Show SIGNS FROM FRONT FRONTIN I IN BRITISH WAR VIAR COLLECTION Exhibits in Imperial War Museum Opened a at London LO LONDON DON May 14 14 Sign posts bearing bear bear- I ling ing t the e inscriptions Hell Fire fire Corner Corner Cor- Cor ner and Halg Haig Avenue erected by British troops Just behind the front lines tines in France are are among Lamong the more than 10 O be being ng as as- as j as-j semb at ed edat at Crystal palace Lo London don to form torm the Imperial War Var museum It will ill be opened by the king kins June li and will continue e for r ur years Exhibits innumerable have been gathered from every land land where the tho war cast Its trail to show the common common common com com- mon effort of ot the empire during the great conflict Shortly after the signIng signing signing sign sign- ing of the armistice the memorable sign posts mentioned were found discarded dis- dis carded as lumber In addition to those bearing street names which to many of the men men who knew them best had meant so many direction posts to avenues of agony there was found th the rallying trench sign of ot Verdun with its no thoroughfare They were all rescued rescued rescued res res- cued and are now to be preserved as relics of posterity LAST GUN IN ACTION There will be on display the ui gun that fired the first British shot in the war from the decks of destroyer Lance at the minelayer Koenig pulse Louise Louise the theE theE E B battery gun that opened the military mill mili tary hostilities the antiaircraft pompom pom porn porn pom which mounted at Gresham college college col col- lege loge fired the first shot ever directed at a foreign foe from London Londo since e ethe the days of the Romans the Romans the occasion being the Zeppelin raid Zeppelin Zeppelin- raid in September 1915 and 1915 and scores of other entries which have equally vivid associations The larger pieces of ordnance ordnance some of which weigh fourteen J tons ns are being being being be be- ing arranged on the floor of the spacious spacious spacious spa spa- cious halls But the galleries will hold displays of equal if it not greater In In- In terest These include war paintings and trench implements realistic scenic models and protective devices and curios that throw an Illuminating light on conditions which existed in inthe inthe inthe the German army Some of or these are amusing some tragic tragic- DUGOUT EQUIPMENT There is a cycle with a dynamo attachment at at- for lighting an officers officer's dugout dugout dugout dug dug- out upon which two of the worst offenders offenders of of- fenders tenders had to sit in shifts and pedal In order that those within might have Illumination while they devised new plans of or aggression Far less amusing is a specimen of the enemy's bear trap A soldier exploring exploring exploring ex ex- ex- ex no mans man's land might step into its ugly spikes concealed in th the grass and escape from their grip was virtually virtually virtually vir vir- hopeless Looking at the life buoys of the Lusitania the shattered funnel of the Vindictive the portion of the Zeebrugge Zeebrugge Zeebrugge Zee- Zee brugge Mole and the formidable mines that bestrewed the the exhibit will recall to those who were ere I there many chapters of a grat Brat epic |