Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-09-21 | Page 2 | Yankees Carpet Field with Huns, Salt Laker Says

Yankees y a kees Carpet Carpel Field WiSh Wilh Huns Hun Sail Sall Laker Says SaysA A carpet of dead Germans spread on the battlefield by Yankees is the expression used by Sergeant Walter Valter Hull in de describing describing describing de- de scribing a section of the French front frontS after severe fighting Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant Hull was formerly a a Vestern Western West Vest em ern Union operator in Salt Lake His descriptive letter was sent to friends heceA here A round trip ticket to hell with witha a two weeks' weeks stay are the words of Sergeant Hull in telling of th the part he played In one of the American engagements S On One of the drives is spoken of ofas ofas ofas as s follows by Sergeant Hull The G German drive was launched at 12 1213 13 a a. a m m. when the first shell lit Ut and for ten hours it was Kept up It was one of the greatest concentrated fires ever laid down by the boche actually not a foot of f ground not torn up It seems miraculous that anything lived through it ft and probably the Huns so figured as their schedule called for them to advance fourteen fourteen fourteen four four- teen miles mUes on that jump But they reckoned without the Yanks for they met and received the greatest surprise of their lives They left piles and piles of dead on either side of the river which proved the Yanks were there Sergeant Hull Is a member of the signal corps of the Fifth field fieldS fieldI S battalion His parents reside in I Ely Nev S