Show "i-- MAGAZINE SECTION THE SAIT LAKE HEBAIiD-BEPUBLICA-N ' CTI ' ' ' uAUAZTNE SECTION UTAH SUNDAY JANUARY 28 1917 P C v ' -- v s The School'- Children of Arras and Their Calm De- meanor in the Midst of Shell and Shrapnel Remarkable Stories Told of British Youths in Service for the Entente Allies in - 7 France 1 ' ITH which were the enemy trenches and still further back the occasional white-hflashes of enemy guns No stranger school esn be found British armies m — France' Jan 27 The that “Improved weather conditions permitted increased aerial activity along the entire front ” is the laconic and prosaic way in which the official communique dismisses some of the most spectacular episodes of '' the war the ot in air the world than that at Arras Arras itself is a strange and ghostly city Some of the houses are just atw their owners left them daring theV first bombardment in October ' ' this increased aerial activity” such an announcement conjures up at once a picture of countless aeroplanes in the air —scouting fighting diving spinning hovering over enemy tar-geand calmly sending wireless signals through the fountains of enemy fire photographing the enemy lines' bombing his ammunition dumps and sheds and supply columns and otherwise “carrying on” in thesky in a manner wholly bewildering to the onlooker but typifying in supreme degree the indispensable part aviation is playing in this war With a candor often uncommon in times of strife the British com inunique may end from day to day with the simple statement that one or scene of battle where be engaged and two or three or four “of our mai a re rhinos have not returned” Thi Hwpereed icl enemy maehmea was eeen One means they have either been hit and f’“ned1n the vwmty npon a housetop” forced to land in the enemy lines orto This aaroe little Lieutenant A seems have been shot down to a fate more the serv- r®cors $° Jn certain It is no child’s play to circle - lice One day he was crossing the en- when he half an hour or more tortured by ex-- I aGer- drtlyabove ploding' shells and black shrajmel I ® balloon sent up for artil- puffball coming nearer 'and nearer I F)an 5° m like the extending finger tips of some I j Tif ?retj°dinf-thand of death But they are little J --Jf?8 guns he fell in — mere more than children these boys who kre bringing the lustre 'of ever- - f118 ° rghtd lasting fame to the British aviation until he service Some are scarce 18 It is rare to find a flying man over 25 I the thing burst Pa8f ed07r In the aggregate however the f was destroyed m a losses in the flying corps are as noth-- 1 B as ing compared with the useful and vital work the “wings’ accomplish The Germans lately have adopted Without them the big guns would (he ruse of “stalling” and shamming have no eyes to correct a fall out of control It is a thrilling shells Without them and the hut not uncommon thing to see a their of photographs they daily man machine when pressed take the mapmakers could not trace turn its tail straight closely in the air up each detail of the trench positions and dive toward the earth for a them the general staff could tance of two or three thousand feet not accurately know just what is go-ion by day and night behind the enemy lines Without them modern war would lose its most fascinating phase The “good flying” of a single day on the British front alone may represent a day of a hundred fights a day g of four score aeroplanes in combat— a day of a thousand personal incidents and deeds of daring in the" once strange strata of high ts Jnd o ng Ger-hundre- dis-With- ds out ng Xt upper left Claude Graham-Whit- e and his wife out for a spin White is with the aerial corps of Great Britain upper right ruins of the Hotel de Villa atAiras after the German shells had done' their work bottom French soldiers with ladders ready to bridge trenches in a charge on he Gert : r 1 - man foe- - - of little and jnst as the nnitiated onlooker would expect a “crash’’ it flattens out and starts pell-me- ll for its own lines One does not always get away with this hit of aerial strategy however1 as is shown by the record of Captain B After attacking three hostile machines he saw one of them going down in a spinning nose dive He suspected' the honesty of that dive two years ago Others have been pulverized along with the cathedral the city hall and the railway station — three favorite targets of the German gunners The enemy lines skirt the eastern edge of the city and daily from these messengers of death are sent shrieking into Arras—bursting in fury from the sky In the midst of all this malignity of war some two score children or more go to school 'Their class room is iii the cellar of a house so well demolished that a few additional shells would scarcely change the character of the mass of debris that serves as a protective roof It would take a terrific bombardment to interrupt them at their lessons The muffled sound of shells crashing in the distance has become far too commontoattract atetntion place x All Arras lives underground There are quiet periods of the day when the women children and old men venture abroad for friendly call at a neighboring cellar or for the sake of a stroll and a breath of fresh air Opportunity after opportunity has bee given them to leave but they prefer to remain with what is or was their very own Three persons were killed just outside the school one day but the children in the cellar knew noth-ing of the tragedy When school is out each afternoon the children are told to hurry- home as fast as they can go and there is a great pattering To those who have once witnessed far-seei- i and decided toido a little diving Von his own’ This dramatic downward duel continued for full 5000 feet: until the German was driven into a spin “and seen to crash:’’ To those U'who have lived among them the children of the war zone in France wijl ever remain a psychological riddle' It is startling to the newcomer at the war torfind them here V at allV It is positively uncanny to remnants of their see them at play where a shell might homes in the bombarded towns and shell-shatter- ed break' almost any moment utterly ob- livious to the soldiers and scenes about them and with senses bo at-tun- ed tothc g ordinary a nbies that only prolonged lull in the ceaseless roar of guns would cause nerve-rackin- them the least concern They I cling with' their elders to the German Dream Almost Resized jSays French Writer WarnsAgainst Peace wing-towin- villages where even yet the German guns send their shells Some have been born within sound of the cannon and others have come into their first sense of being in the midst of battle The strange phenomenon of life to them will be the stillness of peace ' A striking picture it is to see a life tie French girl 5 or 6 years old with a plaited ‘pig tail” down her back tripping bareheaded along a road wherever soldier men venture only nnder the protection of their big steel bats Such a little girl eat and softly sang and knitted in front of her home near an old Flemish mill one bright and warm- December noon while a score of aeroplanes whirled and fought overhead and the high blue sky was filled with the fleecy otton-bal- ls that come from bursting shrap- -' nel shells She could see the seared and scarred lines on the distant hill : wooden-sole- d shoes down the melancholy streets There are scores of other towns within the fire zone' but not quite so close to the war as Arras where children live by hundreds' It is no infrequent thing to hear mothers calling their childrenTin from a desultory bombardment just as they would from a shower of rain Several' months ago enemy aeroplanes dropped bombs in a village six or seven miles behind the firing line It was Sunday afternoon and the streets were thronged Outside a soldiers' moving picture theatre a line of children were waiting for the doors to open One of the bombs fell near where they stood They scattered like so many mice but within a min- te or two aU werejseramblmg back - -- thin air It might tell for instance of how g scout Lieutenant : A in a machine encountered a squadron of twelve German Rolands The odds d were enough but the young Britisher decided to take a chance He climbed swiftly and surely until he got far above and to the rear of the hostile eraft Bvidently the Germans were intent upon some errand which they proposed to carry out in force for they paid no heed to ' the Vliaki-cla- d airman until he deliberatethem firing as' be came dived into ly this threw the twelve Germans into a in U-- 5 A panic and their formation was en German territories or protectorates tirely broken up Meantime LieutentoBanGcrnidh plan- of I91L ant A got ‘beneath the nearest maaccording r ?:4 £' ' Hohammedans chine and fired an entire drum of cartridges into it at fifteen yards Emperor William of - Germany and his plan for German domination of the world as seen by M Cheradame The hostile machine colapsed and iARIS Jan 27 — Writing not after Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey which establiahment under German rule “crashed” That is a supreme word they have swept aside all German leave ofThe can make success vast confederation of central Eua recent German the the of will as possible a peace for such proposal her colossal poaals peace in the lexicon of the flying1 corps A to In the west Holland the Persian Persian rope the “Hamburg to comprising' It her a Germany French months before but writer “Hamburg machine may fall or dive but until real-- - Belgium Luxemburg Gulf Switzerland and a conception Into dream Gulf transformed solemnly warns the entente countries Will Sacrifice '’ of ' northern France and In the it is actually seen to “crash” it is and Uy‘ portions Much te Keep Bridge the entire world especially the " east Russian Poland Esthonla Livonia-Courlannot counted as an enemy “casualty” Austria-HungaTo keep that bridge" says the writSolution In Flade of land the three Russian gov-to United beware States: any peace er Germany will sacrifice her' hie found After seeing his particular enemy to The is solution he conquests ernments says of Kbvno Vilna and Grodno on move the basis in Belgium ' in northern France In not1 in Germany but In Austria-Hungar- y from Germany made "crash” Lieutenant A' drew off1 to the'1 in all of Austrla-Hun- southeast In Courland Poland She will- willing“drawn game’ Despite all ap By the creation of a new nation mean a confederaThis think things over lie was somewhat ° would gary" Alsace-Lorrairelinquish to of Serbs: Hungarians Croa-tla- tion under German control of 1722000 amazed tq see still more hostile ma- - pearanCM of moderation he says such ly France She will even part with the composed and other peoples now subject to square kilometers with 162000000 inchine coming up in formation Biit a move would mask a tremendous entire left bank of the Rhine AU' thie a nation set square-to habitants as against the German emnot she wlll'do If only the bridge Is left ly across the bridge" he dashed at the leader of the new- - aerxnan victory It would mean Eu-difrom Hamburg with 540000 square pire before the war because It will assure to her sudh a tre- the orient— the structure of 68000000' comers and sent him in & spiral nose OBp Germany's supremacy over j and kilometers mendous accession of that" ' but wlll come crashing ' to the It would mean 85000000 Inhabitants to a “crash ’ This led to still rope but her ventual domination of a few years after a power on peace made And : this: solution will not subjects in the new empire such a basis Great Britain and Russia ground more complications and the intrepid I Amrca and the entire world as well concern only ‘Europe M Cheradame ' In addition to this the would be beaten In a new war Alsace-Lorrai- points out lit tie 'pilot soon fonnd himself en- the triumph In short of the ahd again the whole plan contemplates the absolute suboragain restored to Germany the far world now menaced whlfth has obsessed the minds Idea ' His with German dom- dination of the Balkan countries with machines with three gaged fight of Germans for nearly quarter of a east placed under German influence ination will be assured of liberty in 499000 square ' kilometers and 22900-00- 0 and the resistance of the United States Austria-Hungar- y with these was indecisive the Independence inhabitants to thj vto schemes In the new the United States will be saved or lostof “For” says the official record century ' 'central confederation He asserts that the war at Its pres world crushed by the legions of Ger- ' The European great and the political am Berlin from ruled plot heassays was “having expended all his ammunition lent stage— not Including the Teutonic many largely organized already on laid in Its broad outlines early as military seizure by Germany of Tur Lieutenant A set off for home” conquest in Rumania which occurred American aolL 1895 these In apbooks two' years Is these ' All are set forth In key with 1792000 square kilometers A few days later ' it is related he aft' ha bookYas vrltten— already things tremenwhich a have exerted peared inhabitants afterward and “The for Plot Unmasked” victory by dous Influence on1 the German mind and to be'20000000 took a running div into formation I The which- ac- - Andre Cheradame' an English transdream of by the annexation of enlarged their work has been perfected by many Egypt and Persia: Thus by the union of twenty hostile machines with all I cording to him Kaiser Wilhelm II ts lation of which has just been brought more 'writings all urging the scheme real- - out or the central The book is the result of M' and Europe the self assurance an eagle might I tie’verlr 0l is now nine-tentof “International burglary' for the Turkey Germany would Balkans s have Cheradame under exhaustive of the haw inthe midst of S5&J2ST5?fci5rSffSJ5t sole interests of Prussianized Germany her sovereignty or control 4015000 Idea and thestudy which says M Cheradame Is the guid- square kilometers and 204000000 inrows Before he was through he had I from the war holding in her grip that plot which followed it I ' M Cheradame Is not content with ing force of which is essenhabitants of whom 127000000 would sent three adversaries “crashing” part of her conquests " 1911 as Seen by Cheradame chem® I ‘PIm ber 1 Thia lor ° and only 77000000 be the tracing the history of lime ” says the record “he worId ThIg essential dominating Added to to Its concrete Germans' this the in the conquest The' says the floweringwar’ “plan present returned to one of our aerodromes for I the Frenchman Is Germany's “bridge” He tells how 'the scheme contemplates the conquest dream enunciation of is says more ammunition and returned to the! to the orient her control over Austria- - can be ended for ever by the allies after M Cheradame the following of a great colonial empire fast-flyin- one-side- -- l : pro-alo- ne -- ‘ ry i - ’ ‘ ne ns ‘ Austria-Hungary-- — ve : ’ 1 Pan-Germ- am - non-Germ- an - ? an pan-Germ- ne '' : pan-Ger-manl- Pan-Germ- &n pan-Germ- an - : Pan-Germ- ’ an - an - : " - hs lr - i Pan-Germ- an Pan-Germ- an : pan-Germanl- 1 Pan-Germani- - ' S am non-Germa- ns sm ot'-1911- Fan-Germ- : - - but-droppe- - an pan-Germani- pan-Germ- an sm - - ’ ' - 1 ! i ’ - ‘ Pan-Germa- ny ' —The apIndianapolis Ind Jan-2Keegan Indianpointment of JohnasJ one of the three apolis Democrat workmen’s compensamembers of the tion commission to administer the federal employees’ liability law' has occasioned widespread surprise The position carries a salary of 85000 a year into public noKeegan first sprangwhen he resigned several years ago tice as a member of the Indiana legislature rather first sayingof that he would after Before that stt in a colony lepers time he had been a union organizerlimeLater Keegan jumped into the thfe of light at theattime of the arrest Indianapolis He claimed dynamiters all the evidence against the dynamiters had been framed up by the government waa next heard of as a canKeegan didate for the Democratic nomination He claimed for mayor of Indianapolis from him the noroanitlon was stolen and threatened to start a contest he received a when tha Idea ' V state job Keegan was Through Senator’ Kern collector of customs at a appointed he that He port but insisted Rico f'orto Rican expenses to Porto his was recalled just as he was about to alt- 2" was Senator Kern announced that it see of the undoubtedly the influence caused Keegan’s that retary of labor He said that Keegan had appointmentIndorsed bv Samuel: Gompers also been and by Senator Walsh who had chargl of western headquarters non-Germ- an an - Pan-Germ- LABOR MAN ON NEW COMMISSION PREFERS LEPERS TO LEGISLATORS j DESIRED FOR RERUN Berlin Jan 27 — :Berlln should have small skyscrapers in the opinion of Prof Gustav Schimpff of the technical who In university of an address before the Society of Berlin Architects on plans for a central railway station and the cutting ' of new streets leading to It pointed out that the time had come for up higher buildings In Berlinputting In especially the more central districts The popu- Alx-la-Chape- lle' JOHN J KEEGAN latlon he said has for years been driftfrom those districts and they ing away are more and more given up to business With this transformation has come an 'increased demand Tor office room and higher buildings Schimpff referred to the success of the skyscraper in the United States ms a ground for resorting to It here He Is not however’- in favor of convertstreets into canyons of tall ing entire Instead put the skyjiousea he would scraper only on the corner lots or occasionally between lots in order to secure greater abundance of air anA light And he would 'not give permit LIfor buildings of more than 130 to ISO feet high - 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