SOLDIERS TIMID
(By the United Press)
LONDON, Nov. 6—English, Canad
ian, Australian—still refuses to gird
himself with armor, although several
inventors have perfected shields cap
able of deflecting bullets, sharpnel
and small fragments. It is the story
over again of the tin-hat which the
soldiers first sneered at as a bonnet
made for cowards.
Secretly, thousands of men want
body armor, protective visors for their
eyes and every sort of safeguard that
inventive ingenuity can devise. A
soldier of unquestioned bravery will
admit confidentially that the only rea
son he refuses to buy the stuff for
himself is that he would be ashamed
to wear armor while other fellows
can't offord to buy it.
Some officers of great value to the
army have the courage to wear shields
not to spare themselves from suffer
ing but to safe guard their services to
the forces.
Armor has its faults. It is heavy and
expensive to manufacture in great
quantities and it would divert the
energies of a number of skilled work
men now making other war mater
ials. But the severest tests have
shown that many lives could be sav
er and many hospital cases averted
by protective plates.
The case of the tin hat showed how
gratefully the army takes to every In
novation of practical value in saving
lives. The helmet by now has pre
vented head wounds by the thousand
many of which would have been fa
tal. For good measure the curved brim
has warded off many shoulder wounds
by deflecting sharpnel pellets and
shell fragments. Dozens of battered
helmets, pierced by bullets and chunks
of metal, may be seen in the shell
holes after an advance but the Inven
tors never claimed that the hat would
stop everything.
If the army council ever decides to
adopt armor for the men there Ut no
question that the men will wear It,
though reluctantly at first. Dr. C. W.
Saleeby, inventor of the helmet, may
again become Tommy's friend if the
council takes this step. He recently
submitted a sharpnel-proof jacket
which has past several tests.
Another inventor got around the
weight difficulty by making a fibre
shield. This is something like a war
time sea passenger's life belt, stuffed
with light flexible material. A ma
chine-gun bullet may pierce the hide
of the jacket and raise a painful welt
on the wearers chest but tests show
that the bullet gets stuck in the fobre
and does not go through.
The designers recognize the import
ance of shielding the lower portions
of the body.
No inventor had yet been able tc
make a mask or visor strong enough
to protect the face and eyes against
a bullet at short range. The chair
visor of fine steel meshes. slightlj
distended just before the eyeballs, hat
been more satisfactory tan any of tht
others. It will fend off small shel
fragments and chunks of hand gren
ade, however, and these missiles havi
caused many cases of total blindnesi
in the three years of war.
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The embargo placed by the Gov
ernment On the exportation of iroi
and steel to Japan and China is sail
to have knocked the props from ut
der several prospective millionaire
of Nome. With quotations at Seattl
of $40 a ton for scrap they had bough
up everything in the shape of iro;
on the Seward Peninsula and jus
as the shipment was nearing Seattl
j the embargo went into effect and th
1 price was knocked down to $25 pe
| ton at one grand swoop.
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DUBLIN, Not. 6—The Sinn Fein
prisoners in Mountjoy, having aban
doned the hunger strike on accepting
the concessions of the government,
have now recovered their health. They
are allowed to mix freely together in
the prison, to obtain food from out
side, and to receive visitors. It has
been arranged that they shall be trans
ferred to Dundalk Jail which recently
has been used as a Red Cross hospital.
The death of Thomas Ashe, the
Sinn Feiner, as a result of his hunger
strike, has favored the spread of the
Sinn Fein movement, since, for the
time, it united all Nationalist parties
in support of the principle that polit
ical prisoners should receive distinct ! "
treatment Great numbers of post
cards were issued bearing the photo
graph of Ashe followed by an Inscrip
tion to which the police took evcep
tlon, and the cards In many cases
were seized in the news agent's shops
and destroyed.
Court martials for illegal drilling
continue. One was held In Cork Bar
racks which illustrates the curious
cross currents of Irfsh feeling at the
moment, for ft was shown that one of
the prisoners had two brothers in the
army fighting fn France and that the
prisoner himself had been In the armyi
and was discharged as under age.
Some of the Sinn Fein Clubs have!
established local courts of arbitra j
tion to prevent litigants from enter i
ing the courts.
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