Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, May 02, 1918, Image 3
ARMY SUPPLIES IN
CHAIN OF CITIES
DOES STARTLING STUNTS
Three Towns Behind the Lines ami rolls ut ^rWkWt And si/p
in France Hold Great
In the city Itself the American^
found one of the largest-refrigerating
and meat storage . warehouses in
France, and absorbed it last July, ‘
though it was then many times larger
than their ueeds. Its capacity is close
to two million pounds/ qnd while it
has at times been-nearly full, the sup
ply' is never permitted to fall below
half a million pounds. There are iiiore
than GOO,(XX) pounds there now. ^
Direct failroud lines lead nbt only
from the bakery and the refrigerating
plant to the. crimps but also from the
s«*«iports and the city. ; !
Several mjles #vestward, at the* low- :
$C apex of the triangle, lies another
French "town which has been all but
bodily taken over by the Americans
as a storage center. Here non-perish
able foods—Canned goods, salt, Xhgar
and vegetables other than those bought
fre.'ih from the French: petuanL^a re
stored.
Ohe of the largest buildings which
the Americans have taken over iB de
voted to equipment. Here are stored
many thousands of uniforms and ev- !
cry article of clothing-from shoes nnd
caps to buttons and handkerchiefs. I
The needs -of;-the troops is estimated
at several pairs of shoes a year and
three or four uniforms.
Stores
Forty Shipments of White Bread Made
Daily—All Facilities Being En-
larged—One Town .Is Stor-
: age Center.
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Behind the American Front In
France.—Less spectacular than the
continued arrival of American troops
and their occupation of a definite front
sector, yet in its way 'quite as impor
tant for their success, has been the
steady development of tlie systeiu of
keeping them in , t he myriad supplies
they must have.
Keeping jpuce \vith "the increasing
irattling camps the/*e has grown up a
storage, transportation and distribu
tion system that not only accurately
anil- efficiently supplies the needs Of
all our soldiers but is continually be
ing, enlarged against future ueeds.
Neither troops nor supplies can cqme
too fast for it.
The various functions of the system*
-bakery, refrigerating plant, ware
houses for clothing, non-perishable
fooifc and similar supplies, and the
^Hair-raising stunts” -,b>.. Ktmlciij
aviators may seem foolhardy t<» tin
average civilian, hut the knowledge
of them will save many lives in aeTinl
battle, according to I'ieut. Col. (!(iarle>
E. Lee of the British Koval Flying
coVps, who has been startling Wash
ington for several days with seemingly
impossible feats ip the air. Colonel
Lee’s demonstrations have done much
to lessen the criticism in official Wash
ington that student flyers have been
a*
lo help keep back the Aiistro-Germans
1 Italian heavy naval gun mounted on a concrete barge in. tin
2—New portable laundry being tested j»t ('amp.Meade for the gbvei
men a w eek. 3—Lieut. Mills Kltchin, son of Congressman Kltchin, special instructor'In bayonet practice at one
of the National army camps. /
k i 1 led—because of— foolhardy
AMERICAN RED CROSS STATION IN MILAN
rather than in straight living at Ainer
ican training fields. "The so-called
danger'of flying lies not with those
who.do stunts in ijie air/' says Colonel
Lee, “hut with those who 'cannot dep
thdiK. Unless a pilot can turn his ma
chine'any way and every wy^r"at any
TThVe in order rrrTitarndTyfnrfnrposttbotr
all the straight flyiqg in the world will
not help him when hie has a tight.’
giu distributing plant—-arc located
i convenience sake . In thre»s~iawus.
citips .situated respectively at the
fee corners, of am obtuse triangle, |
id near Chough to tin* training camps
id front-so that supplies can reach
e furthest points in 24 liours. *
Bakgry_ls Great Industry.
No link in the cliain fiytueen'“a port
France - ’ and-the American trout is,
chaps, more interesting than (lie bak-
Woman HonorecTby French.
Ciitcimvati; O.^-An Ohio woman.
Miss Jeanne Emma Morlmrd, has Re
ceived the badge of the/Legion of
Hotiqr from the French government in
recognition of her work as betid of
I he - Franco-Belglim' relieT fund in Cin
cinnati. For 23 years Miss Morhnrd
taught French at Hughes High school.
RODE THREE TIMES
THROUGH BARRAGE
The ^applying o£ the American
lroops in Fro/ice with white bread has
become a great industry and is growing
all the Tune. The few bakers origi
nally 'here have grown into companies;
(lie relatively small daily quantity of
br/ad turned out in July lias increased
to scores of tlioiisamls of pounds, and
entire shiploads of ikpir are arriving j London.—Lieut, .Gobind Hingli has
deekly and are being stored away in | the\ Victoria Cross and lie earned it.
warehouses with, capacity of auililons j He U a Itajput from India and he Is a
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ly as his trained h*gs could carry him
His colleagues cheered him as he drop
ped into the- friendly trench and all
pf. pounds as u jvswvu aguiust .the
brave mail. Three times hq. dashed
feed that lie led a charmed life,
arrival of still more troops*
The American army first took pos
session (>f u lyjgo bakery in a ceutrul
c rryii'h city, Vormcfiy operated by. a
German. and having a' capacity for
storing l.fiOnjXX) pounds of flour,.in ad
dition to a hot incunsiderable daily
output of bread from jts coke ovens.
^ Those making the ' arrangements
knew that the time would soon come
when the city bakery would be ifttld-
j-qiiate^ so they went outside of the
city and leased from tin* French a tract
of land consisting of several thousand
acres, upon whiCh the conventional lnll-
itary wood.etushacks t»oou sprang up
nnd where then* is boom for an In-
, into what seemed almost certain death
1 and lie escaped without a 'scrutvh. al-
j though tlie horses were shot from un-
dei him. A in I furthermore he deliv-
, ered messages w hich perhaps saved a
battalion from extermination. There
Ls no prouder Indian in Great Britain
or France than Lieutenant Singh. It
is nothing ynttsual to see a soldier sa
int** when he pusses-*-just out of ad-
* But bis task wins not finished. His
officer found Hint if One more message
could be sent to the stuff the battalion
might lie rescued. Singh said iu* would
go a third time. The officers offered
him his choice of horses and he selPVt
ed a splendid animal, which he ea
rossed before undertaking the lasFnml
most dangerous dash of all. The dis
tance he hod to go was a mile and a
half. He covered almost half tin* dis
tance and heard not a shot. But-in
stantly a barrage started from Hit* Ger
man guns. A British sentinel in a shell
hole warned him to pause, saying n«»
human being could get through the
curtain of slit'll tin* alive. But Singh
ignored the warning, .lie spurred bK
horse to new speed. A slit'll struck
tbe^nimnl nnd almost tore It to pieces.
Singh dropped to the ground nnd half
crawling and half (fragging himself he
finished his perilous .journey without
receiving a bullet wound. To the as
tonishment of the officers who had
watched with breathless excitement
his plunge through the shadqjv of
death the Indian asked if In* were to
make a return trip. He was told It
was not necessary; A short flfne later,
tine to tin* order he had delivered, his
battalion was-rescued from a most dan
gerous position.
gener
al/staff. and volunteers were asked (or.
There was no other way to eonimunl-
ente. Lieutenant Singh offered his
• services. He mounted a horse and
fared*forth into No Man's Land. Five
others had volunteered and been killed
{ In tbo rain of machine gun bullets from
tin* German lines, but a few hundred
yards away. Singh galloped at full
-j-spettd IntofHvo region of death. He is
, a skillful ridrY and bis charger was ex
perienced. A short distance away hli.
i horse fell under him. The Indian fin
ished bis trip of GoO yards afoot.
Tlie message required a reply nnd he
volunteered to deliver it. He sallied
I forth on another horse and with tils
(fives, eon- body glued to that animal lie plunged
shipments , ahead with the machine gun fire again
lin. motor playing on him. A second time his
IT WILL- NOT TAKE SLUGS
TIMBER SALVED FROM HUN DUGOUTS
Springfield, III.—John Danis. a
Springfield coal miner, has his second
set of naturalization papers. They
were issued after he proved the first
Ones were*eaten up by a mouse.
stitutes about fdrtvvHcpui -
that art' made daily^by
Tisietc and hnrsc'dnrwn A
The bread is suppled!
hors** u#s kilb*d. He finished this
1 journey also on foot running as swift*
BRITISH GIRLS STUDY RADIO
NEW AIRPLANE BULLET
To Be Used on Lar.d Stations When
Efficient, Later in Coastwise
as well as in dark
allow tlie aim of tip
i* corrected, was in
Washington.- The war department
authorizes tin' following;
The present' war brought forth n
new kino of -jirr. munition for.airplane
use in the form of special oirtridges
containing bullets for . armor-piercing,
tracing, and inrerttlTTify purposes.
With the progress of the war the
mmv vital parts of tip* airplane were
protected with -light armor, so that -it
b(*eamt* nebossaryMo introduce the ar
mor-piercing bullet.
A> iln* gasoline tanks wert' partieu-
larly. susceptible to incendiary explo
sion, It was necessary to procure a
bullet -tbntnlrilng an Inflaminablg'»ubr
stance, Ignited upon discharge, which
would carry *TTSfe" spark of Ha me Into
the lank upon piercing K. • r
As the target, the enemy airplane,
was witlin fighting range for only
brief mdfuehts at a time, and os there
were no mentis of determining the fire
effect as on land, a tracer bullet con
taining a bright-burning composition,
which would indicate the path of the
ipping
This photograph
ill* wireless telegraphy. The Marconi shows timber salved from German dugoutX that lias been cut up in the saw-
company lias-started a special sohoor*" mills of the Nevv Zealand Tunnelling company to .be used in the construction
for train Hut women in wireless jele- ofwlugouta. for .tlie.lamps, - . . . ’— ^—£4
graidiy at its North Wales RTaVlbb. At
prt*scnl the, epmpanv is tnkttur nnlv :
XV zrr ; ! GOVERNOR BEATS MAYOR IN PLOWING
rapliy, but this Is only a temporary ro- i
strictlon. - .\* a . , 4' '^
The course deals with slip rending W _ I1ILL y?. y _ ■
puneldng. record,reading and the gen-
ernl duties 'of » wireless station. The I ’['TjflpPPHp ' ^\ ik'* %
girls will be draftt*d lo land stations I
when efficient and will go on night duty I // > -
In rotation.— — . 1 I \JaPL J
It ls not proposed to extend the & L*l '
to the |,ut I
if nils to be 1
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Photo b»
'At yne outbreak of the war, further
infonniHion was projniitly gather«*d
from-TlnKnttfi^Yr nnd tbfsxnbjeet was
studied hy\thbst> rt'sponsjble for this
work in the United Suites. Of course,
on account of\the difficulties of the
problem, none of tin' special bullets
possessed by any country'Is entirely
satisfactory or whaKniigbt be termed
“■perfect", ip operatlon\ .
The bullets developed by the United
States ordnance department bave been
tested on land and from aihplancs to
see If there is any difference In their
performance when fired from a quickly
moving airplane in the - upper atmos
phere and when fired on land. \ •
These tests indicate that the Unlted\
States has developed a class of special
cartridges with a performance fully
equal to or surpassing that attained
abroad. . - ^
A new postage stamp muehlue has
just been installed In the Boston post
office. • All slugs and poor coins are
returned to tin* cup in the bottom of
the machine without discharging
stumps. The only other machine of
this Type is iu Washington.
After the Ball
It was 3 a. m. before Harold could
tear himself away .from Mildred’s
•sweet presence. "I think",” she whis
pered. “I hud better let you out the
buck way—the front door squeaks so
dreadfully.” ' _ ,
As Harold wifs slipping down the
back steps his foot slipped! A win
dow above went up and g stern voice
called dow n from the gloom: "Leave
an extra quart this morning, and don’t
forget them empties 1“ r~
Harold’s heart turned a somersault.
Rapid cooling'of a liquid pnxlu
fink crystals; the slower 4t chan;
form the larger the crystals.
LIBRARY SUPS HUN KULTUR
Angeles public library has banished
German books from Its shelves.
Henceforth, for the duration of the
war, HQ child In this city will be al
lowed to study German, and no person,
child or adult, will be able to read Ger
man boosts and, through their pages,
to absorb any of the viewpoints of
Germany. English , books that may
prov* »o expound German ' philosophy
will also be banned.
' Town Haa Chopping Bee.
Lawrenceburg, Ind.—In order, to
save coal, more than 000 bankers,
lawyers, physicians.*, laborers and
tramps spent a whole day chopping
wood at three camps established on
the river bank here. They cut 60C
cords of wood.
then he beat it away from there.
Boston Post. " > •
German Booka Are Banished From the
8helves of the Los Angelos
Almost Spoiled It.
“It doesn't seem* possible that yoa
cap have a daughter who Is old
enougfi to go to college.’’
’Thank you." she replied. T vu
married very young." >
"Oh,-that’s It! I bava often won
dered huw you ever happened to L pick
out sudra man a* yon—Lsn’t that one
of the moat spKmHd sonajta you eYar
«wX-r-Spriagfield (O.) Newt. ~*V
Public Library.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Los Angeles has
made a sweeping drive on German kul-
tnr as her bit In the pfjchologlcal war
with which civilians are backing .up
tfie American army. ‘ , -
Following closely on the actlop of
the board -of education banning Ger
man from the public schools, the Los
Athrnta. Ga.. recently had a war-garden parade In which Governor Dorsey
plowed the best furrow in the shortest time. The photogriph shows Governor
Dorsey (on'extreme right) and.Mayor- Asa G. Candler of Atlanta (next to
Gqveruor Dorsey), the rivals. The president of the Atlantic Advertising
Men’s dub, 5*. Q. Ht'stitigs. Is presenting rhe wftmer with • Imuqaet made
of Georgia-frowa 1 *vegetables. * 1, ,
Liberty.
Llberty*4r a alow fruit. It U nevei
cheap; U is made difficult because free
dom ls the accomplishment and per
-G'Ctness of man.
No man- can make money as S' pir
ate and give It away as a Christian.
Emerson.
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