Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-25 | Page 31 | New Weapon Found for Combating Hun

I New Weapon capon oL Fo Found I For Combating Hun Paris Aug 21 Yankee I.-Yankee Yankee Ingenuity has developed eloped a new weapon for tor use against the Hun No o. o It will Ill not be used very ery often otten yet et there are times An American unit of or engineers railway was hauling ammunition and supplies for the tho French In the face of at one of or tho the Gorman German drives this I year ear At tho the hel height ht of ot things B when the tho Hun was coming over o In force torce an and anda a advancing In a way which meant the loss Ions of anything that could not bo be moved mo promptly a n locomotive Jumped the track Sergt George Robertson In charge charse watched the tho battle for a moment looked at his steam gauge screwed the tho valve e down tight turned the oil fuel reserve supply into the firebox and then effected a 0 solitary and successful retreat I Half Halt an hour later lator some sixty Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans were standing about the tho f stranded strand strand- ed td locomotive when the boiler did the tho theone theone one thing which Sergeant Robertson hoped hope for blew for blew up It had all nIl the tho effects of ot a a a. fourteen fourteen- Inch shell Incidentally Sergeant Robertson I Inow Is 18 Isnow now v wearing the Croix de Guerre Guerro