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Show End IsNearrUtahnWrites ' Peace Due by Christmas Yanks Get Fine Treatment !j : f QHPORAL- JACK, O'DONi ! V NULL, now with the j 145th artillery regiment ovcr-! ovcr-! seas. ' Sherman Wat . Right, but There Are Enjoyable Features . OI'I WR bllf in Kranc and I Knginnd at thla tlma li thai ! lh gr.nl -I'i -r -III h. I over by Chrl.tmaa day." Th!a if r i ! j : V. V '' i ! i' I L 1 statement waa made by Corporal Jack 'o itonnell. aon of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. I OTKmnell, 81 South West Temple street, who is a member of the One Hundred . Forty-fifth field artillery I i Kirst t'taht, which ia now on the l other .aide of the pond. He writea: "War la Juat what General Sherman said It waa In many ways, but as far j aa conditions are concerned wa surely I are well provided for 'over here. Our living, quartera, food, bathing and Sleeping quarters a re first class, and Iour food la even better than we received re-ceived at Camp Kearny, While we were atatloned at Camp Kearny we , were quartered In tenta. but In this country we are quartered In first else barracks. m CLIMATE IS GREAT. "The climate here la wonderful. While we are a little farther south than California, the weather here reminds re-minds one of the great weather whleh we enjoved while we were stationed in the West. "We have been on the move continually con-tinually her since we arrived, and writing time Isn't forthcoming at all time. But the majority of the hoys write every chance they have, and so If correspondence Isn't coming homeward real often, pleaaw don t worry. "At thla writing wa are many miles from the firing line, and we hava all started to think that the struggle will be over before we get Into the fray, i But, believe me, I would surely like to get Into the battle before peace Is declared. MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. "France' Is surely a most wonderful country. Ita beauty exceeds anything I hav ever aeen, and 1 only hop I will be able to see more of this won- derful place before I return home. The quaint buildings, the quaint ways) ahdt in fact, numberless idaas which j they have over her ar far differenT from those which we hava in the ststes. It Is amusing to listen to the 1 i 7 : lllttla Ftench children, and .erhapa I J some day before I return home I will! be bla to say. Paries Vous. Of! course, that Is only a probability "Th French ar surely wonderful j to us and we sur received first claaa treatment. It seems that everywhere! i we go w are welcomed with open I arms and, LelieVa me, the entire pop- , I ulatinn of the great city where we ar ! now stationed la for us 100 per cent. I "Well, d ar mother, news on this aid of the water Is always welcome, and If the folkj at horn would endeavor en-deavor to writ th boy over aa often as poaslbla I am sure condition would be vastly different for tha boy In khaki. A letter of cheer goea a long way toward success, snd "Success" As our motto, first, last and always.' The Amerlcsna will win and unless we m,la our guess this struggle- will be over by the time Yuletide make Its snnual appearsnc JnJhe stste. |