Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-09
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 WITH WAR EXHIBITS

At the war relic train on Thursday | ponds 10 the amount of $2500 were sold during the day which was not a l heavy response considering that the | speakers and those in charge of the l train as well aG the Boy Scouts and 1 members of the Victory loan commit i tee did their best to get more sub i scriptions and plead with the leopie to buy. The train stood on the sid ng at the foot of Ferry street all tlay ard was visited at various times through the day by several thousand paDple
 Bombs were set off at intervals dur Ing the day to announce the speaking and small crowds gathered and lissell- ed to the speakers but tlinee was 6 sa Il lack Of bond buyers. there being only 20 subscriptions all day long. A. li,e 3 o'clock meeting Priya1e Walter r. Moran, Norwich's first boy to le wounded, told of his experiences 'ov<.r there and made strong appeal for the Fict0rl Loan and started the bal: rolling by buying the first bond Other speakers followed throughout the day and included Private Michael J. Adj Of the famous 162ai regiment, Sergt. Raymond B. Sherman or his city, Lieut.. Earle c. Herrick Of this city, a member of the 56tll regiment. Capt. Owen of the Royal Air Force who wears an eye shade and wound stripe as his eye was shot out when i flying at a height of 4000 feet, Charies i'rink of Norwich, who was in the Lost Battalion, Dr A. A. Rideout, Ser eeant Rlzgn, who is credited with fir
 ing the first shot fired by an Aneri-
 an, I-iaHt. Gu9.7y and L. S. Carney and Private Matthias Pion. All the speakers told of experiences and hair
 breadth escapes but passed lightly
 over this made strong pleas and ar
 guments for the Victory loan, as one
 speaker expressed it, the greatest
 piece Of paper written since the Bi-
 ble"
 The speakers worked hard and
 talked until their voices were husky, ; but the subscriptions were slow in ] coming in and the crowd that gath
 cred were more curiosity seekers than
 buyers of Victory bonds, but this was
 due probably to the fact that the cam
 palgn is nearly over and many had
 purchased bonds earlier in the drive i The various banks had representa-
 lives stationed near the train in an automobile to receive the first pay-
 fnents on bonds. Those who were ir
 attendance during the day were Earle w. Stamm. Alfred Allen, Guy E. Dol i beare. J. Dana Colt, Arthur E. Storey 1 Harold Hull. John H. Perkins and Harry Powers.
 | The women'S committee was repre
 sented by Mrs. M. H. Donahue, assist ed by Mrs. John Bourne Mrs James J. Casey, Miss Mary Hartie, Miss Camille Corrnier. Miss Irene Walsh Miss Agnes Looby ard Miss Mae Me,
 Loughlin. This committee tabulatet , the results and helped with the solic. , iting Of subscriptions.
  t Tine Liberty Drum Corps under tn, ' leadership of Felix DeBarros. a re 3 turned member of the Buffalo division 9 drummed for the Victory bonds al t day long from g in the morning unti I 8 at night. }
 I The exhibits of war relics was on l. Of the most complete and interestinJ 2 of any that has been shown in tn l country and included about everythin, U from a squad dinner pail to the bi German hoWitzerS and the Hindenbur, | Pill Box. There were machine gu, 5 belt loaders. German Snipers breas 2 plates, bayonets. Tickers nachin Il guns, Lewis machine guns used by tn English, trench mortars. Gerna Maxim machine gun rifles, automatic
 French British and German, aeria
 bombs, S-inch shells, rocket holders trench heaters, something that tn Y boys never had. German ITS, all bat d tered up. a krupp whiz bang or SS n $ m., a Heating mine and base. On on = of the cars was a German v m. II k gun that was captured on July 1Sti F the first day of the drive by the frs r divison near Soissons. This gun wa a camouflaged and it took a hot fight t "; silence it.
 $ The Hindenburg Pill Box attracte y q good deal of attention. This was
 steel coop with a three inch gun in 2 revolving turret and old Hindenbur i would creep in here and watch wit d saddened face his line crumple befog
 the onslaught Of the allies. The bo ,t bears the marks of direct hits but tn n only way to get the man inside wa 10 to drop a hand grenade in through
 peep hole and then sweep him out.