The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-10-16
CAPTURED GERMAN
GUNS ON 7 TRAINS
IN EIGHTH DISTRICT
LIBERTY LOAN ORGANIZATION
SENDS WONDERFUL WAR Ex-
HiBITs TO THIS SECTION.
VARIOUS WEAPONS TO BE SEEN
Gas Masks, Shells and Depth Bombs
Included In Collection OF
Trophies.

Two solid trains, laden with the most
comprehensive exhibits of war mate.
rails ever shown west of the Missis-
sippi 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 50
scanty that it was impossible to show
sufficient to arouse the interest of the
spectator
For the Fourth Loan ii is different.
In vast warehouses in South st. Louis
during the past three months was as.
sembled q wonderful collection of the
arms of the nations at war. There
were the gas masks used by the
French anl he Germans in th7'r
struggles for the world supremacy,
placed in passenger coaches tempo
rarily converted into exhibit cars.
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
specimens of small arms, all of which
have seen active service.
Big Guns on Flat Cars.
On flat cars that comprise a part Of
the train are great guns captured from
the Germans and Austrians, all camou-
fiaged 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 cf-
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.
There are depth bombs, that have
proven so effective ir removing the
submarine menace, and when one un-
derstands the terrible power Of the *.
plosive contained in the harm!c2s-lSc!:-
ing cans he will understand how tie
submarine commanders dread to see
the approach of the American destroy
er that makes a specially Of dropping
these depth bombs over the spot whore
the undersea craft submcrges.
There is row after row of the great
shells that sCrecch 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 arrangement, is shown in count
less numbers, and each is so labeled
that the spectator may know and I'M
Gerstand
All Fully Explained.
Then there are pictures, charts and
literature that accompany the trains.
With each train is Il corps of speakers,
civilians, and soldiers who have seen
actual service and who are sent back
70 recover from their wounds. These
speakers describe the various arms
and the soldiers describe the battles
in which they Tough, 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 ar
ranged and no changes can be made
in them.