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Show I CLAIMS HE IS OLDEST SOLDIER IN LATE WAR Great Falls, Mont., April 5. Alex j Yule claims to have been the olo.-bt ; soldier In the great war. He cnllstMi In the Canadian army at the age Jt 70, ho declares, and served thiee ears in Scotland and Franco as a non-commissioned officer. He says he will be 76 years of age next Dc-' Dc-' ecmber, but Is Eald not to look more 1 than 60. When enlisting, Yule de-. de-. clares, he gave his age an -12 and tha Canadian recruiter passed him without with-out comment. 1 Yule enlisted at Prlnco Rupert, B. j C. and went overseas with a Canadian forestry division. He spent his acr-'. acr-'. vice period sawing wood with a fo; -cstry battalion. |