Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1919, Page 7

Part of the infantry deployed and jdug in near Sedan and put a patrol into the ‘city but were relieved in a few hours by the French who wanted the honor of taking the city. : The 318th Engineers were putting in bridges and repairing roads between Stonne and Sedan at this time and while there a train of mules reached us with coffee, bacon and bread and} isyrup. Say but we DID EAT. We started back November 10th, hiked to Verdun, rested there a few days and then hiked to this place which is near Chaumont and in the 6th division trzining area. Here we late keeping the roads in repair,} building bunks and other articles for juse throughout the division. I am pretty well satisfied with my job here. It is something like the old old days in Casper. I am in charge of a detail at the Régimental unit supply warehouse. Here we handle - ANY ME SHANE WRITE OF SERVICE. ‘WATHSTATHENGINEERS IN FRANCE Letter to Es: Mechling. Details rived at Chatereaux.,, (The 2nd bat- _ ae tallion was sent to Geivers for con- Movements of Unit Brigaded struction work.) Here we got our ‘first job. We were stationed there until July 4th and when we left we jhad all the steel work up for an jordinance plant and gun shops that covered about 25 acres of ground. We arrived on our next job on the night, of July 4th at Camp Montier- chaum ‘near Chatereaus. Here we pitched our pup tents and had supper, then unloaded a train load of lumber and tar paper for barracks, before jdark. Here we built barracks, drilled | lwater wells’ and: put in the grading | {OTHOISTRIGT ‘LEADS IN GALE OFW.S. STAMPS Sales Exceed $16 Per Capita in This District with Cleveland District Second, Says Official Report. Harry B. Henderson, State Direc- tor of W. S. S., has just received the | following statement covering sales | of W. S. S. during the year 1918. The report from the ‘Treasury De-| Bure Les Templiers, France. ‘ January 28th, 1919. S. Mechling, | at last>back with the 318th and have just received all il sent me since Sept. 10th, @ the Christmas box which; i hit the spot and your let- te of December 27th: _ ‘The’only opportunity I have had to meet men of icther divisions was | while I was struggling through the hospital, convalescent camp, casual | ‘camp and replacément tamp, trying and railway tracks fora big muni-| tion dump and built several miles of | wooden warehouses. We wert called to join our divis- ion in August and went to Cricon, near Chaumont which ‘is the 6th di- ihardware that. takes in every kind of tools I. ever heard of and’ some I1i never heard of, and the’ regimental | forage. It is a job that keeps me; on my toes, and that is what makes life endurable while waiting to come home. | |partment shows the relative stand- ing as;below: District No. $16.81 per capita. District No. 4, Cleveland, $15. 37} per capita. District No. 12, 10, Kansas City, > DOROTHY PHILLIPS "THE HEART OF HUMANITY * AT THE HUB FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY to get back ta my regiment. I met San Francisco, ; several men from the 28th division with the keystone and honorable men-|and I mean, SURE NUFF INTEN- tion decorations. They were all, SIVE. Pennsylvania men and had seen hatd! Gosh—we hiked in full packs, dug | service, but were never less anxious |ditches with our gas masks on and to rejoin their division. All the} practised: In—Out—Guard—with the American casuals I saw (and there} bayonet till we were raring to get a Vision’s training area and there wel got two week. in ive training I will sure make it a point to $15.27 per capita. visit the New York office and the; District No. 7, 21st St. works in Pittsburgh on my per capita. |ease in Los Angeles because they did way home. I am preparing a large | District No. 9, Minneapolis, $13.01 not believe in the death penalty, mep of France, which I bought at,;per capita. ; twelve women called on the venire a French stationery store, to show | District No. 8, St. Louis, $11.83 | said they did believe in such punish- | the movements of the 6th division, , Per capita. |ment, and six were accepted for ser- Though several men were excused Chicago, $13.54)as jurors in the trial of a murder : * id the front, as I saw it. This Ij District No. 11, Dallas, $10.82 | vi | wére 25,000 in the hospital center whack at the kaiser. The 6th divis-|°" 3 ae Pa . 2 2 ACS é where I was) would rather rejoin|ion took over a sector in the Vasges will bring sback swith mej as {i-donit) pers capita, | The 1 t gold natal thelr ‘old. regiments. than to get a|Me’s.. near the Swiss’ border- on mane to risk mailing it to you. District No. 1, Boston, $10.40 per| he noe aaa coin in cire al fi | spe : i The 6th division is now wearing a'capita. ‘ jtion is the gold “loof” of Annam, cress Hone Ener with the aceite hab: Bnaineldl ie until Ock. red 6 pointed star on the left shoulder District No. 2, New York, $8.95! flat round piece worth about $275. division in their training area, I This was a quiet sector where the bere un, Engineers have one gold Dee: capita, i ‘ haye no opportunity to go visiting trench warfare was still. practised. aes Aerie ae war. rs pow isi District No. 5, Richmond, $8.9. and we are.too busy for time to hang , We took over an elaborate system of | Whe wre BOL ROME 7h pega, It ReRkeaPita: heavy on our hands, but as I am|dugouts and trenches from the 35th Tae en do we eat.’ Well Ree No. 6, Atlanta, $7.08 per | to tell you all about the wanderings | division and about all that happened "! ho i ! A ' pe this letter meets with! District No. 3, Philadelphia, $8.58 of the 318th Engineers, I will tell/was trench raids, night patrols and | 1... approval as a history, of the|per capita. / | about what we are now doing rt the close. , To begin with, we were forme.! of regular army enlistments of Decem- ber 1917 and started trai. couver Barracks, Wash., January, 4918. Our trainin sisted of infantry and engine for sepper engineers and ; at infantry tactics, trench work, barb- wire entanglement work and venvral construction. We were to hove a few months training in Alabama with the rest of the 6th division be- fore coming overseas, but on ac- count of the great need of skilled laborers in France we were ordered overseas in April, embarked from Camp Merritt, N. J., May 8th, 1918, on the ship .“Amerika” an interned German liner. Our regimental band and the navy men, who were keen to try out boxing and, . wrestling skill, kept us entertained on the trip) We landed in Brest, France, Ma‘ 18th and proceeded via 40x8's 40 men or 8 horses) pulled by a Henry | Ford type.engine of the vintage of 1860 that hada whistle Tike -that used by Kansas City fish peddlers. In the course of 36 hours’ travel, the B 1 |squads right and fighting the ‘“coot- once in a while we got high explosives and gas shells. While here the 318th Engineers did barb wire entangle-| ment work, trench work and numer- ous odd jobs that turned up at all} times of the day and night. We then spent two weeks in a rest camp doing | jes.’”’ This rest camp was at Bous-/ sang, in the edge of the Alps Moun- tains and the time there was the most delightful time we aye had in! France, We left there Oct. 24th and went to St. Minnehould via 40x8’s, hiked | ito Camp Robillean near, Clarmont, | stayed 4 days there and started for! Grand Pre to relieve the 77th divis-| jion. On our way there we were be-} jhind the artillery that put over the igreat barage of November Ist to 4th. The Germans started in full retreat before we reached Grand Pre with | the 77th chasing them and the 6th) {chasing the 77th. Until November| }7th we had continual forced march-} jing, lost our rolling kitchen and chow | ‘wagons, account of ‘the congested | ti lc and mud- but finally relieved } the 77th at Stonne abéat 6 “hours after they had taken the town. The} | NEW Lae iar cae pa PBSSorty Putt PLiIcLIPS” starring SAYS 6th did not get into real action here. YORK “ly did before. Thanking you for your doings of the 318th Engineets. It i far from satisfactory with me Th T have written whenever I found time | in the Y. M. CG. A. of evenings. Some-| jtimes while the jazz band was play-| ing, sometimes while a boxing match | was in progress and have decided it! is the best I can do. But feel that | I am falling below par. | T am anxious to get back on the; job and sincerely believe I can hit jthe ball, in a short time, better than repeated kindness, I am, | Very respectfully, (Signed) C. RAY McSHANE. Co. B, 318th Engrs {0. K., Lieut. U. S. ee. BLACKIE HENRY IS BOUND OVER | TO COURT HERE | In a formal preliminary hantings ‘ing ‘Blackie’ Henry was bound over |for. trial in the district court at the | ting. spring term for the murder of Sam | many matters that have been re- | jnight was to effect an equitable rate | before Judge W. E. Tubbs this morn-| Recommendations will be made to ‘REQUEST FORINGREASE = IN TAXI FARES TAKEN BY COUNCIL COMMITTEE’ The judiciary committee of - the City Council composed of Dr. T. A. Dean, Dr. William Kochor and Perry ‘A. Morris met last night to consider TITTLE LL LLL ae ewae ee ferred to this committee for recom- mendation on legislation to the coun- cil. The object of the meeting last jof fares for the taxi-owners’ associa- \tion. A committee from, the taxi men’s association met with the com-} mittee from the council and pre- |sented their petition to be allowed, in effect to double their present rate: the council at the next regular meet- —GREAT—" MOM: CODES. a SS. P7 —MOTLOIELS Sa LM, $100 DOWN Balance like rent will give you immediate possession of a Brand New 3-Room Concrete foundation, plastered, painted, sink in kitchen, ‘coal shed, built on two lots. Casper Realty Co. Phone 381-J159 S. Center “GOD L BID SIO: dined aR PAGE SEVEN RUSSIANS alll ON DUTY French Sacrifice for Liberty Heroic PARIS, Jan. 15.—( of the Associated Pri Tye i cereanonuaiee Members of the Russian committee’ in Paris: Six millions of French sons deplore the tendency of some news-| offered their lives that demc papers in the Allied countries to might live. ) million other f belittle the actual work of Russians men and women sacrificed their all in Russia to overthrow the Soviet for the ne purpose. 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