Arizona republican., 1918-10-03
WAR RELICS IN
 GRIM APPEAL
 TObOND BUYER
Soldiers From the Front Ex-
 plain Trophies to Thou sands And Call on them To Back Boys With Money

Bringing a little of the battlefield of western France to the people of Phoenix as a visible reminder of the terrible cost of the war in life and money, the War Trophies Special reached the city shortly after o'clock last night to aid by the very nature 1 of it's grim exhibits in urging the peo- pie to back up with their money the boys in the trenches and thus sooner i bring a victorious end to the terrible sacrifice.
 l After having spent an hour in Tempe the train pulled into the Arizona East ern station and was transferred to the Santa Fe. It remained in Phoenix all night, leaving carly this morning for Prescott and other cities and towns to the north.
 Thousands at Train
 Thousands greeted the train in Phoenix. Just how many thousands would be difficult to estimate, as there were as many people packed in the blocks surrounding the Santa Fe station as could see the cars from a distance Other thousands unable to get anywhere near the train, returned 
 There were three solid carloads of war trophies and modern weapons, all the way from depth bombs for "straf- ing the Hun submarine. to razors used Dy the Boche for cutting the threats Of allied wounded as they lay helpless in pitchy darkness in mo- o-man's- s-land" every item and every article of in tense interest to the enormous crowd that surged around the train. Captured German and Austrian field artillery, trench mortars, grenades, helmets. gas masks, rifles and machine guns were there as well as some of the more diabolical instruments used by Heinie for his campaign of fright fitness.
 French 75's
 Among the interesting items the wonderful French "75" probably at tracted more interest than most of the exhibit. This is the field gun that fires 26 of the 75-milimetre shells a minute and drops everyone of them on the objective without retaining, something that no other field piece ever has done, and it is this gun that has made possible the huge allied ad- vances by silencing and destroying the enemy batteries. The "ash-cans' - depth bombs-plain and unpretentious
 
 punch that when a destroyer drops one after a descending submarine they must 'go away from there" at the rate of about 30 knots to avoid the unpleasant sensation of having the stern of the ship blown off by the ex- plosion that finishes the sub.
 Lusitania Medal
 Three Lewis machine guns in vari- ous parts of the exhibit attracted f many in the crowd. curious to know how these death spraying little ma chimes work, many realizing that il was with weapons of this type that Lieutenant Luke. the Phoenix lace, and other allied aviators have wrought l, such havoc.
 Hundreds of other trophies and ex- hibits, too many to list filled the train, and not the least interesting was one of the German medals com memorating the sinking of the Lusi. | tania-cast and circulated three days before that great ship was sunk. car rying down hundreds of American | men. women and children to theil | death.
 Straight Talk To thousands of people of the Sal River valley last night soldiers iron | the front line of battle, soldiers wht | nad been wounded fighting for tn great cause, told of their experiences and urged the purchase of Libert, Bonds to the limit. The assemblag was at the Fourth Liberty loan specia train stationed at Jackson street ant South Central avenue. It was a demonstration, a flash o the war right from the front, and drove home to all that as Sergean Smith of the Canadian Highlander said, every man and woman here i a citizen soldier behind the men il the front line and that the citizel soldiers must stand by the men i all-you must do your damndest i necessary.
 | The soldier orators did not at al times use polished language. It cam out strong like a cannon shot at tn German army. "Cut out that tai of doing your bit" said Sergean Smith. Your men at the front ar doing their all, and you must do you all-you must do your damnedest i | we win this war"