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Show Salt Lake Youth Wounded m m . m m mm m Can't Be Home Christmas! m m m m m m m m Letters-Show-Yank-Spiritj HYRUM M. SORENSON, wounded while Joins - jneri:ywQrkal battkfmut in - fume. l Instead of Cheerful News Mother Gets War De- partmeiit Wire. AKTKH having watched for the postman for days In the hope that he would bring her a let-ter let-ter announcing that her boy. Itvnim U M..I'nBnt. M-.ml lui ! I:- .--."vr'-i : from Fr.tnce for Christmas. Mrs Kmily J. Sorenson. k.S South Seventh j West street, has Just been notified by : the war department th;U he was severely wounde.l in action October;:..1 I ' Yountt Sorenson was servins; with i Cie medicii corps when woiinl?tl an 1 j had only leen in France since u-Tiist. u-Tiist. He enlisted ;ist M.y and went ! it once to iim Funston. Kan. for j tr i'Mnu. Me is only It years of aire. I'e ; pifies the spirit of Younc; America Amer-ica i.i Ihm letters to his mother. In a recent letter he sav: "I urn feelinc just fine, but the Hun pas and hand ' irrenndrs are sure Retting on my ! nerves. "1 urn senditiR a coupon for a i Christmas present, and ! sure would like some cho olate. It Is almost im-posiihle im-posiihle to get it over here, and wicn von in It costs one franc 2) cents) ;l piece. "YOu must exeune st.it ionery. be-' be-' rsiuso it in the first I have seen since left The ship and I am wrttmr with f I ik nulf.inrh iu.ni-i1 hill ut thai 1 wniiM not irade u for a iloll.tr, for I : ! couldn't set another. "here are no j such thine he.re." The information- received hy his. 1 mother contains no details res;ardinR J the boy's wounds. j ' inp committee will announce the comix com-ix .nit ion of thette rommittees at the first genera ! of the lorty-slxth annual nit-etiiiR toiiiKht. One committee will compile statistics statis-tics on the recent influenza epidemic, another will devise and circulate the I est known measures of prevention, another will handle measures of relief re-lief for convalescents and the fourth will inventipate vaccine and serum. AMSTKKPAM. Dec. ft The British ant hori ties In charge of the occupation occupa-tion of t nc iet man xone acsiKiico to t he Hritih have ordered all Oerman men to raise their hats to Hritish officers, of-ficers, accord Ins. to an official announcement an-nouncement in H-rl'U They must do similarly when the Hritish nation") anthem an-them Is suiik INFLUENZA TO BE GIVEN HARD LICKS j By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Deo. 9 Four committees commit-tees -f the American Public Health asao'lation were chosen today to or-; or-; ganlxe the work of teachln i cities and : communities to prevent or control outbreaks of influenza. The nominal- |