Show errold gurr writes from china station lieutenant errold emold if gurr gum who arrived at his station in china several weeks ago go writes to say he is getting along very well and th thinks ks china is as quite a country but not like the good old U S A excerpts from his letter are as follows well 7 ell at last I 1 in I 1 in foreign ser vic vice a 1 I think thank I 1 told you about start ing out orice once before just at the time te the U S declared war this thai trip was more pleasant we flew over so you se see as each I 1 night 1 ht we were on land and had a good bed we cover ver ed ad a good many miles and saw lots of country A little of africa a week or two in india I 1 think my motto ati tie see amer america im first and only I 1 dont care for far anything I 1 ve seen so far china is the best beat country I 1 ve seen since leaving the U S and it we a also have a pretty go good ad post here her everything except the water which ah e is terrible it all 11 has to be boll boiled 1 be fore drinking it is all taken from open wells by hand and ad earned ined by 7 by head hand to tanks ranks the ca chinese a do all I 1 their work by very crude met methode hoide one of which is as two baskets one on an each end and of a five foot pole which is placed across the shoulders they move about everything in this man rier ner although a few of them can afford a small malt shetland pony which I 1 is hitched to a small two wheeled cart this is surprisingly mounted on an rubber tires tims our bra branch is located practically iolj in the rou muddle a a of a graveyard you can we see graves skeletons or even whole bodies within a short distance of our barracks life oi or death cosent mean much to these people I 1 would surely like you to send me the paper if you can it has been a about six weeks sace I 1 left the ab states ithe the letter was written on an M march a ach 29 and so far haven t heard a word about anything that is going on I 1 surely had a good vacation just before I 1 I 1 left the U S though we were sent down to florida and after f we got there we had to wait almost I 1 3 weeks before we got an any I 1 kind of an order and th then an we just had to take the airplanes up to mobile A alabama ib me I 1 foi I 1 a we week c k which all told gave us a whole month of vacation I 1 had my wife with me and we surely had a good time lly in dosing using he says he win will be home soon probably in 1945 |