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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1919)
THE SEMIAVEEKLV TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. 1- Interior of the St. Qtiintln imifll tunnel, which was used mm 11 bombproof by lllndcnbtirg: It wns luxuriously fi i up and had steel doors. 2 I'urt of a shipment of Hour from America In the port of Piraeus, Greer-1 'A ( lo Keni's iiiiiiouh palatini,' of the eruelllxlon of St. I'eler, a copy of which was presented to President Wilson by V- pope. BRITISH PRISONERS STARVED BY THE GERMANS AIRPLANES SURRENDERED BY THE GERMANS This Interesting photograph shows the first Installment of German airplanes surrendered to ttic times unccr the conditions of the armistice. The photograph wns taken at a French airdrome near the Ardennes forest. HURRYING BACK INTO CIVIL LIFE i This photograph of n group of Itrltlsli prisoners or war Just released by the Germans shows the shameful treat ment of the captives by the Huns. Such evidence does tiot help Germany In getting the food for which she Is pleading. Scene In one of tlic4.merlcim army cantonments where the mustered out soldiers are getting their certificates of discharge so they can return to the pursuits of civil life. GEN. LEONARD WOOD FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR RETURNING TROPHY OF THE TEXAS '" i I UP'" HrnfffflB 1 ! MYSTERIOUS "P. V." USED BY BRITISH A remarkable photograph sluVvltig French prisoners returning home a thoy pass over a brldgo on the Little Uhlne at Strasshurg. Troops of the Ger 'tnun revolutionary partyaro seen guarding the bridge. DIPPING THEIR COLORS IN THE RHINE The ellleleney llag proudly lloatli.t. from the stall of the lighting top on the battleship Texas. The trophy s awarded to the ship with the highest honors for all around work and ,;lvcs the vessel possessing It the right to lly the ling. One venturesome blue Jacket of the superdrendnnugjit's crew has climbed to the top of the stair to pose for the photographer. The paravane, or "P. V.." as the Urltlsh seamen call It, Is the Urltlsh nnvy'n cunning device to protect war ships from enemy mines. It Is a torpedo-shaped construction with Hut fins at Us bead and n peculiar rudder de signed to keep It at any desired depth. A wire rope, by which It Is connected with the ship, ('(itches up the mooring ropes of mines and causes them to travel to the nose of the paravane, whero a sharp saw severs, theui. The mines, thus sot free, rise and are destroyed. BRITISH VESSELS IN KIEL CANAL Latest photograph of Gen. Leoaard Wood, who, since the death of his friend, Colonel Itoosevelt. Is frequently mentioned for the Uepubllcan nomina tion for the presidency. General Wood has Just been assigned to the com mand of the central department witli headquarters In Chicago. Men of the Second Moroccan division of the I'reneh army celebrating ir nccupMfou of the town of lluulquc by dipping their colors In the Ithlue. Bored by His Elders. ' j William Uohertson Smith, who Inter became oae of the 'most learned Nihil ill scholars of his day, was a cry precocious child. Talk was a imsslon with lilm, declare his biog raphers, but even In his very early years he Insisted that it must be good talk. Nothing wearied him more than to listen to the conversation of the company that came to his father's manse when It was not of the Improv ing sort, especially If he had to sit silent himself, according to the rule then strictly enforced on children. On one of these occasions, when a rev- , erend collegiate hud stayed long and ' nf tor having prosed mercilessly, had ! ut length left. Willie Is said to have ! drawn his stool up to i s father's kuo,. "And now. papa," he said, looking up with an ulr of one whoso endurance Is at an end, "let us have some ration al conversation 1" . Manufacture of Radium. The manufacture of radium has gone far beyond scientific experiment ; ' It Is now a mntter-of-fact business, with a constant demand. The first great dllllculty Is to obtain the raw material. Kven ore containing only ihree-thousundths of a grain to the ton Is worth working up. The ore goes through complicated and deli cate processes of reduction and con centration, until finally from half a ton or more of ore there results a lump of two or three pounds .that contains, among other things, the pre cious salts. This undergoes a series (if reactions and crystallizations, O.tWO or more In number, and requiring four or five weeks, at the end of which time the few grains of bromide of nullum have M'puruted from the other salts, and particularly from the snlts of barium, which appnrontly accompany them most persistently. Members ut th- cre c.r o light mil i r or I li.- jliliuh ,.,. sv to the Kiel canal, taking their firm vlewof the famotiM lime of Him eiieinj Duel. Tito Hrltlsh vessels went to Kiel to supcrvlw the work of carrying out the armis tice terms regarding the German war vcsncIm.