The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-08-16
WAR EXHIBITION To
OPEN IN CHICAGO
People Will Have a Chance to See
How Our Boys Fight and What
They Fight With.
IT IS A GOVERNMENT SHOW
Seventeen Carloads Of Trophies Cap
tured From the Huns and Material
Used by the Allles-5attlefield
to Be Reproduced.

10 DC Reproduced
Chlcago.-Uncle Sam wants the peo'
pie of this part Of the country to know
more 60 the life of their boys In the
war zone of France, and more about
the weapons they, their allies and their
enemies use. Therefore the govern
ment will open an immense war eX-
hibitlon In Chicago September 2, to
continue until September IS. The eX-
hibits include all sorts of war material
and innumerabe trophies captured
from the Huns.
II Is not n 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
gium participate. Nothing Is for sale.
Nothing Is to be promoted. The ad-
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, 1t goes
by law into the United States treas
ury and reduces by that much the bur-
dens Of the taxpayer.
VIII Reproduce Battlefield.
1t will be n 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.
1t will show No Mans Land-all but
the ghastly 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 I'm
the darkest hour of night. No Mans
Land. with its great cellars digged by
shells, with its plowed and torn and
pulverlzed dirt and gravel, with its
wilderness Of barbed wire entangle-
ments, with its wrecks of guns a0d
wagons and airplanes.
First aid stations will be shown, with
the blessed sign OF tho 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 field, will be
shown.
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 plunder 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
the Marne and the Aisne.
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 sub
marines destroyed by the italian navy,
and the innumerable forms of rifles,
hoy
onets, and clothing used by the Italian
army.
Remembering their beloved cathedral
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 SINGH
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 IS 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 battleflelds. 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, Passchendaele, Ypres and wher-
ever the rugged fighters met the Hun.