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Show WEATHER AND COOTIES BOTH ARE BAD IN ' FRANCE WELLINGTON MAN WRITES OF niS EXPERIENCES Food of tho Soldiers Is Good and With Mutton Tor Meals Reminds Him of Things Back Home In tho States Breezy Epistle Comes From Private G. 0. (Cliff) Pierce I I Mr and Mrs M Pierce or Wei illusion ar just in receipt of a long letter tntn their mil. (1 ( (llilD 'Pierce, tmui France, dated Deeemlier I.Hlh, 1..-I He statoa that thv haxcn'l had ninth influcura oxirvini lull i' re lo H Imaled, tin diMno Ih mg icmifimd to i few Fn'tich civilians ."Tho lir.l lime I was at the Tninl was nl St Die." ho writes "I told Jxoil alMMit tho Verdum battle I sax Mlpfldman Hill. There were morr than lit million men killed there during the Ifortv-eiulit dava of iMrnurc. This shoxx-a there xx-as somo fighting Where there were forests before there is ecarrolx a blade of grass now Ala kinds of shells many of them never exploded - thick on the ground, all kinds of Herman ami l'renih opitp mnt brtikoi guns, dead horses mill sbelllHiles all about. Some one could put one or our house in This icr tainly was some fight. "We went over against wmie of the I'niinnsn guards, IhiI thev were lorced Invok by tho thiughlHtvs I will try ami get some battlefield soitvci. us. 1 never brought itnv with im, but wisli 1 hnd. They are heavv to inrry' and wo never know how far we inro destined to hike. Wo had a nice lime Christmas, tho only real tunc I 'have bad in Franco, but n Sunday in the stales would bo a holiday lo us now. Our division is mil named for oicumti)iii, so wo will bo home Imfuro long. Watch for the Kufhtx First, Tlmt will lie us. Haven't Hoard from anyone fur ipiilc awhile. I lax en 'I had any first-class mail for a long time on account of so many Imlidav ' lockages, but there will bo a hunch i when I do get it. I am still bieyct liicMsenger hero and I like il. I have a day off ottee in awhile and go visit some friend in tho imnmnx, hut ihuio of them are oldtimc actpiain-nine. actpiain-nine. I "We have just killed n line mutton for Now Year's dinner Hint will taste jtiHire.like ltotue to uie. Wo are fed ifimd. It is still rniuing as usual. That's one thing we are mire of in l-nvnec I will loll you about our little coolies. I Imxe jnut two regi-'incuts regi-'incuts on mo now. Nearly nil of them 'have service striito ncros the hark, and 1 will give tliiui war cnMisea because be-cause (hoy have sdiyed with nui nil during the war There uro all kinds d minora ulaiut our leaving hero, hut mi one knows anything to bo a fact. I lot r ei, I do not think it wilt be hi tut." 'Hie writer's address I Private (1. C. Pierce. Three Hundred and Twon-tv-nrst InfHiitry A.P.O. 71)1. A.K.1. Mrs. Pierie is n daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ihi .lessen of Wellington. Tho writer lias a brother. W. U I'lerea, in the scrxiie at Whipple llnmicks Arir. The latter la n member of tho medical Mirjst. Mr. mid Mrs. M. W Pierce, the iwreuts. nre tcmiMirurilx Incnlul ut Siinnyside. |