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Show TELLS OF BUTTLES WITIIJi U Salt Lake Sergeant Writes of His Experiences on Verdun Front. IIow German aeroplanes flew so luw over the Verdun front that American truck drivers shot at the occupant s with their automatic revolvers while the Hun airmen dropped bombs on the oncoming American automobiles is related re-lated by Sergeant fJustave A. J'chrson, with the army iu Franco, to his father. ! tj. V. Kex Pchrson, nf 1 71 West Fourth j South street. Sergeant J Vhrson lias j .just returned to his company after be- . ing "gassed." j Among other men familiar with1 truck driving. Sergeant IVhrr-on whs ; detailed to bri tig up ammunition. The men slept (luring the day in tiie woods and by night drove from one forest to Huother while on their way to the front. Finally, supplies were loaded upon the trucks and the machines made two noctnral trips to the front lines without incident. Fi ve enemy nero-planes nero-planes soared above them on the third excursion, however, and disclnel the position of the trucks. German shells burst all around the supply machines, according to the sergeant, and tho aviators avia-tors show ered them with ho nibs. Kach t ruck was going ahead at full speed and the cars were about '' fe-4 apart, to avoid a maxim urn of harm in t he i event a (term an shell found its mark. I The truck in front of 1 Vhrson "s was blown Tn atoms. The man who was driving the t-ergtant's truck was killed and Pehrson took his place and continued con-tinued with all speed toward the front. When the Huns corn in en end sen 'ling 1 over gas shel Is, the Salt Lake soldier , breathed ton much of the deadly vapor, i The last, tiling he remembered, accord-! ing to his letter, until the time nf his i regaining oonscjuii-ness, was the Ameri- i ! '-a n aeroplanes chasing away t he Jer- j I man bombing planes. , J S.ergea nt I 'chrson enlist r-d in the' j quartermaster corps at. Salt Lake last i l July. Ait'-r spending ome time in Florida he embarked for France. Although Al-though he joined the army as a. butcher, he was soon made a truck driver. |