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brought to men in remote corners of the world. In a letter requesting a subscription to the paper from a soldier in Siberia, he says:
“It may interest you to know that last night I chanced across the Monitor of June 25 (his letter was dated September 29), which I have already read, but which bears re-reading. At the moment I am jealously guarding it, as it has merely been loaned to me, and will be passed around when I have finished. Where it came from I do not know, but imagine it was brought on the transport by one of the men.”
From France an American soldier wrote:
“I am now in territory that was occupied by the Germans and, as we fellows say, ‘away up in the woods.’ We are scarcely ever near a town and last Sunday several of us took a hike into the woods looking for what we could find and I was fortunate enough to pick up a copy of the Monitor. I was as glad to get it as a little boy is to get candy.”
One of our Workers in this country was pleased to have a burly Canadian veteran come into his office with the remark:
“I saw the sign across the street and thought I would come in. I was at Vimy Ridge and I want to tell you that yours was the only paper the troops received while there. We all used to enjoy reading it, for it is such a fine, clean publication.”
To the men with the Army of Occupation in Germany the Monitor has proved of inestimable value. What it meant to one of them is best told in his own words:
“The Monitor is truly doing wonderful things over here for me. It is in short my closest companion, keeping me in touch and acquainted with the outside world. Some of the men are taking- courses in the new army schools established
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