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Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
Common Soldiers
Recital of Thrilling
Adventures in the
Terrific Struggle for
World Democracy
BY ARTHUR JAMES M'KAY.
1913. by Small. Maynard & Co
Inc.)

Arthur James Mckay, "ShellproOf
Mack" after the sinking Of the Lusitania,
enlisted In British bantam regiment and
was in the battle of Ypres. He was
wounded several times and applied for q
discharge from the army, but deliberately
tore up his application and returned to the
trenches.
He was In the sector that went over the
top when the British blew up 100000
pounds Of ammonal. His company was al
most wiped out while trying to hide In q
German trench and in trying to capture .
Hun "pill box" he was gassed.
The field hospital in which he was
placed was bombed in an air raid by Teu-
tons and 26 were killed and Is wounded. IA
Of the dead being German wounded under
treatment at the hospital.
Mack got "blighty" as result OF his
gassing and was cared for while cOnvales-
cent at Chatham by the Red Cross, saying
their ninistrations made all the suffering
worth while.
He tells Of many humorous experiences
in camp and hospital and of the "slang"
born Of the war.
London is not an attractive place In war
time Mack finds out after spending con-
siderable time watching the night life OF
that famous city just "roaming" about.
Mack's first experience In an air raid con-
fronts him when . policeman walks be-
fore him carrying sign, reading "Take
Cover"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
SHELLPROOF MACK

AS showing the force OF the explo-
sion of one OF those 60-pound pear
shaped bombs, here is what happened
to the front of a hotel which vas
directly opposite the landing place of
one. The revolving door was torn
out of its sockets and carried back
hundred feet along a corridor.
sweeping up seven people who were
in the way and killing them all. /
can endorse the statement of anybody
that Yep raid in London is far from
pleasant. l went through six while !
was in London.
On the day my discharge came l
strolled into the Union Jack club,
where l knew the clerk and was
known by him to be a Yank.
well" he said to me, what do
you think of London" .
Il came here to see your sights"
told him. Ever since I have been
here the visibility has been low. |
went out to have look at the Nell
son Column and can't see the top
half of it for the smoke. / haven't
been able to see across the Thames
since l came. Nights can't see
three feet ahead of me.
Somebody told me that Petticoat
Lane was one of the sights of Lon
don. The day was there l saw three
old James buying fish and guy sell
ing plate polish. Nothing more ex.
citing than that. I've seen your Zoo.
logical gardens, and find that the
Bronx park has them faded. When
you get your hair cut you never
shave your neck and the hair hangs
down your back. Three minutes off
the Strand and you can hear the spar
rows talking on the roof. No.
brother" says I, "I'll leave little old
Lunnon for those that love it. Me
for Boston, Mass"
And with that I went out and
bought my ticket for Gods country.
Blighty may be all right for some
one who is used to it. To me it was
way-station to the United States of
America, where l am going to stop
until I get a chance, if they will let
me, to go over there and fight under
the Stare and Stripes.
(THE END.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18

fancy air raids. They give me the
fantods. have written about be-
ing bombed from airplanes at the
front and in the hospital. / had the
same feeling here that each bomb
was going to seek me out as a per-
sonal victim; and the deeper I got
down in the ground the better j
liked it. \
On the platform, which was larger
and deeper under ground than in
the American subways, l found as
many as 1000 people. They were
packed in and stood there patiently
waiting for the trouble to be over.
l stayed until II o'clock and then
went up to the street. The anti-air-
craft guns had stopped, and I sup
posed that everything was all right
l strolled around for while and
was not far from Piccadilly circus
about half-past II when the anti-air-
craft guns began barking again, and
before had a chance to hunt cover
two bombs fell in .Piccadilly not 800
yards from where l stood. I'll take
that back. l wasn't standing. I was
hitting the high places one-ffth of a
second after the first ear-splitting,
earth shaking crash. When the Sec
ond bomb lit | was making faster
time than I ever did in the old days
on the Bailey hose team or on the
track. l didn't know where I was
going, but I was on my way; and
soon | found another tube entrance
and went down it on my ear. / stayed
there until the Boy Scouts sounded
"All Clear" on the bugles.
The first thing in the morning 7
visited Piccadilly circus to see what
had happened. 1t was plenty. The
bombs which had been dropped from
Zeps had hit the curbing. There
were two holes that you could have
put street car into. All windows
had been smashed for hundreds of
yards around. 1t was reported that
IA people were killed. AS matter of
fact there must have been scores Of
dead. | snooped around there all
day, and that night found woman
who had been one of the first on the
scene who said that she knew that
at least 80 had died.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
CHAPTER XIX.
Back to Blighty.
(Contiu,,ed1

Down the road | saw mass of peo-
pie pouring down into the Goodge
street underground station and lit
out for that place fast. Just before
| got there l heard the anti-craft
guns begin to 60 off. stopped for
minute and listened.
Yap-yap-yap-went the Arches.
And then away off there on the edge
of the town, Boo-o-o-om! Just
like that. A bomb, of course. l
didn't waste any time. l ducked
down into that underground station
like a rabbit into a hole. | don't
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
SHADE 0F JULIAN
ELTINGE, LOOK!
MEN IN CHEMISE
Female impersonators, beware!

Female impersonators. beware!
Two young men. who coyly ad-
mitted to masquerading in togs of
the opposite sex, were sentenced Fri
day to 80 days in Jail.
The embryo Julian Eltinges" testi-
fed they came to Omaha in
search of employment. Dish-washing
and other menial occupations injured
their aesthetic tastes and they decided
to fare forth in female garb and 'lift"
a little loose change from the pockets
of unsuspecting admirers, police testi-
fed
Frequent reports of operations Of
female pickpockets led to the arrest
of the young men. Both men have
delicate features and gentle voices and
walk with a strut which competent
authorities assert is the very latest
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
30 Buildings Razed by Big
Fire Near Sioux Falls, S. D.

Sioux Falls, S. D., May l7-Thirty
business buildings were destroyed at
Fulton, small town near here, yes
terday, when high winds swept the
flames from a. blaze in the railroad
yards into the business section Of the
town.
The city hall, church and two
general stores were among the build
ings destroyed. The loss is estimated
at $250,000. Fire apparatus from
nearby towns saved the residence
district.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
Burglars "PuII" Three Jobs
In One Niqht in Beaver City

Beaver City, Neb., May H.-(Spe-
cial Telegram. )-Burglars entered
the store of D. w. Loar night before
last through a rear window and stole
16 watches, l8 rings and other jew
elry valued at $500. The Office of the
Sheets Lumber company was broken
into and the safe cracked, but the
cash box yielded only cents. The
Beaver City Lumber company's office
was also visited and a revolver stolen.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
Captain Logan Of Fort Omaha
Not Involved in Court Case

In addition to the fact that the
name of Lieutenant Logan, men-
toned Wednesday in connection with
a police court case concerning Mary
Prawitz and Irene Johnson, was an
alias, it has been discovered there is
no Lieutenant Logan at Fort Omaha.
There is a Captain Logan at the bal
loon post, but he was not the officer
involved in the case.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
Committee to Round Up
Steel for War Needs

Washington, May 17.-After a con-
ference today between the steel COM
mittee of the American Iron and Steel
institute and the War Industries
board, the appointment of a joint steel
committee to investigate the entire
steel industry with special reference
to the governments requirements was
announced.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
NAVY week next
week; S0USA'S
BAND EXPECTED
Martial Music and Patriotic
Speeches to Feature Cam
paign to Stimulate En-
IiStments.

Next week will be "navy week" in
Omaha.
Bands and jackies and patriotic
speeches will feature the weeks cam
paign to stimulate enlistment in the
navy,
Governor Neville and Mayor Smith
have been asked to issue proclama-
tions endorsing the campaign and it is
expected that the city and state will
give whole-hearted support to the
cause.
The Great Lakes naval training sta
ton band is expected to come to
Omaha to participate in the recruit
ing drive. The band is under the
direction of Souza and is ranged as
the best in the world. Jackies from
the Great Lakes station already are
in the city to do their bit to urge
men to join them in their worl: of
making the seas safe.
Omaha Wide Awake.
Business men of Omaha are awake
to the need of more sailors and are
cooperating with naval officers here.
New ships are being launched so fast
that the call for more sailors is more
insistent than ever before. Navy men
say, First of all Our sailors must
make it possible for our soldiers to
60 over there" ...
More than 50 men a day have en-
listed in the navy in Omaha within the
last few weeks Authorities hope to
double the number.
Drafted men will not be released
from their exemption boards to join
the navy if they wait until almost time
to be called into service. If they de-
sire to enlist in the navy and ask for
release for that purpose before their
draft board is ready to call them,
they will be allowed to enlist.
The "war service station" which
has been built by Gus REM and which
willsbe placeh Saturday on the court
house lawn, will be used as sub-of-
hce1for recruiting men in any branch
of the service.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-18
Omaha Ranks Eleventh in
Country in Bank Clearings

Omaha ranks 18th among the cities
of the country in bank clearings this
week, according to the weekly Brad
street report.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-19

to guide and instruct working parties from infantry and other units. \ One sapper will have the handling or from fifty to one hundred men nearly every day of his life. A field company may be handled in working parties drawn from other units up to J,50O men in night, at two or three assembly points.
 The sappers are there as consulting engineers to lay out the work, to set the task and report on the amount of work done by the working parties under their direction and to report on whether this work is satisfactory. If the sapper's report shows that work ing parties have not done what they should have done, then division head quarters brings pressure to bear so that the unit that supplies that work ing party will not have such a thing occur again.
 Tho engineers training is of d two fold nature. They are trained in the technical duties of engineers and are given sufficient military training so that they may apply their technical knowledge effectively.
 Included in their training are drill, instruction in care of arms, swim mlng, rowing, fsald 1ntrenchmentS and works, knitting, splicing and flashing, the use of blocks and tackles, con struction of trestles etc, construction of casks and boat rafts and piers, con- struction of pontoon bridges, etc., water supply apparatus, obstacles, sapping and mining construction and destruction of railroads, telegraphs, etc, road making and repairing, rid ing and diving drill, stable manage ment and care of horses, etc. This training will in many cases be of great value In civil life after the war.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-19
A FAIR WARNING
One That Should Be Heeded By New
 Britain Residents.

Frequently the first sign of kidney trouble is a slight ache or pain in the loins. Neglect of this warning makes the way easy for more serious troubles---dropsy, gravel, Brights disease. 'Tis well to pay at tentton to the first sign. Weak kid neys generally grow weaker and de- lay IS often dangerous. Residents Of this community place reliance in Doan's Kidney Pills. This tested remedy has been used in kidney trouble over 50 years-is recommend ed all over the civilized world. Read the following New Britain proof of their merit
 Oliver E'oulds, 374 Arch street. New Britain, says: "A cold settled on my kidneys, causing a dull ache across the small of my back Pains caught me when I bent over and when l sat down, my back seemed to sttffen up and I had to take hold of something to help myself up. Mornings my back felt especially lame and sore. I took two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills and they en- tirely cured me"
 soc, at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co, MfgrS.. Buffalo, W. Y.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-19
MEN WHO RETURNED
 TELL THEIR STORIES
Veterans of Trenches Give Latest
 News Of No Mans Land
By Sergt. Major J. R. Falconer or Canadian Black Watch"

believe if you're going to be killed you'u be killed at home as well as on the battle field. And if you arc over thero in tho thick of it you'lI escape. if only by d hairs breadth. If 1t isn't time for you to get yours."
 For instance, take one morning at Wolverghem: It was Just after stand down" and we were in our dugouts preparing our breakfast. All of a sudden we received a rally of rifle SrenadeS from Fritz. I went out with Nick NeVill who was with me in the dugout to see if anyone had been hit. While we were going round the trench a rife grenade went through the roof of our dugout and spoiled our breakfast. It would have spoiled Us too, if we had not decided to step out to see what was going on on the outside.
 A month or so later we were trans ferred to the sector in front of Kem- mel Hill, better known as Bull ring" We were warned by our in telligence department that Fritz would make Q raid on us in the morning. So we prepared. Our bombers went over the top of our trench and took up "watchful waiting position just inside our wire. They lay down as comfortably as possible In about four inches of snow. This was the night of Feb ruary 1916.
 At two-thirty that morning Fritz came over. numbering about seventy strong, and, believe me, our bombers gave them the hottest reception they had had In a long time. Very few of them got back to their own lines Outside of those who were carried back, never to return, VIC succeeded iu taking two prisoners Those two were very glad to find themselves safe and sound after seeing the fare of their comrades.
 The Hun artillery made the remain der of that trip pretty warm for lis But Fritz found a stubborn crowd of men in this company of the 42nd Royal Highlanders and he had to give it up for bad job. For In spite of the heavy smelling the boys car ried on as usual.
 By Capt. F. Brooke Baxter
 Of the 11th Essex Battalion
 The prisoners we got at times were like babies after coming through our
New Britain herald., 1918-03-19

iS over. So l went to a German con sul. But I never intended to fight on the side of Germany. l saw the consul and almost had q fight with him. l finally got the papers from him. Now I have destroyed them. I will be able to get the factory and ,hc business without them. Alsace- Lorraine will be free.
 After q, boy of Alsace Lorraine Is seventeen he cannot leave the country without a passport from the German uthorities Ho has to agree to come hack at the age of twenty to serve q year in the army. Neglecting to dc SO he forfeits citizenship and all property there. Six months later he .las to go back and serve 56 days. A %ear or so later he is called back for another 66 days. Some eight to ten years later he is called back to the army for weeks service. There lore until a man is 45 years old he belongs to the army and is home only cn furlouah. The whole nation is a war machine The life of an Asa ian in the army is made miserable. By Lieut.. F. Evans, 18th Canadian
 Engineers.
 Uieut Evans had experience in Egypt and Africa, as well as other re- mote places where his profession of civil engineer has fitted him to talk to and advise men who contemplate enlistment in the Canadian En- gineers)
 I have not found anyone in Canada. not a returned soldier, who knows the status of the engineer in France. It is mistaken idea that the sapper in France does the actual work in- volved in construction of trenches, roads, etc. The sapper in France has no time for that. All he can do is
New Britain herald., 1918-03-19


 dare to give his name until Prussian ,nilitarism is annihilated, as the lives of his father and sisters may be at stake. He recently enlisted with the Canadian forces.)
 When you read reports regarding the attitude of the Alsatians toward Germany, they are usually misleading and often untrue as far as the real hlsatians are concerned. Since 1871 many of our people have moved into France rather than go under Prus- sim rule. My father could not move on account of his business. And many Germans have Eeen introduced into Alsace Lorraine through the custom of placing Prussian ser geant. as burgomaster, in charge of every town that amounts to anything. | To show you the true feelings of the Alsatians: When l was boy, I WAS sent to a boarding school The Alsatian boys lined up one side and the German boys the other. If l German licked an Alsatian, he had all the Alsatians to meet. The feel ing was so strong with these boys twelve to fifteen years G7d, that they would get together with knives and plan to fight the Prussians. One of tte rules was that if an Alsatian boy forgot and expressed himself in his own language he was punished by l .orfeiting a, whole weeks pocket money
 I was in this country on business when war was declared. I knew if 1 there were not papers to show that I had enlisted with Germany, the law is such that I would not be able to have our family's business when 1t
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-23

been twisted into a declaration that there is plenty of food in England and France. The food position in this country, and I understand in France also, can without exaggeration be des- scribed as critical and anxious. AS am now unable to avoid public ration ing, I fear it will have to come with long queues of people awaiting in the severe weather in practically every town in England for the daily neces- sities of life"
 The only consolation from the en- tente viewpoint is that the situation in the central empires is much more serious. That fact, however. does no; justify the American people in fail ing to live up to the letter and spirit of the food conservation movement i" this country. So small sacrifice is insignificant as compared with wha' the people of the other countries are giving in the battle for democracy.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-23
destroy a submarine 150 feet from the point of explosion.
THE HOME MERCHANT
THE HOME MERCHANT; who i.

THE HOME MERCHANT; who is he?
 He is the man who gives you credit when you are financially embarrassed and carries your account when you are unable to pay. | He is the man who gives you back your money or makes exchanges when you are not satisfied with what you have bought. He is the man who stands back of his guarantee and makes restoration of all losses you may sustain on goods you may buy from him. He is the man who meets you at the door with a handshake and in quires after Mary and the children" and "how the measles left Tommy" and lets you out with a message of ! good cheer for the family and maybe package of candy for the kids. He is the man who takes a neigh borly interest in you and your af- fairs.
 He is the man who with his en- ployes lives in your city and spends his money with you, and other busi- nesses of the city. He is the man who helps you pay taxes to support the schools, main- tain the streets. police and fire de- partment, and other public institu tions.
 He is the man who in sickness and in health is still your friend and will ing to take chance on your paying him.
 He is the man whose name is on ev- cry subscription list and who gives cheerfully to all civic propositions. He is your home merchant-your friend-your neighbor-your helper in the hour of diversity; who is equally interested with you in up- building the town.
 Be FAIR to him-your friend and neighbor: buy in Valdez.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-23
DETECTING THE C-BOAT

Much has been made of the success full use of the micrOphone by subma- rines. The device, so far as it's appli- cation to the undersea boat is con- cerned. is of greater value to the Ger mans than to the allies, because it is the central powers that are waging an aggressive U-boat warfare. The ad- vantage of the microphone to the sub marine-and it is an incalculable one--is that it gives the submersible a chance to detect the approach of hostile ships as we'll as other move ments of a more exact nature.
 But, as usual, there is device which contracts this advantage to the U-boat, and that device is the mic rophone. In other words, micro phone can be used successfully on a surface-going vessel as we'll as on a submarine. According to Swedish authority on technical information the microphone detector and the depth bomb are the two most effective methods of combating the sub"
 English experts, according to the writer. have lately so perfected the use of the microphone on anti-sub- marine vessels that they are able to steal accurately and automatically down on the submarine, while former ly they were unable to locate a yes sel beneath the surface without tn" aid of an airplane or balloon. The microphones are placed below the water. close to the keel of the vessel and answer the same purpose as the microphones of a telephone. By lis tening to the beat of the submarines s propeller they can determine the ex- act location of the enemy and attack him before he has the slightest idea of what is happening.
 The detection instruments used with the microphones are very com plex. One of them shows the distance of the submarine on graduated scale the indicator responding electrically to the sound from the submarines propellers The variations of distance are shown with marvellous accuracy. Another device shows whether the enemy is on the port or starboard side. The electro magnet hand moves to the side on which the sound is loudest. and the ship is guided ac- c0rdingly. >
 When the proper spot is reached, bombs are dropped in the same man. ner as from airplanes. Their under water force is so great that they can
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-01-23
LARGE AUDIENCE SEES
 4 SPLENDID COMEDY

The Empress Theatre was packed last night to see "The House of Ter rible Scandals. and that they were not disappointed was shown by the roars of laughter with which each scene was greeted. The acrobatic work of the comedians was far bet ter than the average. and was a wei come change from the Charlie Chap lin slap-stick variety. The Moose Band played several pieces in creditable manner, and all departed feeling well repaid for their money. It was one of the best shows ever given in Val deZ