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Show IAN ENEMY AT OUR ; GATES. On the day of the arrival of the Bol-1 Bol-1 ian and Italian soldiers in Ogtlen In .May, The Standard was handed a letter let-ter from an Ogden boy who crossed the Pacific on the steamer which carried car-ried the veterans to San Francisco. The-Standard did not print the letter ns it conveyed news which the editor doubled, .but since then information hr.s been received which corroborates by indirection all ihal the Ogden boy wrote. The statement was made that nearly erpry one of the party was diseased- Ycstorday the writer was in-foVmcd in-foVmcd by Dr. R. S. Joyce, that 3.000,-000 3.000,-000 of the Russian troops were simi-: simi-: -larly afflicted, and in his opinion, the crumbliug oi the Russian forces was due to the undormining effect of the scourge. Every soldier, native and foreign, In the Russian' camps were in a veneral environment, and it is not unfair to presume that the Belgians and Italians became tainted. The Russians are not the sole of- fenders, on a large scale, against pur-I pur-I ity. In the Austrian army there arc ; 300,000 cases and the Germans, since j -their outrageous acts in Belgium i and northern France, have transmit- ted to every branch of their fighting forces the penalty of their bestial con-Dr. con-Dr. Joyce, as head of the medical branch of the council of defense in I Utah, says the American doctors arc I doing their utmost to keep the afflic-2 afflic-2 tion out of the American army and are succeeding. An entire division 1 of the expeditionary force is without I one case of this unclean disease. In I Utah doctors and nurses are going through intensive training to be prepared pre-pared to combat the disease. It is not generally known that 2100 Utah men were rejected in the draft because they were victims of their misdeeds. As a result of these disclosures, dis-closures, doctors throughout the state are being instructed to do their full duty in aiding to check the ailment. The prudish treatment of this subject sub-ject in the press is being condemned , and the papers are being requested to speak plainly and thus help in the ' campaign which has been started. |