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Show "HT LAKER WRITES OF CLOSE ESCAPES J. Lloyd Weeter of Tale Mobile Hospital Hos-pital Corps Tells Parents of Experiences Ex-periences Near Battle Linos. Exciting experiences at the front are told In a letter received in Salt Lake ly Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Weeter from their son, J. Lloyd Weeter of the Tale mobile hospital corpa. He Is a graduate of Yale in the class of 1917 and sailed for France In September. He writes, in part: Business received an impetus the other day wlien three German aeroplanes aero-planes came over to see what they could see, and were so excited by the view that they sprayed a couple of villages at the' foot of the hill wlUl a thick layer of kultur. Kultur may mean most anything abominable, but in this particular case It consisted of larpre and noisy bombs. The recipients began to arrive almost Immediately. One particular one I will never forget an old, old woman, little and thin and white, with' a big, red hole In her forehead. She died while Pete and I were bringing her Into the shock room, and I learned a lot in the next few minutes about tho difficulty one Is apt to find in loving one's enemies. Tho kultur had landed a bit too close for comfort, so, lest there he no case of mistaken identity, iden-tity, I was set to pulling the weeds from our big Red Cross out In front. Saturday night was a wild one. Every gun on both sides of the line seemed to go off simultaneously, and then at regular intervals for tho rest of the night. Among others, the next day, we collected our lirst boche. If tho rest of them are shot UP as badly as he. tho war Is over. Sly expensive training in the Germanic Ger-manic languages came in handy, and I acted as official interpreter. I wish the rest of the Germans could havo wen the thousand-dollar operation that boy got. |