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Sierra Club Bulletin 



I regret to say that the ones I'll bring back will be in the mind's eye 

 only. My powers of description will have to be keenly sharpened if I 

 wish to convey any half-way decent idea to you of what I've seen and 

 been through, 



I hope the war news continues to be on the sunny side. You folks at 

 home, 8000 miles away, are better informed than we who are next door 

 to the Rhine. We get few papers and little information as to the ac- 

 tivities on the various fronts. It would not be a bad idea if some one 

 would donate a daily paper to the club rooms and these papers be kept 

 on file. For one, I would be interested in reading the account of how 

 the peace terms progressed after I get home. 



I've rambled on for a couple of hours now and haven't said much of 

 anything, but this will let you all know I am still among those present, 

 enjoying the very best of health and looking forward to the day when 

 I will be with you on the 8:15. 



With best of good wishes to each of my friends and deepest personal 

 regards to you, Mr. Parker, from 



Julian C. Tormey, 

 Headquarters Company, 363rd Infantry, A. P. O. No. 776, 

 American Ex. Forces 



Sierra Club, At the Front, France, Nov. 4, 1918 



Dear Friends: You might like to get another line from here, so will 

 send this. We started a drive yesterday and today the Germans are so 

 far back our artillery have no targets. Where I am now is ten miles 

 over the Hindenburg line, and I am sleeping in a concrete dugout made 

 by the Germans and cooking on a German stove and using quarters in 

 France that the Germans held for four years, and am writing on the 

 back of some paper that is around here in bales. 



The prisoners have been coming in by the hundreds, and I have spok- 

 en to many through men who spoke German. They are tired of the 

 war, and many of them, officers included, curse the Kaiser and his gov- 

 ernment for getting them up against what they had before the Ameri- 

 cans. Some to whom I spoke were surprised that we treated them so 

 well, the wounded, and I have seen loads of them treated well ; the se- 

 riously wounded Germans are treated before the slightly wounded 

 Americans. 



Last week we were shelled in this town by hundreds of shells, and the 

 aeroplanes dropped bombs ; we were gassed too, but we let loose and 

 have gone ahead about fifteen miles, and reports are that we are still 

 going. Today I am left behind in peaceful territory. Will go up to the 

 new front tonight. 



Now I hope all the Sierra Club people in France are well and also 

 those at home, and will close v/ith best wishes. 



N. J. Malville, 



American Red Cross, Paris 



