New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1918, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN CAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 3; 1918, THE HEROIC WOMEN OF FRANCE ‘;WOODENisH!P BEING BUILT FOR N e o - GREAT BRITAIN IN UNITED STATES The women of France must be enabled to hold up the morale of the French soldier until next spring. The morale of the house decides the morale of the soldier in the fichting line. We can do this by giving to them the greatest frecdom in their food supply, and of this, wheat is the chief factor. | | | Recent tests made of the two types | ;;L‘:Sglym?rr:;} I(!‘m-fife\;n f«;zx‘ihs“l!; AMERICAN SDLD!ERS EN THE FRGT{F LENL FERENCHES of the Browning machine before : 3 high government officials, members of | Shoulder or hip positions in burst of | — TE 3 % 3 | 20 rounds or by single shots. It fires| HALTING T}_{E TFUTONH A THE LORRAINE GATE the senate and house military com-| the same ammunition as the Spring- | ! v D L mittees, and American and allied | field or the new modified Infield | F of six great wooden ships| It is named the War Mystery, and it army officials at the Congress Hei | rifles. It can fire 20 continuous shots | Which are to be built in a Texas| has been built for the Cunard lne range, near Washington, - ir| in two and a half seconds, a veritable | A rd for = Great Britain's mer-| The vessel is made entirely of wood worth, both functioning p The | stream of lead. The gun is designed | ‘ 2 e i . e marine shown just before being | and it soon will be in the transatlantio light gun—the Brownix machine | chiefly for offensive action. The | - = T wed from the ways and launched. | service carrying supplies to the allies. rifle, which Senator Wadsworth of | Browning heavy machine gun shown | New York is shown firing—is handled | in the other photograph is fired from as as the ordinary rifle. Tt is| a tripod. This gun is fed from a belt the “over the top” gun of (omonn\\" of rounds of cartridges. The gun | in trench warfare. The gun may be| weighs 34 1-2 pounds with the water operated as an automatic or a semi- | jacket filled. ng h\m‘qry Poilus on leave a good meal isn’t the only thing the ‘n nd French women in the Red Cross canteens of Paris are ahle » Each canteen has its little first aid room, where wounded French soldiers are made more comfortabl b fresh dressings and friend e w esh d g: ¥, 'PARIS BULLDING WRECKED IN AR RAID 3 be see wounded soldier on a | western front operated | sty waiting treatment. station near the ‘.nmAJ by san " FRANCE WELCOMES RAINBOW DIVISION d at the ; a signal German | Here are two of the first pict received in the United American troops | state of the Union. The above photo- Buildings of the Midvale Steel com- Hie he Soutt 1 ton [ € reat damage in man ' the Rainbow di- U’sz]\! shows members of the Rain- photograph st : fir in many months ruary 7 dropped tons of bombs ow division marching through a vil- cded in getting ! the city, wreckin 2 Yo i % 3 dations by a gre 2 . 1 | e : t 5 : € » 8 many pubid lage in Fra the way to their | 11y from their foundations by a great | mass i d L are 1 e -aire defenses outside | Luildings which were hit by l;pr Auard regimen m almost every | quarters ¢ ase Camp No. 1. cyclone and wrecked. This photo- | gver s tior f « ind on the night of Feb- | torpedoes. pany at Wilmbington were swept hod- | plant ion, cc s former National