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Show BOMBING OF LONDffi CAUSED Ml TO Statinc that he had married an English Eng-lish widow, whose trials and experiences experi-ences in London durjng th bombing outrages had excited nis sympathy, merely to provide the woman and her three small children with a home on his ranch in California, a repatriated British soldier arrived in OgdOti this morning and was entertained at the Red Cross canteen, together with his wife and lo r children. The soldier was an Amerrcan who, at the time Ol Ihe outbreak of the war, was visiting in England He enlisted iYitb the Biltlh forces ami sp nt four 1 years in the field with Bngllsb trpopi Over a year ago he was severely J wounded and was sent Iron France to a hospital in England to recuperate, i While convalescing he nipt his wife, j shortly after the death of her husband. I who was in the Biritlsh army. The ' stmgple of the woman to eke out an existence for herself and her children caused the man from California to make her his wife with ihe view of bringing her to America and estab lishing ner ami per cniuuwu on ranch in Imperial valley. The woman stated at the canteen that she had been through the larges' of the bombing outrages in London; that these assaults of the German air-: air-: craft kept the women and children in the city terrorized was evidenced by I the lines and wrinkles on the woman's 'once beautiful face. Both the soldier and his wife had the appearance of persons who had un dergone great mental and physical sufferings. suf-ferings. The woman was comparatively comparative-ly young, although her haggard look contrasted strangely with her luxu riant curly hair and youthful figure. The three children showed no ill results re-sults from the hardships of war times nor of the month's journey that they have thus far made. Canteen workerfl between New York and Ogden have been caring for the family, the soldier stated, and are assisting them in ever way. oo |