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Show SAYS BOMBS MIGHT . AWAKENTHE ENGLISH Salt Lake Boy at Oxford University Writes an Interesting In-teresting Letter. STUDENTS IN TRAINING Warren Stratton Depicts Conditions as They Exist on Other Side. In confirmation of the information received hero somo timo ago, Dr. Graces Stratton-Aircy has received a letter from her son, "Warren, vcho is a Bhodes scholar at Oxford university, saying that he has been named as a member l of one of the committees to distribute supplies among tho Belgians. Tbe letter let-ter bears the date of November 29 and contains some interesting sidelights on tho conditions in England and the destruction, de-struction, of tbe Ehcims cathedral. It follows in part: You inquire about conditions in Oxford. Yes, they are much as you read. Bather more than half, perhapa as much as three-fourths, of the students have goue not to the front, but to various training camps about the country where they prepare to become commissioned commis-sioned officers. As soon as they arq thoroughly trained for tho British do not seem to be; putting untrained men in the field they either join regiments at the front or tako commissions in tho homo-defense homo-defense section of the army. Study War Problems. The students who have not actually ac-tually one into tho army, with the exceptions of Americans, cripples and defectives, are in the university univer-sity devoting some of their time to study and several afternoons a week to military training much like that of the Bait Lake high school cadets, but apparently more strenuous. Many of the professors also have gone, bo Oxford is hardly the same place that it was laist year. One pleasant feature of it U that all the riotous drinking crowd of the colleges waa the first to go into the army, eo we are ru of that more or less disagreeable disagree-able element. As to bomb-throwing in England, there is no evidence that any has beMi done, but people are pretty well agreed that the host thing that could happen would be for a Zeppelin to come over and drop a few into London; that would help the people to realize that the nation na-tion is at war. At present there is little indication indica-tion of war, aside from the disappearance disap-pearance of gold and the arrival of floods of paper money, the scare-heads scare-heads of the papers and an occasional occas-ional spy-shooting in London tower. Aeroplanes Regular. Two frionds who were in Paris at the time of the German aeroplane raids told me how interesting it was there. "With characteristic German punctuality, the aeroplanes came each day at precisely the same lime, about o o'clock, I believe be-lieve not varying ten minutes. Well, as you know, the cafe lifo is ono of tHe features of Paris, especially espe-cially the cafes with tables set all over" the broad sidewalks, where people sit in the afternoon and drink red wines. On the days' when the aeroplanes were coming the npen-air cafes were simply thronged with people who came out to watch for them. As soon as the aircraft came well into sight the rapid-fire guns mounted on Lif-fel Lif-fel tower and. I believe, on tho . cathedral of Notre Dame, would cut loose with a terrific noise. The people would get up from the tables and wander out into the streets to watch for bombs. Instead In-stead of running away from them, everybody thronged around as close as possible and when a bomb exploded ex-ploded there was a hot "scrap" for the pieces as souvenirs. Question of Justification. And, speaking of the cathedral of Notre Dame, I am reminded of something I heard about Eheims. A friend of mine here in college, who is training to become an officer, met an officer the other day who had just returned from the front. Tie had been at Itheims, and said that the Germans were perfectly and absolutely justified In turning their artillery on the cathedral, as the French had artillery mounted in the cathedral towers. Of course, here in England w heard only one side of the matter, namely the vandalism and wanton destruction of these fine old churches. This is merely one little lit-tle illustration of the way in which a person's views of the justice of both tides may be warped through imperfect knowledge that is garnered gar-nered from an unreliable press. It is the feeling that after all there may be two sides to the whole question, and even if there are not, at least many of the details aro purposely stated so bh to bias public pub-lic opinion, that makes me want to get over into the county where all this has been going on and see for mvself. Besides, here in England . ono feels that he Is so far away from the war. As a matter of fact, although al-though tbe war is tho only topic of conversation, I cannot help feeling that I know extraordinarily littlo about all that is going on. |