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Show UTAH MEN GIVEN GAS MASK TESTS AT CAMP LEWS Special to The Tribune. CAMP LEWIS, American Lake, Jan. 2S. LTtah's men in the national ar- at Camp Lewis are getting their ft - taste of poison gas and their first lesv in defense against the Boches' iir modern warfare. Somewhere in the environs of the ;! cantonment there has been erected a M: house, and there the men are roared wearing a modern gas mask that isl them look like rescue crews equlppei : saving men In mine disasters. In the past week a number of Salt U,: and Utah men have been given lnstri tion both in trench and open field P defense. The gas masks are none too -fortable, but thev are effective, for p one of the hundreds of men who H gone through the gas defense work, which war strength gas of several kir Is said to bo used, have suffered any ' eilects. In addition to the gas training. '' grenades are now being used in trench classes, and everv dav the bay" practice is carried out with great a tion to detail. |