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Show SMS TIE DiT Bi FIGHTING FRONT Salt Lake Boy Writes Experiences Ex-periences After Signing of Armistice, i Most interesting is the relation cf his experiences on the fighting front as given in a letter just received by his mother from R. W. Morrison, Jr., of Salt Lake, who is with the 347th field artillery. His father. S. W. V r" Morrison, is in the :: -; y : wholowilc: lumber f: ::: , ": bustnrss with ffi.-ps ' ' ir t ho K.-iirns build- ' &TL ' v in?. The l.-ttcr is of ij 'm : :p : 6n of Nowmber IS. "Th-e are days tf-: without fhnll. wait- -ft ing to be moved out ; .. . of" here and to t he v'V- .'. W Stales for dis- :y i-. . ? 4 ; charge." writes the " X soldier. "There is t, nothing to do but ', rifle rnictfco with saivaced arms and t- : ri. i vii''. . , amunition. The territory is unculti vau-d qml rief-trted, to the front and rear of the American army." This Suit f-ike sold if r had charge of the radio receiving sets and handled all the n".v.'s in h i s vicinity at the time of t lie rerbmng of the armtst ice. lie went tr Verdun aTtcr hostilities ceased and visited that great fortification. At right, becoming lost, ho ran into a Ger man outpost wlvre the bodies were only too glad to fraternize. He saw the machine ma-chine gun nests out of which the Huns had been gassed that very morning. Ar- rtving at the Yankee bonfires the Germans Ger-mans of the party, who numbered over a, dozen, were sent back to their own line, as there were strict orders' against intermingling of troops at this time. These particular troopers wanted to get to New York and displayed open disrespect dis-respect for the kaiser and the crown prince. The Salt Lake soldier, who was in the war from the American declaration declara-tion in 1017, expressed Jiis disgust at not i being able to get into the middle of things before the armistice was declared. i I ' ! |