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Show I EM Oil PI 1ITES OF BATTLE LIFE J3dwin Olson, formerly of Ogden. writing from France under date of Sept. 2 to his uncle, E. C. Olsen, reports re-ports that he has already seen action and come out unscratched; finds it easy to get on with the old French couple who billet him and his chum Co, and says: "I sure did have a lot of experience on. the different fronts and I did not know a man could stand so much, and that shrapnel could come so close without hurting you. I have been knocked clown three times by the concussion con-cussion caused by the explosion of shrapnel. It sure is a funny noise that i the bullets make as they sing through ' the air. When you Hear it you duck close to the ground, and watch the, shells land some thirty yards away,1 making a hole twenty-five feet in di-1 ameter, and 12 feet deep filled with gas at the bottom. A .shell dropped Into our dressing station one day break-! ing the legs of two men; wounding: another man's arm, and gassing a) couple. Such are the chances of war,! I was standing twenty feet away from' where it landed, ha, ha. The Americans i can even laugh at death." oo |