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4 biel de . ‘ re THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAROH 26, 10918, se PRP vo dligelignr 4 AB. PS hh AS ma nr ee Neer nnn eee ——_—___—. —_—___—— - — AMERICAN SOLDIERS “PALS” Type of Electro-Magnetic Gun for Hurling Shells an Enormous Distance On an Endless Belt, for Which a Patent Was Granted in This Country in 1915 dah Our Privates Struggling to Learn Language of the Natives—Most of Them Get Along With Only Thirty Or Forty Words. By Martin Green. Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Covrtight, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (1 ork Drening World,) \ SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, March 3. | ihe country districts of France there is a surprising plentitude of ittle boys a ho will soon be three years old. The children fF this age are in a great majority, They are the offspring of the ol France who were called to the colors late in July and early i Nu 1914, Fine, healihy, rosy children they are, too, warmly clad a eral rule and undoubtedly happy. Most of| them will never see their fathers, but the state looks after them American soldiers Willeted In hundreds of vis aid villages scattered all over Central cued s iern France are great pals of the children, Eve 'y French | and girl saluies American oftic i vith due gravity and attention to de. | Phe soldiers have taugint them the snappy “ e it with careful attention to detail. | Uhe illustration shows a type of lhe French children—alwa yuidoors in the daytime and always; electro-magnetic gan for which a arming around spots where the nee i soldiers are tr ig—have patent was granted by the United ked up Hd : z hs wget m to see groups States t Office in 1915 to Prof, ve Peuancatiber Goce Kristian Birkeland, @ Swede. , pened apm ° z: Through this gun a torrent of ex- 8 of indusiry In Fr 1 ’ sa Aah Py plosive shells om an endless helt halide Libel how p between : could be thrown by the operation of 1 Le Me ie Me f 9 electro-magnetic force, There ts he ) ‘ 0 show! no record of @ practical test by the fia OoKLEEe| Governinent, It ts reprinted from a che-sened in his heart tho Frenon potlu the Electrical Engineer, nade in two| does not understand yles, one a man with a righ Dorset m, the other for a man with a left)! ey por memes te 3 SEES” SE inicio — oot oa we rere - le met ier ere ae m, It ie in the shape of a largo pateek n A and offered to tay my Jnvetition | ta length, open at bott ends and p> | Mactinss ‘appear to be etilits See * a sharp, business: Bt ns sud these 2 UH UREY: | oe ‘Tmmediately T received an invite- Lwork construction wo that the broader |“ mun aviation, was \illed while testing pet tivate aol 18: diigulbels4ug? teak slay ondition [tion to visit the War Depurtment,fend, which 4s the muggle of the UD, | one of these machines. y the Y. M. C. A. haven't been of | AP [0 {me cones for | pate y ax anda Gxaue hey keniied to eran linw® axcent that-of lis.cwn Wwalent other engine on each uch use in spreading the Fren | collet” il i cl ' that , Y attractor propeller as. tm si jwith me that my ju 8 practi 1 rug is wrapped from t a tractor propeller as fn unguage through ou a and Handley-Pege tia- | Be oninala . nd t iY type {9 similarly 5 pronunciations, And their military you olun th slx engines tnstead of Y $ Lous pelea us ; ree f reason for the exist- Meriice tet out ; i : Itt giant machines ts to » tle for outside study 1 omimon falling of our . bursting as he ts h energy termination and the excitement | | steuetion American soldier i savind curr tier in the world tad « Paul T. Kenny tsi He Offered It in): f im ma ing busines “ied mo and o by. prosression tho atrength arry enormous bombs, probably two or three of about. 1,00)" pounds weight ® pounds each, or yb of 2,000" oF 3, Germans hope may section of # town at Youth in ja ave picked up | thirty or forty | producing an electro > urge to 89 | magne for t—say—th Bome of the sol & vocabulary of abou along very well wit yords und get along ‘ise the lan {Of #4¥enture, to proclaim loudly to all Wh that slim equipment, be and sundry that {t 1s good thing he| beat po ¢ | liberal 1age of the peasantry of France qeneral belief among nalts oi; expenditures, he is here after three and a half y w Pei t n 1 n ft usem until at the! ares = Ne ti worte Ineosaan.aee W000 clean things up and whip the| such a lavlsl: spendor ax the French 1908,but War Department Refused |" 8 ew» Princinlo muauie the fifteenth coll would posses oaaiee toi Tieft I nd the ; begat sat other hand, study r from puri. Officers, on t : {t tll we gut at Fritz, und use it at « 5 | him off his feet,” is & comr portunity,’ but Inasmuch all the | omark . mado n| the averag id who has to d pend on his army pay. Aa sa, matter Test — Later Explained the Gun | prose of ther as fp on fornn ¢ lire mutter out « new 1 Of! Of tact, ho has very little hee Paes money to dshec tere’ ae German |that the aetion ot the magnetic toree | SHARP REPORTS SHELLING. te eneugh wedeeneantt| spend; In many Instances he 1s von. to BerlinOne Year Before the War. Crom the mubjest,_ ta the [bun it will-enusw He ta/revale fee re languag ny Obs rench officers detalled to forces | France, Ther srnment on 4 Zi ity of rifling tn the bore | Ambassador) Sends Vrench €n- r instruction talk more or less yaa’ | ing of Egglish to ctreulate these re | tinualty & After his allotments oe a Luk 2. Prefungs Korn ’ : Re oF the wt Introduced into the | “™ ut of Lone Range Fire, ‘ ero is lacking the opportunlty | marks gmong tho French people for his far are deducted and he ® secret o « notte |), h. Tho operation of the current De vish ther ; abhbest dU w rench people and Z ts the mysterious ‘monster muri” with watch the Germans are bome( boty oO tioneersfescraeca:| GTON, March 25.—Ambassa Facet souae SWAT EO. Bi them-|the Irench soldiers who know wiat pald his {nsurance preinium, he e@ mysteriou ‘ gun as Thad perfected By 3 connection tn Paris, reported to the relves by the best ef methods—actual | war ts and what it hay cost them and | has very litt \barding Paris from a distance miles an American idea now | MR, KENNY'S IDEA FOR HIS EN. U0! Miesabell i emer eet int ho bombard wctice. what @ powerful and resourceful cnemy | 1 was talking the other day to @ ; eSTRUCTION MW otwa Inder the Influence | jy by the Ger yee Peer | the German 18, Nor has ‘thero been | To Keant who bas seen in the! turned against America’s Ally GINE OF DESTAU . next eotl, w the momentur official state any partiet y twenty y ol | A benit ' . ' .| Mer a deser ‘ f-land #0 on Until the yvernmel te sorms to be tho opinion of the ay-/#2Y particular boost toward mutual | army twer and is well into Is the “monster gun’? t atvall in the accepted sense of the ate. Kent rnd grwatent thrust forward Meher yess -, seem. te that the way |°2Pdality tn the practice of. American | middle age, alth till strong and : teat tae et Hed I ame ty Lied " powue ep nee ee «rage Americun priva stand | ldlers of referring to Frenéh soldiers | able to do the work of three non-} ¥OFd, but a 300-foot steel tu © the projec pulle ul by wig V Ww terns nuzzlo | P' es ao a 16 make a Frenchman understan ak i Tae serait : 1 i velled { © of tb tie ath On its The Ambassa added that the opin >, nee ran ogs. P With his allotments and. bin! electro-magnetic force rathe pelled vy a ary p whe LP nae Re ha WAU hut been expressed that the air j baila it to be eS eet spenvin ae ere Asurance premium deducted he has! explosive pniag Ke : her eli ea baile ai cacandhees pla en ata ‘ ht over Part an soldiers entered the re 4 ly 50 nth ey a f ¢ heel £ ; bee! ngtel in a email town near our} On tho part of the-American coldior | ust $150. a h for pending pa venagar nal wasn resin — | were » observe the front the other da Phey wanted | there is a disposition to imagine that | /!0"* , neayy spenders are . Evening World t Into-the hands of America's p i Spwo ham an! eggs an’ two | He and his mission are not apprectatea | ‘2° ¥ Sie cok ce ae lie Ma eS t emy t 1 raat CH eiiod { tho wol- | bY the French people’ and thd #reneh | Money fren Hs Sloat ndnake sie | she : ) ly explosiv usd L ee ii egal ess, “Get | woldier Undoubtedly shopkeepers, | MFeauent, now that we aro gradue| gincer of bigh standing | a =! wae o ham an’ eggs an’ two cups | hotel keepers, restaurant keepers and | ly work active participation] abroad, who was an assistant to Am In 19001 xpe ne ee eae aa ni, see? Git | tradesmen generally have unmercifully |" the war nt, Met MANY OP-| bassudor Gerard tho A umets and f 1 4 REN ctl girl un- | Skinned the American soldier and, even | PoTtunitie of th cash finn aaa lieianlin TAG ahd netic fleld, A 1 lerstood the “mon ai y friend— | t¢ day, after Gen Pershing and his ex- : ae re outta Ob aha War: ara at : jon I ea th nd algo the "si you t"—"1f you | ecutive officers have taken many dras- |" soils aod COP eis at No, 120 1 sist ehalst oon | rr” 1 4 rs are) Ue steps to b extortion the practi guar except as he f art 1 t r ‘ will am t er pleas quired to use, | Maintaining two schedules of prices, |} word here and there tn|P¥t 4 at deal o 1 : 4 = ued ¢ } ) w t Paris t ay ht 1 “thank you" | 0N@ of the Neh customers and the | @tual uct with people, be ig) come 1h naan: ¥ 1 fina for a . payee i r er, from t # ndefatigable r each Eng : sider gtbyy P - on . oe Fra 1 t Eien higher, : : i TURNED DOWN HERE, OFFERED : ne F La corresponder an . all potnta, - mn Se INVENTION TO GERMANY Abd sg wed t eraged ep peaie particularly in country mm , are quite] /NVEM uy ( c : t , 1 told r oldiers who have been here for some td ft . = tr : t et : n 4 A time are getting wise to what fair! I wer to a ber shop in the! ‘ , . ¢ : . n : ed | Prices should be, but there ts @ cont{n. | town wh 6 pondenta with | Departs a rhe Y at 9.4 ate wea oh um of hew men coming tn and the at ; 4 ‘ew morn se? ; » cont 6 \\ ‘ b nha ; they ure always fair proy for the prof. go. p had been fre a ear? ) ed so puns were f ¢ , n tt ‘ Cay latee ad " A i nig vo ord at t ‘ Our troop a hey ‘ ‘ z ft i 1 5 inica 4 bes pat : ine F troopw: have pu faci “ \ iia a eee weve: trays - Guaranteed to Satisty ver i \ stricts many hundreds o f dollars in new » but they r Sarasa err ai leer RcH tnt eee ira GIANT NEW AIRPLANES or Your Money Back + clea and nissioned offl-| around 60 centime bd IN COURT, engineer submitted h . s ial hig deck Bhi et aegie nt. frane paper DRAFT TEST | Acvamninnt HURLING SHELL BY MAGNETIC) ‘ald to be In & posi! } r Me 5 be | currency issued b: UNicipalities anc 7 ee tens A e] ‘The 340-militr ONDON n'7 (Correspondence t yw Tie pollu|taxen by them tn change, ‘This sie Supreme Tribnnat to Vues on Foreign! “phy New York inv aid t FORCE N oRIC INAL 1DEA Alor b ; } Maren 7 (Correspondence cawacd 4 broth * not accepted by shopkeopery ere ree et od the, Germans: had # ; vurl tia a ot tw . t ab rr n 1 wh Ast 1 er \ : ' pout iatcy’t r ¢ a er who ¢ ' ’ % Py t vb bd ay ng coolly and quite patr gly) Me ile, practically 1 the shins the Court 1 exped sie J ; a hd hi J yste 1 eo br 1 110 and 20 frune note ave mys blain f b Ono t \ Sony nas often: |r f ‘ ester «lo be ° I . ne an Ho!