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Show U - BOATS FOLLOWED, CONVOYS ACROSS , ATLiTIG j SALT LAKE. Dec, 2S "Put to sleep ! by the concussion of a high explosive shell." while serving as major in com-' mand of a battalion of the ?6lth infan- try on tho front lino between the! Meusc river and the Argonne forest, j Major Walter H. Gregory, attorney of. Salt Lake and prominent as an athlete Interested in the success of University I of Utah teams, returned to the firing j line for eight days' fighting aftor i spending two nights in a hospital. Ho' was again forced to return to tho hospital, hos-pital, and in a letter to his father at Moweaqua, 111., which has boon for- warded to Salt Lake friends, declares that he is comfortable, well entirely recovered from his recent experience at tho front, and is now In command of a battalion in the 327th infantry. His most interesting letter, in part, reads as follows: "When wc left New York, Juno 2S, there wore twelve troopships and two cruisers in the convoy, and we went east and southeast until we wore almost al-most to the Azore Islands, nnd then duo north until wo were north of Ireland; Ire-land; then northeast until wo were off the -Hebrides, and then south to Liverpool. Liver-pool. An Unusual Route. "It was quite an unusual route, but one calculated to fool the subs as much as possible. Wo had three submarine scares on the way over and were required re-quired by our general not to remove our shoes for several days. There were no lights on the ships and the ports were always closed during the night. In spite of these precautions, the convoy was continually zigzagging and was followed fol-lowed by subs on at least two occasions, occa-sions, tho first time only a short distance dis-tance from New York and tho other time in midoccan. We could tell from the way the cruisers acted and the waytho ships-in the fleet performed that something was wrong. I was told by the commanding officer upon arrival arriv-al in Franco that on both occasions submarines were following us. "The last day was the most dangerous, danger-ous, for we wore in the waters just off (ho west coast of Scotland and Eng U.1 "I J l"IH'IW FT CT 1111 IBIIIHII land It Aas near the Isle of Man that the destroyers fired at something off our starboard bow. Whether it was a mine or a submarine, I never knew. We could see Glasgow as we passed and three ships of our squadron stopped stop-ped there. Two hours after wc left them a southbound ship was torpedoed just outside the harbor. Met by Destroyers. "Three days before Ave landed, eight destroyers met us and patrolled the waters all around us day and night. The last day wo had two balloons and several aeroplanes and innumerble destroyers de-stroyers and sub chasers. Wc landed July 10, and were mighty glad to set foot on land. Wo boarded a train and went to Southampton, and the next day sailed for France This was the most dangerous part Of the trip and without convoy. It was a fast boat, and as we left the harbor under cover of darkness in a rough sea, we felt reasonably sure of landing, providing we were not torpedoed, and absolutely certain of being pickled in brine if we were hit. At daylight we were in the harbor of Havre, and two hours later in a rest camp near the dock. "On the evening of July 14 we left for 'Somewhere In France' by train. None of us except tho train commander comman-der and the train crew knew where we wore going, nnd none of us cared very much. "We were in France and one big step nearer the thing we entered the service serv-ice to accomplish. There were eight of us in a compartment built for six, and we tried to sleep two nights in it and , H ate all of our meals there. When they IH put us off the train at Bandrecourt, HI about sixty miles south of Nancy, we i vk learned that they had taken us to tho ; IH wrong place. We should have been i , IH taken to Langres Wc stayed whero . vk we were a day and then went to our IH proper destination. Wo went through, ' vk Paris on the first night, and wo could . IH see the flashes of the guns at Chateau v' Thierry and could hear their Incessant rynble. We knew something was hap- J jH pening, but we did not guess then that H it was the beginning of the end. j "Since that time I have been through itH Chateau Thierry and was surprised to see so much pf the town apparently un- , louchod by shells. It was really not so badly hit as mapny towns I had 'M "I stayed at Langres three weeks, , attending school, and then reported to the division. I was immediately de- tailed as brigade adjutant and thrco ,j weeks later took command of my bat- 1 talion and the division took the field. IH During those three weeks we were only . IH a short distance north of Langres in Haute Marne. Langres is between Dl- 'jlfl jon and Toul and a very short distance IH south of Chaumont." H no |