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Show SILT LAKER ROW IT Sends Interview With Hun Officer Highly Lauding j 91st Division. i B'Tou Wade, son of Mr. and Airs. A. K Wade, IN:; South Fourth Kast street, enlisted April ."(). : 1U17, and was as- i signed lo B hal terv. i fixth field yrtillerv. i at Douglas, Ariz, j-ie i left the training 1 eatrp cu July 4 and ; arrived, in Ij ranco j Aupust 10. 1917. i Mr. Wade is . a s mcnibpr of the fa- : rnous Kinoty-first ui- ' vision and was with i the battery that fired Bvron Wade the first American rou waac. shot. The valor oi the organization m which this youiur man fought caused a, German officer who was captured during the engagement to declare: "t received orders to hold the gronni at ah costs. The American barrage advanced ad-vanced toward my position and tho work of your artillery was marvelous, TJu3 , barrage was so dense that it was impo-' siblc for us to move out of our dugout "I'ollowing the harr;igc closely win- tho troops of the First division. 1 ww theiv" forge ahead and knew ( ha I all was lu:-1. "All night I remained in my dugout . hoping vainly that something would happen hap-pen that would permit me to rejoin my army. This morning your Troops found me and here I am," after four years of fighting, a prisoner. "Yesterday I knew 'that the First divi--'. sioii Mas opposil o us, and. T knew we would have tr- put up 1 iie hardest flight of the war. The First division is wnmler-ful wnmler-ful and the t.Jerman army laiows it. "We did not hHi':e 1 hat within f i years the Americans ould rlrv. lop a di- ' vision such as 1 l.is First, division. Th , work of , its ini;iptry and nrtilhiy is worthy of the best armies of the world When the armistice was signed 1 lit.. Ninety-first was in t he Argonn forest . and it has Veeu. witli ilm army of oH'iipf-tion oH'iipf-tion since that time. jVlr. Wade is nu" stationed at ltansbacli, (.icrnumy. ' |