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Show -5ALTLflKER WRITES QF ' SOLDIER CONFIDENCE Victory Only for Allies, Feeling1 Shared by Men in Trenches. "Fritz is in for a good drubbing, and the only way he can escape it is to quit cold and accept the allies' terms," wrjjes Thomas J. O'Brien, who left Salt Lake last September for sen-ice with the American field ambulance service in France. Mr. O'Brien says the English are holding their heads hih, convinced that there can be only one end to the war, and that is victory for the allies. "That iH the feeling of all the men here, and though we still hope to be home for Christmas, we are prepared to remain for several Christmases rather than even consider this scrap being be-ing settled on any basis other than that set forth by President Wilson and Lloyd George. ''I was in Paris during the air raid of the night of March' 8. I walked across the heart of the city, and I saw less excitement than you would see in a small fire in almost any city. T)k were thirteen killed and fifty ' .voiinded, but it seems to me that the 5 resentment of the French toward this i kind of warfare amounts almost to defiance. de-fiance. "The spirit over here is such that if the kaiser thinks he can scare or intimidate anyone by his inhuman methods, he is just as badly fooled as he has been in many other phases of this war." Mr. O'Brien writes that fie had just returned from a leave of absence, which he spent in Nice and Monte Carlo, and says it was a great relief to get, down into sunny Italv, where the flowers were all abloom "and life seemed a paradise. |