Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-01-12

when the two were side by side, made
a thrust with its deadly sting-an ex-
plosive missile. With a dull, distant
report the impotent cloud craft was
split asunder with flames and sank
rapidly from a height of severe thou
sand feet, both noses pointing DOWN
| ward.
Half of London was OF the rooftOps
watching this battle between an aerial
Cyclops and a flying Ulysses, the lat
, ter q pigmy in size, but inVincible in
skill and cunning. AS the great ship
fallen in an alley Just a block away
and. forthwith, an army of 100000
SlShtseerS set out upon Il wild night
chase to inspect the wreckage. Day
break found fully 100. 600 of these Curl
Gus ones lost in the byways and hedges
on the outskirts of the city. and only n
small percentage of the number ever
reached the w%reckage, u miles distant,
in an open field.
Very exaggerated reports of the pro-
test against according the members of
the Zcppelin's crew Il military burial
reached America. | believe there was
Il single instance of Il woman, distract
oNer the loss of a relative. who hurled
Il stone or potato at the funeral cor
tese. but no other untoward incident
occurred while the Germans were being
inferred near the spot where their air.
sup itll. LIlt tViItS wei III
To their grave by members OF the Brit
ISL ROYAL Flying corps.
TO the British subject one of the
most notable achievements of his war
has been the fact that England, nobly
aided by her colonies, has succeeded
during the short space of two years in
raising her effective fighting strength
from a pitiful 100000 (thc size of the
British regular army at the beginning
of the struggle in August. 1910 to
1000. 900 men. Ear, Kitchener declared
at the beginning of hostilities that he
could not tell how long the war would
last but that he did know England
would reach efficiency in three years.
The war lords hopes were anticipated
by a full vear-in July. 1916, we were
ready to fight. and actually began to
fight with u fully developed army OF
INSTRUMENTATION strength.
And not only has Great Britain
trained and fully equipped 1000, 900
men. but she has undertaken the task of
supplying all her allies. except France.
with the munitions which they So sorely
needed at the beginning of the struggle.
FRANCE has modified her own re-
sources so admirably that she is able to
handle her munitions problems unas-
sisted. One OF the great problems OF
supplying Russia has been to get the
material to the cZar's men after 1t is
manufactured Much. of it, of course,
has been sent through Archangel. which
is now connected by a double rae rail
way with Petrograd. With the advent
of winter. and the closing of the Arch
angel harbor with ice the difficulties
| are greatly increased.
Il have been asked frequently by
Americans for my opinion Of the char
acter of courage displayed by our en-
emies on the west front. We of the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders fire.
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of the Germans AS they advanced to the
attack. shoulder to shoulder, each sus-
tanned by the proximity of his ompan-
ions to the right and left. But when he
is assailed in his own trench we main
tain that an entirely different spirit ex-
lists. The bayonet poised for the thrust
strikes dismay and saps the Teuton'S
stamina"