THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIDUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
1 Itulns of tho hcnutltui nirncfiiiil of Albert as tin- ticrmans lift 11, nun, J, m sharp contrast, tin- cathedral of Mi-fa
wdleh (he Americans are striving to mivc In their bombardment of that city. :Ot-ii. Jules .Tanlii, now on his way
'from America to Siberia to tnko command of I ho Czecho-Slovnk forces there.
I LOOKING DOWN ON CHATEAU THIERRY, TAKEN BY AMERICANS
Chateau Thierry will long he remembered as Amerlca'H llrst great effort In the war. our men stormed the town and
toolc It. The photograph shows a group of French and Americana looking over tho town from a surrounding height.
AUSTRIAN PLANE SHOT DOWN IN ITALY
CHIEFS OF AERONAUTICS
A giant crane Is mining an Austrian plant- brought down after a stirring
buttle with Italian blrdmcu. The pilot In now a primmer of war In Itnl.v.
READY FOR DESTRUCTION OF BRIDGES
BRITISH BRINGING IN WOUNDED AUSTRIAN
MaJ. Hen. William L. Kenly (sealed).
In command of the division of military
aeronnutlcB. and Col. P. It. Kenncy, IiIh
executive otllcer. (Jonernl Kenly ban
charge of the Hying end of the air
Bervlco, Including operations, training
and administration. Colonel Kenney
was brought to Washington from Gen
eral Pershing's staff. He Is a native of
Chicago.
War Altera Sex Ratio of Nations.
An Italian ta-lcntlst, In a book Just
published on the subject of war and
population, says that there will be In
Kngland 1121 women between the agea
of twenty and forty-four to every one
hundred men between the name ages
If tho war ends next year. In 1U10 tho
proportion was 108 to 100.
In Fiance there will be 1VM women
of those ages, the writer estimates, to
every 100 men. In Germany, where
the sexes were almost evenly balanced
beforo the war, tho proportion will ho
. 110 wonpn to 100 num.
Hrlttsn .stretcher bearers oringing In a wounded Austrian from within the lines. Foe and friend are treated oltfce
y the allied forces.
HUGE AMERICAN DIRIGIBLE IN FRANCE
One of the huge dirigibles mnnned by Americans Is hero shown at rest "somewhere In France."
PRINCESSES OF BULGARIA
GUNNER AND DRIVER IN THEIR TANK
Princess Kmdoxln at the left and
Princess Nadajda at the right, daugh
ters of Czar Ferdinand of Hulgnrla.
Probably the most formidable war implement evolved during this great
ar Is tbe armored tank The photograph shows tho positions of the guuucr
ami the tank driver.
AMERICAN RED CROSS IN THE RIVIERA
Petrol and tur ready for tbe destruction of bridges at u moment's notice
are pluced everywhere by the belligerents In Prance. Just now It Is the Gor
n h are burning the bridges to protect their retrout
Antidote Found for Poison Gas.
According to a story told by several
American soldiers who have returned
from France, n gas bus been Invented!
which will dissipate or purify poison
gas hurled Into tho trenches by tho
Germans. Tho soldiers declared that
tho gas wus so effectlvo that when o?
barrage of shells containing It was
thrown Into a sector, bombarded by
poison gas shells, tho nlr was purified
so rapidly thnt tho use of gas mnska
was not necessary,
Pigs Never Eat Too Much.
Kven the pig knows how to protect
himself against dangers arising from ,
Indiscretions In eating, not only as to '
quantity, but as to the proportion of
the various food constituents. This
Is shown by Kvvard's experiments. He
allowed pigs to feed themselves ad
libitum with corn, meat, meal, olluv'iil.
suits and the like, from separate hop
pers. During early growth, when new
tissues were being made rapidly, those i
pigs ate much larger proportions of ,
protein than when growth became
slower. Later, when smaller amounts
of corn were eaten, the protein dell-
elency thus caused was met by an In
crease In tho amount of meat-meal eat
en. Under these conditions of free
choice feeding the pigs grew faster
than any previously recorded which
hud been fed on mixtures made for
them by the combined talent of agri
cultural experts, trained both lu tho
science of nutrition and In tho practlco
of feeding Thomas II. Osborne, In Atlantic.
Just 8o.
Many a great man's reputation for
wit Is duo to his having been Inter
rlewod by a bright reporter,
Itefugees who reach the lllvlera which now Is a great center of Ited Cross
activity, are clothed, fed and cared for by the American Ited Cross. The nho.
tbgruph shows the homeless people at the Ited Cross station receiving nnd-uM
of clothing 1