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Show AMERICAN VICTORY 13 TOLDJN LETTER Youth Writes Father That German Destroyer Is Sunk by U. S. By International News Service. XKW YORK, Sept. 12. The Xew York i World prints the following; letter this I morning, vouching" fully for the truthfulness truthful-ness of the writer: A Port in France, August IS. 1917. lear hither: Received another letter from you yesterday and was so glad to receive it. 1 wrote to George yesterday, yes-terday, care th United States consul at Glasgow, and hope it reaches him. We are now laid up for repairs wltn three beautiful shotholes in our ship, the brush with a German destroyer off Lands. Knd. Luckily there were none of our hoys killed. Two were slightly wounded and I skinned mv shins getting get-ting to my gun on the hurricane deck. Fhitl You should have seen what we did to the Hun. We fought at about l'O-'O yards' range and our third shot took Ids forward gun fair, and then we raked him with a broadside, but lie wouid not haul down his colors. We then closed in on him to about 4vi yards and tk his wheelman and quartermaster oft the bridge with our machine guns. lie then struck and we look aboard twenty-one officers find thirty-five men, most of T them wounded, out of a i rew of 10$, which shows the superiority of American trunners. We tried to tow the Uhlan, which was xhi name of her, into port, but she sank twenty minutes later. So you see we have now been under fire Three times and never a scratrh, thank the Lord. A division of American Ameri-can troopers licked hell out of a bunch of P.ofhcs near Lens yesterdny. which was tra first time the American flag-went flag-went Into battle in France. We are in till' win, and that's what wa are fioinr'-'.ri'- do. Y' ..cixjving" son- |