WITH THE A. E. F. IN FRANCE
of Tours was presented with two copies of the French edition of Science and Health, and one can feel sure that the seed of Truth has thus been planted in old Touraine. Of its fruitage there can be no doubt.
The Christian Science Monitor was a welcome visitor in all of the “Y” huts in and around Tours for almost a year. It was delivered each time a shipment came, at Rannes Barracks, Beaumont Barracks, Café du Palais, Trianon Theater Reading Room, Beranger Gardens Officers' Club, Hotel de Bordeaux (officers), Hotel Terminus (officers), Hotel Metropole (officers), Hotel Negociants and Hotel Central. The two last-named hotels were occupied by the women of the A. E. F.
Just outside the city limits of Tours is St. Pierre de Corps, an important railway transfer point, at which the troops entrained and through which, during the fighting days, came men from the base ports on their way to the front, and wounded men coming back to the hospitals. There the Committee supplied the Red Cross with Monitors and these were seized with avidity by one and all, the men being unstinted in their praise of the paper.
At St. Pierre was also located the largest prison camp of the Americans, where a “Y” was placed for the 1000 or more guards. Camp de Grasse with from 3000 to 5000 men, Rochambeau with an equal number, and the Engineers' Construction Camp with their quota of workers all received the Monitor regularly.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center, about six kilometers from Tours, had a hut where there was always a great demand for papers. This camp probably furnished the largest number of regular attend-
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