Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-20
BIG DISPLAY OF
TROPHIES OF WAR
Government to Give Exhibition in
Chicago in September.
FOR BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE
Trenchs, Guns, AirpIanes, Torpedoes,
"Whiz-Bangs" and All the Material
of Warfare, Together With
Plumber Taken from Huns.

Chicago.-In order that the people
OF this region may see just how their
sons, brothers, husbands aud friends
are fighting in France, what they are
fghting with and what they are fight
ing against, the United States govern
ment is going to hold in Chicago the
biggest and most complete war exhi-
bition the country has seen. Seven
teen carloads of war trophies, consist
Ing largely of cannon, rifles, airplanes.
etc., captured from the Germans. and
materials of war used by the allies,
will be on exhibition for two weeks in
Grant park from Labor day, September
2, until September Is.
1t is not private money making
affair, but an official exposition, given
by the government through the com
mittee 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 1t
pays the bare expenses of bringing the
exhibits here and placing them before
the public, that is all that is wanted.
If 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 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.
It 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 its great cellars digged by
Shells with its plowed and torn and
pulverized dirt and gravel, with its
wilderness of barbed wire entangle-
ments, with its 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 stations-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 big display
of cannon captured by Chicago troops
in the great battle now raging between
ho NTOr nd 10 A oo1 hno
been sent to { neral 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 SUBJ
marines destroyed by the Italian navy,
and the innumerabIe forms of rifles,
trench tools, shells, periscopes, bay
onets, and clothing used by the Italian
army.
ACKNOWLEDGING IllelI DelONcu CdtIGiIdl
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 S-inch
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." so-called because its caliber
is 70 millimeters.
Guns From Cruiser Emden.
The British exhibit includes guns
from the cruiser Emden, which Brit
ish ship destroyed; guns taken from
the Turks; guns captured in Gallipoli,
and all manner of wreckage from a
score of battlefieIds. OF great interest |
are the British medals awarded for con-
spicuous bravery or great service to |
the empire.
Canada, of course, sets great store |
by her trophies from famous Vimy |
Ridge, Passchendaeie, Ypres and wher- |
ever the rugged fighters met the Hun.
Though America has been in the |
fighting only year, there is a long
Most Unusual.
Just met London chorus girl-one |