Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-10-19

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quarters to obtain the embassy's news
of the day, the count claimed to have
San inside tip" that Mr.. Lansing was
about to resign and as one of the cor
respondents who was present on that
occasion now puts it, ''he sought to
have us print it for all that it was
worth"
1t is perhaps tribute to the shrewd-
ness of most of those who were pres
ent that day to say that all of them
except one had q suspicion that the
German ambassador was trying to put
something over which would injure the
American secretary of state and there
fore the well-beiRg of this country In
a critical time.
With one sole exception the news
paper men present refused to print the
"tfp." One Of them, however, did
print it and the result was that it be-
came necessary for Mr.. Lansing to Is
sue an official denial from the state de.
partment of any intention on his part
to resign. OF course when story
like this is printed not everybody reads
the denial. tits hard to Overtake lie
with the truth and SO it was that Won
Bernstorff partly succeeded in his de.
sign to stir up trouble for tie admin
istration and, therefore, at that criti-
cal time, for the American people.
Won Bernstorff found out generally
all that he wanted to know about what
government officials had said concern
ing this thing or that thing, for there
was no great attempt in those days to
hide things under bushel. From the
German embassy there were running
many paths leading to places where in
formation might be obtained. Into the
German embassy went the gossip OF
the day and out of the gossip Won
Bernstorff succeeded in getting many
golden grains of information.
Artists Learning Camouflage.
Every day recruits are coming
in for the battalion of American
artists, enlisted or commissioned as
a part of the United States engi-
neers for the purpose of using brush,
color, and every ingenious artistic de-
sign to fool the German enemy on the
lines in France.
The work which these soldier artists
do is called by the French camonf1age,
which is an old slang word OF the
French stage intended to be descrip-
tive of the makeup of the actors. In
it's military sense the term refers to
the work of so concealing or Disgusting
an object that the enemy cannon
recognize it for what it is.
The endeavor of the artist runs along
ers when too late that a peaceful rock
is death dealing gun; a hedge not
grown by nature but constructed by
the artists, conceals regiment;
sharp-shooter, after the artist gets
through with his uniform, coloring 1T
here and there, melts so into the back
ground that the enemy cannot see him;
that which appears to be mound OF
earth really may be a row of helmets
with a rif1eman behind each-and so
the work of the camOufeurs runs.
A company of artists now commits
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Twenty-Fifth United States engineers,
is encamped in the city of Washing
ton. A goodly gathering of artists,
sculptors, architects, civil engineers
and others who have won fame with
brush and chisel, and many of them
men who have earned large fortunes,
are now drilling and experimenting
in this camp at the capital. They must
be soldiers as well as artists for no
one who goes upon foreign battle
field in the uniform of the United
States is permitted to be there until
he has learned how to take care Of
himself.
Some of Our camoufleurs.
This company of artists which is to
go abroad to fool the Germans by
making things seem what they are
not is commanded by Captain Nixon
Miller, who for more than seven years
was a member Of the Pennsylvania
National Guard, and who was employ
ed as civil engineer in the Panama
Canal construction.
A first lieutenant Of the company Is