Show KREBS IN HOSPITAL V WITH ITH LEG B MISSING i ton Soldiers Soldier's Shrapnel Wound Woon Infected In Infected In- In and Amputation 1 ry Utah Boys Doys CUed Cited for fOI Bravery nt at Argonne Roland Krebs son of Mr and Mrs Robert Krebs is II in a hospital In Franco France with wilh one leg I i For six st days das according to a letter letter letter let- let letI I ter received he he with other Duchesne county boys bors were In the thick of battIe battie battle bat bat- tIe tle In the Argonne region Krebs Calvert Clarice Clarke Morgan l Calvert with two others of the Machine Gun Battalion were operating a gun when k la 1 Hun shrapnel struck Krebs Krebs' In the foot Coot The wound was only slight but the leaden missive wore a coat of poison polson and In a very short time gangrene set In Three days das after that the surgeons cut oft off the leg In order to save the life of oC the tho boy Am- Am was below the I knee neo Neither Clarke nor non Calvert were ere wo wounded In a letter letter let let- ter Iter to to Earnest Waugh Clarke said said among other Interesting things Iii In In 1 the he e hot fight when shells sheils fell feli thick L and fast my steel helmet see seemed ed f mighty small on the top of or my head From all newspaper accounts the Utah members of the division covered themselves with glory and were cited for bravery The Salt Lake Jake Tribunes Tribune's staff correspondent Floyd A. A with the boys In n France sent this cable dated No- No ember 7 Every Utah soldier who Is a member of the NInety first division and who received his training at Camp Lewis Is Included In a citation for or bravery which has been Issued from rom general headquarters In France and In which high tribute Is paid to the he men of the west for their gallan gallan- try ry In action In connection with the fighting of the past few rew days flays As Asa a 11 reward for their heroic ao- ao Lion ion fon under fire Cre the Ut Utah h men have been billeted behind the lines for a brief rest period The advance says he the citation was made under the heaviest fire and In the face of overwhelming overwhelming over mer whelming ing o odds ds and In spite of the I f desperate resistance of the Hun armies The fighting J In question was all In the Argonne re region lon A shower of steel greeted the western western western west west- ern boys as they went cov over r the top Here Iere and there a man fell but whether due to the poor aim of the Germans or the utter niter surprise with which the attack came the casualty list Is unusually small aman Seemingly I Ithe the and their companions companions I from the Intermountain region cared cared cared car car- ed nothing for German machine gun gunfire gunfire fire and in a 11 remarkably short time all aU objectives had been gained and every opposing Hun was busily findIng finding find find- Ing his way toward Berlin or was a prisoner In the hands of the Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans cans or a victim pf the accuracy of the tho fire of the westerners who have won a reputation for gallantry and for hitting the mark marc at which they are aiming n |