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TIIE SUNDAY OKEGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVE3IBEK 17, 1V18 OREGON BOYS WRITE INTERESTING L Y OF LIFE OVERSEAS G - Lieutenant Edgar E. Piper Write From France. Ftraer Portia ad ewapaper Maa la W!tk Color, T INTERESTING phases of French life X are described in a letter from Lieu tenant Edgar E. Piper, a former mem ber of The Oregonian news staff now in service, published In the San Fran cisco Argonaut of November 9. Lieu tenant Piper, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Piper, is in a replace ment squadron of the aviation service. This is the letter as printed in the Argonaut: Dor M : Since I wrote you last I hve been to many different places and I have seen much. From many scenes that I have witnessed I have had tremendous! ininirntlnnM. but inmhoir I can't attemot I to esoress myielf about it all Just now. 2 ) feel that 1 have lived, that I have had a part in the greatest undertaking that ever occurred, but 1 have no desire to describe that part. After tt is all over, whatsoever might be my experiences. 1 will always realise that I have had my innings. The future, is not so consequential as the present. It could not be. everything means a great deal to me nowadays, but there seems to be no ex pression. In words for any of It. It Is all jut a series of pictures. Our orderly room is on the third floor of an ancient monas tery, with windows overlooking the town, the fields, the distant hills. Across the hall is another room my humble quarters. The : walls of the monastery are six feet thick, and inside everything Is whitewashed. The Inner court adjoins a large catheorai. ana In the center is a big rose garden where th Caouchlns used to meditate. The clout ters are congested with boxes and bales from overseas. fet?el helmets, gas masKs. Delia, holsters, heavy hob-nailed shoes In big cases, soldiers' clothing of all sorts are piled clear un m th huee stone arches. Winding through the narrow, crooked streets, over the uneven cobbles, are always long columns of soldiers, heavy laden, go- ins: and com Inc. The railway station not far away, and troops are continually arrlvlnsr and deourtinz in long trains Homines 40 Cheveux wagons. Any hour of the day or night will find the&e move ments under way, and often we are extreme ly busy with the necessary matters of trans port, eauloment. and supplies. Of these French the appropriate things can never be said. Mere eulogy Is growing banal. If you could only se them as they are you might know of their coursge. know many of them. In every different situation you might conceive and not one of them lacks the full measure of courage I know an old woman whose son has been at the front four years. She runs the little tore and takes care of the chickens, the rabbits, and the goats In the little barnyard behind. She loves to have us in to talk, because she doesn't have much company these times. We drop in there sometimes. another officer and 1. I know the old lady is not rich the place doesn t look It but to think of declining when she wants to make coffee or chocolate on her little char coal fire would be superlatively ungracious. I have known French people whose station Is just the opposite. But exactly the same Ideas prevail In each case. I have be come quite Intimate with a family who spend the Summer in a large country place nearby. Their invitations are practically requests, and I have spent many week-ends with them. Some have thought It no more than proper that French people should appre ciate American aid. But I don t think their gratefulness has any material basis at alt They have all wanted to give more than they receive. And I think the con sideration we have had from them far out welxhs any obligation any one might want to impose for our aid whatever it may be In the present operations. I think that In a matter like this every one should give all that he can. The Americans are adding Important numbers to their armies In France every day every hour. But the Idea that France should be In our debt is so repulsive that I can't find terms to diffcus It. But the French are not heedful alone of the affairs that profit their cause. They have been lovely In every little matter that has arisen. An ordinary buck private sick In the hospital dies of pneumonia and he gets all the consideration that would be accorded a general. Funerals are common enough In this land. But a little cortege going up the hill headed by a khaki-clad firing squad always gets the most solemn respect. As the motor truck comes abreast with the Stars and Stripes spread over the caisson towed behind you see every old peasant standing with his hat In his hand. If the remnant of faded horizon blue fa his coat or in his corduroys denotes that he was once a pollu. he stands silently at salute. No matter whether the relatives of the dead in America know the funeral Is taking place or not. but in the attendance are al ways the French sometimes poilus with their heavy shoes and their dim blue uni forms, sometimes officers In the most flam ing of red troupers and the most dazzling of gold lace and with the most glittering of medals, whose sympathy should suffice. SCAPTOOSE MAN KII.I.F.D ACTIO IN FRANCE, Randolph Charles Meeker. Word has been received by Mrs. Randolph Charles Sleeker, of rk-appoose. Or., that her husband. Lieutenant K. C. Stecker, has been killed In action. The letter stated that the Lieu tenant met death on one of the most famous battlefields of France. Lieutenant Stecker was a former student at the Augusta Military Academy, of Virginia. He was a noted athlete. He re ceived his commission at the third officers' training camp at Fort Osicthorpe, Ga.. and went ova scad with the Fourth Engi neers last May. Uesides his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Stecker, of Billings, Mont., Lieu tenant Stecker leaves a widow and infant daughter. Mrs. Steck er was formerly Miss Madeline Sheldon, of this city. " i t I ' ;-.-v--v - - t 1 O -. ' . ': ' v t 2 - t : . 2 V " n " 2 2 - v - l i 2 ; - v. 2 A - 1 y- lcK'--- -,r :p-sJf ' f-n"-u J .i 7 . . - - .. ' ! v r' ' ? -1 ! ' - - . 2 I 2p; - - - 1 'i. Al Jf"" -T . - v, 52 t ' -. - v . " I i r - f t . , . .,v-. ..J.- - . 3 J Americans have come a long way, but with such friendliness about them no misfortune Is possible. For not only are the people friendly, but their land la also friendly, and the quiet walled garden set aside as a resting place for those of us who do not return is the friendliest spot of all. There Is no particular reason for all of these reflections. Everything Is cheerful enough over here, even though the back ground Is serious. The most sustaining note of all comes from the States, where every thing possible and impossible is being done In full measure for our needs. I've been made the C. O. of a souadron. nd I have a rather large family on my hands, being the only officer at present In the organization who is not in the hoi pltal. Lieutenant Peter Piper has had photos taken a couple of times, but lost them. I'll try to find one taken at La Baule on leave. It was for the fun of tt, and my Lieutenant Edgar E. Piper, Whose Letter I. Reprinted From San Francisco Argonaut. friend looks too silly for words, but neither of us need be taken seriously. Unfortunately no snapshots at present, although I had one at taken with Rene Fonck. Leslie J. Burke Leaves French Hospital. Greshant Boy, Mounded Id Action, Recovering. Mg AND MRS. P. J. BURKE, of resham. Or., have just received word from their son, Leslie J. Burke, that he has left the hospital in France where he has been recovering from grounds received in action. Leslie Burke is with the 66th Company of the Leslie J. Burke. Former Greshant Boy, In France With the Ma rines. 5th Regiment of the United States Ma rines, and has been in and out of the trenches ever since landing in France early in April. I "I surely have traveled around some," he writes, "since leaving the hospital, and I don't expect that my mail ever will catch up with me now. "You. see very few young French men who are not in the war. The French soldier, except when actually fighting, receives from his government only 5 cents a day. For the first two years and a half his pay was only cents a day. Yet, just as we have been called upon to leave family, home and business, he has been obliged for al most four years to abandon every in terest for the one important duty, 'the defense of his country." "Young men of France, as well as many Americans, and others have fal len, and have been buried when possi ble, by their comrades on the battle field. Hundreds of thousands of them lie in common graves, many of which are still in the zone of war, where no friends or members of the family are allowed to visit. "There is a little graveyard outside of Paris where American soldiers, mostly Marines, who died in the hospital, or on the way. are buried. They surelj keep it up nicely. You see old women out there putting flowers on the graves every day. The Red Cross and the Sal vation Army are doing wonders for the boys over here every day." Lieutenant Says He's "Off" of French Wines. Ise f Feet to Crash Grapes Too Much Ir Alfred Ilestoa. B' ELIEVK me, a Second Lieutenant has his share of work," writes Lieutenant Alfred O. Heston. Company I, 359th Infantry, now in France. have been assigned to duty with a Texas outfit and they are dandies. All are boys who have been raised in the out of doors, and that is a help n the Army. I had them out for drill yesterday. It was the first time I had ever drilled anyone. I have had charge of men at the front, but this was the first time I have ever been 'out in front of them.' "I hope we can get back to the front. I know what it means, because I have been In some of the hardest fighting that the American troops have seen. As far as this peace talk goes, I don't go with it at all. Germany has done too much of that. All she wants is to move her line back and then say. "Go to the devil.' "The French are harvesting their grape crops and if I had known how they make nine I would never have drunk so much of it in St. Nazaire. The picking Is O. K., but when they get into a tub of grapes and tramp the Juice out with their feet! A bath in France is a semi-annual occurrence, so it is water for mine from now on." Lieutenant Heston has a sister, Misl Laura Heston, an Army nurse in France, with Base Hospital 69. He makes his home with his aunt and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. K, T. Trice, 311 Cook avenue. I' V"? i t " r I l - r 2 F jV " , ' 2 t - ' i t lit ? X j;" j It 2 - a :: Hood River Youth Wounded by Flying Shrapnel. Major George White Sends "Smokes to Boys in Hospital. TJOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 16. (Spe- 11 rial.) "I am recovering from shrapnel wounds in a base hospital ; writes Corporal Jack Anderson, former ; Hood River higrh school boy, to his fos ter mother, Mrs. J. H. Dukes, of this city. "With a party of comrades I was engaged in stringing telephone wires when a shell burst overhead. I waa wounded in the head and one of my toes was smashed by the flying shrap nel. My wounds are not serious and I will be out in a few days. Corporal Anderson, a former member of Troop A. Oregon National Guard, and a veteran of the Mexican border campaign, on reaching France was transferred to a field artillery com pany. In his letter to Mrs. Dukes he) says that Major George A. White, for merly in command of-Oregon troops on the border, has remembered his Oregon boys. "He had just learned of my wounds, and I am now enjoying cigarettes that he sent me," writes Corporal Anderson Huns Run When Yanks Start Ahead, Says Soldier. Delmer Thompson Telia of Boiv Men From V. S. Beat Germans. DELTJER A. THOMPSCN -is serving with the Masonic Ambulance Com pany in France. In writing to his sister, Mrs. Vern Smiley, of 10 East Twenty-fourth street North, he says: "Great things have happened since I last wrote to you that is f say we have had great Crives that have been victories for the allies as well you know but to be in one of them or might say close range means more than I will be able to write. "We were moved up to the front to take part in one of those drives and were really in it before we knew it. Can't say I was myself, for I was de tailed in the supply department and did not get up in front with the re mainder of the boys, although I saw most of It at close range. We were run out of the woods where we were camped the first nigh.t, on account of gas, for we had three alarms in the night. We were only c short distance from the guns this night, but there was a quiet sector before the battle started. But you should have seen it the night things opened up. Such a noise I never did hear for the cannons were going all night long, but when morning came and our boys went over tho top, there was a scarcity of Huns, for they had left their homes in the trenches that they had occupied for four years, and now they are on the run and have been ever since. "I passed over this captured country the other day and spent a day in what Vas formerly No Man's Land, and to see the way they had fortified them selves was evidence enough that they never expected to retreat. Of course this was no easy task, for it has cost us .many lives and many injuries, and while I have seen any number of the boys brought in on stretchers, not a one but what was cheerful, for he had 'done hist bit,' and could face the world with a clear conscience. Oregon Engineer Hoped to Get to Front. French Girls Neat, but Not to Be Compared With Those at Home. r AN E. FORD, who enlisted in Port- last April, previous to which time he was employed by the Northwest Steel Company, is with the 466th Engineers' pontoon train in France. In writing to his mother, Mrs. Edna P. Ford, of 472 Main street, he says: "I have been in France three weeks, but have not written before, as I have had grippe ever since we got h'ere. We will not stay long at this camp. We may see a little of the front before the war Is over. "We had a good trifc coming over, al though it was no pleasure trip. It only got a little rough once, and we did not know there was a submarine on the ocean. "We were in England only a few days, and we can't see much of France on account of our mode of travel. I suppose you know what that is if you have read anything of war-time travel over here. "It is funny at not being able to understand what the people are saying, although I pick up a word now and then. Some of the French girls look very, neat, but are not to be compared with the American girls. "I am sending a coupon for my Christ mas parcel. Don't send cigarettes, as I can get all I want. The Government issues us tobacco, but ,we can't get candy of any kind or description that is fit to eat.' Serareant Abraham Asher. Word has been received by the parents o" Abraham Asher, now stationed at Camp Fremont, Cal., that he has been promoted to first sergeant and that he has been recommended by the commander for a commission of Second Lieu tenant. Prior to entering the service last June Mr. Asher was associ ated in busiess with his brother in the Chamber of Commerce building. Before leaving Port land the Supreme Court granted him a special examination for admission to the bar, which he passed with high standing. He is a graduate of the Northwest ern College of Law. V PORTLAND MAN IS HONORED I !AT CAMP FREMONT. 2 5&- - I if 'I I 'If 1 j 2 s j. i r v J - 4 "i2p i 2 U ' - m- -2 " " x i , -i i tL.Xi.j A l-l-1-nrf1iTiliiiiiiiiii"irniiijitta1 t PORTLAND BROTHERS Car & scrA-os? . i ?kp ; i I : a . KSt '-II & - Carl O. Isakson and Arthur Tsakson, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Isakson, of 326 East Eighth street North, are both in the service. Carl Isakson is a graduate of Stanford University, Cal., where he took the civil engineer's course. He was one of the first to enlist when war was declared and was appointed Second Lieutenant the first of June, 1917. He received his first training at Vancouver Barracks, Wash, since when he has been at several camps and recently was appointed First Lieutenant in the U. S. regular Army at Camp Humphreys, Va. He is now at Camp Fremont, Cal. Arthur R. Isakson, the younger son, enlisted in the Navy, In the radio branch, in February, 1918, and was trained at the U. S. naval training station at Seattle, Wash. Later he received special training at the Bremerton Navy yard. He is now wireless operator in the submarine service and at present is at San Pedro, Cal. His wife is staying with her mother, Mrs. E. Baker, 749 East Sixty-fifth street North, until his return. Portland ' Boy Praises Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. Lieutenant Boyd Says Good Work Is Accomplished In France. T IEUTENANT THOMAS HENRY lj BOYD, . elder son of Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, has recovered from the shell sheck which sent him to the hospital and has returned to duty. Letters to his father give vivid descriptions of battle, of the work of the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. and personal gossip that will interest many readers of The Oregonian. He writes under date of October 13, as follows: "One's outlook in a battle is sur prisingly small and they are not at all like they are in books or stories. In the hospital I got a chance to read the papers through, and, of course, knew all the places by heart and could appreciate it all very well, as we lived with those maps under our eyes for days before the attack and yet the places don't look the same when you get out on the ground. A farmhouse or a narrow gauge railroad track mean more in our lives than all tha talking about them could. I'll have to come back to tell all the little things that are of interest. It's a great and terrible experience and we all feel lucky that we lived through it, and you wonder how any one comes through alive. Shell Kills "Cj" Noble. j "I saw shells fall in the middle of a bunch of men and all g't up unhurt, while again one will light hundreds of yards away ai.d kill some one. When I was knocked out four men were killed alongside of me and at least 30 in jured, and that shell seemed to hit the ones to the left, while we to the right were not hurt except the ones that were knocked down. 'I think that is the worst part of the fight, to see your friends killed right before you. I was less than 100 yards from 'Cy" Noble and looking right at him when he ,was hit and blown off the face of the earth by a big shell. Also the men in the com pany, as we Lave come" to know each other well In the year -w 've been to gether. Tet few are really dead, but when they fall you can't tell and there's no stopping to aid them, as men come from the rear. The doctors are wonderful. I can't say .enough about them. They were with us all the time and were badly shelled. The Germans seem to have an uncanny way of picking out where the aid station will be and shelling it and many were killed after getting treated and waiting to go to the rear. Also the Y. men. It wasn't their business, but they were with the doctors and doing fine work right under fire with the rest of us. Also they got a load of candy and cigarettes forward under, fire for the wounded. "You ask about them in your letters. I know there is criticism of the Y but I find it is among persons that didn't like it before the war and won't allow themselves to now. Here's their trouble. For our division they should have six trucks, and have only two and repairs are hard to get up. They have been unable to keep up with the growth of the Army, but we get the stuff at times and in the hospitals the wounded are well cared for. Don't you let anyone tell you the Y. isn't all right. They have a hard Job and you ought to a hear the old Army men tell about 1S98 and Cuba. ' and I tell you they appreciate all that's being done for them in the war. Red Cross Is Praised. "Also the Red Cross is fine. Their trains are wonderful and they treat one royally. Most of us arrived at the hospital with nothing but the clothes on our backs and many not with that much and the Red Cross gives everyone a little bag with writing paper, a knife, pencil, tobacco, gum, chocolate and many little things like that and if you can't writo they have girls to write for the men. They furnish magazines and books and all the little luxuries that help a lot, as hospitals are pretty dreary in war areas with all the pain and misery around one. "You mention Eailey McAfee. On a hillside near the front his brother looked me up and said hello. He went through all the nine days and was un harmed and looked the picture of health. No news from Arthur Geary, but still it's only by luck that we meet people. On the hike - passed 'Mike' San ford looking fine and going to the front again. He was wounded at the Alarne and had seen some trench life at St. Mihiel also. He looked splendid and was crazy for mail, as he hadn't heard from home since July sometime, but that is the case when you leave your organization. French Beer Is Weak. With all work here reorganizing after a terrible battle, I have to defend man for murder before a court- martial Tuesday, as if he couldn't do enough killing at the front. Don't worry over the men drink ing. In the zone of the array all you can get is light wine and beer. The WHO ARE IN THE SERVICE. wine is not drinkable and no one drinks It. I haven't had a drink of it in months. The beer is like our near beer and non-intoxicating. We were able to get champagne for a while, but that is all cut out noav. We have absolutely no trouble with the men about drinking outside the first week. when they lit into vinordinaire and most of them got .sick from it and were cured. The liquor problem is not with us at all. I tell you the Ameri can soldier is a wonder and we have a great record over here for decency. Our regimental record for drunkenness is way ahead of Camp Lewis and that was quite a record itself. . Hons Good Fighters. "I may never live through the next show, but it is wonderful to have seen and been through one of them, although I fear my part was not very heroic or helpful. Still another paper says the Huns have answered Wilson and agree to evacuate and all that,' so it may be over, but it seems hard tobelieve. The ones we hit are .well equipped and fight like tigers; don't let anyone tell you the Prussian Guard won't fight. they do but not quite good enoueh. as we licked 'em on the home grounds, where they had entrenched for three years; and now we've got them in the open and no warm dugouts to live in and they won't like that at all this Winter any more than we will. 'Tell all the people I can't write them all, but to keep on writing me. "HENRY." Portland Man Writes From 7 German's Dugout. Llentenant Schelt in Thickest of Battle on French Front. 7 Right up near the front line trenches was Lieutenant Alfred Schilt adminis-. tering aid to the wounded Yanks until the day the Germans capitulated and announced to the world that they had enough. In a letter to hi3 father. Dep uty Sheriff I. L. Schilt, under date of October 5, Lieutenant Schilt writes in terestingly of incidents at the battle front. "Am writing this letter from a Ger man officer's dugout," he writes. "But don't get frightened as it belongs to us, and some more, too, I have sure had enough thrills in the last nine days which I shall never forget. I have had the novel experience of going over the top and then some. Well, I came out fine and dandy except for a little cut in the shin,so don't worry, and tell the folks that everything is O. K. I haven t had my clothes off or washed my hands or face in nearly three weeks. e are sure driving the Hun out of France, and I look for an ending of the affair in a very short while. I saw several battles, tanks, German dugouts, moving picture houses, guns, prisoners and other things, and it sure was a sight. "This country js a mass of homes and huts which the Boche used, and believe vme they sure lived in grand style until we drove them out. I never dreamed it would look like this, but these Huns imagined they were never going to be driven oiH of France." PORTLAND BOY WOUNDED IN ACTION. 4 -v Corporal R. 15. Norton. Corporal R. E. Norton is with Company F, of the 26th Infan try, in France. A letter written home is given here: "I am now a corporal. I have been over the top several times and have tried to do my bit as a man. I know of one Hun machine gunner who will never hurt any more Sammies, for, as the hunts man of old used to say, 'I cut off his brush.' "I am in the hospital again, but not hurt badly. I got a bullethole above the knee and one In the calf of the same leg. There were no bones broken; just clean wounds and not at all danger ous. I was hurt in one place and had gone to the first-aid station and had had a dressing put on and was on my way to an, ambu lance when a spent machine-gun bullet hit mo in the same leg. Hard luck, I call it; but will soon be back at the Huns for vengeance." Wig Wm r va1 s 3.,,wirw inj Portlander in France Proud of Old Oregon. Webfoot State la Good Enough for Him, Says Herbert Miller. ''I S Oregon up to snuff?" asks Her bert Miller, a former Portland boy ' who is with the U. S. Naval forces, Base 6 in Europe. "It must be," continues. "I have traveled nearly three-fourths of the way around the globe, and I can't get away from the I Webfooters. They are everywhere, and I often wonder if there are any home at all. "Old Oregon surely has done her share in every way. I used to think t,hat Portland was a 'hole in the ground' but take a tip from 'Buddy," she is good enough for anyone, and too good for a great many. When this thing is over you can believe me, I am going to hang my hat there, and put a spike in it to make 'sure it will stay. "As I sit here writing, I can imagine old Oregon going over the top again in the fourth liberty loan. If the people only knew what their dollars are doing for the boys over here, they would not hesitate a minute to 'go the limit." When we come back and say 'we did our share," we will have to take off our hats to our "backers," and say, 'much obliged folks, it took you to keep us going." We will not forget the Red Cross people, either. We will have to give them the glad hand and say thanks, ladies and gentlemen, you cer tainly are real Americans." "The general sentiment over here is that the beginning of the end has started. I would like to send you a local newspaper, but as it would dis close my locality, which is against the censorship, I cannot do so." Herbert Miller, previous to his enlist ment, was with the Miller Paint & Wallpaper Company, and says that every time he picks up a copy of The OregQnian, he reads one of the com pany's ads, which makes him feel that it pays to advertise, because the papers go all over the world. Oregonian Looks Good to Oregon Boys Overseas. Jack Schlezberg Longs for Return to Portland and Oregon. a I CANNOT conceive that I am far away from our beautiful Rose City," writes Lieutenant Jack P Schlezberg, who is in France with the 312th Supply Company. "You can tell the world that France Is a. nrettv country, that is the part I have seen, but the good old TJ. S. A. and Portland, in particular, looks mighty good to me, and I look forward to the day when I can stana on Meier & Frank's corner, and look up at The Ore gonian's clock. "I am in the best of health and spir its, considering that I am 70UO miles from home. I try to make myself cheer ful, although I get mighty lonesome for my folks and Portland friends. "At present I am not located near a .large city, so I have not seen much French life. Maybe some day, 1 win te sent to a large town, and will have the opportunity of seeing something besides a few scattered farm homes. This is a pretty place with little farms, flowers, and the green grass makes It an inspiring scene. "I enjoy hearing from my Portland friends, and The Oregonian looks mighty good to us, over here. I hope to be back soon, and to be marching up Washington street." Portland Attorney Lies in Shell Hole 12 Hours. Francis Phelps in Thickest of Fight ing in France. T IEUTENANT FRANCIS M. PHELPS I i is in France with Company G, of the 363d U. S. Infantry. He is the son of George W. Phelps, of Garibaldi, Or. Lieutenant Phelps was wounded se verely ort September 27 while in serv ice overseas. Mr. Phelps received a telegram in October, but he could learn nothing further, although he applied to Senator Chamberlain at Washington. Lieutenant Phelps is well known in Tillamook County, and also in this city, where he practiced law for six years prior to Joining the Army in May, 1917. Following is a letter received from Lieutenant Phelps: Just a word to let you know that - ...ui..v. t f2,i T a'" sB wounded on ienJember 27: wa. shot through both legs, just below the body. When I fell it was in a shell hole about one foot deep and half full of water, in which 1 had to lie for 12 hours, as I could not move. Every time I would move some German would take a shot at me. When I get home I will tell you about It. "However, I am doing fine, am in a good hospital, and will be able to get back and hit them another crack. I am anxious to resume my part in the fight." "Soothing Stick" Supreme in Ruling Engineers. Private Harold Kern Writes of Discipline In Bordeaux. PRIVATE HAROLD A. KERN is in France with Company B, of the 18th Engineers, railway. He recently wrote to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Kern, of Gresham, as follows: "Whenever a soldier travels in France and stops for any length of time in a town or city, he must register at the office of the Assistant Provost-Marshal nd must register out when leaving. The 18th Engineers are about as popular with the Provost-Marshal in Bordeaux as a case of measles in America. Sev eral other fellows had trouble getting out of Bordeaux, once they had regis tered in. "Bordeaux once belonged to us, long before the A. P. M. or an M. P. saw the place. Of course, when the wearer of the sacred arm band and soothing stick arrived things changed considerably. We no longer roamed at will, but we kept things busy all of the time. "The grapes are just ripening and In few fields they are being gathered. This country is by far the most pros perous I have seen." Amity Boy Catches Thief in England. Lyle Briedwell Dlsguxted When Offender Is Released. They have strange ways of dealing with thieves in London-town, accord- ng to Lyle Briedwell, formerly cashier f the Bank of Amity, Amity, Or., and now a yeoman on the U. S. S. Utah. In recent letter to his father, J. W. Briedwell he tells of the part he played in the capture of a snatch-purse and of his impression of the Lnglish capital. "You should have seen me 6top a thief for an English policeman, or 'bobble,' as they call the cops here," he writes in high -glee. "It was last evening as I was coming home to the hotel, when heard the cop yelling 'Stop thief! an 'Hold him!' "I saw the thief running down th street, dodging the people and tryim to elude the cop. He ran quite near i me, and I couldn't resist the temptatioi to 'butt in.' I stuck my foot out quickl and he fell headlone. Before he coul get up again and under way I had a ful - 1 nelson clamped on and a number o I pe4Ie J" he'l'ins hold him. I 4,M irrahhH h-.nfitl t noun at notes from a civilian who was makini he change in a cigar store. The cop tool the money away from him, and, to my I a"Ls"C-f turnea ,nlm loose. Of his entertainment at a fashionable! English country home, where he wa Diaaen in his sailor s uniform, an where he found hospitality and court esy in admirable proportions, the younJ yoeman writes at length, describing! tne house and the beautiful grounds. "Looking up a slightly wooded hill Herbert Miller, Portland Boy, Oversens With I. S. Naval ! Forces. ! you saw a herd of several beautiful deer,' nis letter runs, and if yoil walked toward them the whole herl would stand as if frozen, looking i:i your direction and remaining motion- less. Portland Man Anxious to March Into Berlin. Private Redmond Sees Wounded in Base Hospital. TJRIVATE Philip J. Redmond. 1. Company A, 348th Machine GuiJ Buttalian, who left Camp Lewis witll the 91st Division, is ill in a base hos -I pital, according to letters received b:J his friends in this city. "I suppose you have heard that was wounded," he writes. "The firsi time I went over the top, I was shoil by a German machine gun just a littl. above the ankle, a shrapnel hole belovl the left knee, my left hand was badbj torn, and my thumb broken. My chestl had three wounds, and my left arm was shattered, but I am getting nloni- fine. I have a few souvenirs of ths shrapnels which the doctor saved for me, when he operated. "I am saving them, as they are sou venirs of the war. I was under ether three hours, but without bad afteM effects. 1 expect to be out In threi months. I am sorry that I did not get to march to Berlin with the boys, bu"; I know the war will be over when am able to be back in the ranks, an we surely have them on the run. Private Redmonds wife and twinl sons are in tnis city. 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