Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1918, Page 8

feo eet eA RS rd: 8 a ed toe Bh he Bi ena eee See eee eee THRILLING RAID RUBBER TIRES DEMAND | OVER HUN TOWN: CHANGE IN BUILDING = Young Priel Aviator Tells of} Of STALE HIGHWAYS: Drive Over the Ger- | | WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1918 » oF j ou f hardshi " q > thru these four years of hardship officers appeared in fr. ; wonien*have had to clench their fists) American line with 28 Reercct te and keep a stiff upper lip while they | diers taken prisoners by the ‘pelade THE WAR NEIL 15 omen EEE the Bishop’s Dress? carriea on their men’s work. Women) ty / i ‘play a part—and*they say they can | nounced, “You can have them { ; LONDON, Nov. 19. (By Mail.)— play the part allotted to them better Price. ! |“Our women—Heaven bless them |if they are dressed #or it. | “What's the charge?” shot bac. REPRESENTS AUSTRALIA have had to step into the breach and! and dress them!” | nuikysdduihboy. ack 3 This wail comes man Lines. SHELLS BURST ALL AROUND Squadron Proceeds Methodically With its Work Under Constant Fire of Anti-Aircraft Guns—All Re turn to Base. London.—American bombing squad- ToRS fre now bombing the Rhine val- ley along with the British. The Yank pilots and observers, like their breth- ren of the royal air force, enter into this “sport” with the same spirit that has made them famous on the baseball diamond or feotball gridiron of their own American colleges, A young American aviator has just told of a trip over the German lines and back behind into German territory. The formation in which the American airmen flew consisted of 11 big bomb- ing machines, each of which carried 1,600 pounds of high explosives, three machine guns and three men. This was the boy’s story: “After I had tried the guns on my machine, checked the bombs, made sure everything was ship-shape, and put a couple of Httle bombs into a small bag beside me, I started my en- gine. The big motors growled away, waiting for the starting flash. Soon the signal came and we were off. High Altitude Reached. “For twenty minutes we climbed, un- til the earth was just a black blot, An- other twenty-five minutes and we were over the trenches, with the searchers groping about in the mists below us. The big guns crashed away cont:nu- ously, and we could see the explosions from where we soared high above them. No sooner had we crossed the lines than the Germans started firing at us with their anti-aircraft guns. Once a German searchlight got right on us with its beam of light. We fired n couple of rounds of machine-gun fire at the Germans who were manuing the searchlight, and it went out. “Far below us we could see the lights of a locomotive. Finally we reached our objective. According to plan, we throttled our motors and glided toward the earth to get nearer our target. It seemed curiously quiet. Then suddenly the earth seemed to open below us. Seventeen searchlights were turned on us by the Germans, and their shafts of light swept all about us. The anti-aircraft guns made a wall ahead of us. The high- explosive shells burst on every side of us, and the green-fire balls swayed and spiraled as they tried to set us on fire. The American machines went straight on, with never a waver or a turn. There were so many crashes that I thought more than once that we were hit. We kept straight on. Amid Blinding Rays. “Suddenly one of the German A few years ago the type of tire} that was to be used on the vehicles| | was agitated as being too unsettled | to make a definite road building pro-| | gram for country roads practicable | at that time. Many people held that the rubber tire was only a fad and| | that it would soon be relegated to the discard to be replaced by the| old reliable steel tire in use on the| buggies and wagons of the past | decades. The rubber tire has comt to stay | and its pneumatic type is also here| to remain. The larger the truck or} car the greater the rubber tire until | at present some of the big fellows! are using a tire 12 inches in diameter and find it gives better service for the larger size’ trucks than the solid /and well-known iney business man tire when used over country roads. who has just been appointed commis- pee matter of roadbuilding an en-|i1. New South Wales parliament and | tively new aspect for the road engi-/his position, which is the first of its neer to look after and problems that /kind, represents the growing inter- were never thot of have arisen since Course between Australia and , the Heury Yule Braddon, the prominent RIGGINS’ SON France about the exploits of Sergeant Arthur S. Riggins, son of J. R. Rig-| gins, who is as: ated with Mr. Guth. | he was one of five Americans who) captured and killed forty-five Ger- mans in a dugout raid and the whole five were awarded the Croix de Gu- erre by the French government. Av! Chateau-Thierry Sergeant Riggins re-' ceived four wounds in zi engagement | but wound up with three cf the enemy o his credit, and one of them a Ger- man officer, was taken alive with im | portant papers on his person. For this he was cited for bravery and awarded a medal. Both the medal and the Croix de Guerre have becu, received by Mr. Riggins’ father who ‘is exceedingly proud of his twenty- | one-year-old son. | a ee SALE OF BOOZE STOPS H. B. Guthrey received word from | tr arate from a_ bishop | epg ks Of 6f ee < who deplores the fact that English- SWAP 8 PRISONERS peur packs of cigarettes,” was th. | | women have taken to trousers. Most people are of opinion that if Heaven were dressing of, women they would still interested in the| “Tt’s a bargain,” said the dourhn, and amid cheers the Americans ee from Michigan and Wisconsin, rej appear in period. outward expression of soul, |rey in business here. The letter says | © ? : trousers at the present Woman’s garb often is an FOR PAGK OF SMOKES In the dying hours of the war 2) non-coms grinningly pocket and all couple of German non-commissioned cigarettes. ed the Yanks, while the two ( it came into use. Formerly it was perfectly feasible for road builders to simply place crushed or broken! stone on the road and let the steel tires of the passing vehicles grind and roll it into place. Now, however, the passage of autos would always keep jsuch a pile of stone so loose as to make this procedure unsuitable for the work. At present the road engineers are throwing in the discard all the old} time rules for roadbuilding and are formulating a whole new set to take care of the revised conditions that are now prevalent. The old time roads are no longer applicable to modern travel and it is up to the proper authorities to see that none of the old style roads are foisted upon the public. Towns Wantonly Destroyed and Water Supply Defiled. Huns Caught Red-Handed in Crime Far From Line of Fighting. With the French Army in Cham- pagne—Detachiments of engineers! from General Gouraud’s army in ex-| ploring the region from which the | Germans have been driven in this s tor have discovered in many villages | evidence of the method by which the destruction of dwellings, churches and other public buildings was organized. searchlights got us and the rest of the seventeen threw around us with a sud- denness that made their concentra- tion feel like a blow. We fired our machine guns until the tips of the Weapons got red and the glow be- gan to creep up the barrels. The whole seventeen beams were on us, al- though we plunged and side-slipped about in a desperate way. We let go the bombs when we were right over the mark. The antiaircraft shells were getting even closer than ever and the machine was hit time and again, though not in a vital spot. Why we were not literally blown out of the air i do not know. After we were well over the mark and had dropped all our bombs we discovered one 250- Pound bomb which hud caught fast in the rack and falled to drop when released. Consequently we swung beck on a second run and when we were over the place which we hud bombed we let go the last bomb and scored a direct hit far below. “We went home at a high We crossed our own trench lines at nbout 3,000 feet up, saw some famil- iar landmarks, headed for our own airdrome, fired our signal and got the answer. A few minutes later we had landed. A glance over the ma- chine saw two big tears in the side of the fuselage and many holes in the wings. “But we had done a splendid bit of bombing, and such damage as our ma- chine had suffered was by no means difficult to repair.” HUN CHEMICAL RULE ENDS America Soon to Be Independent of World for Products, Says Chair- man Baruch. Washington.—America independent of the world for mineral and chemical products heretofore obtained mostly from Germany, is in prospect, accord- ing to Chairman Baruch of the war in- dustries board. Experts headed by Charles H. Mac- Dowell, chief of the chemical division of the beard, Mr. Baruch said, are meeting with success in the develop- ment of new processes of manufacture or standardizing present processes. At the same time they are fostering the use of German formulae for obtaining | in America ecsluble potash, analine dyes, optical glass and chemical ap- paratus, fine and pharmaceutical chem- jentls and clay for graphite crucibles, Coroner Lew M. Gay who has been | ill for several weeks with influenza, and his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gay, will leave tomorrow for the latter’s home at Fullerton, Neb. Mr. Gay will not return until the first of the year when he hopes to be in much better health. speed. | The region along the Retourne ubounds with indications of willful de- vas.ation of villages that were never within range of artillery, but were / found razed. In others where houses were still erect they were mined for slow destruction, while the military Installations, such as barracks built by the Germans for their own troops, were left intact. | Orders for the burning of Junville, a large village in the Valley of the | Retourne, arrived on the day of evacu- | ation. The people pleaded with the of- | ficers to spare their homes, but the | torch was put to every house. The} village was one vast brazier when the | French entered it. Mont St. Remy | shared the same fate. | At Neuville, where a villager im-| | plored that his home might be spared, | an officer replied: | “I know it is an ignoble task, but | such are. our orders.” | Chatelet, Alincourt, Bignicourt and | Ville-Sur-Retourne were partly saved | | because the French troops pressed the | Germans there so closely that the sap- pers left behind to do the work were | surprised. Some of these men fled be- | | fore they could set off the mines which | | had been prepared. Others were cap- | tured. It has been necessary from French sappers and miners to explore the cel- | lar of every house remaining intact in this region. Under most of them | |mines have been found. Mouths . of | wells were so mined that explosions | would fill them with rock and earth. ~~ AD BREATH | wards? Tablets, the substi- Do Ear ye ently on tie bowels | wick relief through . Edwards’ Olive. 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