THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO. PA. vents -for Mews IS iti c 111 ON THE Hi In .THIa Dopartmont Our Readers In Fulton Around the Aorld AI"th the County andfElsewhore May Journoy Camera on -the "Trail DnAAnInn 4a Mi1s. ft . 1 biana inero of History Making Happenlnga. ARE STRINGING BARBED WIRE HIGH-POWERED SEARCHLIGHTS FOR COAST DEFENSE MILITARY DOGS HELP 'THE ALPINE FIGHTERS OF ITALY Prisoners Gave Information That H Was Being Employed By Troopi Rett And Was Lcrge Enough To Conceal Two Regimenu, of World DiGGi Pictures 1 . VT Tht'se nrc n few of the high-powered searchlight that Uncle Sum 1ms scattered along the Atlantic nr.:! Pacific coasts. With a ninrlne at tlie head of each one of these searchlights. It will be irn-i iciilly IidiioskIIiIc for fir.v.iilnc foreign to pass our shore at night undetected. The crews of these batteries are put through a strenuous course of training nnd know the minute an alnrtn Is sounded Just what to do. The commanding olllcer und two government ofliclnls tuny be Keen In the foreground. AMERICAN TROOPS LANDING IN A FRENCH PORT rrf.iw-Hiiitnn rtr.--"- in I n" j f I r' -ll 11 Hlfirti r i "ll 1111 ill III IT ir HIT" A transport landing American troops In a French harbor. The flow of our la Increasing eneh month, according to Secretary of War inker. YANKEES PARADING IN PARIS American soldiers are constantly being honored by the French populace. Here they are shown parading through the Champs Elysees, I'arls. Charming damsels are handing them roses. SOME SHELLS THAT Myi4tibMWtfr.fMAtfA4 f f i Ma Jl .Ar. a ,. jsYiV'M'".; Here Is some food for Hun reflection, stacked In neat piles at one of England's largest munition factories, which Is turning out thousands and thousands of the deadly missiles dally for Boche consumption. i-,'flM,-iM,,itriy'' FRITZ WILL RECEIVE n 1 tW.MWi WWy. ?J.;4 ; VI'.1,' W,1 A' ,',J soldier across the Atluutlc to France NADJA BECOMES AMERICAN Nadju Frolkova. sister of Mine. Hotcbkarova, commander of the Itus Hiun battalion of death, has adopted Washington as her home and declares "I American; Itussbin, no." That Is about all the English she has acquired. She Is living In a girls' camp on the Potomac near Washington, where the occupants receive military training. She Is sixteen years old, too young to have been a member of the "battalion of death," but now she Is training to be an American soldier. Dream Was Valuable. Warned by a dream a New York dentist Increased his tire Insurance the other day. The man dreamed that the building In vhlch he had his otllces had been burned down, and that his olllce nnd apparatus had been de stroyed. Early next morning be called his Insurance ' agent nnd raised his policy from $."M) to J 1,0X10. Ills olllce was damaged slightly by tire a few nights luter. i V! v I fA h dfa&r z xu The dog, above all other animals, bus proven Itself to be of Inviiliinble service to the Italian fighting forces In the Alps. Whereas the horse and the mule are practlca'ly useless when It comes to climbing narrow rdow-cov-ered roads at dizzy heights, the (log has shown Its strength and power of enduring hardships. These military dogs are used extensively to carry food and water to the outposts, which are at times Inaccessible by humans. In tl Is Italian olllclal photograph, Italian soldiers are seen leading some of these military dogs Into their barracks on tne Adamello. WAR NURSE RECRUITS PRACTICING ON A DUMMY ' ' a ''Wlw If ilKi - t Recruits for the corps of war nurses practicing on a d uminy In the training school established at Vassar college, Toughkeepsle, N. 1'. GILBERT C. CLOSE -1 nilbert 0. Close, personal secretary to President Wilson when the latter was president of Princeton university, has been made personal stenographer to the president, succeeding Charles Swem, who resigned to go Into the army. Last year Mr. Close came to Washington as one of Secretary Dun lels' personal secretaries. SCRAPS A submarine torpedo Is a metal cyl inder loaded with a high explosive and equipped with a detonating apparatus. Sometimes It Is equipped with a pro pelling nnd steeling mechanism, auto matically operated. The origin of the expression. "In union there Is strength" Is not known, but the sentiment In various forms has been current a very long time. A I.atln author of ancient times said: "By union the smallest states thrive, by dlsco'd the greatest are destroyed." The American author of "The Flag of Our Union" said: "United we standi divided we fall." ; V ETlPiiiffTi BRITISH GUN WITH This liritlsh olllclnl photograph shows I'ritlsb soldiers making prepara tions to go up to the front with a battery. Note the caterpillar wheels of the hlg gun. ENTERTAINING THE i, f U fcijf sc. ft!fi4 T7, 1 All the music on the lighting lines In I' ranee Is not provided by the whistling of shrapnel and the booming of the big guns. This Canadian olllclal photograph shows a well-known composer entertaining members of a Cana dian divisional mess at the front. Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, an English woman, Is the first of her sex to gain an air pilot's certificate. CATERPILLAR WHEELS CANADIAN FIGHTERS Whale ment Is now In great demand and swordflsh steaks are sold In Faneull hall market stalls, Boston. American Army on the Vt-ie.-e lied aviators have reported that ii,e Germans are digging In oi'i"ilte t:.( Franco-American line alonis tin- Vkl The observers also have repoi ti j the enemy Is stringing burlnd I( along the hills northwest of I'lsm,., Allied olllcers express the 1j I U f that the Germans will not give ground h rt unless they are deliberately off the plateaus. The Americans learned from Git. man prisoners that the em my ai using an old rock quarry cave In t!.t region of Longucval, large i n.j.uh to conceal two regiments. He eniployij it as a refuse Tor troops at ivst. T Franco Amerlcnii heavy iini:e7 shelled the cave all day Satunkiy and the Germans were finally coininiltJto abandon It as a hiding place. The guns of the Franco-Aini rir?i;i got the range of the entrance to the cave and kept up a continuous lire a day. Observers reported that lln cavf had been considerably dam.'itH and was rendered virtually untenable. The Germans are digging tri ndin. ilong the line west and east of Lnncut. val and also la the Valley ot the Perles. Allied aviators on Saturday did not observe the Germans building any b!j gun emplacements, but here and there they were Installing batteries. Most tif these were of light calibre, which the Germans will bo able to move to others positions when the French aid Americans discover their locations. WHERE THEY BELONG. Lenlne And Trotsky Prepare To Flee To Germany. London. The anti-Bolshevik move ment In Russia is growing rapMly, the Polshevlk Soviet organization h:n virtually gone to pieces and Nikolai Lenine, the premier, and Leon Trot sky, his war minister, Intend to fle to Germany should the situation be come too serious, according to recent Russian newspapers, the E.cliiin:e Telegraph correspondent at Copen hagen telegraphs. The Petrograel newspaper Isvestia Is quoted by the correspondent s stating that nt several points "in that part of Russia not occupied by the enemy'" counter-revolutionary move ments have broken out In a number of towns. The Bolshevik Soviets have been overthrown in these places and replaced by councils consisting of rep resentatives of the Menshevikl, or moderates. WOUNDED IN 17 PLACES. Lynchburg Soldier Soon Will Be Able To Return To Front. Lynchburg, Va. Lieutenant Abe Craddock, who was wounded In a raid In Plcardy, France, In May, In a letter to his father, A. P. Craddock, tells his father that 17 pieces of an exploded hand grenade were picked out of him by the surgeons. He says he was hit all over his body excepting in his face. ' TWO HUN FLYERS DOWNED. . American Army on the Vesle. In battle In the air between 12 German and five American airplanes Lieuten ant Walter Avery, of Columbus, Ohio, and Harold Buckley, of Agawara, Mass., each brought down a German. There were no casualties among tlie Americans. ENGLAND TO EGYPT BY AIR. Two British Officers, With Mechanics, Fly 2,000 Miles. London. Two Royal Air Force offi cers, with two mechanics, have com pleted a flight riom England to Egypt, a distance of 2,000 miles, In a type of airplane that has seen considerable service on the front. The olllclal re port, In announcing this feat: "One or two Jiaits were made for petrol, hut the flight was merely a bit or routine work." SIZE OF TRUNKS LIMITED. Should Not Be More Than 40 Inohe High Or Long. Washington, To save space In bag gage cars for the army the conserva tion division of the War Industries Board has advised manufacturers tllt trunks should not exceed 40 inches In height or length, and that traveling bags and suitcases should be restrict ed to sizes from I I to 28 inches, wit" all partitions, sections, falso bottoms, etc., eliminated. U-BOAT GETS NINE. Fleet Of Fishing Schooners Fall Pre Off George's Bank. Nantucket, Mass., Nine flshlnS schooners were sunk off George Bank by a German submarine, a naval scout boat which put In here reported. The scout boat picked up word of the raid from the auxiliary fishing schoon er Helen Murley, whlcli had rescued four survivors and was taking thn to port. George's Bank Is 60 mll oB this Island. -
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