Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-08-29 | Page 10 | 'Anarchists' Use 'Hair Brushes' or 'Jam-Tins' on Foe

4 Anarchists Use Hair Brushes' Brushes or tins Jam on Foe British Soldier Finds Pet Names for fOI Bombs Used in Trench Warfare T T ONDON Aug Aus 23 The Tho Tho various LONDON Ii I kinds of oC bombs now being used in France and Flanders ar are de described described do- do scribed b by an nn English officer in a a. aletter aletter letter lotter- from rota tho the front There are he says saI four tour main maln types the Hair brush the Cricket ball tho the j Club and the tho tin Jam Bomb throwers are alluded to In trench slang as Anarchists The Tho brush hair explains the tho writer Is ver very like the tho ordinary ordinal hair-brush hair o except that the bristles brist brist- lee les are arc replaced by a solid BoUd block of ot high explosive c Tho rho policeman's truncheon has ga gay streamers of oC tape tied to Its tail to ensure that It falls to tho the ground nose down dawn ward Both Doth th these bombs explode on Impact anI and it Is Inadvisable to ta knock them against anything anything- say tho the back of the tho trench when trench when throwing them The Tho works by a n time fuse The Tho removal remo of ot a certain certain tam tain pin releases a spring which lights an internal fuse ruse timed to explode the bomb In live five seconds You take tako the bomb In your right hand nl remove the pin and cast the thing madly from you Tho The tarn Jam arn- arn tin arlet variety appeals more mare particularly to tho the sportsman aK an the tho el element ele ele- ment moat of ot chance enters largely largel Into its successful use It Is timed to explode about ten seconds after the lighting of ot thu fuse It Is 18 therefore there there- fore lore unwise to throw it too soon as there thore would be ample time for your opponent to ta pick It up and throw It back On tho the other hand It la is unwise to hold on too lon long AH as the lie fuse Is II uncertain In Its action and anU Is la 1 given to short cut cute