Show BENTLEY BENTLET WRITES WHITES FROM FRANCE provo post P W H boyle of 0 the um university versify received the file following letter let ter from edward W bentley who is IB a ni of the first aircraft brigade in france dear brother boyle juit a line to let you vou know I 1 am fill alive and after hilz 99 ahyou YOU SAY aay most every day now we W have sent thousands of dollars dollar worth of bf steel and shrapnel at fritz an and d not without success fritz la is in fur for a good beating he la is going to get hie reward in a way that he be will never forget he is at present just throwing the lives of his hia a soldiers away in his mad desire to win he is beating his forehead against a I 1 wall of wiry steel and knocking himself weak next year will be worse for him than this and the next year he will wonder why he ever started this fearful war yes yea I 1 I 1 think limit it will take a long lone time to I 1 A straighten out this shameful affair As aa often as I 1 can get reading mater lal ial I 1 read and study the views of the people and find the majority ex pact an early peace I 1 hope they ara am right but to me this looks looka tilte Is years and I 1 say sav it with all cheerfulness and hope we have a mighty job and we must have a mighty g lity army once mach set act all the machinery i nery of that combined army in action and watch fritz go all we need is courage and patience our day is 13 coming and an the kaiser must go edward baird is only a few kilometers f from rom me a at t an aviation post I 1 seen him but he sent his hia address to me by a member of my company and invited me to call at the hangars hangar and see him if I 1 get an opportunity I 1 am going down I 1 am going to write him in a day or two thia is 13 a beautiful strip of country cherries are ripe the mead aws are being mowed by the old fashioned scythe how crude and clumsy are the farming tools toola no machinery or mechanical means for rapidly harvesting the ripening crops I 1 saw as good tools along he the mexican border used by those lazy and dirty half breed indians that hat la is why this war has tasted lasted so long one b because cause so much man power is ie eased being used to do what machines could do da in half the tune nine I 1 have seen men air battles airplanes balloons shot down I 1 have heard rou chine guns guna speak their tale of death I 1 have heald the lines linea of artillery open and send over their barrage I 1 know what it is to have shells abell burst all around me I 1 send ad my love to your family and accept the same yourself youra elf EDWARD W BENTLET |