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Show NUKES FIVE TRIPS WITH TOP SHIPS Salt Lake Lieutenant Sees Much of Interest in the Transport Service. In a little more than six months Lieutenant Lieu-tenant W. Jennings, of Salt Lake, mado five round trips across the Atlantic in American troop transport service. All landings were made in Brest, France, and, according to Lieutenant Jennings, the most exciting occurrence in the entire en-tire period was receipt of the news of the armistice. Lieutenant. Jennings is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jennings, of 120r Second avenue, and is the first Salt Lake man holding a commission in either army or navy to come home following discharge from sen-ice. He received his discharge November 29. He was formerly employed em-ployed by the Utah Power & Light company com-pany as civil engineer. During all of his active sea service. Lieutenant Jennings has been engaged on the Italian transport ship Duca Daos-ta, Daos-ta, as transport quartermaster. Most of the transatlantic journeys, he says, wero made without incident. On one run his ship narrowly missed a floating mine, and on another one of the accompanying destroyers sank a German submarine with a torpedo. "We did not experience many thrills on these occasions, but the crew certainly certain-ly went wild when the wireless ticked off the news that the armistice had been signed on the terms of the allies," Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Jennings declares. The word was received on a return trip, and it was made the occasion of a big jollification jollifi-cation on board the Duca Daosta. The French people, at Brest at least, are wildly enthusiastic over the accomplishments accom-plishments of the American soldiers in the war. Lieutenant Jennings says. He tells also of the splendid admiration of the French people at large toward President Pres-ident Wilson, whom they regard as the real representative of all the American people. "Brest has named a large square after the president of the United States, and I understand almost every other city and town in France has named boulevards, boule-vards, streets or squares in honor of the first man of America." he announces. Lieutenant Jennings joined the first training camp at San Francisco immediately imme-diately after the United States entered the war. Ho received his commission in August, 1 017, and made h is first trip across the Atlantic in May, 191S. All told, the Duca Daosta carried over 10,0u0 Yanks. |