Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-10-17
Z TRAINS Of WAR
EXHIBITS TOURING
EIGHTH DISTRICT
MOST COMPREHENSIVE coLLEc-
TON OF WEAPONS AND ExPLo-
sivEs EVER ASSEMBLED.
GERMAN TROPHIES ON CAR
Great Guns, Small Arms and Bombs
included In Liberty Loan Or
eanlxatIoH's Exhibits.


most compreh& sive exhibits Of var
materials ever 6hown west of the dis.
sissippi River, with cannon captured
from the Germans In the present world
war, tropl les from many OF the battle
fields, and with specimens OF the ac-
coutrements used by the Americans,
British and French, are touring tic
seven states making up the Eighth
Federal Reserve District In the inter-
est of the Liberty Loan Organization.
In the Third Liberty Loan campaign
exhibit trains toured the country, but
then the material at hand was sc
scanty that 1t was impossible to show
Sufficient to arouse the interest Of the
spectator.
For the Fourth Loan 1t is different
Assembled in vast warehouses in South
st. Louis during the past three months
was wonderful collection OF the arms
of the nations at war. There were the
gas masks used by the French and the
Germans in their struggles for the
world supremacy. placed In passenger
coaches temporarily converted into ex-
ihibit ears.
All Sorts Of Weapons.
There are hundseds of the various
kids Of hand grenades used by the
Central Powers and the Allies, swords.
cutlasses, dasgers, trench knives used
ioy the Marines and hundreds of other
specimens of small arms, all of which
have seen active service.
On flat cars that comprise part Of
the train are great guns captured from
the Germans and Austrians, all camou-
1iaged and mounted the same as they
'weye the day the victorious Allies over
came the Huns and took thousands of
prisoners.
Machine guns, the kind used by the
Americans and by all of the nations,
are fastened on the cars and mounted
so that the veriest tyro In the war
game may understand the terrible ef-
fectiveness Of these deadly weapons.
One of the interesting exhibits is the
array Of air bombs, the kind that the
American birdmen are carrying over
the frontier now and will drop on the
industrial region In the Rhine Valley
and hasten the end Of the war.
Depth Bombs, Too.
There are depth bombs that have
proven SO effective in removing the
submarine menace, and when one un-
1erstands the terrible power of the ex-
plosiye contained in the harmless-look-
ng guns he will understand how The
submarine commanders dread to see
he approach of the American destroy
II that makes a speciality of dropping
heee depth bombs over the spot where
he undersea craft submerges.
There Is row after row of the great
hells that screech over the battle
Nnts, each shell so marked that the j
'eholder may realize in measure the
lamage that can be wrought when
thousands Of giant guns are hurting
Nese dreadful missiles miles through
pace and causing them to explode
within the enemy lines.
Every implement Of warfare, the
lind that the daily papers mention in
very engagement, is shown in count
ess numbers, and each is SO labeled
hat the spectator may know and I'M
efstand.
Then there are pictures. charts and
Iterature that accompany the trains.
With each train Is corps OF speakers,
Williams, and soldiers that have seen |
ctual service. and who are sent back
0 recover from their wounds. These |
peakers describe tine various arms and .
he soldiers describe the battles in a
'hich they fought and in which they I
eceived their wounds.
The train is made up of flat cars,
~ coaches. sleepers and cafe cars.
ne workers in charge OF the train Z
We thereon and will remain until the
nd of the campaign. The routes are
and no changes can be made
i them. Il