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Show UTAH HOPS MAY BE EARLYAT FRONT Senator King Urges Quick Dispatch of Soldiers to Battlefields. Among the first volunteer troops to gee service on the battlefields of the western west-ern front may be men from Utah. llecognition of the part that was played In the Philippine insurrection by Colonel W. R. Young and "Utah troops may result in sending the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Forty-fifth field artillery (First Utah) to the front with the initial contingent to embark. em-bark. . . Senator William H. King has brougni the matter to the attention of Secretary -of War Baker and to the adjutant of the general war board. He has been assured as-sured that the Utah troops will be given every consideration and that they will not be side-tracked to perform mere home guard duty. With the record made by the Utah men at the Mexican border their standing- in the ranks of state volunteer troops is of the highest character, and tangible recognition recog-nition of their worth as fighters is not at all unlikely. Senator King in hte representations to Secretary Baker and the adjutant general cited the sturdy manhood that is found everywhere in this state; he called attention at-tention to the manner of living of most of the Utah boys, who have been intensively in-tensively trained by nature in all that perl.ains to the great out-of-doors. Their being inured to hardships and for the most part accustomed to handling a gun and able to shoot with a marked degree of accuracy, enabled Senator King to make I a masterly plea for recognition, of the ' Utah contingent. ' Whatever hardships the "Poilu" of France and "Tommy Atkins" of England are called upon to endure, it is the firm belief of Senator King that men of this state .can and will endure without complaint, com-plaint, if given the chance. When the time comes early in the spring of 1918 for the United States to bring its power to bear in the world's greatest conflfct, Utah's fighting regiment regi-ment will be there ready to do its share in thwarting the kaiser in his ambitious programme of world dominion, if Eenator King has his way. |