I of his Is a caricature I am prom proui proud to be here and r realize that I am i part of that great America which 1 i ithe Is the hope and promise for the world The boy who keeps my records record has lost both feet The Time one wh who drives the motor to the trains hai ha has lost an arm One of my patients I li Is from the Engineers who stood of off the Germans with their picks ant am and shovels and the fact that he Is hen here instead of in a German l prison o 01 or hospital Indicates the r result sult of that thai engagement And the Red Cross nurses are arc just as brave and and efficient Th The Y M. M C. C A. A K C. C and all the time rest You know all the time that ever every one Is doing Iris his or her level best beat I 1 must tell you of my trip from England I got my my orders back to tc the Americans In France on July Jull 2nd The next evening I met a Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain tamn of the tho British Flying Corps whose duty it was to take planes tc to France rance He lie said he was to take e a a bombing plane over on the and it it was either pounds of sandar sand sandor sandor or ar a passenger on the front seat Oh gO with him bo boy Per Permission to go seemed teemed Impossible to get but It was the tho morn morn- mornIng morning worth trying for So on ing of the I went to the chief chiet of surgeon and told him In my ion and my airy d desire lre to accept Ills His I I 1 dont don't give a dam vif Jf tf the British dont lont was enough enough I I didn't consult the he British Just bought a ticket checked baggage bag over rover on which I my gage age and was on hand at the tho appointed ap ap- ap pointed minted time date on the lith and climbed climb climb- id ed into the front seat of a brand new Hanley Paige plane with a aRoyles Royles Royce Royles-Royce Royce motor We landed at censor wont won't let me tell you where for for gasoline bombs were attached an n l the two machine guns bolted d in place Then we were supplied with life lite belts and were oft off without any loss of time We Wo did no no 00 nogo go so 80 high b gh flying over tho the channel a as we had bad been before befort It was WIlS a beautiful w clear calm day and In no time we were over the Isle hIe of Wight with Its beautiful towns country and roads 1 My Iy first view of the beautiful isle of our ancestors an an- was from the the clouds and hat bat panorama will always lIV live In Jn my memory Then the channel channe with Us Its great grat liners linen battleship cruisers torpedo boats and fishing pats boats AU All AU dwarf dwarf- I ed from where we were It seemed so short a time before we were over over France rance with the tho coast far behind us and we were coming down lawn I am not allowed to say where but near enough to the battle front to suit me me because all the machine guns in la the world aro are of no use to me I thanked my 7 pilot and got the first train for Paris Parla arriving arriving- there about nine that same evening We had been beon just one hour and ty-three ty minutes actual flying time Continued on Page Seven Seve I I u M Most st interesting Letter From Capt R. R E. E Wight I I I Continued from PUB Page One making the trip i I cant can't tell teil you I tho the speed We wo made but Joe Joo i er ot dont don't equal It quite on the lime J Park ark City branch Give Olve him my regards I when you yuu tee see ee him What a In France Franco since I II i iI i I I left two months ago Now j I uniforms everywhere and say they 1 loot look Rood good to me Ine But Dut we begin to see what see what you ou will see later Boys Doys I I with empty sleeves a and 1111 a useless i I trouser leg but always boys with a I II smile Ye Gods but a t fellow wants to get out in front and help avenge I Ithem them and all the rest I Right now the tho battle Is hot As AsI I 1 write a boy with a broken j jaw w In Ini i Lj cJ rt rd Is In reading the tho IO paper andis and andIs andis is telling another Believe me kid rat my old oJ regiment Is giving cm eln hell today And If It they are aI all of the stuff stutt he is they they are giving em cm hell too I have yet to find rind an American who wants to go home until this dirty Job Is ls Is done You remember my telling you that we would do some same pushing ourselves after abit a abit abit bit Well were we're after atter Heinle now how and we always get what we go af af- af ter Before we started to entertain Fritzie Fritzle you could store your trunk in Paris and get a bond that it would be there when you called for It how near Kaiser Hill 11 came to taking Paris dUc rn here say that the slaughter te ter pt of ot Germans in those drives for J Paris aris was so awful that It was sickening sickening sick sick- ening Take Paris After Arter Uncle Sam Stirn got here there was no such c chance of- of the Germans taking Paris as there there i iny oLny ny swimming home ran rl rings s with the valor of t today da Proud You should I see see ce he the A American soldier In France a aM nd t the way the French look at t him But Dut tomorrow when the train tolls jolls in with th the hounded andt and t the the g grim in part of It all Is brought home home to US tl t the smothered and cries of of ot pain could reach ou 01 r ov o shores Then perhaps our people would have the heart to hang some of the pro-Germans pro over there thre Any man who steps on our free shores and still retains his to Ge the Germany many accursed deserves hanging banging anyway If you dont don't want them to hang bang for tor your sake hang them for the awful things they have done dona over here here for for the boys 10 are without hands bands or ot feet or eyes Hang lIang them 80 BO so that the Hun lIun will never or again do what he be has done In Inthe Inthe inthe the world Trance France is beautiful Her fields of ripening grain vegetable gardens thatched roofs roots and peaceful laud land epes under udder clear skies is as pretty pret pret- ty as man can make It The two wheeled gigs with fir ir Jr motive motive motive mo mo- tive cower going to market with ith the thew w whole ole family except father the larger two wheeled carts with the great the folk tolk with their wooden shoes and the men with 1 a t 0 of bUik dress buttoned up the back teem seem BO so quaint to us Americans Ameri Ameri- cans Leather shoes among the farmers are exceptional Our hospital Is an old asylum beautifully arranged and located on un ona una a hill overlooking the scene steno I 1 have haN described Our mess is good and the men ate are fine tine capable fellows Lee Uncle Sam is doing things over here now I have seen Been a storeroom store storo room of the quartermasters quartermaster's department depart depart- ment so large that supplies for a million men were stored there Enough nough to give that number three meals a day for tor a n month A four tour track railroad is lIS being completed from our harbour to the tho front by our engineers American n made malle locomotives lives tives pulling American made malle cars manned by American crews to see that they get there are aro the wonder of ot the tho French One of our flat cats cars carsI I looks like tike the daddy of all nil the tho rolling roiling stock of France Talk about Circus d day y They tell 1111 me that the first engine from America brought tho the entire entire entire en en- tire population to town I have seen Reen J shovels from America In ode otie one pile and a pie of I wheel barrows th that t extends extend I along the track for tor half a mile And thanks to Uncle Sam France rance now has lins a full tull stomach nail and so has Johnny Hull Bull Our troops have good food tood and lols lole of It Your letters have havo done me a lot lotof lotof of ot good and you YO dont don't know how howIt howIt It It hel helps s to 0 know that you are lookIng look look- looking ing alter alter ter a the family I I know that you envy me the chance to be a n part of ot this great war and I am nm sorry I that you you OU cant enlist of ot course But nut some have got to stay at home and that takes more rent real nerve than to take a more active part The way you at nt home bome have raised the cash cashi i Indicates that all the patriotism Is not in the army Your brother CAPT ROYAL nOYAL l' l E. E WIGHT D. D R R. C. C Base Dase Hospital No 0 9 U U. U S S. S P. P 0 O. O France |
