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Show GERMAN ATROCITIES RECITED "IN LETTER Constantly on the front line since September Sep-tember 12, H. R. Lowe, formerly with an electrical company in Salt Uitkc. writes a most interesting letter from the front. It Is dated October 30. He is a member of the Sixth regiment of marines. This unit, he says, did some excellent work In the Toul and in the Champagne sectors. In the Champagne sector he lost many friends. Here the field was closely pitted pit-ted with shell holes and the roads were mined and blown up at ti ines when the Huns thought troops might he using them. A pitiful scene was the case of refugees refu-gees who were told upon the evacuation of a town to go either deeper in the German lines or to take a chance on the constantly crossing shell fire of the two armies. The refugees took the lonff chance of risking death to get away from the Huns. When they started the faithless faith-less Huns turned the machine guns on them, mowing down old people and children. chil-dren. Many who arrived had been maimed and mutilated. |