CORDOVA BOY
IN OCCUPIED
R ETOWN
Our former townsman, A. C. Elliott,
who is now master engineer with the
American expeditionary force in
France, writes from Bordeaux to C.
M. Rosswog of his experiences, as fol
lows:
“Dear Charlie: Your welcome let
ter of November 25 arrived last night.
Was glad to hear from you, and the
news from the old Copper River was
interesting. Your letter was the first
news I had of the death of Willie
Jones. I have heard nothing from
any of the Alaska boys over here for
a long time, not even from Warren
Taylor. It was really too bad about
■Willie. He was a good kid, always
full of fun, and as clean as they make
them. It seems unjust that boys like
That should get shoved up to the front
and shot, while many of us roughnecks,
for whom nobody gives a damn, get
stuck into bullet-proof jobs in the
S. O. S. They never let me get over
twenty miles from Bordeaux during
the whole scrap here, and even after
it was all over and the dust settled
I tried to get permission to go up and
see the front, but was refused.
How He Got to the Front
“1 got permission, however, to go
for a week to one of the legitimate
leave areas, and proceeded to get lost
en route. I managed to get into
Paris, where I have a friend with
considerable authority at his disposal,
and he gave me the necessary creden
tials to visit Metz and Coblenz, over
in the dear old fatherland, where the
doughboys are keeping the watch on
the Rhine. I sure had some trip.
Spent six hours in Metz. There are
only about one hundred American
troops there, and they are receiving
German railroad equipment that is be
ing delivered under the terms of the
armistice. The French army is patrol
ling the town and country in this dis
trict.
“Soldiers with loaded rifles patrol
the city in squads of six or eight men
on bicycles at all times, day and night,
and one must have sure enough au
thoribed permission to go sightseeing
there.
The Kaiser’s Statue
“I visited the cathedral, which I
believe is the most beautiful one in
Europe, and saw the statue of Kaiser
Bill which met with a slight accident
the day before I was there. It was a
large bronze affair, representing the
proud kaiser on a fine horse, gazing
out over his possessions. The French
decided, I guess, that he had gazed
long enough, however, and hitched an
auto truck towline around his neck
and dragged him off his perch. They
are going to make souvenir medals
from the bronze.
The Gibraltar of the Rhine
“At Coblenz I went through the fam
ous Ehrenbreitstein castle, sometimes
called ‘the Gibraltar of the Rhine.’ It
is situated on the east bank of the
Rhine, opposite the junction of the
Rhine and the Moselle. It is a hill
about 800 feet high, commanding the
country for miles in every direction,
which has been converted into a mod
ern fort capable of accommodating a
garrison of about forty thousand men.
During all the time of German occu
pation no foreign officer or soldier
was ever permitted to enter the place.
1 climbed up the main road afoot and
when I got to the first gate a dough
boy from Montana stepped out. ‘Got
a pass?’ he asked. I showed mine.
‘Where you from?’ was next, and then,
‘When d’ye think we’ll get home?’
These sports have marched over one
hundred miles into German territory
and are in possession of some of the
kaiser’s most treasured territory, but
all they seem to be interested in is
what the cook is going to slip over
on them at the next meal and when
they are going to get back to God’s
country. They talk more about home
and their future plans than they do of
their adventures of the past two
months in Argonne and Champagne.
German Hardships a Myth
"The Germans in the occupied ter
ritory are very good to the Ameri
cans. This, of course, is policy, not
love. I was billeted in a German
hoi el in Coblenz and never was bet
ter treated in my life. One thing I
learned, however, was that the Ger
man? have not suffered as great pri
vations as we have been led to be
liete. They are well dressed—better,
indeed, than the French. All the tales
about them wearing paper clothes and
wooden shoes are unqualified bunk.
They are short of food, but the prices
have been controlled to such an ex
tent that you can buy a meal in a res
taurant there much cheaper than the
same feed can be purchased in France.
I ate one meal In a German place bj
way of experiment. They had sour
and a very small portion of bread
which was dark and heavy, and evi
dently composed of a heavy percent
age of potato. They had pork, roasl
beef and chicken on the bill of fare,
with potatoes, and cabbage, and car
rots, and some kind of mysterious
pudding for dessert. I paid 7 marks
for the meal, which would be aboul
one dollar of our money. The same
meal in Bordeaux would be aboul
$1.50. And say! 1 forgdt—I had some
real German beer with that feed, but
somehow there seemedq to be some
thing lacking about the latter. Like
the Germans themselves, it was much
milder and more easily handled than
the brands we used to meet up with
before the war.
Germans Paying the Price
“In Coblenz there are many ware
houses packed full of all kinds of Ger
man equipment, and during the time
I was there German airplanes were
coming flying in at the rate of one
every couple of hours, to be turned
over to the Yanks. By the time the
Heinies get through giving up ships,
guns, locomotives, cars and airplanes
and then start to pay indemnities they
will begin to realize where they made
the mistake of their lives. They have
not suffered nearly so much as the
French or English up to the present,
but I would hate to be in their shoes
now that the price is about to be paid.
Let us hope that in this final settle
ment the allies will have sense enough
to pool meir interests anu slick as
closely together as they were com
pelled to in the final effort for vic
tory.
Wilson’s Visit Helpful
“I think Wilson’s trip over here was
one of the best things he has done.
His influence will go farther toward
keeping the conflicting interests over
here from quarreling among them
selves than anything else that could
be brought to bear in the matter.
“Well, Charlie, I must close soon.
Regarding those Christmas permits—
I burned mine up. There isn’t a sin
gle thing I need here that I can not
buy, and the system they established
seemed too much like asking for
favors to suit me. If my friends write
me a letter once in a while that is
all in the world I care for. Anything
any of the folks at home wish to send
to the men over here should be given
to the Red Cross, and then it is sure
to be sent where it will do the most
good.
Tribute to Red Cross
“Charlie, if there is an organization
in the world that deserves confidence
tnd support it is the Red Cross. No
place is too tough for them. They
are always to be found right on the
Riot where they are most needed, and
no matter how hard they are working
nr under what conditions they meet
you with a smile and a little word or
two that makes you glad to be in the
game.
“I have been drafted out of the old
Eighteenth and will have to stay here
for a good while yet, according to all
indications. I am now at the top of
the ladder in the rank and file, as they
say. There is a slight chance that I
may wear a Sam Brown belt before I
get home yet. My last move made me
a master engineer, senior grade, but
I would rather have been a buck pri
vate over in that Argonne scrap than
anything I am liable to get from
here.”
FRE WORKSHOPS FOR
WIDOWS OF SOLDIERS
PARIS, Feb 1 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—Actual work
in the establishment of three general
workshops for the employment of
women and girls whose breadwinners
were killed during the world war, has
been begun by a committee of relig
ious leaders of the Methodist Episco
pal church in America. The commit
tee, which has the sanction of Presi
dent Poincare and Marshal Joffre, will
devote $2,500,000 to reconstruction
and reclamation work during this
year.
Among other projects for the relief
sf the devastated region already
started is the purchase of a site for
French orphans at Grenoble, which in
cludes a 250-acre farm to be used in
demonstration work among French
peasants to teach them the value of
modern methods in farming. The com
mittee also gave to the French Prot
estant commission $25,000 to be ex
pended in rehabilitation work with
cut regard to religious denomination.
“France needs so many, many
things that whatever you do will be
3f value, particularly in the devastat
ed regions,” replied Marshal Joffre,
to a question by the religious leaders
as to how the Methodist church in
America could beat serve France.
“When people return to their former
homes in the devastated areaa and see
the frightful destruction that has been
accomplished there,” he caid, "they
will need not only material, but also
moral assistance. A great tendency
to immorality will follow the shock of
their loss.”
ENGLAND MUST !
PRODUCECOAL
MORECHEAPLY
LONDON, Feb. 4 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—More coal j
must be produced by the United King- g
dom if Great Britain’s manufacturers jjj
are to successfully compete in the k
world’s markets with those of other
nations, declare well informed eco
nomists. They point to an apparent
inability of Great Britain to produce
enough coal to keep her industries at
lop speed and at the same time pro
vide for the comfort of the people. jj
It is claimed there is an abundance
of coal in the United Kingdom. New
mines are being opened and developed
in South Wales, the chief source of
supply for many years, but the cost of
operation increases as the deposits
near the surface are exhausted B
Experts have discovered that the
amount of coal annually produced by jj
each person employed in the mines
has declined from 312 tons in 1890 to
244 tons in 1912. This is contrasted
with reports from the United States
showing that production of coal there g
annually has increased from 400 tons •
per person employed in 1890 to G60 .
tons in 1912.
This proportionate decrease of
British coal production is attributed g
to two causes—failure to adope new jj
and improved mchinery and systems jj
of operation and demands of miners §§
for more pay and less work.
Confronting a period which the gen- jjj
eral public has been led to believe g
Great Britain’s most important era of jj
industrial expansion, British industry 1
is demanding cheap coal. Neverthe- |
less, miners in some sections demand g
a six-hour working day five days a jj
week, while in other sections the men jj
want to be paid for twenty minutes jj
for refreshments, meaning tea.
One writer points out that while the B
cost of producing coal has doubled in jj
Great Britain since 1886,. the cost of jj
production in the United States was jj
less in 1912 thanjn 1886. England, he 1
declares, must have cheap cool to g
carry on her highly developed manu- jj
facturing industries in competition 1
with other countries who have that jj
advantage. s
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