Show HEATH WR WRITES tg VT pr C J heath former forme r pl of ma Y jin aft of the mantal jinoji al products ducts corporation and ana well and fa favorably r known known in alft county h haa as writ leil an ali interesting letter to td howard r chappell presidents president 1 and 14 genard oral eral ula nager odthe of the MI literal deral products Product a corporation telling af pf 0 lifs hl a expert espere eibes alti ali jaik lie 0 over v e th there ore fhe tha courtesy pou reesy of mr the letter is her herewith q I 1 I 1 I 1 n printed py 1 1 arp fance co s august augusti 1918 dear deap mr chappell I 1 received your S elome jetter at 0 auy lt 4 a short shirt time pince and was very gl glad a indeed to hear from you miny many lla have ie happened 1 blaco 4 my y last letter to you but poi point nt is ahat 1 im am with f th q 9 e amer f f can f forces 0 ic in in france have been liere since juip 1 JA any bolfeta I 1 was glad to get get back with ith ifie the am americans gr iamb the DrI british tish army Is an excellent organization and i is composed ot 9 a fine type of bf soldier bu but t hoy hey are ara nat not Amer americans leans I 1 I 1 get gel on oil my way 0 ver to the Con continent but had the pleasure af ofa witnessing a ii doche je air attack upon spoil london it is A wonderful and fraiji fearful barrage that protects london arrived in paris and i experienced the he s econe attack of the kaiser against in my ydea peace c e and dignity he the kaiser katser was flaa to tossing S sing a few shots inep paris and surroundings und I 1 but little attell attention bon I 1 aa waa s majd to the long range gun a its explosive 1 off effect bot was ps not very vary great greal t the air raids on paris were moro se serious rigus at tile the present time tilde the poche is iq so damn b busy 1 isy getting back to nig his hindenburg inq th that at he has no time to spend in useless alj air ra elds adb you state in your letter that many of the boy bos s et at tp the alunite plant are enlist in ing kin AM glad to hear that t they are are filler with patriotic spirit but trust that the plant will vill ro not bo be crippled for OT jck ack of help fiot a letter from cohen the other day and he gave me tile local n news e ws from the seyer sef val VAI ley I 1 am very glad to get letters from friends back home tor for 11 ate fe here in france while not exactly monotonous still there Is more to be desired E at it times I 1 have been attached attach ed to a a c camp amp hospital unit and ambulance section for some time past and mr chappell its R a I 1 pleasure to help gur our boys out when they are wounded if you could only see the pati patience enbe fortitude anti stolidity of our yol young ng boys when wounded and dying on the field it maltes makes one proud that hes an american one young fe fellow from pittsburgh 14 lay dying from a shell wo wound inq of tile the abdomen I 1 bent over him and ile he spoke slowly goodbye good bye doe doc its taps for me in about 10 minutes god but I 1 would like seq this thing finished well boys give lem em hell hall and then he be lapsed into fiato unconsciousness talk about your sp spirit irit in an ar army y he morale i why there Is no army on earth that can hold a candle to ours if the german people knew just what they were up against again sti I 1 dont believe they would care card to fight this thing to to a finish our boys boks simply wont be beaten and as the french say the only biffle difficulty alty with our men Is in holding them back why there are ln instances where our in men on actually run un through their own barrage to get at the huns I 1 read in this mornings paper where a british general said the Ameri americans cand make excellent troops for attacking this tte state ment coming from whom it does doe meins means much for me for I 1 ic know 0 the th british mind it Is very strange but I 1 ha have biot met aman a man anthis on this side of the water wafer except excer t my brother whom rhom I 1 kl knew n w in in the states for ther the past weeks I 1 have been a patient myself in we hospi hospitals hospitais taIs all over franc fiance V I 1 got a whiff of poisoned air and ad a as a consequence lost my voice and h had a d a an n adema of the lungs am all right now but if I 1 dont f feel ee Cb better etter here in biarritz Biar ritz I 1 am going over in the alps alpa for a while if i I 1 were up in i the mountains mountains of southern utah for about three weeks ihnow I 1 would come out 0 K X it Is very inconvenient fit not to bo be a able ble to talk I 1 was getting 9 so I 1 could parley fan Fran francaes c albl cals when this accident frapp happened P aed maybe I 1 will be feht home it my trouble clear blear up tip soon I 1 cant say that I 1 dilt like to see 7 ai my wife and boy but I 1 really db want aut W t r jp p by bu oyer over here foi the anish all ali he in ua hosp altal ho so sooner oinbe than its ta ahen ofle can an I 1 ga geta abc bask to tle allcan j I 1 get jbf tack back to my 1 outfit q one ne peik of lio homa me ax ex capt wilh wh a art of 0 tremor n or in hs his voice 1 everybody I 1 win ts to allen the ni gs in ili I 1 berlin ave ye amow that the people back home aie aye dking wonder 1 erful tu things thing band and are giving us ba gre great at ba back ck ing and its up to asto us to see that th the 9 huns are properly pyo perly strafed stra fed defoia bedol e coral coming na come home trusting that pat boll ou ana a are rp well wel and alid happy I 1 am yours sincerely C J beath eath let lt LE 11 C sp tr tl 1311 A P 0 7 2 7 franco france this will be mj my 1 permanent address in france |