Pacific service magazine . fire allthe time — including theabominable gas shells. Theexcitement of the thingcarries you through butthe constant sight of ruinand destruction—of killed and wounded—becomes very monotonous and think that the boys are back-slidingfor they are not. Every one is ready togo through with the thing—it is a dis-agreeable job, thats all. The worst sensation of all is the hi-ex-plosive and snipers. H. E. when it doesfind a target ends things shelled us about six or eight times aday with that. It would last for about tenminutes, popping all around
Pacific service magazine . fire allthe time — including theabominable gas shells. Theexcitement of the thingcarries you through butthe constant sight of ruinand destruction—of killed and wounded—becomes very monotonous and think that the boys are back-slidingfor they are not. Every one is ready togo through with the thing—it is a dis-agreeable job, thats all. The worst sensation of all is the hi-ex-plosive and snipers. H. E. when it doesfind a target ends things shelled us about six or eight times aday with that. It would last for about tenminutes, popping all around, then itwould be over for a while. As long asyou keep busy you dont notice anything,but during the lulls your ducking abilitybecomes quite pronounced. An airplanewould sail over us at intervals and dropa bomb which fortunately did not get anyof our particular party. Right now ourbivouac is in a forest and were compara-tively comfortable in sheltered tents. No facilities for bathing, but better thannothing at Lieut. R. H. Stevenson, 316thField Battalion Signal Corps,91st Division. (Formerly ofthe O. &. M. Department.) The following letter was: written byMerl M. Bremer to Mr. Downing, underdate of December 15th, from Woinville,France: I guess the last letter you receivedfrom me was written just before thearmistice was signed, andwe were all prepared togive Germany one of theworst blows she ever got, ifshe had not signed the arm-istice. Fresh troops in thetrenches and piles and pilesof reserves. The artillery concentra-tion was enormous. I hadmy little job assigned me,that of connecting up thebroken and shell torn lightrailway across No MansLand. I am resident engi-neer on about 150 kilome-ters of Chemin de Fer Pe-tit, or better, about 94 or95 miles of Light construction and main-tenance end of it. It wasvery interesting work whilewe were going ahead, butthe w^hole army now hasbeen turned into one big salvage gang andour work now only consists of mainte
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