The engineers were extending the railroads up to the front line and were always in range of the artillery, who suffered a nervous breakdown due to shell shock, has been in the hospitals for two and a half months and when showing his souvenirs of French money, 15 pieces, his hands shook like an old man with palsy. He has not yet come back to his normal condition. At Brest, he, with the other soldiers, slept in the old Napoleon barracks, built 142 years ago. He says the French and American ideas of good morals are vastly different with most of the points in our favor. The French women are very good looking and very hard working, they do most of the manual labor. There is no doubt that the Germans are true. He has seen a number of children minus hands and feet and almost grown boys in the same condition. There was practically no influenza in France when he left but some cases developing after the arrival of ships from American ports, many German prisoners, 1500 being taken behind the allied lines at one time. These prisoners were dressed and poorly fed; a day's ration being not enough for one meal. He talked with one German prisoner who said he was forced to fight for Germany but he would gladly have helped his cousins, who were in the American army, if he could, for he believed the Germans were in the wrong. The German soldiers were kept in ignorance of what really happened. They would not believe the Americans were fighting in France. 