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 came in handy and I acted as interpreter for the boys and if I were in France I have heard no news of the war since I left the States and no one here hears any news. You know more at home about the war than we do here.

The interesting part of the trip as regards scenery was on the “Riviera” from Nice through Monte Carlo to Genoa.

My address I will give you in a weeks time as we hope to be at our destination by that time.

We have been the first Yankee sailors through this country and are quite a curiosity in this section. The town here is just as dirty as you said the Italian towns were only a little more