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A reconstruction hospital of an 8000-bed unit is to be established at Fort Douglas for the western department of the army. The Brigham Young University, Provo, has been designated as a student army training corps unit, in which all young men over 18 and not in the military draft may be enrolled.

Raids by the German U-boats on fishing smacks and merchant vessels continued periodically during the month of August, on the Atlantic coast, the raids being of littJc consequence to overseas shipping under direction of the U. S. shipping board, and so far with no effect upon military transports which have landed about 150,000 troops per month in French ports.

Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of ex-President Theo- dore Roosevelt, was killed in action in France about the middle of July. He had recently been cited as a hero in battles with three enemy airplanes one of which he brought down. Later the machine which he was flying was reported as having fallen behind the German lines from a great height, and his death was later confirmed by information dropped by German airplanes into the American lines. Utah has 18,097 men serving in the army forces of the United States, including the draft calls filled for August, aggregating 1,874. The total number of volunteers is 8,562, and those called under the draft 9,535, mak- ing a grand total of 18,097. It was announced in early August that in all probability more than 10,000 Utah boys are now serving on overseas duties, 6,000 of whom are in the 91st division somewhere on the western front in France. Two regiments of this division, the 361st and the 362nd are largely made up of Utah boys. The Czecho-Slovak forces in Siberia will be aided by Japan, it is re- ported, according to the American plan, in offering commercial and indus- trial assistance to Russia not controlled by the Germans. The whole Rus- sian situation is in a chaotic condition, but affairs were seemingly approach- ing a crisis that it will be difficult for Germany to meet. Major-General Wm. S. Graves has been assigned by the war department *o command the A. E. F., which with a Japanese force will guard Vladivostok as a supply base for the Czecho-Slovak forces in Russia. Two infantry regiments of the regular army wlil be sent from the Philippines supplemented by other United States troops. Elder Marion E. Woolley, son of former President and Mrs. E. D. Woolley, Kanab, Utah, and laboring as a missionary at Brisbane, Australia, died there on June 10, following an operation for appendicitis. He arrived in Sydney, February 21, 1917, since which he was actively engaged in mis- sionary work up to June 6, when he took sick. His body was brought home and funeral services were held in Kanab, July 27. Elder Woolley was twenty-three years of age. He was a graduate of the Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City, and had been in Australia about eighteen months. According to the testimony of his missionary companions President and Sister R. D. Miller, David Carr, and President Chas. C. Tayn, who attended him and who were at his bedside when he peacefully passed away, he had

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performed a good mission and was well liked by all who knew him, and died with a strong testimony of the gospel, and abiding faith in the work of the Lord.

The fifth Great German Drive, begun on the morning of July 15, was effectively resisted by counter-attacks of the Americans and French during the weeks following; beginning July 18. The Germans were caught in a triangle with Soissons, Rheims, and Chateau-Thierry as the points, and the severest fighting of the war took place during the days following up to and including August. The Americans stood their grounds with heroic valor, and on the 18th of July they, and the French, began an offensive against the Germans over thirty miles front driving them back irom the river Marne. At Chateau-Theirry and on up the line the American fighting forces with the French offered such magnificent resistance to the Boche forces that they were finally driven north to the Vesle. The British made successful attacks in the Picardy and Montdidier sectors, captured many prisoners and guns. The German drive was a complete failure.

Lieutenant O. R. Clark, of Farmington, Utah, passed through Salt Lake City, July 19, in charge of an Italian contingent of soldiers numbering four hundred. These soldiers were taken prisoners while fighting with the Aus- trian army, and were on their way to an eastern port from which they will embark for Europe to participate further in the war, but on the side of the Allies this time. The Red Cross Canteen served bight refreshments for the visitors, and an official reception committee met the soldiers at the train. These soldiers are really subjects of Austria, but were conscripted into the war service by Emperor Francis Joseph, at the outbreak of the war, ordered to the Italian front, refused to fight the Italians, were then ordered to join the Austrian forces on the Russian front, were taken prisoners, surrendered to the Russians, and when Russia dropped out of the war made their way to the Siberian coast, finally reaching China where the Italian minister arranged for the transportation of the company overseas to San Francisco. Their short stay in Salt Lake City was made very pleasant. They were served luncheon, and the Red Cross Canteen served them Utah cherries while from the store connected with the Italian delegation a huge supply of imported Italian spaghetti was sent to the company's cook. Field Marshal Herman Von Eichhorn, imperial Prussian bloodhound and dictator of Ukraine, and his adjutant, Captain Von Dressier, were killed by a bomb in Kiev, July 30. Eichhorn was born on February 13, 1848, at Bresslau. He entered the army in 1866. The assassin was a young lad of twenty-three years, a tool of the social revolutionists in Moscow. Eichhorn when the war broke out was assigned to the Russian front where he re- mained with great success until Russia's collapse. After the Ukraine had received its so-called independence, he was retained in Ukraine as virtual dictator, bringing about the overthrow of its government, confiscating the stores of food in Ukraine, adopting ruthless measures against the peas- ants who opposed the confiscating, and succeeded in getting a large num- ber to uphold his tyranny. He placed the whole republic, so-called, under German martial law, and arrested members of the ministry who he said were conspiring against the Central Powers. He gave them a good taste of independence under the Germans. It is hoped that some day the Rus- sians will come to their senses, and instead of acting foolishly by taking off one war devil after another, singly, form an army, drill it well, and stand up for their rights. In the case of Mirbach, who was assassinated a month before, the German government asked for an apology from the Bolshevik government, which is to all intents and purposes a handy tool of the German government, and in conformity with the request the Bol- shevik humbly apologized and regretted.

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Died in Service Lieut. Harold E. Kinne, Orafino, Idaho, was reported killed in action, August 3. Russell Pcrr, Encampment, Wyo., was reported killed in action, Au- gust 6.

Frederick Bell, of Elsinore, Utah, was included in the casualty list of July 28. William C. Layton, Layton, Utah, was reported dead of accident in the casualty list at August 8.

Private Marion Hartenblower, Caldwell, Idaho, was reported, August 7, dead of wounds received in action. Wm. O. Thompson, Sterling, Utah, was reported killed in action in Franca, according to the casualty list of August 5. Lieut. Roger Harvey Clapp, aviator, son of Knight L. Clapp, Salt Lake City, was killed in action in France, according to word received July 25, 1918. He was 26 years old and unmarried and had resided in Salt Lake City ten years. Lorenzo Frederickson, age 26, son of Mrs. R. Nelson, Salt Lake City, was reported killed in action. He went from Camp Lewis with the 145th machine gun battalion, December, 1917. He was called with the National Army at Dubois, Idaho, September, 1917. George Lockhart and Dan Lockhart, Jr., sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lockhart of Wallsburg, Wasatch county, Utah, were killed in France at the front, according to information received at Provo. The former on June 11 and the latter, July 4. Word was received August 2, by the father, from the adjutant-general. Private Frank E. Peterson, of Snyderville, lost his life on the western front in France some time in June. Recent word received shows that he was carrying a rifle with two ammunition carriers following him. Both carriers fell wounded. Peterson added their lifts to his already heavy bur- den until he reached the position to which he was ordered. In this place he held his own until the fatal bullet struck him. George L. Young, twenty-four years old, son of Mrs. Margaret Young, Salt Lake Cty, was killed in action in the Soissons-Rheims salient, accord- ing to news received in Salt Lake City, July 30. He was born in Park City and came to Salt Lake City with his family about fifteen years ago. He enlisted in the Marine Corps, June 4, 1917. He is survived by his mother and three brothers and two sisters, all residents of Salt Lake City. Guy Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas, of Price, Utah, was shot through both hips June 6 and died, according to word received by his parents, July 25. He was in the heavy fighting with the Marines on the western front in France. He was twenty-two years of age, enlisted in Salt Lake July, 1917; went to Mare Island on the 29th; to Quantico, Va., Novem- ber 9, and overseas February 8, 1918. Grant H. Lyman, son of Francis M. and Susan D. Lyman, and grandson of Amasa Mason and Louisa Maria Lyman, died of wounds received in action on the Western front, June 17, 1918, word having been received to that effect June 27, 1918. Grant H. Lyman was born in Fillmore, Millard county, May 10, 1896, and was baptized August 21, 1904, by his father. Ordained a deacon December 5, 1910. He attended the public schools and the Millard High School, at Fillmore. He enlisted in the army and joined the Marines, leaving home May 5, 1917. Went to Mare Island, California, from whence he was transferred in August, 1917, to Quantico, Virginia, leaving there January 17, 1918, for Europe, where he landed safely on the 7th of February, 1918.

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