The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-23
CAPTURED GERMAN
GUNS ON Z TRAINS
IN EIGHTH DISTRICT
LIBERTY LOAN ORGANIZATION
SENDS WONDERFUL WAR Ex-
HlBlTS TO THIS SECTION.
VARIOUSWEAP0NS 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 so
scanty that it was impossible to show
sufficient to arouse the interest of the
spectator.
For the Fourth Loan it is different.
In vast warehouses in South st. Louis
during the past three months was as
sembled 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,
PloNCQ III PdooCh6C1 NOcNhOo SCA1PS-
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-
| 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 eff
| 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 in removing the
submarine menace, and when one un-
derstands the terrible power of the ex-
plosive contained in the harmless-look-
ing cans 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 a 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 il
every engagement, is shown in count
less numbers, and each is so labeled
that the spectator may know and I'm
derstand.
All Fully Explained.
Then there are pictures, charts ant
literature that accompany the trains
With each train is corps of speakers
civilians, and soldiers who have seer
actual service and who are sent bacl
to recover from their wounds. These
speakers describe the various arm!
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 ent
of the campaign. The routes are al
| ropOod ond No changes can be mad,