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Show MAJOR DOWSE HERE FOR THE BRITISH ' ARM? Torpedoed 100 miles south of the Irish coast and forced to brave the seas with his wife and daughter, and other survivors, in small open boats Is only one of the many vivid oxper- 1 iences in the life of Col. Bowe3, British Bri-tish imperial array, during the past four years. Col. Bowes is In Ogden on business f connected with, the British horso buy- J ing commission. He has been assigned V to this duty, with many other .veterans .veter-ans of tho first years of the war, after passing through adventures and hardships hard-ships it has fallen to lot of but few men to endure. Col. Bowes was near Ypres during tho first hot fighting when the British tried to turn the advancing Huns, and was with tho glorious "contemptibles" of Kitchncr when the British array was a bedraggled but dotermlned retreating re-treating force from northern France. Col. Bowes says that through all of that first heartbreaking period of defeat, de-feat, when the Hun masses in overwhelming over-whelming numbers splendidly equipped and moving with sinister machine-like effectiveness, were ndvancing through northern France, the British resolved with steel -hearted determination to fight to the end and be absolutely obliterated ob-literated rather than quit. Col. Bowes is registered at the New Healy Hotel. He has been tho guest of H. W. Dunn of the Ogden Horse Sale &. Commission company. |