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BROWNING GUN FOR AIRCRAFT IG 0. K. RATE OF FIRE SYNCHRONIZED WITH REVOLUTIONS OF THE TRACTOR PROPELLER. BASEBALL CAPTURES-UWDON American Army and Navy Teams Draw Big Crowds—British Officers in U. 6. Give Instruction in Gas Defense. The Browning machine gun has suc cessfully undergone a test to deter mine Its value for use wUh aircraft. Tills is one of three types of machine guns with which the rate of fire can be so synchronized with the revolu tions of the propeller of a tractor air plane that the gun can be fired by the pilot of a combat plane through the revolving blades. Airplane propellers revolve at from 800 to 2,000 revolutions per minute. The machine gun is connected with the airplane engine by a mechanical or hydraulic device, and Impulses from the crank shaft are transmitted to the machine gun. The rate of fire of the machine gun is constant and Its fire Is synchronized with tlie revolving pro peller blades by "wasting" a certain percentage of the impulses It receives from the airplane engine and by hav ing the remaining Impulses trip or pull the trigger so that the gun tires Just at the fraction of the second when the propeller blades are clear of the line of fire. The pilot operates the gun by means of a lever which controls the circuit end allows the impulses to trip the trigger. "As the latest wonder of the world London has taken to baseball," says u committee on public Information representative in London. "The Eng lish never before had much use for our great game. They called it an ex aggerated form of rounders and won dered what the noise was all about, but the American and Canadian sol diers In England have been educating them. "A regular league of eight teams lifts started a summer schedule, and the English public Is learning what It has missed. Big crowds witness the game which Is played every Saturday, and the sport bids fair to become widely ' popular. Here Is the way Thomas Burke, the short-story writer, reports a game in the London Star of May 27 " 'Lnst week I discovered baseball. The match between the Army and Navy teams was my first glimpse of a pastime that has captivated a conti nent, and 1 can well understand Its ap peal to a modern temperament. Be lieve me, It's good goods. And the crowd ! I had heard and read much of baseball fans and their method of root ing, but my conceptions were nothing near the real tiling. The grandstands, crowded with army and navy fans, bristling with megaphones and tossing hats and demoniac faces, would have made a superb subject for a lithograph by Sir Frank Bragwyn. _ " 'The game got hold of me before the first pitched ball. The players in tleir hybrid costumes and huge gloves, the catcher In Ills gas mask, and the movements of the teams as they prac ticed runs shook me with excitement. Then the game began and the rooting begnn. In past years I have attended various football matches In mining dis tricts where the players came In for a certain amount of ragging, but they were church services compared with the furious abuse and hazing handed to any unfortunate who failed to play ball. " 'There was. for example, an explo sive, reverberating "A-h-h-h-h-h" which I have been practicing in my back yard ever since, but without once catching Its true quality. You should have heard Admiral Sims, as college yell lealer, when the Navy made a home run hit, with his "Atta boy; oh, atta way to play ball," and when they got an error he sure handed the Navy theirs. " 'Yes; I've got It. From now on I'm a fan. I'm going to see every baseball match played anywhere near London. I shall never be able to watch with ex citement a cricket or football match after this; it'd be like a tortoise race. along with me to the next match and join me In rooting and In killing the umpire.'" In March and April the secretary of agriculture, on recommendation of the office of public roads and rural engi neering. approved 212 state road-build ing projects involving more than 2,500 miles of highways under the federal aid road act. The estimated cost of these improvements to the states Is about $15,000,000. The federal aid al lowed Is more than $5,000,000. Bottlers of soft drinks in the United States may save approximately 50,000 tons of sugar annually by using other sweetening materials, according to In vestigations by specialists of the bu reau of chemistry. United States de partment of agriculture. The bureau of chemistry Is preparing to furnish bottlers wiyi sweetening formulas that will allow the actual sugar content In soft drinks to be cut to 50 per cent or less and at the same time will preserve ■the customary taste of the beverages. Starch sugar, starch sirup, maltose alr- UD and honey are the substitutes used. TT.s army ordnance department ha| negotiated approximately 12,000 con tracts since this country entered the war, involving within $175,000,000 of the total funds directly available for the department for the present fiscal year—s3.3B3,2St»,mr>. Additional con tracts totaling sl,. r >03,70.'1,741 have been entered Ipto on the authority of con gress pending appropriation of nn amount aggregating $1,(571,-MM,750. The magnitude of the task of the ordnance department financially is evi denced by the disbursement recently in u single day of more than $25,000,000 on ordinary contract vouchers. IMs hursements for the month of April, IPIS, ran to »n interesting amount as compared with the $5,059,- 264 disbursed by the ordnance depart ment in April, 1017. These disburse ments were made at the ordnance of fice in Washington. Amounts dis bursed nt government arsenals are uot Included. One check recently drawn by the ord nance disbursing officer for ordnance material was for $18,750,000. One re quisition made recently by this same officer on the treasury was for $169.- 000,000. This Is the largest single requi sition ever made by any United Stutw disbursing officer. Trior to two months ago, before the ordnance department established Its 11 district offices which zoned the country to expedite payments to contractors and relieve the strain upon the main office In Washington, the disbursing officer at Washington signed from 500 to 3,000 checks a day. Because of the Instruction of gas of ficers who have been nt the various camps for the last six months, the troops which are going forward to France nre well posted on methods of combating gas attacks, says a state ment authorized by the war depart ment. A group of British gas officers has been In this country since last summer. One of these men hns been at each of the training camps, advising and assisting the division gas officer. All the men going overseas are sup plied with gas helmets. Under the di vision gas officers and their assistants, ■the men- nre drilled lu the use of masks, taught how to detect the pres ence of gas, and given actual experi ence with different sorts of gnses. Mimic gas shells and cloud attacks, used often at night in connection with high explosives, help to make the train ing realistic. The United States has been able to build on the experience of the British and French, to whom gas attacks were unknown when they entered the wnr. No American troops have been sent to the front without practical experience In defending themselves against gas. The training of Instructors In gas de fense Includes a course of about one month. Most of the gas officers are commissioned first lieutenants. One of the Interesting developments of the war, according to a statement authorized by the war department. Is the rapid expansion of the various bu reaus of the war department. At the outbreak of the war there were less than 3,000 employees on duty. The number now Is approximately 25,000, an Increase of 800 per cent. While this represents a tremendous expansion, the Increase In the.army Itself has been more than 1,500 per cent. Only four out of every 100 officers In the service were In the army at the time the war began. The gas defense service Is now mnnu facturing about 5,000 horse (ins masks per day. These are being s jt to France, and It Is expected that within a short time every horse connected with the American expeditionary forces will be equipped with the new masks. The gas defense service hns a com pletely equipped factory for the manu facture of the masks. In less than three weeks a building was selected nnd the factory was producing masks. The Introduction of riveting machinery has done away with the heavy hand sewing of the frame which supports the masks on the faces of the horses. The masks are so constructed that no metal or chemically Impregnated parts can chafe the horse. In Bavaria the monthly meat ration has been cut 20 per cent —from 1,000 to 800 grams—according to German newspapers. The monthly meat ration In Saxony haa been reduced from 800 to 700 grama. Public officials are re ported In the Prussian press as discus sing the possibility of a further reduc tion of the bread ration In Prussia. A Munich paper reports that from the beginning of the war to March 1, 1918, Bavarian hog stocks have de creased from 2,106,312 to 766,391 head. The Danish hog census shows a de crease from 1,651,000 hogs July 12, 1917, to 789,000 December 5, 1917, or a decrease of one-third the number at the beginning of the war. The restriction on the Importation of crude rubber followed by re strictions on Importation of four com modities possessing some of the char acteristics of rubber, and capable un der some circumstances of being used as substitutes for natural rubber. Actlng on a suggetslon of General Pershing an order has been Issued In creasing each regiment's band from 28 to 50 members. Band leaders having had more than five years' military ex perience sa band leaders will be made first lieutenants; those with less than five years' experience will be made sec ond lieutenants. . Beside enlarging the hands a bugle and drutp corps will be added to each regiment. Each corps will Include the company buglers of Its regiment, and not more than 13 drummers. THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA MWw m I >wvimKH^ v J^ffHßad I—American1 —American infantrymen In France entraining to tuke their places ui Hie lighting front. 2—Survivors of the schooner Edward H. Cole, one of the victims of the submarine that raided American waters. 3 —Airplane photograph of a French hospital on the Alsne near Soissons, showing its lied Crosses clearly on the roofs and the ground. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK German Submarine Raid in Q(ir Waters Fails to Terrorize American Nation. WAR SPIRIT IS STIMULATED Splendid Work of Yankee Troops In Halting Hun Drive at the Marne— Enemy's Losses are AppallinQ —Renewal of Offensive Is Expected. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Germany's utter Inability to under stand the spirit of the nations that oppose her was never better shown than In the raids mnde on American shipping in American waters by sub marines. Their purpose could only be to terrorize the United States and thus check the flow of men and munitions to France. Their result, If Germany hut knew It, could only be to Inspire the nation to continue the sending of Its armies across with uninterrupted speed and In every other way to do what Is necessary to win the war. The net loss to America is the sinking of a dozen sailing vessels anil two or three steamships; the net gain Is a renewed determination to whip the Hun, and a large Increase In the number of enlist ments for the navy. Germany attempted to terrorize Eng land by Zeppelin raids on London, and the Englishmen merely turned out their lights and rushed by thousands to the recruiting offices. She tried lo terrorize France by bombarding I'arls with the "miracle gun," and the Frenchmen gritted their teeth and swore to tight to the finish. Now she has tried to intimidate the Americans, and again she has failed miserably. In truth, the German policy of frightful ness has been a failure everywhere and from the beginning. Even muti lated and ravished Belgium still stands unafraid and steadfast to the cause of decency and righteousness. - fc— " The appearance of the submarine or submarines —their number Is not known—off the New Jersey coast nat urally revived the talk of tlie existence of U-boat bases on the Mexican coast. This Is officially discredited by our navy department, though there Is little doubt that Carranza and his crew would so assist Germany if they could. Their behavior and known pre dilections are not such as to delude anyone Into belief In their neutrality. However, there was evidence that the raiding submarines had come direct from Germany, and as they have been out some time, they probably will soon return. fc New York city Indulged Itself In a small scare over the chance that It might be bombed by an airplane car ried by the U-boats. There was little danger of this, for a plane would take up too much space on the submarine, and moreover after a raid would be compelled to return to the vessel, thus revealing Its location to the naval craft that have been swarming the Atlantic coast waters looking for It. The sub marine Is driven by Diesel engines that give It a wide radius, and carries guns with which It might shell coast cities. Probably there will be more of these raids ID the near future, but they must be accepted as Incidents of the great war In which we are engaged—really small Incidents that can have no In fluence on the outcome of the struggle. Some of them are likely to be directed against our troop transports, but this need cause little alarm because of the perfection of the convoy system. To guard the coast against attacks Secre tary Baker has asked congress for $16,000,000 for establishing balloon and seaplane stations, thirteen on the At lantic and three on the gulf. — m— Over in France the kaiser's third pretentious drive of the year came to a halt, at least for the time being, at the Marne, the Ourcq vajley and the Olse. Early In the week several at tempts to cross the Marne were re pulsed with severe losses. In these ac tions American machine gunners sup ported by French Infantry took a proin- lnent part and won the warm praise of the French and British by their gal lantry and valor as well as by their ex cellent marksmanship. The Americans were "called on to hold a bridge head near Chateau Thierry Immediately on their arrival after thirty hours on the road In motortrucks. They took up their positions quickly and slaughtered the lluns who tried to cross. Under cover of this tire Yankee engineers successfully dynamited the bridges, and the machine gunners have since held the south bank and repulsed all attempts of the Germans to build new bridges. It Is reported the Americans killed about I,(NK) (ioniums at the bridge head, having themselves only one man killed and a few wounded. In the N'eullly wood, northwest of Chateau Thierry, the American Infan try had their chance, and three times they drove buck desperate attacks of the Huns, their rille fire being deadly. On the third assault they met the Ger mans In the open and put them to rout with the bayonet. In what limy be called tluir own sector, In the Luiicvllle region, the Americans carried out some highly successful operations. The allies frankly admit tlint they are counting on the United Slates troops to save the day, and the tests to which the Yankees have been sub mitted show the trust of the British and French Is not misplaced. *• Falling to make further progress southward, the Germans turned the main force of their attacks on -the western front of their salient, between the Alsne and the Marne, Here they found any advance still more difficult, and Indeed at many points they were driven back some distance by the Im pet nous attacks .of General Koch's troops. In that region the dense for ests of Vllllers-t'otterets and Netiilly offer the best of defensive positions for the allies, enabling them to move and concentrate their forces unseen by the enemy aviators. The allied artillery, too, limh been brought up with remark able speed and Is pouring a devastat ing lire Into the Germans from well selected positions day and night. Along the line from the Marne northeastward to Reims the allied line was holding strongly, and the ancient cathedral city was still, rather unexpectedly. In the possession of the British. The Hermans made no claims to defi nite advances during the week, and their losses were growing so appalling that government officials In Berlin felt It necessary to speak of them apolo getically, asking the people to consider the magnitude of the operations and of the stake. Toward the enil of the week there were signs that Von Hlndenburg was preparing for a renewal of the drive on another port of the line, possibly In'the Amiens sector, but the allied military authorities expressed satisfac tion with the situation and confidence In their ability to meet any new at tacks. l* The German press was almost n unit last week In Its calls for n pence offensive, but the papers and the fac tions they represent were as far apart as ever on the question of what Ger many should state as her peace nlms. The radical press still Insists on the no annexation and no Indemnity pro grain, while the organs of the pan- German party blatantly Insist that the central powers are now In a position to make demands nnd to enforce them, and that though Germnny entered the wnr In 1014 with no predatory pur poses, It Is now entitled to take what It desires to make up for Its losses and to Insure Its future safety. There Is no longer any pretensions on Germany's part of treating the Russian provinces as any other than conquered territory, the treaty of Brest-Lltovsk being now Ignored. Nei ther Is there any evidence that Ger many Is getting any benefit from those lands, for the food question Is still driving the civilian population to dis traction ; and In Austria-Hungary the situation Is far worse. Greater Russia Is actually starving, for the government can pro cure no more food from the Ukraine, and In the Kuban and Don regions there are counter-revolutionary bands that keep things In a turmoil. The" counter-revolution plot, the govern ment says, spreads throughout the country and In consequence Moscow has been declared In a state of siege. It Is reported the American govern tnent Is contemplating the extending of assistance to llussla In the way of assembling food supplies In Siberia and distributing them In European Russia. In equally parlous state is Turkey, where fnini 11»» Is widespread and many >f the poorest people are subsisting on chestnuts and i>\impkl 11 seeds. In some districts the troops have de stroyed (lie crops though they them selves are on mighty short rations. Only tlie oflicers are well fed. With these food conditions, the steady ad vance of the British In Palestine and Mesopotamia and the growing strength of the Aral) forces, there are evidences of the approaching hreak up of the Turkish empire. It lias got nothing yet for all Its efforts except certain oil districts ceded h.v Itussla under com pulsion. and the possesesion of these Is threatened hy the northward move ments of the British expeditions. to - The Italians kept on hitting hard at the A list ro Hungarian forces along the I'lave line, and they heard undisturbed of (lie massing of thirty enemy di visions at three points on that front for a resumption of the drive toward the plains. The Italian army Is now In better condition than ever before and, with the help of the Americans, llrltlsh and French, can be relied on to stop the expected offensive. to - The supreme war conference of the I allies at Versailles expressed Its com j plete confidence In the ultimate defeat of the central powers and declared the allied people are "resolute not to sac j rlflce a single one of the free nations of the world to the despotism of Ber lin." The premiers of Great Britain, France and Italy agreed on the crea tion of a united Independent Polish state wllli free access to the sea as one of the conditions of a last peace, and adhered to the declaration of Secre tary Lansing expressing sympathy with the national aspirations of the Czechs and .Tngo Slavs. Tills means, If It means anything, that JOniperor Charles 1 has lost Ids last CIHUICC to retain his empire entire by breaking away from Germany. It foretells the dismember ment of Austria Hungary when peace Is made, if not at an earlier date, --to - In the I'nltert StateS the IT-boat raid served to Impress the people with th« pressing need of the conservation of wheat anil sugar, especially. Tho former must be sent across the ocean In Increasing quantities as our forces there grow rapidly greater; and sugar cannot he bought from Cuba because we must use all available shipping for the transportation of troops and mu nitions to Ktirope. to The fuel administration devoted Its energies last week to urging the people | to order their next winter's supplies lof coal at once. There lias been wide spread complaint that the retailers canot (ill orders, but Doctor Garfield says that orders now, whether or not they are filled soon, will do much to stimulate production. There is plenty of coal If only It can be got out of the ground and if the railroad admin istration will find some way of sup plying enough cars. The shortage of cars really Is at the bottom of the whole trouble and will be to blame If the predicted coal famine materializes next winter. to The senate's attempt to stop the manufacture of beer and wine by means of an amendment to the emer gency agricultural bill was blocked by the administration last week. Food Ad ministrator Hoover opposed It because he believed it would put the nation on a "whisky, brandy and gin" basis with attendant evils far outweighing the small food savings that would result. President Wilson Tind told Senator Sheppard he would not forbid the use of foodstuffs in beer and wine unless Mr. Hoover regarded such a step nec essary. The senate therefore receded from Its position. to The week saw the registering of about a million young Americans who have become twenty-one years of age since last spring; and this registra tion probably will be repeated about once In three months. 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