Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-16
WAR EXHIBITIONT0
OPEN IN CHICAGO
People Win Have a Chance to Sea
How Our Boys Fight and What
They Fight With.
IT IS A GOVERNMENT SHOW
Seventeen Carloads of Trophies "a,
tured From the Huns and Materi.,
Used by the AIIies-BattIeffeId
to Be Reproduced.

Chicago. Uncle Sam wants tho MAO
pie of this part of the country 10 kro,r
more 0 the life Of their bows in tbo
war zone Of France, and more abopr
the weapons they, their allies ana rbaIr
enemies use. Therefore the govern.
menf viii open an immense war ev.
hibition in Chicago September . tn
continue until September Is. The CIV.
hibits include all sorts of war oaterie1
and innumerable trophies captured
from the Huns.
1t is not private money making
fair, but an official exposition given
by the government through the COM
mittee on public information and ths
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 If
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.
viii 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 bv
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 viii show No Mans Land-all 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 win 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
dters and sailors to man them and
show how they are used; airpanes
signal stations, listening posts, fire con-
troll stations-everything that can be
reproduced in so small field, viii 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 plumber of all kinds taken
from the proud Germans by the Yankee
boys-and if II be possible to get them
here in time there viii be big display
of cannon captured by Chicago troops
In the great battle now raging between
the Marine 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
trench tools, shells, periscopes, bay
onets, and clothing used by the Italian
army.
Remembering their beloved cathedral
of Reims, the French have placed with
their exhibit q shrine, wrecked by the
Germans. But they also have spollS
taken in the hottest battles-guns ana
gun carriages, "whiz-bangs," trench
mortars. mine wefers, German S-inch
tncendiary shells, airplanes Of the
type which tried to destroy Paris, ana
Zeppelin bombs. There is a complete
exhibit of the famous French field gun
the '75," So-caiicd because its caliber
Is IS millineters.
Guns From Cruiser Emden.
The British exhibic includes guns
from the cruiser Linden, which a Brit
ish ship destroyed; guns taken from
the Turks; guns captured in GaillpoIl'
and all manner of wreckage from d
score of battlefelds. OF great interest
are the British medals awarded for coz
hpicuous bravery or great service "
the empire.
Canada, q course. sets great St'Ie
by her trophies from famous Fins
Ridge, Passchendaele, Ypres and VLe-
ever the rugged fighters met the Bun