New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1918, Page 9

¥ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1918, riting from war torn illiam Buell of Winthrop street, a d Cross driver, states that from face. He does not think however, | these trips 1 don’t get any mail. I s n ! at the war will be over until Ger- |am glad vou send so many clippings. | Dut five of the 26 letters. That is go- any s decisively beaten and he |That is all the newspaper news I get, [ ing some, isn’t it? I have had to stay ds that.he thinks it will take the |as no papers are coming through just | UP until 12 and 1 o'clock to do it, but htire National Army to do it. Al- )| now. Because of the offensive, most | I 8lways feel better when my letters ! ady the Germans are beginning to |of the passenger trains are off, and | are all answered. Today 1 had a fine fve a wholesome respect for the |no shipments can be made except | drive to a town about 50K away. To | fhting qualities of the Yankees, the | first class mail. All transportation is | the headquarters of the A. B. F. It was an ideal day. I put my top down iter says. His letters follow: needed for supplies for the armies T B “April 2, 188 MAIN ST, Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. ways uses mass attack you know, and | can, it does seem as if the French |derful dinner tonight, French fried |{many more Boche and get away with | back twice as many. 1 went up to | room in what is supposed to he ticeable how the trees are not tes it would be about a 25 cent e The terrific noise v deafening and | that makes a great difference. will say, that Irltz has learned to I am away on another week or 10 | British front in the Oise (“_\L,.le right, as I will have been gone a ting by the machine gun five. If he | Germany will ask for peace. As I|south, who are making quite a nams | from today. I am up on the Ameri- “I was mighty glad to get the trip \ Lack. on paper, wait until I get home. The | drafted army is over here. We need lines. This town was being shelled | Eoche all off. Then is the time !(n'i nversations with German prison- | frents. I could not get much sleep g “April 16. L - & in the past the Huns will sue for ymaking 26 in 2 days. While I am on 2 ! vou every day, besides answering all It is very quiet here, remark- | from the station, in the opposite di- 50 offers a wonderful target. Dead | would be discouraged. However, did | potatoes, 2 steaks, white bread, cake, |it. Bavonet cvery one the trenches today. It was very no- | thie best hotel in the town. In the | badies were piled up over the wire | you ever stop to think, that they are |tapleca, ete, I have a friend in one | Viisita P Amen | and they tried to climb over the |fighting for their families, their "ol the army bakerles. Yes, I an.A\“_]l. shot away. There is green gr I haven't time to write much llllflm B“ell er[es Tha Ame]"l shrapnel and edat was landing all “The Boche prisoners say, if the|fear the 'Yanks' already. There is a |day trip. I left last Sunday and hope [ There not a thing is left, as I have | week or ten days. Hope there is a tad perhaps 1 would he in Boche | have written before, T don’t think this | for themselves. They are likened by |can front. The only part of the Am- |up here, as this is a part of France 1| “Lots of love, next day I drove to a town at the|to be enmasse. That is what is go- and we didn’'t stay very long. I have ! pcace! he has ledrned that if Germany |on account of the bombardment. “I have had a little more time for OF MANUFACTURERS’ SAMPLE Maki f the most wonderful bargains see the Boche attacking up to the | When the congestion is over, I will |'and lowered my wind shield. It was) (Scotch Highlanders). These Ameri- |ited. E ) B/ x wire entanglements. Here they were | probably get some boxes and papers. | Just like a joy ride on a Sunday aft- | cans are just wild men ,a few will go |ably so. Fritz throws over a few | rection from general headquarters mowed down like grass. Fritz al- “From the viewpoint of an Ameri- | ernon in the States. Had a won-|o® in No Man's Land and tackle |=hells and then the Americans throw | @ nd you know where that is. I have dead bodies. It was a ghastly sight! | homes, their farms, for justice and }knew much more than I can write. T B quite a contrast to the Verdun, and | st want you to know 1 am al around. Fritz did not succeed in get- | Boche continue to lose heavily, that|regiment of Americans from the | to be back to the Station by a week | written in my previous letters ot of mail waiting for me when I get GflHS Al‘e BI‘&VG SOldleTS land now. I really can't describe it | war will end until the whole of OUr { {he Boche to the ‘Ladies from Hell' ' ecrican front, T have not already have never been in. I am about 100K v “BELI." France, | junction of the French and British | ing to count; we want to wipe the | | been driving two majors along the Iite Wenrs i Yanheca. mtinues to lose as heavily as she “Today T received five more letters g 1 the past few days, and have written - and lasting through until Saturday night, we offer a ever offered in this city $3.98 $4.50 $5.50 Children’s Trimmed Dress Hats at Half Price. Regular Price $2 and $4. Special Saturday: $1.00 ™ $1.98 Sees Germans Mowed Down. priy 10: “I returned yesterday from an- ther trip. I volunteered for a trip h the front. wanted to see some ore of the show. I drove an Issota uck, Italian make. The first time ever saw one. Oh, well, this is the rst time I ever saw a war; too. I itt Parls Thursday. Had trouble ith dirty gas and only got 20 K. fext day it rained and short cir- uited my coil box and I got towed wonderful bargains—the entire sample line of one of New York’s largest garment manufacturers. The price paid for the entire lot enables us to offer these wonderfully at- tractive coats and dresses at less than wholesale price to- || day. This is an opportunity for New Britain women that | should not be missed. 1l OUR NEW YORK BUYER has picked up some “I have just returned from an- ier trip to the front. I took a uckload, about five tons, bandag nkets, dates, figs, cheese, suga o, (BRANCH STORE, 863 MAIN ST., HARTFORD, CONN.) e French people s very much 5 anged since President Wilson and eneral Pershing said ‘The whole U. army is at the disposal of the Al- - es.” The women and girls all along e routes throw kisses to us and the ttle boys would come to attention . the roadside and salute us, in their W d d Th d d F d y pyish*manner. The affection for e nes ay, b urs a an rl a fmericans is ever greater than when BRINGS TRAORDINARY erful, so good to us. I expect to zve tomorrow again. We drove all nday night and Monday night. One uld asleep while the other drove. onsequently I am dead tired, and n going to bed now. Itis only 6:45 < m.,, too. 1 wanted to write you PR R Trimmed is trip will be; perhaps two or three lays, possibly ten days, we never D['eSS HatS faged has upset everything. We are . ! working like the deuce. The H lf P icchew are stopped now. The punch a rlce gone, and I think the Allies will art. something soon. Whole divi- . 2 i 7 ommes nave veen winea su || Special Sale of White Hats for Pf course the Allies -have lost men, po, but not anywhere near so heavy. . this drive Fritz sure made some D/l y istakes. I wish I could tell you all emorla a $ 7.50 Trimmed Dress Hats Salg Price $ 9.00 Trimmed Dress Hats Sale Price The Popular Banded Sailors. Regular Price $2.50. Special for Saturday: 6K. (A K is about 5-8 of a mile.) $1'00 ] - I : had another fellow with me and he Here's a ve special bargain Wonderful bargains ip chil- at on the fender and fixed up the in the fashionable Banded dren’s Trimmed Dr Hats at Plugs, the truck towing us all the Sailors. The newest styles in half price, in aill colors, .trim- ime. Then we got the car working black. med with all the newest ideas. pn three cylinders and thought we uld go faster than the truck, so we 188 MAIN STREET, NEW BRITAIN. C. 1 gave me a chance to see was in —— last October. But we BAR INS IN irow when we will be back. know, but that is defendu. $11.00 Trimmed Dress Hats mhitched from the truck, took real Branch Store 863 Main St., Hartford (Over Harvey & Lewis’ Store.) SERGE COATS Worth Double This Price. This Offering of SERGE COATS in- || cludes various styles of the latest char- acter, and as there are only 50 in the | lot, we advise early selection if you wish | to get a coat at this price. ore of this show. The attitude of o like the French, they are so won- CHOICE “The big show the Boche have Sale Price French leave’ The drivers of the uck didn’t know it After running bout half a mile the darn thing went ad again, so we caught up to the ruck again and hitched on. The ruck was making about 15K an our all this time. These Frenchmen kurely would have fained if they had een us. Now I will tell you some- hing about the trip. On Sunday I ova to a town near the American ont, stayed there all night and jhen drove up to the American front e next day. The following day, I ent to the part of the front where | -was when driving an ambulance. German Spies Threaten Empey rom there to a town near the j jon of the French and British lines. met a lieutenant whom I knew hert in the. camp in the Marne dis- jet Jast August. He was kind ough to take me up to the first| ine trenches. Believe me, I saw ore than all the time I was at the Verdun front in August and Septem- ber. Fritz was just putting over an pttack. I watched it through the | oriscope. The Star-shell lit up the For His Patriotic Efforts Here HAT German spies still are active in this country was proved recent- 1y in the case of Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey, aythor of “Over the Top and hero of the big Vitagraph pic- ture of the same title which is founded on the book. Twice in one % day the Sergeant, who had taken time off from the motion picture Greatest Bargains ever offered the New Suits at $5.00 ' Suits at $18.75 holg of No Man's Land. I could LG T i studio to deliver several patriotic lectures in Pennsylvania cities, was mysteriously threatened. During his address at Scranton, he received a whispered warning to cease his activities and the same night, on a - sleeper, he again heard the sibilant \ 9 threat: “We'll get vou yet.” ~ ( ‘ f% WEBSTERS Empey, who has been lecturing in 4 ; S behalf of Americanism, the Liberty : | \very finest quality, as is every garment.‘ NEW INTERNATIONAL 2 : o T Loan, the Red Cross, and tobacco "ofl'ered in this sale—they all come from | DICTIONARIES are in use by busi- funds for soldiers, says he has re- wone of the largest manufacturers in New | “'York and we doubt if we will have a | || chance to secure such wonderful bar- | | e Britain women at These Sample DRESSES, |you will admit when you see ''them, are the biggest values you ever had offered you. Don’t hesitate to come in and look this merchandise over. ness men, engineers, bankers, ceived many threats by mail and judges, architects, physicians, even bribery proposals sent by enemies of the United States. To all farmers, teachers, librarians, cler- threats and proffers the fighting American replies:—"Five million Huns gymen, by successful men and haven’t been able to make the boys ‘over there’ quit and a few over here awomen the world over. are not going to make me quit.” The New International providen “Over the Top,” the vivid and exciting days that he spent in the front ga]ns agaln th]s season. tion answerer. soldiers in training there a real insight into trench fighting and, being $1 98 to 10 00 If you seek efficiency and ad- one of them, was able to picture for the men actual conditions as they vancement why not make daily exist in the trenches. — s - o e P S se of this vast fund of inform- By taking the military scenes at the big army camp, the Vitagraph ‘ the means to success. It isan all- line trenches of France as rifieman, bomber and machine gunner. Dur: knowing teacher, a universal ques- ing the making of trench scenes at Camp Wheeler, Ga., he gave the AreYoquuipped to WIn? Empey, who is sald to be a natural-born actor, lives over again in tion ? 400,000 Vocabulary Terms. 2700 Pages. Company was brought into close co-operation with the War Department. 6006 Illustrations. Colored Plates, it having been agreed that the company would submit to the department mcwgrnghical Subjects. 12,000 all trench scenes taken as they appear in the rough and later as they Regular and India-P; appear in the completed picture. Thus the picture, which was conceived e ape Bty in a spirit of patriotism as an ald in stirring enthusiasm, becomes a semi. VX‘{}'}“""W“ official adjunct of the recruiting service. 1 ) Sergeant Empey may be seen here in person soon, as efforts are being i | Since he began lecturing on the war made to have him lecture here. the sergeant has appeared before hundreds of thousands of people in the big cities of the country and it is declared that he will appear in pract: eally every town of importance before he returns to the fighting front. 47 MAIN STREET, NEW BRITAIN