Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-05
CANADIAN OFFICER HERE TELLS
STORIES OF THE VANDAL HUN
Mai. u. S. Boehm Is to Exhibit Series of
Remarkable Battle Pictures for Benefit
of Monument Fund.

Having followed the Germans in their
great retreat, which began in March
through the department of Picardy, III
France, and witnessed the absolute de-
struction which they left behind in
what was the garden of northern
France" Maj NJ S. Boehm of the Can
adian overseas forces gives intimate
word pictures of present conditions
along the forefront of the great war.
Maj. Boehm was selected by the Brit
ish government to return to Canada
and conduct an intensive recruiting
campaign. He is in Washington to
show government ofacials and the pub
lie what are said to be the best war
pictures that have yet come out of the
theater of war. These are the Ca
Hadian official war photographs and were
taken by Capt. Ivor Castle, specially
commissioned for this work.
Recognized by Relatives.
So clear and sharp are the photo
graphs that in viewing the exhibition
many a mother has been able TO recog-
nize her son fighting at the front. and
In several cases widows have been pre-
scented with pictures in which they had
recognized their hero husbands making
their last stand for their country. One
picture of the burial of an officer was
given to the victims father, and twelve
others in the picture were recognized by
relatives or friends.
As Maj. Boehm and the commission
accompanying him have the negatives
for all these pictures, they have had the
pleasure of making duplicate copies for
relatives and friends of those recog-
nizable in the prints.
The exhibition will be open at
Rauschers ballroom, Connecticut ave-
nue. and L street, after o'clock to-
night. The public can view the photo
graphs afternoon or evening. from
o'clock to midnight. daily until October
15 The use OF the ballroom for this
exhibition has been given by Rauschers
without charge as the contribution of a
patriotic Frenchman.
Fund to Erect Memorials.
The entire proceeds of the exhibition
will go toward swelling a fund for
the erection OF memorials to the more
than 10000 Canadians who have fallen
in France and Flanders This is called
the Canadian war memorials fund, and
the trustees are Lord Beaverbrook. Lord
Roth s,,s who Is brother of Lord
editor of the London Daily Mirror.
When these pictures were shown in
the Grafton galleries. in London. there
was the largest attendance that ever
visited the place. In Toronto the pic
lures were seen by 100000 persons in
ten days. In Winnipeg, Canada. more
than one-third of the population at
tended the exhibition.
In the early days of the war the
Canadian military department organ
lied war records Office. which is To-
Gated in London, with Lord Beaver
brook, formerly q we'll known financial
man of Canada. and Max Aiken in
charge. AS one branch of it's work. the
war records ONCE commissioned a
number Of expert photographers to
take pictures at the front. and this
collection from the work of Capt. Ivor
Castle is part Of the Canadian oficial
war Photographic collection.
Maj. Boehm. who has brought this ex-
hibttion to Washington, went overseas
in the early days Of the war as second
In command Of q Toronto battalion
He was chosen by the English govern
ment, on account of extensive recruit.
ing experience, to return to this con-
tinent on a special educational mission
prior to carrying on an extensive re-
cruiting campaign In the Dominion
Chance to Visit Fronts.
In preparation for this mission he wal
given the opportunity to visit large
uart of the western front In an un,
Usually thorough way. He thus viewed
conditions not only on the Canadian
front, but also on this British and