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Show EZRA C. HIGH AMONG EXCITEG1FJIC1S Joseph Scowcrott this morning re-j ceived the following letter from Dr. Eara C Rich, dated London. August 6th : "Dear Joe: These are great old days m England. Von know as much about t,he war as we. without a doubt, bul 'on can't get into the rowds of excited stranded Americans like we can. 1 here has never been any excitement excite-ment here in London and were it not lor Ahc alxty thousand Americans tramping up and down Die streets j one could not tell that there iH the-I biggest war In the history of thej world going on This morning we Benl the folks to Stratford-on-Aon and, as we were going dow n town, we passed the American Kxpreas of- I Hce and people were lined up in double dou-ble rows for two blocks waiting to I gel in and get their express order" cashed. "Dr Pugmlre was with me. We got off the bus and walked along the line and found Billy Frost and his i .. in nmj mp notem hjiu mores will not take anything but English money The Americans are organized, organ-ized, however, and have arrangements made so that any one can get money and there is no suffering In Ixmdon " The people who are arriving from j Austria and Germany are telling some i terrible experiences. "1 have lost interest in the hospif als the last three or four days and spent my time down town looking around. "We knew England would be involved involv-ed and thought It would come a day or so sooner than it did A ery few things have raised In price and great advances are not looked look-ed for. Gasoline has gone up out of sight I saw a man who gave $2f. for 16 gallons. 1 found Mrs. Wattls and daughter this evening and they are all right They are located only a block away. "We don t know when we can get away, We have engaged passage on the Argentinia, but really cannot be-Mv be-Mv it will sail. U kiokK like we S j will probably get home on an American Ameri-can transport in a month or so. I think it will be safe to leave on an English boat if cue sails. "We wore luck to get out of Germany Germa-ny when we did We left Hamburg. Saturday, and the next Saturday it ftas under martial law. By the time this reaches you I think the greatest of modern battles will have been fought. I don't see how this can end only in the defeat of Germany and Vpstna. i:id i nope they are thoroughly thor-oughly humbled. "We went out to Mormon headcffiar ters today and only two missionaries from the continent have arrived. I have been trying to find out something some-thing about WllHam Kecles and Arthur Ar-thur Wright, but don't know where to find them and it Is Impossible to telegraph to Germany and mail Is not sent but returned to the writers. "Well we might reach Ogden before be-fore this letter gets there, but I think it should go' all , right. We are all as fine as ran be and Mrs. Rich and the family all join nie with love to you all. "Sincerely yours, (Signed i "EZRA C RICH." oo |