HONORING THE KING OF A WAR-RAVAGED COUNTRY
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King Albert of Belgium and General Petaln of the French fcrrces review the officers In command of the Franco*
Belgian forces, who are battling the Hun at the northern extremity of the western line.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
PRANCE, April 2 (by mail).'—An
American divisional intelligence office
in the rear of our Toul front one
day recently resembled a museum in
an American police headquarters. The
only difference was that in the in
telligence office there was a wider va
riety of more deadly weapons than
any police department ever gathered.
In one corner there was a captured
German machine gun on its tripod.
A rolled belt of cartridges was near
it. In another corner there were a
number of flame projectors—the Ger
man flammenwerfers—which had been
brought in from No-Man’s Land. On
one table there was a small auto
matic pistol taken from a German
killed in our trenches during a raid.
On another table, laid out in an or
derly row, was a collection of other
automatic pistols, large and small,
(ine had a stock that could be fitted
to the pistol handle, forming a weapon
that might be fired from the shoulder
like a rifle.
Another was packed away in a
leather holster so constructed that
three spare loaded magazines could
be carried in it. Both were of makes
well known throughout the world, and
both were, from the German point of
view, the last words in the pistol
maker’s art. There were still other
pistols, a club, a wicked-looking
trench knife, equally good for chop
ping firewood or slashing a throat.
There was a short bayonet with £
blade as sharp as a razor and a poim
as sharp as a needle. The blade was
hardly more than six inches long
and the weapon, fitted on the enc
of a rifle, w-as designed for close work
Bunches of grenades were sprin
kled here and there. By a table leg
stood a German “dud” shell, Near bj
part of an aerial torpedo rested. Clips
of enemy cartridges for both rifles
and pistols were everywhere. A C.er
man sniper’s rifle was standing in a
corner. There was a telescope sight
for sniping, one “tool” used for elimi
nating the flash on- the end of a spit
ting machine gun, another for silencing
the report from a rifle.
Added to all this, there w-ere hang
ing around the wall on various nails
big American automatic pistols on
belts—the property of officers and
men in the office, hung up in a place
within easy reach.
All the weapons except these last
had been the property of the German
government until American soldiers
on the line captured them. Some of
the articles had tied to them little
tags upon which was written the
name and organization of the Ameri
can who secured them. Each tag sig
nified that some “doughboy” wanted
his trophy returned to him, provided
it was of no u§e to the army. But,
as a soldier in the line has no place
to keep such, things, which would
simply add to his already heavy load,
all that intelligence officers did not
desire for their own official purposes
were put away for the men who
wanted them.
If American troops yet to take their
place in the line obtain as many tro
phies as their predecessors, many a
home in the United States will have
in it after the war a weapon “made
in Germany.” And every weapon will
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j have attached to it a personal story
j of how it was captured on our front
in France.
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HIGH PARISIANS
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PARIS, May 1—Many Parisians,
i after harboring refugees from north
| ern France for three and a half
years, have become refugees them
selves. So many of them have fled
to the sunny south that most of the
j resorts are reported full to overflow
j ing. This exodus is attributed to the
air raids but it is by no means an
indication that Parisians have been
terrorized by the Goths. The cir
cumstances connected with the big
casualty lists show that the victims
were not frightened enough, many
deaths resulting from rash impru
I dence.
The average citizen is so proud of
| the share he takes in the general
! danger of these raids that he regards
the fugitives to the south as deser
ters in the face on the enemy. Thus
has been opened debate as to the
! propriety of people of means aban
doning the city. The majority agree
with the philosopher, Emile Bou
troux, who holds that the rich es
pecially are in duty bound to stick
to their posts as an example to those
who are unable to leave.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on the j
21st day of May, 1918, between the
hours of 8 o’clock a. m. and 7 o’clock
p. m., an election will be held in the ;
town of Cordova, Alaska, and in the i
territory hereinafter described, to de- j
termine whether or not there shall i
be annexed to said town of Cordova
that certain territory adjoining said
tow'n on the north described as fol
lows, to w'it:
Commencing at Cor. No. 1 of U. S.
Survey No. 449, thence south 89 deg.
20 min. west 521.5 feet to the point of
beginning; thence north 30 deg. 30
min. east 663.4 feet; thence north 10
deg. east 1,715 feet; thence north 37
deg. east 1,630 feet; thence south 53
deg. east 1,025 feet to Cor. No. 2 of
U. S. Survey No. 829; thence south
39 deg. 40 min. west 1,510 feet; thence
south 19 deg. 30 min. west 490 feet;
thence south 0 deg. 40 min. east 1,320
feet to the northeast corner of that
portion of said town of Cordova com
monly called the Thirteen-Acre Tract,
but which contains 13.65 acres, which
corner is on the north boundary line
of said town; thence south 89 deg, 20
min. 1,313.5 feet to the point of be
ginning.
All qualified voters are entitled to
vote at said election by placing upon
their ballots the words, “For annexa
tion to the* town of Cordova,” or
“Against annexation to the town of
Cordova,” or words equivalent thereto.
The polling place in the town of
Gordova shall be on the second floor
of the city hall, on Second street,
therein. The polling place in the ter
ritory proposed to be annexed shall
be in the office of the Pioneer Pack
ing Company, on second floor of their
warehouse, situated on the approach
to the Ocean dock.
The officers of election in the town
of Cordova shall be the following:
Fred Rayer, D. A. Mosser and It. K
Hegg, judges; and George Kennedy
and H. I. Lewis, clerks. The officers
of election in the territory proposed
to be annexed shall be John Gillis
and A. E. Black, judges, and Emma
Shepard, clerk.
Dated this 17th day of April, 1918.
NATHANAEL GREENE,
(Town Seal) Town Clerk.
r. If you have found gj
the key you will
Vote For
ARTHUR
THOMPSON
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for the
Legislature
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