Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-08-21
TREAT. WAR EXHIBIT
Government Sending Complete
Display to Chicago.
People of This Region Are to Be
Shown All the Material of War
fare and Countless Trophies
Taken From the Boches.

ment has chosen Chicago as the site of
the biggest and most complete war
exposition in this country since the
war began, and for two weeks, be-
ginning September 2, the people Of
TINS city and of the surrounding coun-
Try VIII have the opportunity of see
ing samples of all the war material
used by the allied troops, and also
many trophies taken by them from the
| Boches. The exhibits fill seventeen
railway cars.
1t is not private money making
affair, but an official exposition. given
by the government through the COM
mlttee on public information and the
Illinois State Council of Defense, and
In which the governments of France,
| Great Britain, Canada, Italy, and Bel
GUM participate. Nothing is for sale
Nothing is to be promoted. The adj
mission fee will be very small, and if it
pays the bare expenses of bringing the
exhibits here and placing them before
| the public, that is all that is wanted.
| 1T there should be surplus, it goes
by law into the United States treas
ury and reduces by that much the bur-
dens of the taxpayer
Will Reproduce Battlefield.
1t will be a battlefield, reproduced
faithfully to the smallest detail, within
the limitations of the grounds. Front
line trenches will be there, laid out by
the very officer who laid them out in
that Flanders battlefield where the
Princess Pats fought until there are
now but three men left alive of the
original regiment
1t will show No Mans LANDAU but
the CHASTITY death scenes and one can
well imagine them--that strip of
ground ruled over by jealous Death
where neither Boche nor human being
dares set foot except by stealth and in
the darkest hour of night. No Mans
Land, with it's great cellars digged by
shells, with it's plowed and torn and
pulverized dirt and gravel, with it's
wilderness Of barbed wire entangle-
ments, with It's wrecks of guns and
wagons and airplanes
First aid stations will be shown, with
the blessed sign of the Red Cross at the
entrance-favorite mark for German
shells.
Guns of all sizes and kinds, with sol
diers and sailors to man them and
show how they are used; airplanes,
signal stations, listening posts, fire con-
troll everything that can be
reproduced in so small a field, will be
shown.
There will be the incendiary pastels
of which every German soldier at the
beginning of the war carried sixty.
With these they burned houses and
churches. The city of Louvain was
burned with them.
Show American Trophies.
Of the greatest interest to Ameri-
cans will be the war material used by
our boys, and the trophies captured by
them from the enemy. Oh, yes,. there
are guns and plumber of all kinds taken
from the proud Germans by the Yankee
boys-and if it be possible to get them
here in time there will be a big display
of cannon captured by Chicago troops
in the great battle now raging between
the Marine and the Aisne. A cable has
been sent to General Pershing asking
him, If possible, to ship some Of the
booty over in time for the great expo
sition at Chicago.
The italian exhibit contains a great
many specimens of Austrian guns and
shells. There IS an incendiary bomb
dropped on Venice in an effort to burn
that splendid city; an Austrian floating
mine; guns from Austrian submarines;
torpedoes taken from Austrian sub
marines destroyed by the italian navy,
and the innumerable forms of rifles,
trench tools, shells, periscopes, bay
onets, and clothing used by the Italian
army.
Remembering their beloved cathedral
of Reims, the French have placed with
their exhibit a shrine, wrecked by the
Germans. But they also have spoils
taken in the hottest battles-guns and
gun carriages, ''whiz-bangs," trench
mortars. mine wefers, German 8-fnch
incendiary shells, airplanes of the
type which tried to destroy Paris, and
Zeppelin bombs. There is a complete |
exhibit of the famous French field gun,
the "75,"
Guns From Cruiser Emden.
The British exhibit includes guns |
from the cruiser Emden, which Brit |