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April 17.
POWERFUL
INCENTIVE TO GALLANTRY,
ACCORDING TO PERSHING
General Pershing wrote the follow
ing recommendation in favor of the ,
passage of the measure by Congress
permitting American soldiers to accept
land wear French War Crosses and any
Other decorations our Allies wish to
iconfer on them for conspicuous brav
ery:
I "Service of our troops with France
has already resulted in a number of
cases of individual gallantry. Some
pf these have been rewarded by cita
tions in orders by the French and
ward of the Croix de Guerre, which
lour soldiers are unable to accept offi
cially. Such recognition is a very
powerful incentive to gallantry in ac
tion. A number of our men have won
the Croix de Guerre in previous serv
ice under the French and are not per
mitted to wear them since entering our
fcrmy.
I "Both the French and British Gov
ernments would permit their troops to
.wear our campaign badges and would
accept our decorations. ,There is no
rood reason why we should not be
(empowered to bestow decorations on
[the French and British entitled to
Ithem, especially when serving along
side of our troops, and we should ac
cept theirs. Decorations carefully be
stowed would contribute to good feel
ing and closer relations with our
allies.”
VALUE OF FINGER PRINTS
There are many good reasons for
taking the finger prints of soldiers
and sailors. One of the reasons was
recently demonstrated. A sailor suf
fering from aphasia, complete loss of
memory, was identified by means of
his finger prints on record at the
Navy Department and was informed
Os his name and where he came from.
THE KAISERriUST.BE BEATEN TO HIS KNEES
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TRENCH AND CAMP
American Inventor Designs
Gun to Shoot 100 Miles I
If wars demands make it necessary
to use guns of extraordinary range,
the United States could put one in
the field which would shoot a projectile
weighing 100 tons and measuring 26.5 (
feet in length a distance of 100 miles.
Writing of this gun, Charles Beecher
Bunnell, the American who invented
it, says:
"The rifle is 375 feet long and weighs
39,277 tons without mountings. It
has a bore of sixty inches. It throws
a shell 26.5 feet long, weighing 100
tons, a distance of seventy miles at
twenty degrees elevation, or 100 miles
at forty-five degrees.
“Ten tons of powder in twenty-inch
prisms propel the shot, which en
counters an atmospheric resistance at
the muzzle of 10.45 tons, which fades
off to zero at the first point of im
pact. Ignition is reversed; the powder
commences to burn at the shell’s base
and works back to the breech plug, so
that the air is not Ailed with burning
powder grains, as is usually the case.
“Fired point-blank, the shell travels
twenty-one miles parallel with the
earth’s curvature, which would permitj
die shot to perforate two German fleets
side by side. At a seventy-mile range,
the gun’s possible destructive area is
15,386 square miles, at the 100-mile
range, 31,400 square miles.
‘ It this gun Fere using its seventy
. mile range and it were located at
Somerville, New Jersey, it would com
mand New York City, Philadelphia,
West Point, Mauch Chunk, Wilming
ton, Del., and all the intervening coun
• try. One gun on the Panama Canal
i would command both entrances with
i deadly accuracy.”
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