Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-08-17
People viii Have a Chance to See
How Our Boys Fight and What
They Fight With.
IT is A G0vERNME SHOW
Seventeen Carloads of Trophies Cap
tured From the Huns and Material
Used by the AIlies-Battiefeld
to Be Reproduced.


pie of this part of the country to know
more 0. 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-
hibition in Chicago September ., to
continue until September Is. The ex-
hibits include all sorts of war material
and innumerable trophies captured
from the Huns.
1t is not 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
GUM participate. Nothing is for sale.
Nothing is to be promoted. The adj
mission fee will be very small, and If it
pays the bare expenses of bringing the
exhibits here and placing them before
the public. that is all that Is wanted.
II 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.
Will Reproduce Battlefield.
1t will be a 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 LANDAU 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 it's
wilderness of harbed wire entangle-
ments with its wrecks of guns and
wagons and airplanes.
First aid stations will be shown. with
the blessed sign of the 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 a 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
sIe 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 a 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
hat splendid city; an Austrian floating
mine; guns from Austrian submarines:
torpedOes taken from Austrian SUBJ
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 a shrine, wrecked by the
Germans. But they also have spoils
taken in the hottest battles-guns and
gun carriages, "whiz-bangs," n
mOrtars. mine wefers, German S-inch
lncendiary shells, airplanes Of thc
type which tried to destroy Paris. and
Zeppelin bombs. There is a corIplete
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 ali manner of wrecSage from a
score of oattlefelds. OF great interest
are the British medals awarded for cons
spicuouS bravery or great service TO
the empire.
Canada. Of course sets great store
by her trophies from famous Yimy
Ridge. Pass ehendaele. Ypres and wher-
ever the rugged fighters met the Hun.
Different Then.