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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1918)
THE SEMI-WKEKLY TMlBLiNg. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. ft 1 1 Doublo litter slung between donkey lined by the allies In tin Balkan region for transporting tho wounded .. ..V..VU.. uiv mi uiu west inmi wraping me nig sneiis. in nnilclimtlon of boniburdment. H Admiral Sir Ilosslyn Wcmyss, first Ben lord of tlie British admiralty, with Captain Pringle, U. S. N., on board an American war-1 duiji mi; uuiiiinu wns inspecting. FRENCH CAVALRY AND BRITISH INFANTRY AWAIT THE H(JN Ofllclul photograph taken on tbo British western front, In France. French cavalry with British Tommies nro Sie nfennTOvciS good friends 8' T1, Brltls" nnd Frc"cl nr working together with the best possible results. ONE DAY'S BAG OF HUN PRISONERS BACK FROM THE FRONT LINE Hera Is n day's bag of German prisoners being marched through u vil lage behlud the lines. Notlco the prisoners In the front lines who are nverso to being photographed. CONCEALED AMERICAN BATTERY IN PICARDY Clad In the satuo uniform that she woro at her duties on the western fronl and holding the gas mask she used while braving war dangers to help tho soldiers, Capt. Ethel Itenton of tho Snl vatlon Army Is shown hero on her re turn to tho United States. Sho came back after ntno months on front-Hue duty to aid tho war fund drlvo of tho Salvation Army. AMERICAN HUSKIES IN PICARDY BATTLE ZONE W Ai-jerlcan batteries have boon an Important factor In stopping tho Krwtt drlvo of tho Huns on the I'Icurdy front. Tho picture shows n concealed AtttiTlnui lottery nnd inombers of tho gun crew gathering empty shells from Mysterious "Bromides." Mystery stilt attaches to certain ex ploslvo sounds, heard In various parts of the world and known to science ns lu-ontldoB." On tho coast of Belgium thoso sounds seem to come from tho sen, ami aro Palled locally "mlstpoet fers." In tho Ganges delta of India, similar sounds are called "Barlsal guns." Bruntldos nro well known In some pnrls of Italy, whero they bear a great variety of names. In Haiti n sound of this character Is known as tho "gourfro," wlillo In parts of Aus tralia It Is called tho "desert sound." Hrontldes mostly tnko tho form of muf lied detonntlons, of Indefinite direction. Probably they nro of subterranean or igin. Studies of eccentricities In tho transmission of sound through the at mosphero lend to tho conclusion that some of thu souuds hitherto reported' ns brontldes were really duo to can-' nonadlng or blasting. Popular Scl enco Monthly, ' This Is one of tho first photographs to arrive In this cnnnirv slinwinp' mm ni.titinr. mn nil,..,.! i. tim crr..f i,f. ... r.nuuy. American soiuiers are shown mnnnlng a small trench gun In an open position. CANADIAN HEAVY GUNS MOVING TO THE FRONT Some Canadian heavy guns are shown being moved to nn advanced position by a huge tractor. EMINENT ITALIAN GENERAL TRAINING AMERICA'S NEW MARINERS Genorul Badogllo, under chief of staff of tho Italian armies, who hns figured prominently In tho battles along tho Plave. His Logical Reasoning. "There is a skinny, drled-Up feller hero by tho immo of Morbid Tallboys," related old III ley Itezzldcw, who wus acquainting his Kansas City relative wltl tho wonders of tho vlllugo. "Ho says that tho world camo to an end quite a spell ago, and wo are now actu ally In hell. He argues It with cou sjdornblo plausibility, too, with any body who will listen," 'Whut a fantastic ami nonsensical theory 1" "Oh, it ain't altogether so, from his standpoint. You see, he is mar ried to n red-headed widow ten years older than himself and with six plumb wild chlldren."-Kunsns City Star. More than 40 schools have been started by the shipping board, as well us eight free marine engineering schools, to train deck ofllcors and engineers for merchnnt ships, and 5,000 Americans have been licensed ns ofllcers In tho morchnnt marine. Tho photogrnph shows students of tho free navigation school at Tnmpa, Flu., after a cruise in tho Qulf of Mexico, taking tests In "shooting tho sun" with the sextant. In tho right foreground is D. L Brown tho Instructor. To the left, looking into tho sextant's telescope, is Prof Alfred E. Burton, denn of tho Massachusetts School of Technology who is educational director of the shipping bonrd navigation schools. ' STOCKING THE MUD FLATS WITH CLAMS Generous Builders. A Y. M, C. A. building secretary reports that many of tho contractors who put up tho lints In the training camps refuse to tako a profit for their work. Ono carpenter said: "This house Is for our boys, Isn't It? Why should I make any money put of 'em?" Through the patriotic good will of such men tho association has been able to build many of Its enmu homes for the boys at cost. lhese men aro busy planting seed clams on the "Jonna" lint, v . , port, Mass., a war-time food conservation method tlmt is bin' y'r wherever conditions make tho commercial raising of clnms Ss.h C"1 reckless disregard for food sources hns so reduced the s. Si Wh,e- ,"!' these fiats, which used' fo produce more than 5100,000 " annJaSv tH ffT exhuustlon seemed near. uunuj. tlmt ib- ir