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Show Here Are First Pictures of Utah Men Taken in Francei Jtf g & j jfi Tribune Correspondent Tells How Censor Handles Them BRIGADIER GENERAL R. W. YOUNG, Fortieth division in France, and his new staff. Captain Wesley E. King (now addition) is shown second from the left. Lieutenant Ralph Wells (new) of Salt Lake is on the extreme right. Utah men and the French girls get along fine; the military police, of which Chick Conlon, right, is a niemher, are not unconscious to the girls' charms. Floyd A. Timmerman, Tribune correspondent, and his "news" office in France. 1 I P . ' ' i , ' 1 j after they have withdrawn. I met Joe Timmcns, correspondent for the Los Angeles An-geles Examiner, and he had been,, in the think of the firht with the boys from Utah and California, who were formerly trained at ('amp Lewis. Joe- had some narrow escapes and came out with a Shrapnel wounc1 under the eye. It's a great life if you don't weaken. Now that I have these pictures I am going go-ing back to join the regiment and will remain with them during their Inst days of training and will go with them to the front. They are rarin' to get there. Before I die I have one message for you : If there ever is another d war, select someone else for the assignment: assign-ment: I regret that I have but one life to give for my paper. Regards to all, FLOYD A. TIMMERMAN, Salt Lake Tribune correspondent in France. Did you get any of my mail stuff yet? T mailed gobs of it and there is more to come, u is awfully slo.w. though, so be patient The other correspondents say I1 have been txtremcly lucky, although 1 1 have raved and sVorn at delays. T. News . Gathering Abroad Not All Play, Floyd A. Timmerman Says. Special to The Tribune. PARIS, Oct. 17. City Editor Tribune: Inclosed are tho first pictures taken of the Utah men in France. They have the cut lines printed on each picture and also a number. This number corresponds to a number on the film, so you cannot go wrong. They are clear and sharp, as you can see, so will make fine enlargements. You may have wondered what the h took me so long in getting some pictures across, but if you only knew the difficulties diffi-culties surrounding a correspondent's lif-over lif-over heie you would send me a c-roix do guerre and ra Ise my Wages. When pictures pic-tures are taken they must be sent to the signal corps in Paris for developing and censorship. It takes ten days at least to get them through and you have to come to Paris und write yqur cut lines and have them pa ssexl also h e f o re y o u ca n 1 send them. Oh! boy, if you only knew one portion of the grief that I have gone through here in France you would wonder won-der why T have not already been returned in a wooden overcoat. It keeps you jumping jump-ing al! over France and sleeping all night in passages of cars, and, although I have had my share of Spanish "flu" along with the rest for the past two week?. I have rmt turned it; once for keeps, although the doctor has already arranged with the undertaker un-dertaker for ihe dimensions of my coffin. I have been wet and cold and blue with shivering and feverish, and sore, and mad, and troubled with "braucoup" of cooties. I came up to Paris to get those pictures pic-tures on a "cattle" 'rain and slept all niicht with a calf for a bedmate, and It wonld hav heen oil right only the mother teemed to approve of t he match and licked my l ands and face and hair until I have a real "cowlick." In the morning X put mother row to another usage and my "tin derby' came in bandy. It was some breakfast. "iu UUt chaud." I did this m order to get here so that 1 CQUld g-t out to the front with the Ninety-first division boys, including many l.'tah men, but I misled them on the front lines, as they had just been withdrawn ,ni. sent back to the rest billets in the rear. They put up some Sera p. though, and their name still sticks along that line |
