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Show WIRELESS CUES NEWS TOUTAHNS; Radio Men Provide 145th With Details of Important Im-portant Events. By FLOYD A. T IMMX RMAN, Stall Correspondent for The Salt Lake Tribune in Trance. "WITH Till-: 145TH FIJ5LD ARTIL-LERV ARTIL-LERV M'lrst Utah) In France, Nov. 10. Tho armistice will be signed within a few hours and it is likely that we will bo among tho first to get the news, for tho men of tho l-15th field artillery are belter equipped than any newspaper to receive the first flash. In fact, we get the first flash on all the latest happenings happen-ings regarding gains, captures, communiques, com-muniques, etc. "We catch it all by radio. H is at once copied and posted on bulletin boards at headq uartcrs. Tho plan and its later arrangement came a few days after tho regiment reached tho training camp and after it was found that Paris papers reached hero twenty-four hours old, and the papers of the nearest city were only printed in French. This was too slow for tho artillerymen. ar-tillerymen. They demanded b-uter news, and a few days later Corporal H. H. Standing, Corporal Albert K. McDonald, Corporal Murray Cowley and Corporal Alonzo Baird set out to fill the emergency. emer-gency. From a field wireless outfit they fitted fit-ted out coils and instruments of far greater receiving power, and, building on any by day, have now reached the point where they can cut in even on Berlin. Their antennae is the largest in the entire en-tire cantonment. Fvery message, from stations hundreds ot miles away, comes i to th-n'r euro. They now wnrk shifts and have m.L-n on the j"b continuounH- in car-e big th ings break. H matters little in j what lancn-'.ge. tho i a fag-'S arrive, and j this included Frcm'h, Span;.--!! and Ger- ; man, for th y are quickly translated and j p' -i'e l in Ivigibh l-r consumption by the ' M"i"'r;i i ! hi f;i.d M :ir,r,z ;i nd Gnrporal ! Waihi Has are thf interpreters, who1 s-T 1 1 1 t the new. 3 trets to the boys in. the r.fiit form. The wb.-.)(. ihiiig is a. j i gr-vit ;i.-a and reTi-T-f -; prr.-i t crt'I't upnn 1 t.'e ;::! w do f;L-.ired I' at! -nr. It (-hnn- , Tia--"1. rur.vir witmn the ramp, f'-r. u r ; 1 -f '. a !-'':. roin'- t h :irh this i-"v,t:" ur is! :( - . h 1 r"-:i ; ;':' r.'Miir if;-" Ki'irrp. . I r-'-- y .'rf'r."'-rh- r.v. i " n '.f the' r'gi'-j j l. ..-;.: arc the-e w::n the pood:-:. |