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'THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; OCTOBER 27, 1918.
GZEGHO-SLOVAK
TELLS OF TAKING
VLADIVOSTOK
Occupation of City Described
by Soldier Who Took
x Part in All of the
Ceremonies.
Northwest Hums with Echo of Ax and Saw;
Bishop Stuntz Describes Big War Activity
By BISflOP HOMER C. STUNTZ.
. While both coasts resound with the i
blows of shipbuilder's tools, our air-:
plane program must stand or fall by
what is done in the Pacific north-1
west. Here only grows the Sitka (
spruce, and upon Sitka wings our
lads will fly over Unter den Linden
and the Wilhelmstrasse within the
next few months.
All the mighty northwest hums
like a hive in its production and '
preparation of spruce for the defeat
of the kaiser. One is seldom out of ,
Washington, Oct. 26. From Vlad
ivostok comes a Czecho-Slovak sol
dier, Jaromir Spacek by name, with
many strange stones to tell of the , sj(,ht or sound of spruce producr1on,
luiiiou 01 uic cfL.iv-.-iuvdKs ' citi,er in hotel or street or parlor
tht, c!,-v . . , ,r ! or hotel. Officers sit at near tables
1 heir vanguard arrived on May !; the hote, or (iiner Who are they?
&hu2VJ J!" J, VTIWhat are thy doing? This straight,
. , ' , . clear-eved 40-vear-old man witli a
file temples and
reached the terminal of the Trans-
Siberian railway. When a sufficient
number had come, the litle army
solemnly held a patriotic mass meet
ing. This ceremony was observed
.whenever they reeached and occu
pied an important Siberian city. Ap
parently the citizenry
! tinge of gray at
1 eagles on his shoulders what is he
! here for? Ask this, and it will be j
told you that he is in command of j
j the forces producing spruce for air- j
i planes. i
of A'ladivos- ,v,,f
tnL- at:..,,,!,.! .,t.c ..'.,, ! f"ooK pasijou ui uic i uaus .wns
horn, vntk- , ,WP,l ;.!, th the edges of the bij? timber, and you
11. Aror. ,.f r Unr ., h w, a that they are from
all!
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! ilu nvc Mf'ir rtiiA nf t!iac purine smd
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ally pleased them.
Aoroimlily popular. .evidences multiply as your eyes e-
' Vet tlu v k.-,,t order it, the streets. con'e accustomed to interpret what
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And t hey did it in a periectly im
partial fashion. The Czecho-S'lovak
patrols adopted the set rule of dis
persing each a::J every street gath
ering that assumed large propor
tions. They wasted no words about
rt. The terse command "razcho
dis!" meaning "adjourn!" boomed
through the highways of Vladivos
tok at all hours of the day and
night. And it was strictly heeded
by the populace. W hen they were
Jold to "razchodis," they obediently
went home.
Crowds Enjoy Oratary.
" The Vladivostok mobs tem to
have been not unlike the old Roman
holiday crowds. They liked to
listen to speeches and they always
applauded the speaker who held the
platform, no matter what he was
advocating. An orator with energy
and a loud voice could persuade
them to do almost anything. It was
. this volatile quality of the Vladi
vostokians which made the city au
thorities positively forbid open air
gatherings. Public assemblages
must meet only in a hall, and then
, not without special permission from
the mayor. And the Czecho-Slovak
military patrols enforced this order.
On one occasion a patrol of four sol
diers put to flight a mob of more
than 400 persons.
Apparently the townspeople do
not resent being ordered about by
the military police. Occasionally
they grumble at not being allowed
to fight among themselves when
they choose, but for the most part
they are passive and well-behaved.
One citizen spoke admiringly to
Private Spacek of the efficiency of
the Czecho-Slovak soldiers.
! "Xou are great fellows!" he said.
"You have so much vigor. We re
spect you. When you came here
the order in the streets was not bad.
, But now it is still better. You know
best of all how to keep order"
Liberty Surrendered.
One day Private Spacek encoun
tered on the sidewalk a peevish old
lady who stopped him and gave ut-
terance to her grievances.
; "Where is our liberty now?" she
whined. "We thought we were to
get freedom, and now you come and
order us about. Where is our lib
erty, I ask you?"
' Private Spacek says he put his
hand very gently on the old wom
an's shoulder and replied: "Auntie,
you surrendered your liberty to the
German emperor a good many
months ago. Don't you know
that?"
This seemed to convince her, for
she sighed deeply and said: "Ah,
yes, you are right. And if it were
not for you we might all have been
destroyed long agol"
Cities Ask for Aid.
News of the peace and order pre
vailing in Vladivostok spread to
other Siberian cities and a number
of them sent delegations to the
Czecho-Slovak officers, requesting
them to send squads of soldiers for
patrcl duty. The officers objected
that they had not enough men to
be able to detach them for such
duties. One city's delegation came
back and said they would be satis
fied with from two to five men. An
other city offered to pay 15 roubles
pe; month per man for all soldiers
that should be turned over to them
for police service.
But the labors of the Czecho
slovak army in eastern Siberia have
not been confined to keeping the
civil population of the cities in good
order. There has been sharp and
bloody fighting in the hills and on
the plains and marshes. Not long
ago a small force of Czecho-Slovaks
was sent out to defend a portion oi
the Eastern Chinese railway against
the attacks of hostile troops. They
hadspnly one gun, whfle the en
emy nad seventeen. They did not
fire a single shot, but crept up with
bayonets and surprised the detach
ment of the enemy which was
holding the seventeen guns. The
enemy surrendered after a short
fight, in which some of the Czecho
slovaks were badly wounded.
Boches Make Everybody
Work, Regardless of Age
With the American Troops in
France, Oct. 15. (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) Renewed
evidence of German ruthlessness in
dealing with the civilian population
of invaded territories is contained
in a captured army order. It pre
scribes the treatment and the pro
cedure to be followed in a section
south of the Vesle river (Marne
salient).
All the inhabitants capable of
working, the order says, must be
used for the needs of the army,' re
gardless of their age. Their "sal
aries" are to be paid in paper cur
rency at the rate of 50 cents a day
as the maximum for men; 40 cents
for men and women between the
ages of 17 and 20, and 30 cents for
boys from 15 to 17.
The inhabitants, however, must
pay in. French gold or silver for
, their rations. The supplies, of
course, were taken from the popu
lation before being told back to
then
you see hour by hour.
Big Mills at Vancouver.
.' Cars upon cars of spruce logs roll
past you huge fellows, three of
them loading a flat car to its limit.
Go deeper into the shadowed
acres where the tall giants await
the saw and age, and there you
hear the coughing of the donkey en
gine at its task of hauling and load
ing, and the rasping of the saw and
the rhythmic stroke of the tireless
choppers cars and engines and men
all in holy conspiracy to smash the
Hun!
At Vancouver, just north of Port
land and across the broad Columbia
are the largest mills for cutting the
logs into planks ready for freight
ing further east for the finer saw
inc and seasoning t and fitting into
She resilient wings of the perfect
machine of which poor Darius Green
only dreamed. It fairly takes the
breath of a man from the corn belt
to see the literal acres covered by
the singing, whirring and dusty ac
tivities of this huge sawmill.
But why Sitka spruce? Douglas
fir was supposed to be good airplane
stuff but a few short months ago.
But it is not as good as Sitka
spruce, and it has crumpled so often
on the practice fields that Uncle
Sam has decreed it shall not be
used any more. And another ques
tion will come to the surface of
one's mind as he sees these tre
mendous trainloads of logs, hears
these donkey engines hauling more
over the ridges and up the steep
sides of ravines, to land them all
bruised and red, by loading stations
and sees the glistening saws eat
ing swiftly into the heart of mon
ster logs in the mills why so much
lumber? .
Small Percentage Used.
One feels the impossibility of us
ing so much lumber no matter how
staggering the air program may be.
And then he finds that only a small
percentage of the boards sawed
from these trees is fit for the ex
acting demands of the builders of
our immense air fleets. It has been
estimated that for every 70 board
feet in the standing tree but one
board foot is usable in airplane
wingsl Improved methods of in
spection and drying and working
show some improvement in the per
centage of lumber used, but the fact
remains that but little of all that is
cut and sawed is sufficiently straight
of grain and resilient to carry the
plane safely where eagles are at
home.
The spruce production division of
the signal corps has been in this
business less than one year, and
they have put $3,500,000 into mills,
logging engines, wire-rope and tem
porary logging-camp buildings, and
have increased the .force of men in
all branches of the work from 3,000
to over 10000, and now have over
100 mills cutting the planks for
quantity production of flying ma
chines according to a schedule that
provides for 100,000 machines an
nually. Shipbuilding Records.
In the building of wooden ships
the Pacific Northwest has made
records that amaze the world.
Washington, on Gray's Harbor,
holds the record for completion of
a wooden ship,- and I visited and
addressed the workmen in a yard
where they are out after a still
better record which was stated to
me (in confidence), as so astonish
ing as to seem miraculous. But I
saw the hull on the "ways" and
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Bishop Home? CSfatdz
B:shop Stuntz is "i.ow in China
holding the annual Methodist con
ferences. He goes next to the
Philippines and from there to
India. We expect to hear from
the bishop from time to time dur
ing his eight months absence from
Omaha, and will share the good
things he writes with our readers.
the driving manager told me they
were then one day and seven hours
ahead of their own schedule, with
the work well over one-half done!
Other parts of the Pacific coast
have hard work competing with the
docks of Portland, Astoria and
Grays Harbor, as well as Seattle
and Tacoma. The timber is there 1
There live the men who have grown
up in the logging trade, and who
can give odds to others who are
just breaking into that big and haz
ardous business and then beat them.
In Astoria I was the guest of
Mr. Brix, who owns several mills
and many sections of virgin timber
lands, and he showed me the na
tive timber in an auto run of near
ly 100 miles, and the yards which
he and his partners had built with
in the past few months. Such tim
ber! One rubs his eyes and looks
again to see that he is not dream
ing. Here are giant firs and spruce
nine and 10 feet in diameter and
300 feet high, towering straight in
to the air until one despairs of see
ing the umbrella of green away up
there toward the blue sky.
Monster Trees.
Mr. Brix told me of a tree that
had been cut into one tapering tim
ber 216 feet long, by 12 inches at
the butt and five inches at the top!
The majority of the ships be
ing so rapidly constructed in these
yards are of 3,500 to 4,500 tons bur
then. They vary from 280 feet in
length upwards. The cost of the
five which were then on the ways
in one of the yards visited was
$300,000, without the machinery.
From one point of view in Astoria
alone we could see 14 of these ves
sels in process of construction "on
the wavs." and six more which had
been launched and were being fit
ted with engines. In Portland and
other cities the story is the same.
Ships, and then ships and then more
ships!
Farms have been drained of la
borers by the high wages paid in
hese shipyards, and fruit growers
in Oregon and Washington are
wondering how they will gather
their apples and pears! Problems
of a magnitude never before con
fronting our statesmen and public
ists generally loom before us now.
Will those mills be silent when the
war is won? Or will mills and
camps still be busy building the
fleets needed ta carry the commerce
of our re-awaiTened America to the
ends of that earth with which the
war has made us familiar? Sena-
' tors and congressmen should hear
from their constituents on this matr
' ter and hear insistently until we get
! action.
Moss Is Aid to Surgery.
j Who has heard of Sphagnum
jnioss? In a dim way I had some
i conception of its surgical signifi
j cance, but it had not come straight
' home to me that in this unique prod
I uct of the Pacific northwest we are
! finding the means of saving the lives
and mitigating the agencies of
thousands in this war. This swamp
moss when sorted and dried, proves
the best known material for use in
bandaging wounds. It is 20 times
more absorbent than the best cot
ion, at its best, and women and chil
dren are bending every energy to
gathering this moss. You see -ft
on Iracks in the streets, in yards, at
Red Cross workhop and in all parts
near where it may be gathered.
ProhihitioftJias made tremendous
ly good in the northwest. Moral
conditions and the working efficien
cy of men in all branches of manu
facturing and logging have im
proved incalcuably since dry con
ditions prevailed.
NOTHING REAL
AT CAMOUFLAGE
POST OVERSEAS
Everything Deception at the
American Workshop Be
hind Lines of Khaki
Clad Soldiers.
Correspondence of Associated Press.
Behind the American Lines in
France, Sept. 30. Nothing is real
in the great American camouflage
station here. All is deception.
Huge willow trees like those in
Flanders with trunks two feet in
diameter and a mass of sprouting
branches at the top are steel tubes
designed to hide an observer. Even
on close inspection they looked li1 e
real trees to The Associated Press
correspondent who visited the sta
tion and, with the commandant, ex
plored their mysterious underground
recesses.
They were of plaster cloth wound
about the central steel tube and with
pieces of real bark fitted around
the trunk. A small gauze orifice,
. I A . - 1- lL. 1. - 1 - .
puimcu iu maim uic uai k, was iiih
noticed until pointed out by the of
ficer, inis was tor the observer
standing within the steel core of the
tree.
Ten feet away the turf opened, dis
closing a passage with steps leading
to a tunnel and thence' to the base
of the tree. With a light we groped
through the tunnel and up into the
tree. Tt was a tight fit in this tree
trunk, but from the gauze orifice one
had a sweep of the whole nearby
country.
A huge boulder, such as one sees
along country roads, was noticed
among the trees. The, big stone,
five feet high and seven across,
looked very real and yet this, too,
was camouflage, a make-believe
boulder in which ah observer and
machine eun could lurk.
Examining the stone, it felt rather!
like a big cardboard box and gave j
er taking the readings of the perl
scope. Besides the periscope poles, then
were periscope trees, with hollow
stumps from which the observer's
instrument was manipulated and the
readings made in pits below the
A camouflage stone wall was rots.
another curious device standing
among the camouflage trees and
siigntiy to the pressure ot tne hand. I pole3 This Nvall looking: like the
Ihe frame was wood, the covering ruins of an o)d miii( wa, of ijgnt
burlap,' painted a gray-brown, with ' aster construction nainted and
patches of moss. And buried amid
the moss the canvas flap raised to
let through the nozzle of the ma
chine gun.
"You have your own telegraph
system," was remarked on observ
ing the line of telegraph poles
stretching across the plain. V
The commandant smiled. "Those
are periscope telegraph poles," he
explained.
The poles were veritable telegraph
poles, with wires strungMrom the
tops, just as they are seen along
country roads. But each pole was
hollow, to permit a periscope to be
raised to a high observing point,
while a covered pit at the base of
the pole accommodated the observ-
weather-wom to resemble a real
mill.
"A wrecked house often serves ns
as very good camouflage" said The
commander. "We had one with the
windows all gone so the enemy
could look straight through to the
walls inside. By pointing false can
vas walls just back of theVffi'dows,
the enemy still thought he was look
ing at the real walls opposite. But
back of the canvas our observers and
snipers were at work and the de
vice was very effective."
A pile of gravel stood near th
wall or $iat appeared to be a pllo
of gravel, for this, too, was camou
flage. The pebbles were heaped
around a hollow frame with its
guaze opening for the observers and
the flap tlgiugh which the machine,
gun barkecTFurther along was a pile
of brick camouflage; and over in
the field was a stack of hay camou
flage. Each one of them was a small
fortress as weH as a post of observation.
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rp HIS new feature is just another phase of
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realizing how next to impossible it will be
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winter season, we have planned to assist in
this way a plan which has the indorsement
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