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Show HE'LL inn BE ABLE TO love a nun Salt LakeFighter Sy Worst Storie. Told of German Soldiers Are Not at All Exaggerated fiJV rtOST of us Yanks over here 1V1 have been raised to play fair, and it goes pretty hard to have to fight a bunch of sneaks and cowards. It would be a much better war If ws could flrht men." Thee ar. ha words of Chv. Hauett. yotinir ch.inlst and naUv. Halt Ijiker now In Kranre, In a letter Just received by Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Haaaett. parenla nf the ftahter. . At lh. time young fUaett wrote the letter let-ter which contained the foregoing atatement he waa In a Hnl C'roaa hoa-pltal hoa-pltal recovering from the effects of gaa received In one of the moat recent drlvaa Kasaett continued as follows: 'The news from the front sounds good and from the number of prisoners being taken I can't see how the war can last much longer. I was with forty other men of my company who captured loo Germans the first morning of the drive. Not one of that 100 put up a fight, either. Most of them had their packs rolled up resdy to be captured. After the first day of fighting they hid behind their machine guns and killed aa many of us aa they could and then. Instead of fighting like men. they threw up their hands and yelled 'Kamcred.' 1 will never ee.ahle u tolerate a German again. The stories you hear of them sfter having a chance to see It with your own eyes prove to be true." "Ona feels sorry for the young boys about 18 because they can't help them-elves, them-elves, but these fellows with the whiskers on their facea should be killed Instead of being taken prisoners. "If we keep hitting those Germans like wa have the war will be over soon. Uassett Is 21 years old and Is with , the gas and flame dlvlalun of the , American army. At the time of his enlistment he was a chemist In a soap factory In Oilcago. He has been "over there" for the past eighteen months. Baasctt waa born In Halt Lake, educated edu-cated in the Klllmore High school and was employed st a local drug store be- i fore going to Chlcsgo. |