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Page Two. THE BEAVERTON TIMES ' , THE BEAVERTON TIMES -Beaverton, Oregon. A Weeklr Newspaper, iusued Fridays. R. H. Jonas, Erfltor and Publisher Entered at,4ne Boaverton (Oregon) Fostoffice as second-class mail mat ter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ... In advance except by arrangement with the publisher. One year by mail $1.00 Six months by mail 60 Advertising rates on application. BROTHER OF N. L. SMITH IS WITH ARMY .OF .OCCUPA TION IN LUXEMBURG LAND First Sergeant with Amunition .Train Tells of Harrowing and Thrilling Events of Conflict. LONGS TO BE BACK IN U. S. Scenes Following Armistice Will Long Be .Remembered by Boys , Who Saw Them. The following letter," written by First Sergeant V. C. Smith of Ammunition Train 308 which hailed from Camp Sherman, Ohio, to his father in the East, was forwarded to N. L. Smith, of the Beaverton carshops, by his father. It details some of the thrilling experiences that the truckmen who hauled Uncle Sam's high explosives to the big guns saw at first hand. Eichweiler, Luxemburg, Nov. 24th, 1918. Dear Father; It gives me great pleasure to write to you at this time, because of the fact that I can tell you more about where I am and what I have been doing and also that this is "Father's Day." I am also glad that I am able to tell you that I am in the Third Army Corps which is the first to "march on the Rhine," and by the way, has been marching on the Rhine since the 17th. I will tell you a little of my life before starting on the march to the Rhine. We came up to the front on the 22nd of Sen tember. We stopped in a woods that we called "Camp Cootie." I was detailed the next morning in charge of the first ammuni- W. M. WERT Barber at the old Jack Hooper shop Haircutting Our Sepoialty. Laundry Agency. 'TON - . OREGON "EGG KER AND 'RECTOR aimer r night. OREGON tion detail to haul ammunition to the front. We were out on detail until the afternoon of the 26th of September. Now I mean the first of our company and I think we were out as soon as any of the rest. Well, on the afternoon of the 25th of Sept. we went to an ammunition dump and loaded our trucks with 75 mm. light field artillery and 155 mm. 6 inch heavy artillery and started for the battery positions. We were only allowed to go so far, then we halted until after dark. This was the night the American drive started and we got to the Batter positions about 10 :00. They were located in the Argonne Forest, which you have already read a lot about. Well, just as we came in the woods, Fritz sent some shell over that we could hear very plainly, but none of the fellows seemed to mind it very much and we went on in to the battery positions, unloaded our ammunition and just as we were unloading the last truck the guns all around us let go and I suppose about 200 feet from us Fritz landed a big high explosive, so I thought things were going to get prettv lively. Well, we finished unload ing and started out, but. right here I want to tell you that on a night there was a drive tn be 1 made. There was an awful lot 1 of traffic, motor cars, wagons, it is hard to- tell the amount but we never got out of the woods until 5:80 the morning of the 26th of September, so we had the pleasure of seeinjr "The Bi"- i bhow" start. Well, al the can non from 75's to 11-inch opened i up about 1:20 in the morning and I don't think I will ever be , able to explain the awful noise. une battery aiter the other and then P.think they must have fired by regiments. Whv, T bought my ears would hurst! Thev were right out alonsid pf the, road, besides beinsr all over the woods. They say there were 1000 cannon to the square mile. Now you can imao-ine what happened when they all started to fire at once and kept on fir ing. ? Well, we got back to the bar-' racks and I went to bed. 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