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Show AMBULANCE DRIVERS FOLLOW UP TROOPS I Utah Girl Takes Motor Through Country That Resembles Scenes From Dante's Inferno as the Boche Retreats Before Americans. This stirring letter is from Maud Fitch of Eureka, a promiuent Salt Lake society girl, who is a n1 ember of the Hackctt-Lowther ambulance unit, attached to a French division on" the fighting front. In it she describes the experience of advancing on the heels of the retreating Boche throught devastated teritory in France. j France. August .50. t I 01 ild never describe aderput tely the wonder of the last three dnys. ! We have been attached to two dif-I dif-I i event American ambulance sections. I ad anoint with them on the very heels ' of the retreating boche. throned miles and miles of devastated country that looks like the pictures in that old rod volume we pored over as children of I Xante's Inferno, of the lost souls peering out of trees all twisted about in leafless a.--'ony. On the top of one lull there is not even a branch left. much less a leaf. Here one of the j worst hand fights of the advance took place. September l After starting .this to you. at the most advanced post 1 have been to. there lias been so much work ever since 1 could not pet hack ! to it. Roads Depressing Following Battle. I hae already got use ! to the do-pressing do-pressing country we drive through, especially as the boche dead have now been buried . and most uf the mammoth mam-moth shell holes filled in. There are still a few rather objectionable dead horses lying about, but I quite shamelessly shame-lessly tie a handkerchief around my nose" through these districts. The lirst day in passing on a narrow road, a line of big camions, my hind wheel slipped into a shell hole and 1 stalled my motor right in t he tenter of a pool of blood where three horses had been killed the night before by a bomh dropped on the sour kitchen they had been driving, and the horror of it was j he engine was so hot that T had to slide around in the blood for fully five minutes before thedashed thing would go! Flunket and. I had an awfu.lv amusing lime t he other day. A ugust the day we took N'oon. We had t been sent up the nisht before to a ! fairly advanced post where the medi- cin was just leaving with all his aides, so we installed ourselves, as j usual, on the floor of his ahri. and were just soing to sleep, when the new medic in and his staff arrived. Surgeon Surprised By Dame Driver. His a nSazemen t knew no hounds when lie g.imnsed two dames asieen i on the floor of his ahri. He did not j even know tha : da to? drove at the front, so at 2 o'clock in the morning i he woke us up saym: I "We just had orders to atia k for j'" Noyon at t so Madames you had-bet -! ,ter return." 1 "Return said 1? What for?" ! "Because the road will be e r y j inu- h bombed, and i i vrt nn, i'.n- ! you to tie out in such .Mademoi.-edc." ! Of course at this we could not hut 1 lauzil in tne old dears fa e. and I'm- i . all' sue-, ceded in e plain in; ' hat one never returns even if one is only a dame : so his fears put at rest . he showed us a plan the colonel had just sen t him where wc were to mo e on. We loaded up old Pippa Passes with all the appurtenances of the . Groupe H rone hard teres I i visiona ires and steamed off with ail of them. When we arrived a t the canal he told me to turn to the left, which I inform, d him as wrong, according to the pian. lie grinned and I drove to the right, where he made me stop at a Pols d'Acacia indicated by the colonel for ihe new poste: hero lie and his staff took out their plans and pored over them until T got very nervous, as it was almost o'clock ami Ihe order read I hat we were to ho installed in-stalled by 6. Western Eye Finds ! Trail to Station. i 1 suggested to Plu nkrt t ha i e get 1 into t he ca r and f: nd the place ourselves, our-selves, which 1 knew must be an oid abandoned, ahri, where the. blesse.--could be carried for first aid. And. sure enough, about a kilometer down mv western eye for teat's detected one going into the woods, winch I investigated inves-tigated and found to be the indicated spot. . , . The medicin chef nearly died when 1 went back for him. a'nd said. Ma demote1 vous avez Vlvihiiude pour la gjetre plus uue moi!" In fact he was so a mused t ha L he sent another reserve car off with the first biesses and kept its on to move htm up agai n to a still more ad am ed poste. a second order having .come in the meantime. This was more tha n thrilling this lime as t lie prisoners had ta rte i com i mi in and the rued hi n eke; stopped one lot. took a pi- lure of thorn, then proceeded to cut off thrtr shoulder shoul-der strap tor us. made them emr t v their po. kets of eigarenes and tobacco, to-bacco, which he gave us; at t hN last kindness I ccnhi feel my lace getting .-.-a rtet as t h.e-y v ere su--h a miserable, miser-able, unhappy, underfed lot. Gather Souvenirs in Wholesale Lots. I would have preferred to V . e thrtn t:-eir sruokes. Mopr. wm-n 1 pa.-sed them on To om f n-rc-h ik i n g 7. ua es a nd s.! w t nelr aces lv e.i k into g:m 1 v,ts vo!l . omp.-n.-.n--'l. A-tor A-tor bo. he keimei.-. for viipiis, I .-an pi k l'..em i.t at v v turrurg. -o Mi:a!! wait to .odei i t'lem. as the-, a:-ra a:-ra t r.ei cumbt-rson.e baggage ,o f ,i c about. Wi.en we g d b.n k to ti c . ha'.ea i. that night ai ! ! o'clock, 'Ac 1. ,. h.-.-n gone t'.urtv-. ho.ir- m-icid of tw.-n. l -four, nud t'u- c tmii l ad lot tra. k of us in ti e nui!,-. ic M A i I i Kl I'C I i |