Show HAVE BEEN ON BATTlEfiElDS OF BElGIUM Say Fortifications Were Being Being Being Be Be- ing Min Mined d Some SomeTime SomeTime SomeTime Time Ago Several of Salt Lake residents have been over the tho ge 1 landof land landof landof of Belgium The They aro intensely interested inter ested in the tho accounts of tho the fighting now going on there Among Amont these is A A. Brain who was recently re rc- rc on a mission for the tho Mormon church with J. J J. J McClellan 1 greatly admire tho the Bel Belgian ian poo poo- pIe pic said Mr Ir Brain BruIn this thia morning They arc are a clean living very vcr religious ioui people eople who are arc in this war from purely Jl patriotic motives I learned from them the tho history of their country as I could never nover have hac learned it from books It seems that they have suffered from the greater powers and tho the bitterness of persecution in inflicted u upon them by mi mightier nations about them Thus Thug the they arc enthusiastic in their loyalty and are arc fi lighting fighting bravely for tI their kin King U It It If seems stina W to tn mo mn that tho reasons why n. n I W n. n the Germans arc aro attacking Del Belgium ium is s because tho the French fortifications all along the Rhine frontier arc too strong for them to hope to take in a years year's time So they around in a sort of flank movement to take Prance France on tho the Belgian si side e. e But they thoy mot with unexpected re resistance on tho part of the defenders of Lie Liege eJ e. e I J had an interesting experience while white in Nuremberg Germany during dunn my ray trip through h tho the kaisers kaiser's domain Iwas I Iwas was with a young American who had his picture taken by br a comrade standing stand stan in ing in front of a car in the railway yards there He Ho crossed crossel the tracks af afterward af which ho lid did not know was against tho the law But ho he was fined fine just tho the same annie Although h not knowin knowing the I language well ho he could not Dot read the tho warning Alonzo Youn Young father of Harold E. E Youn of Fourth avenue when asked about what his hia son thought of the Belgians said to today ay l Im Im I'm sorry my son is 18 not here to tell THE TELEGRAM I himself But he has just left on a business trip However I can say that he ho is most enthusiastic about about- the Belgian people Ho He told me ate when on his mission in Belgium um that the tho forts fonts at Liege whore where he lived Jived for forBOrne some BOrne time were covered with earth and grass and did not look as thou though h the they i could withstand anything 1 in the tho way wa of attack or sie siege e. e But ho he said aid that the tho church missionaries learned what the tho tourists could not learn living with the people and knowing them intimately as they did That was that the forts fonts were bein being renovated and that mines weno bein being placed d throughout the approaches to the city They have certainly proven to be bo wonderful soldiers over there in Bel Belgium ium |