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f ROM THE TRENCHES. Following we jjive another let' ter from one of our boys "over there,'? Mr, M. F. Saw y or, 119th Jnfantry, American Expedition ary n:es : France, Sept , 10 1918. d. Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N. C.J My Dear Sir : " ' ' Greetings from the front Tne trenches ! How much ycu have road from the payers of th s war, yet vou will no doubt be lad to hear somethinK ft it from one of your boys. I want you to lnow some of my experi ences. Naturally much hac I could tell you would not te per mitted by the censor. This is my second trp to the front tine ; the first wfe for in strustiou purposes, (puv battal ion reiiv-vd one oi' the otncrs in our regiment not lon ago. How ;yell I remember the night we marched from the reserve line xWhere we had been camping to take the front line positions. It vyas very dark. As we drew c'o $er Jhe front line ve could see Jthe verey lights frcm both sides rise in the air rmd hang suspend ed, and then die down. These terrors to raiding parties re minded me of the large arc-lights used in street corners at home. The constant detonations of bursting shells nlled me with alarm until I grew accustomed to them and m4e up my mind that they wprnn't meant forme. X was hot and sweaty long be fore we wera told to halt, but on ;n(J on vve marched, tramping along the hard macadam road. Of a gucjdui the front ranks plowed up and I said to myself, t last wc are here." No, such was not the case.. We simply met jour guide from the ielieved bat talion ; he. was to take us to our positions . Soon ,we left the-road and fol lowed a rough, narrow path. The night was black. I had no idea where we were going. I could but faintly make out dilapidated old . huts, torn trees and shell holes. Finally our guides left this seemingly aimless path and entered a communicating trench. This trench, was but a ditch such as you might sec any day in the country where clitehirg is b-eir g done; a trench oc, say four feet d-'P with the earth thrown up on either side. The sides of the trench were lined with metal laths and supported by A beams. Tne bottom of t'i2 trench is. pa ved vrith duck boards. It. seemed miles that we followed thie zig zv trench. We walked 'aionir crouching down, fancying we were thus escaping the shells that rushed incessantly cver- head. It did, however, save us from the machine gun lire. At last we reached the very f roi c line; No Man's Land was jest over tbat par.r:et. I coald r.oti resist peerjng over and try to : penetrate the blackness A thrill passed thru me; I at last know , u;0 v., au t ' vw.au ,wo iuvuciu i... vii. Know we y'ere at-war vnen we i were back in Camp Sevier; when scratch, and fully expect to come )f.ml l-"? 1 VvaiLiagton 5rcwsmorcc.tecM;y. l 0n th.p transport, and when we home to ycu all. I have not heard i.l Wof tlr re, j Cl;i'business C0I, were in that little French village but wnat the other boys ircm ;u. ,A- HVE nbNDklin doing our practical training. But I did not feel that we, Ameri cansmyself and the playmates of our little town, were actually in a life and death grapple with a cunning and furious foe until that moment. Thy horror of war . vCVl CT. OU1UUU UUUl, Iil'C. IIP Vt'C thumped along the duck-boards , I met sentries stationed on the Standing-step, silent and alone, ; searching the inky bbciuicss Swith their eyes. As our party diminished, a section being as rl to every "bay," 'ronver as held in whispers. "Md come up another kind all the area near S'jtli a lurid light, V the rat-a tat as cramped but 'V Uand to" J rol- V I natch of sleep, would not let m.2 rest. Cooties are body lice which everybody soon get when the.y enter the lrer,cli(s 'ihe sjULer at ail time? u.kes a .lively interest in his rations. ToJvard noon we roused up, got Sf'ine wa;er from a sheil hole near bv, lei? died a fire and made; some coffee. The ai oma of steam-1 ing coffee and frizzling bacon and sound of crackling fire a e; experiences most stimulating to j a tellowaftera night of it. After J breakfast I went to my bunk' again, fori took the Scotchman's j advice: Sleep alt you can at the front, for there.. U no telling when you will b.e called on for a long period of tough hiking and detail. And I found I could sleep , , , , , , - be.ter by day than by night for I was blanketed by the warm air flf day and soothed by the silence of 'yuns Toward supper I got up again , . , ,j. x i ana husud myself assisting with supper; supper of coffee again and bully beef and more bread, j "Heilo ! " cried one of the men, "lo(d: at the plane.-; I ccunt fifty-three of them." Fifty-three Allied planesinthe sky together ! Those modern birds rose, dipped, circled in ihe air like swallows. Oh, ii was a great sight ! Jerry wasted a pro digious amount of shrapnell in trying to down them, but to no avail. His shells would burst far belo.v them ; these we ecu d see for they were maiked by neat puffs of black smoke that soon dissapatd. The sun was fast; failing: its shafts of light were penetrating the clouds which hung high in the western heav ens, producing an ell'ect of gor geous mother-of-pearl. As th iight struck the glesf y wings of the planes, silver stars were shot back to us. I cannot help but think that ' jj cur air craft is superior to the, j; Boche; I get the impression that 1 w e j u s t ab out .v. mo t h e r t h e m . i t: We have not been without our casualties, but I am thankful to' S know that ali who have iallen I hid their duty until the end and 5 I hciieva ail ihe rest of thtm do the same. You .can imagine as I have experienced the hell of this war; the deafening burstcf shells that shake you frcm head to foot ; that constant strain of a possible gas attack and the fa- j"1 tigue and long vh;ih. But we Sammies aracueeifui th.ru it ah; B to be sure we have feelings of horror pass over us when cur Headquarters platoon of myor-; i jganization. i carry messages frcm my company headquarters to the Uattalion Headquarters: and to piatoon commanders- I suppose it is as hazardous as any Potion but! am glad to doitj for I have the nerves and phy:j- J Hind if T nm h:n.?.v fn i.iH ; . " say i nav come so i&i wunouia my county are all sate too. What has impressed we boys so much is the spirit of our own foliis back home, ineir rtjidi - ness to sacrifice of their pleas we see them suffer pain. But1 j ipW wo are stained by a great spirit WOtlfW of . freedom, and lor thai tree, &f!; dom we will fight until the last 1 'f T Now about myself. I am a H ktfx accuracy comply runner and attached to'- fei-l!' ure, their money, and their food North Caroline, Wellington that tnis war might bo brought: bounty-In the Superior Court i ' Pearl Franklin to a victorious close helps us lm-; vs mensely. We ay, "If the folks ' Eli.ert rnuiklin fpl llnr iviv ili'mt1 The defendant abover-?.med ivilltake back humc its., tnatwdj about , noice lhat a t,cim cntillcd as above it, it is up to US to give of our ; has been commenced m tlie Superior Hot. ; Court of Wasbiuyton County by Pearl ktoU I Franklin tor ihe purpose .f obtaininf Respectfully yours, :an absolule divorce ; and the said de- MILE3 F. 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