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Show SALT LAKE MAN IS j WOUNDED IN FRANCE Salt Lake, Nov 28. Salt Lake has offered one victim to the war. Georgo J Meunler, formerly employed at the 'Hotel Utah, but now a private In the I Fifth corps of the French army, lies wounded In a hospital at Lyon. His right leg is shattered by a fragment Df German shell. At first (he surgeons sur-geons wanted to amputate it Meunler Meu-nler refused to permit the operation and nos. acrordin to a letter to his brother Gabriel, chef at the Utah, he will probably recover. "It's not that I object to giving a leg to my country." writes the wound j ed soldier, "but I'd like to do some thing really worth while for La Bell Franco before I die. 1 could not do it with one leg." Private Meunier was among those who held Toul against the German3. His letter did not roach his brother di-"ctly. di-"ctly. but passed through the hands of his mother, who quotes excerpta from it All allusions to troop locations loca-tions have been eliminated And this mother shows a spirit Worthy of the women who, fired by Danton s eloquence, fought behind the knell of "Divine Rlsht" was sounded She has already given one son to France. He fell fighting beside his brother when the French were en-leavorlng en-leavorlng to break the point of the wedge which tho Germans drove between be-tween the French fortifications. "My son 1b dead " writes the mother. mo-ther. "Would that God had spared him. But he died for France like a man. and I thank Hod. I pray '.;is life is not lost in vain ' Writing from his sick bed, Private Meunler display the optimism of a soldier who regards his injuries as a joke, and lias confidence his flag will be victorious. "Of late," he says, "it has been cold. There ha been Icy wattr in the trenches. The Germans apparently appar-ently believed it would glv us 'cold feet." as they say in America They know better now. Many of them have been kept warm digging graves. It seems brutal to make a jest of the death, even of an enemy, but the comedy of war would be tragedy in peace " The letter continues: "The Germans erred, I believe, in their indiscriminate shilling of cities. cit-ies. There are many in our rangs with a personal hate against all Teutons Teu-tons They have lost wives, sisters, children, sweethearts. "Life i6 a burden to them and they laugh at danger. But each appears obsessed with the desire to slay as many of the enemy as possible- before dying It is not well for the Germans Ger-mans to meet such men in battle I "One day a young mnn joined us ! He appeared to be a student. But he could shoot very straight, much better thnn any man in the regiment. He talked but little. One day he was sent out with a scouting pan. Not one of the party returned. Later members of the company were fnnd dead. Under a tree our soldiers found manv Germans Each wan shot cleaUly through tho heart Entangled Entan-gled in the branches high above the ground we found our comrade dead Many bullats had passed through his body. "In the pocket of his blouse we found a picture The girl resembled him. There was also a letter from his mother "From the lei ter e learned his sister sis-ter wan killed when the Germans shelled Rhelms. "We buried hiui in a shallow treneti. There was a strange smile on hlfl face." |
