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I? "Flaming Onions" Now Used By Huns Against Airplanes What British aviators call "Flam/lng Onions" constitute the latest.device introduced into the war by the Germans. Speaking of them Major W. A. Bishop, of the Royal Flying Corps, said: < "The Huns have, a new device now with which they try to unnerve Brit&>. ish airmen. We call these 'flaming onions.' The 'onions' are shot upward from some kind of mortar, the intention being to direct them immediately into the path of our advan-. "inu nlntnnns of aviators. "I do not know how they are made or managed, but if a bnnch of them are fired at you while you are flying over the eneihy lines the first thing ( . " * you see is a big cluster of six or eight whirling balls of fire ooming at you from below. ' They rise very rapidly?as fast as shrapnel. The bomb on exploding releases these ' clusters of fire balls, wjiich instantly h . burst into flame. They all rotate rapidly, giving oft flames so that each I.',' of the balls seems to have a potential diameter or nve or six ieei ui ure. ? The whole cluster has all apparent radius about as great as the spread of an airplane from tip to tfp. "The Huns manage to shoot these 'onions' to a considerable altitude, and the allied fliers, when they see a bunch coming, have to dodge them or duck them as be9t they can by sideslipping, diving, swerving suddenly or looping the loop." A FIRST MORNING IN CAMP ifp? - - " Recruit: "Say, sergeant, where do las'; I wash?" Sergeant: "Oh, anywhere where j" \ you are dirty."?The" Tattler. ' ' .. . - 'fterence A Fei ^ m/x \ %> m Ai i|W ? PERSONAL TESTIMONY , Here is some personal testimony regarding (he benefits of military life. A soldier in one of the camps writes: "These have been the best two months of my life. Doing J a Job right is becoming second nature to ns in camp. We must keep our kits and utensils just so, or we hear from the officers. | Cleanliness Is compulsory, reacc will return millions of men with whom sanitary living is a passion. I believe the habit of clean living and clean thinking snrcly will stick with most of us after the war." ' And a soldier's brother writes: "My brother enlisted in the Quartermaster's Corps and was given general assignment. The training of course, lias improved him wonderfully. But he has been benefitted in another way. For years he worked as a draughtsman. When they found that out at his camp they put him in the map - malting room and in the short time he has been there he has learned more things about plans and maps than he would have learned in years at his old job." PRANCE NOT "BLED WHITE" Notwithstanding frequent, emphatic denials, the rumor still persists that "France has been bled white." Undoubtedly this falsp report was "Made in Germany." TJie fact of the matter, as stated by Premier Clemenceau, is that France has 1,200,000 mobilized men who are working behind the lines and "Jf! necessary they will go back to the front." 7 ND CAMP 0 Words Make $5sis&$ \ i why. tr .she's If | out with ef| ^^clau de^p Iv^RI u m \ W&SoBlni. Furloughs Will Not Be Cut to-Keep Soldiers Off Trains y _ | No curtailiftnt of furloughs to soldiers in the camps and cantonments is contemplated by the War Department, notwithstanding the sugges of the railroads of the country. Writing to Director General of | Railroads McAdoo, several persons ! called attention to the fact that large numbers of soldiers were seen on | every train and that if these soldiers | were kept off the trains it would go a long way toward solving the pas,8enger traffic problem. Mr. McAdoo promptly replied that lie had no intention of taking any step that would interfere in any way I with the furlough privileges of men in uniform. He informed his correspondents that no soldier was given a furlough who had not rendered good and satisfactory service and that his presence on & train meant that he was a good soldier. A great many of the furloughs were granted men who were on the ?ve of departure for "Over There," said Mr. McAdoo, and the soldiers were traveling to their homes to be with their families before leaving on , the journey from which some may | not return. PRIVATE MOUNT OWNERS SAD I The order forbidding the trans' porting of private mounts owned by American officers to France has caused a lot of disappointment. Many of the officers have become greatly | attached to their horses an<J besides I this severance of friendships the order means the mastering of new mounts. "THE BARRACKS WHEEZE" Ry PRIVATE CHKT SHAPER KsSSSj?^ j (SlOth Sanitary Train, Camp Cuatcr, oycMffiaM aBttlc Creek, Mich.) livery Morninj. There are a lot of birds in thin world who never would be heard if W [hey didn't u.sc crash towels. n! ASY MAS WHO HAS HOSTED I SHOI'Hl WGRY Wll:i; IS A UK, I STORK. OS A BAROAIN DAY KNOWS HOW A SOLDIER Kl.K.l.S ? !? "iH WHO WASTS TO OUT A COMB ^I OKI OK HIS UL'KELE-BAG. BIhMH ONE SET OF SHOWERS MAKES THE WHOLE COMPANY KIN'. frffrl Several men at a remount station [III || I U are as fantastic as the illustrations on a |j|| II I | Eph Lusk, a private, says that llll III D when he used to set tired he dropped WJ I I in and had a drink of soda. -Now, KC\ Jj /g| when the tired feeling comes some YJBmI one yells "Double Time." lie was passed. There are a lot of fellows in the army with marital intentions who H are thinking seriously of the old say- I ing: "If you can't build a good fire I you'll never make a good husband." READING SOMK OF THE A KM V M .MANUALS BRINGS HACK HICK ihnfflS&A FINN'S RESUME OF IMMJRIM'S "IT INTEKESTINO* BUT Don't crowd Rd lljran^a TO DATE NO COURT-MARTIALS jV/Sk HAVE KEEN RECORDED AS SIT- ///fit TING ON THE CASE OF A SOL- W ///film DIER WHO FAILED TO RESPOND As to shoes ana aisposmons 1/ mry v are not right it don't take long to siear them through in the army. And there was (he mess sergeant who received a case of had oranges Uj ^ and wrote the grocer asking for a cfiangc of venue. I IT^Wi nli 77/Mill MOS'TIIS OF TKAIMXC | |!g li ll.I. MAKH A IIISrOKlAX Oi l III & of run utisr of tiihu. B ?j "Von certainly have a rotten I JII voice," criticized the soldier as he ||| JII swished under the shower. " || ||| Over on the bench the singer |J ||| looked up from his efTort to get into )||| j Y his socks without touching his bare |j III SeV feet to the concrete. "Don't sob," lie advised. "I never Ml III ||JI| saw you spending any of your good III ||| *&) money to hear Tettrazzlni." || y <f* DO XOT WASTE FOOD Although American soldiers are f urged to eat all they want, they are JW ,w likewise adjured not to waste food. A little waste on me pari ui uuc ??.- >fjrin1/ir dier, he may think, does not amount to much, but if all the soldiers In the training camps did the same the V\ L quantity would mount up into tons. nL For instance, in one of the camps <wAmL\zLriIl seven gallons of good chocolate, five //mJ^/A'Ju gallons of milk, four big pans of broken bread and a great quantity ll\LmT>^0i of hash were gathered up in one company mess shack after a meal. Multiply this by the number of com- vWA<\Uul panics in all the camps and you have | a tremendous waste. rlntflr German Gunner, bombarding WUM///A church in France -"I hate to blow up a house of worship, but, since it is being used for Red Cross purposes. H I must destroy it. The big Red Cross on it makes a fine target." 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