The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-10-18
z TRAINS Of WAR
EXHIBITS TOURING
EIGHTH DISTRICT
MOST COMPREHENSIVE coLLEc-
TIoN OF WEAPONS AND ExPLo.
slVES EVER ASSEMBLED.
GERMAN TROPHIES ON CAR
Great Guns, Small Arms and Bombs
included in Liberty Loan Or
ganization's Exhibits.

Two solid trains, laden with the
most comprehensive exhibits Of war
materials ever shown west OF the Mis-
sissippi River, with cannon captured
from the Germans in the present world
war, trophies from many of the battle
fields, and with specimens of the &C
coutrements used by the Americans,
British and French, are touring the
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 so
scanty that it was impossible to show
sufficient to arouse the interest of the
spectator.
For the Fourth Loan II is different.
Assembled in vast warehouses in South
St Louis during the past three months
was a 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-
hibit cars.
All Sorts Of Weapons.
There are hundreds of the various
kinds of hand grenades used by the
Central Powers and the Allies, swords.
cutlasses. daggers. trench knives used
by the Marines and hundreds of other
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have seen active service.
On flat cars that comprise a part of
the train are great guns captured from
the Germans and Austrians, all camou-
flaged and mounted the same as they
were 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 I'M
derstands the terrible power of the ex-
plosive contained in the harmless-look-
ing guns he will understand how the
submarine commanders dread to see
the approach of the American destroy
er that makes a speciality Of dropping
these depth bombs over the spot where
the undersea craft submerges.
! There is row after row of the great
shells that screech over the battle
fronts, each shell so marked that the
beholder may realize in measure the
damage that can be wrought when
thousands of giant guns are hurting
these dreadful missiles miles through
space and causing them to explode
within the enemy lines.
Every implement OF warfare. the
kind that the daily papers mention in
every engagement. is shown in count
less numbers. and each is so labeled
that the spectator may know and I'M
derstand.
Then there are pictures. charts and
literature that accompany the trains.
With each train is corps of speakers.
civilians. and soldiers that have seen
actual service, and who are sent back
TO recover from their wounds. These
speakers describe tine various arms and
the soldiers describe the battles in
which they fought and in which they
received their wounds.
The train is made up of flat cars.
day coaches. sleepers and cafe cars.
The workers in charge of the train
live thereon and will remain until the
end of the campaign. The routes are
arranged and no changes can be made
in, than