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"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.
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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."
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Furloughs Will Not Be Cut
to-Keep Soldiers Off Trains
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| 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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After writing your letter home. H
telling the folks all the news about
yourself, mail Trench and Camp to
them so that they may read all the
news abcct your ram pi
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