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Show SKEYHILL'S SIGHT IS FULLY RESTORED Through the kindly interest taken in his plight bv Dr. Stockton C. Axson, 'with whom "he visited Salt Lake and other western cities in the interests of the third Liberty loan and the Red Cross, Thomas Skeyhili; a private blinded blind-ed by shell explosion at Gallipoli, has had his sifht restored by a slight operation1 op-eration1 performed at Washington, D. C. Private Skeyhili was a member of the first Australian and New Zealand forces. Retired from the front because of his blindness, he proved a powerful platform orator in patriotic causes. Dr. , Axson prevailed upon him to consult physicians and surgeons at Washington at the conclusion of the Liberty loan drive, and word now comes to Salt Lake that by the adjustment-' of a twisted vertebra at the top of the spinjl column col-umn the pressure on the optical nerve was relieved so as to restore normal vision. ' |