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Show SALT LAKER EAGER TO GETTO' FRONT S. C. Johnson Writes His Brother Concerning Conditions Con-ditions Close Up. A most interesting letter from the war front has been received by J. W. Johnson John-son of the Shelton hotel. Salt Lake, from his brother, S. C. Johnson, who is with D company of the Twenty-first engineers, engi-neers, American expeditionary forces. The soldier writes in part as follows: We have moved, and are right up against the Jerries. It seems more like war. The big guns are booming day and night and the Jerries fly over here once in a while and drop a coal bucketful of bombs. I saw the prettiest of air duels tonight to-night about 11 o'clock. Two German airplanes got over the lines and the boys of the anti-aircraft guns turned loose at them. The battle between planes and batteries lasted for about an hour. The shells sure flew fast all around. We had on our steel helmets and gas masks and none near me was injured. Finally the bat-. terles got one of the planes and the other got back into German territory. terri-tory. I should judge that the distance between batteries and airplanes was fully five miles. We could see the white and black balls of smoke as the shells burst about the planes. We can never tell when these machines will come over and blow things up, so the sky is kept alight with skyrockets. sky-rockets. It won't be long now until we go right up against the Germans and . we are all eagerly waiting for that fun. We have a graphophone with the records that were the latest when we left home and it fills out the missing link. This is a pretty country. The big spring drive is on and when It is over the war will be over, too, for the Germans will be out of luck. I . could use some field glasses, an automatic au-tomatic and a camera. We can take pictures, but, of course, cannot send them out, but keep them until we go out ourselves. |