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Show SAW LiO 1ED SOLDIERS LID 11 LIVERPOOL Back from the war zone, Ronald F. Holmes is enjoying a short furlough at his home in North Ogden, He is a son of Milton Holmes and a brother of Raymond Holmes who was killed In action ac-tion in France. Young Holmes is in the United States navy and wears two service stripes. He has made four trips across the ocean on convoy work and has been on a destroyer since last year, operating in the war zone. He is now waiting to be called to Boston as part of a neucleus for a crow on the new destroyer Green. He was in Liverpool on two occasions occa-sions when 90.000 American soldiers arrived in a day. The troops on landing land-ing are marched through the city to the camps beyond, and, when a big contingent such as he saw, proceeds along the streets, great crowds gather to cheer and welcome the Yanks. Ho says the English girls are among the most enthusiastic admirers of the Americans. Young Holmes tells of the efficiency of the American destroyers, which carry car-ry depth bombs loaded with 300 pounds of T. N. T. The British "blimps" or dirigible balloons are doing excellent service in spotting the U-boats, he says. He declares the Leviathan, formerly the Vaterland, takes 14,000 American troops across on each voyage, and pro-ceeds'under pro-ceeds'under its own convoy. When it enters the danger zone, tho ship's 48 boilers are put in action and the powerful pow-erful drives ahead at the maximum speed op 27 knots an hour. |