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rJf~ THE PAPER THAT BOOSTS KEO KUK ALL -"HE TIME. Subscriber* of the Dally Gate City ars ssrved the full Leased Wire 8erv lee of the United Press Associations liHfe VOL. 120. NO. 74. hospital is ft Million Miles Back of the Trench, With Perilous Jonrney to Be Made.- CHARON ON &*' •\j* After this two mile trench Journey was ended the man had to -His boat was floored with straw and I' because he carried only the most se ^erely woundfed men, who often died sdurlng the mile jonrney down the fv^canal, we used to call him "Charon" Hand we named the canail the Styx.. At J* the infirmary there were real stir s' scons, but they were pressed with work and they were forced, of neces & sky, to perform their operations hastily, in an improvised operating room. If the wounded man were still alive "fcy this time, he would be put into a *Red Cross wagon or automobile or .-Rome other sort of a vehicle and car- Wed thirty miles to a large town I 'which cannot for obvious reasons »ame), and here he would be put on 'He next lied Cross train and started Kf' r?01" Paris- r« His bed In the train might ®e a seat in a third, second or first class coach or, if he was lucky, it tjtoight be a sheeted bed in a regular .Red Cross car. 4 At last his train will pull into Paris or Into some other distant city -•"of France where there are big hos pitals. Scores of ambulances will be watting in the railway yards. The ambulance attendants will* be running around, each seeking out the wounded who are to be assigned to the hospi „tal which he represents. To them he is only a number or perhaps a chalk mark on the door of the car. They *ill pnt him on a stetcher, place him an a hnge motor ambudance. perhaps •with one or two other men who have o®es ialimd on distent battle fields •. THE STYX Another Rader Story, Telling How the Soldier Who is c* Shot is More Than Unlucky. for" the rBy Phil Rader. Written United Press.] {Copyright 1915 by the United Press.] LONDON. March 1.—Being wound ed In our trenches was gruesome busi ness. If a wounded man dropped back to safety he was not extra lucky, for everything that was done for him during the first few hours only tested his waning strength and was likely to his condition worse. Often a man would not know he was wouded for some time. One chap came limping up the trench one day complaining that he had been shot In the leg. He could hardly put his right foot to the ground. We ripped open his trouser leg and could llnd no bullet mark. Then we discovered that he had been shot through the fore arm and that the wound was hours old. To be hit feels like being punched, so many soldiers have told me. When a man sank in oar trenches, the fel lows who were not .busy usually gathered around him while some one ran two miles through the trenches to get a Bed Cross man. Within half an hour the Red Cross man would come. If the^ wound was not bad the nuta would reihaln in the trench, after the doctor had soaked it in iodine wfrtch burns like Are. If the wound wwt serious, the doctor would do .the best he "could in the way of dressing it and then one of us, or perhaps two, would be detailed to take the nnlucky man back to safety. He had to be carried through two miles of trenches. It was impos sible to use a stretcher, owing to the sharp turnings, and if you carried a man on your back, yoii had to be careful at many places, to keep his head down below the trench walls as well as. your own. One of our fellows •who had been wounded In the leg and was being carried dn the back of a comrade, was shot through the head and killed one day at otie of the many dangerous turnings in 0tor trench cys term. be carried along a pathway down a two-hundred foot cliff. Here he was safe from bullets or shells, but a warm, clean hospital bed was still itoilHons of miles distant. Here he would be taken into a peasant's house where the first aid men were on du*y. There would be nothing but straw for him to lie upon. The first aid men would dash cold water on his face, wash his wounds and bind them as best they could. Then the wounded man would lie on the straw until nightfall, for it was necessary to carry him through a firing zone to get back to the Infirmary, which was another lit tle honse in a town a ml»e distant. He would either be wheeled along the tow path of the canal on a stretcher made of two baby carriages which -•^were connected by a. board or "Charon" would carry him in an old boat. "-"Charon" was an old French 'peasant with long "white whiskers. 1 inJnred on distent battle fields, cents per week. and the car will race through the streets of the city to the hospital which once seemed to be situated so many miles away and where warm white beds, gentle nurses, flowers and no responsibility awaits him. It is no wonder that the wounded men who reach the hospital wards sink back onto the pillows with sighs of relief and smile when they catch the first glimpse of the white nurses. Look back at the Journey he has taken since that moment he was hit, in the trenches and you can under stand how a hospital ward looks like heaven to a wounded soldier. To get into a hospital is one of a soldier's dreams and there are strict laws in all armies against men wounding themselves. In the French army this self-wounding is known as mutilation" and the punishment is death. In our regiment an ex-convict who had been released after serving fifteen years, in order to permit him to enter the army, persuaded another soldier to shoot him through the hand. In return for. the favor he-also punc tured the hand of* the Boidier. When they came to have their wounds dressed the doctors noticed powder marks on their mangled hands and the truth came out Both men were executed. RAILROAD MEN'S PLEA FOR INCREASE Hinted That Workmen May Not Ac cept Award Made by Arbl tration Board. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] CHICAGO, March 27.—Hint that! officials of the enginemens' brother-] hoods asking lor wage Increases for 65,000 railway enginemen on. ninety eight western railways will have diffi culty in holding members to an award of the federal arbitration board if regarded as unsatisfactory to the workers, was made in a statement Issued tonight from the brotherhoods' headquarters. "Failing to obtain Justice by an ap peal to arbitration," the statement said, "It has. been repeatedly hinted— that the Newland's act probably will. not again prove to bathe same pleas-: ing and harmonizing influence that Its j.. framers designed it to "be. "That the post-award development might be quite serious, is known to railway femploy6s look "upon this arbi tration as the real 'test Of conciliatory measures ia titter industrial contro versies." they would ffbide by whatever award The long drawn out arbitration be tween the railways and the engine- men will start on its last lap Monday when officials of the brotherhood and Atorney Sheeaa for the railways will submit briefs and offer arguments. President Carter of the Firemen's brotherhood will begin the argument for the enginemen Monday and ex pects to speak all day Monday and Tuesday, morning. Attorney Sheean will reply and Grand Chief Stone of the engineers will close the appeal. The argument calls for an award bv April 20. The award, unless con tested, will become, effective from that date. NO Time to be Fighting. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] COPENHAGEN, March 27.—The absence of the German crown prince from his headquarters at the front nt for several days in anticipation of the event. Concrete Dome. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] NEW YORK, March 27.—Some where there Is a concrete dome In the iNew York fire department. Three thousand spectators gasped today when an iron shutter fell three stories, 'striking a fireman squarely on the 'head. Two minutes later an ambul ance corps couldn't find a fireman who would admit his head had been bruised. Scholars are Released. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] BERLIN, (via wireless to Sayvllle. L. I.), March 27—Through the good offices' of the Italian government, six German scholars who participated In the geographical congress in Aus tralla and were interned at the out 'ibreak of the war. have been released, was announced here tonight. —Read The Dally Gate City. ALLIES HOLDING SMALL PORTION Great Part of Belgium In the Hands of the Germans, Allies Controlling But 300 Square Miles. GERMANS BOLD 11,000 *Belgium Stood Sixth Among the Na tions of the World In Rela tive Value of Her Commerce. WASHINGTON", D. C., March 27 "Out of 11,370 square miles of terri tory occupied by Belgium before the present war, less than 300 square be true throughout high labor circles. thereof is still held bv the Bel "It is pointed out that western ea 1 18 81111 nei1 Dy tne 001 gians and their allies and the nor mal population of the part of the Both Grand Chief W. S. Stone of the Engineers' brotherhood, and Pres ident W. Carter of the Firemen's brotherhood, as well as railway offi cials, have made open assurances that the"pi£Mtwar'"began." It then con- tInu^g. the board should make. "All of Belgium's cities, her com Under tie. Newland's act provides for* .the federal board, the only legal recourse either arbitration side will have is the filing of a bill of exceptions before a federal district jndge. Being an equity case, such a contest, if Hied, would be heard by Federal Judge George A. Carpenter. meroe, industry and resources of1 mine and timber lands now lie behind I the German lines, which sweep from1f where the Rhine leaves Switzerland for Germany. "Independent Belgium today is a thin strip of land wedged into the French department of Pas-de-Calais area fs the sand dune, infertile, country are under German domina tion. In that strip of territory which the allies defend there is not a single city with 20,000 population, and there are but ten small towns in all the section. "The coal fields of Liege, Mons and Charleroi, with their annual outputs! Verdun, was explained ln private ad vices received here tonight. The stork is expected to visit the Crown The^^row^prince'ha^been *17Berlin these'flTes gleam by, recalled to mTnd shell after shell Into the enemy's here. Tne crow 0f a strip ironi. HO, too, is ».I T^B KEOKUK, IOWA, SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1915 IOWA STATE BUILDING AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL" EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, ON THE DAY OF ITS DEDICATION, MARCH 10 This photograph of Iowa's pavilion tcas taken when the first of the crowd began to gather for the exercise*. Iowa's nearest neighbo, at the Exposition is the State of Washington, whose pavilion is shown next door. AU the buildings appearing in the photograph are Statt structures. The exhibit palaces are in a magnificent group located elsewhere on the grounds. CHARGE BAYONETS IS NOT JABBING Very Seldom Does It Occur After Such Order, That the Bayonets Are Actually Used. COLONEL EXPLAINS IT Men In the Trenches Throw Up Their Hands Instead of Remaining There and Being Pierced. [By country still held by the Belgians ls!llf-rd day's work at the flrct-aid hos- only 100,000, while the peace popula- P'.1511 was .\. William Philip Simms, United tion of the whole country was moreiwith some of hor sisters and brothers patches Just received from the Bast than 7,000,000." Thus begins a state-! ln t!ieJ'1 ^°°m bayonets through thousands of other A ,..O ...soldier. You are with a couple °f and others whistled about his head, low-lying, sparsely populated part 0f hundred Belgium. Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, I Pany- Suddenly Andre, the soldier Ghent, Charleroi, Louvaia, Nnmur, |on other soldiers of your com-|but 'our ri^ht' 8ays Ostend, Malines and some score of itone: flx bayonets pass the orde.r. other important cities of the low You tell Leon, the soldier on the oth- er side of you. "Down the line the command makes its way. 'Oh, damn!' says Leon very probably. 'Fine—o!' chirps the sol dier next to Leon, "I'd as leave absorb a German bullet as drown here in the ers. The great steel and iron works the command after his own fashion. of LJege and Charleroi are lost. When, "And then what happens. The ^Qr qU^e in the years before the war, one pass- American Red Cross girls cheeks m"d:'The ne*t f?,I'®y 8?7a'jcording railroad eastward out of trenches in order to demoralize them, agricultural country lost and a sand tho command, nations of the world in the relative away at the German heads which je beea* en*.,*. no near th. G.™„ (Continued on page 2J (Continued on page 2.) Cleveland, where factory and foundry but. as No. l's run forward, stooping thought, of anything English, the racei^now line the way for miles. very low, the No. 2's, still in the which has insulted us Germans more RUSSIAN PRITE TO GET MEDAL Bilikoff Captured a German Machine Gun, Carrying It Back to His Trench on His Back. WARSAW IS BOMBARDED There Have Been Ninety-five Aerial Attacks on the City and Ninety, two People Were [By a United Press Staff Correspondent.] ent.] FLANDERS, March 12.—(By mall I pETROGRAD, March 13 (by mall to New York.)—"Just how do they|to New charge bayonets, anyhow?" George to be bestowed by the' czar It was the American Red Cross for of tw0', ment Just prepared by the National! thirds wrecked Flemish farmhouse Bilikoff company had routed the Geographic society showing what Bel- ^kose .. glum has lost of her territory since «."X^C i,v5 •,„ „„i point of a bayonet, and the retreating soldiers were endeavoring to save their machine gun, under a furious flre. A number of them had already 'Not like you think," said the col onel. "It isn't once ln a thousand times that they charge bayonets in tjle such t^ey u5es Westende, on the North sea, to Basle, bands of soldiers busy sticking their Press Staff Correspond- York)—The next Cross of St. va]0r nurse who asked the question. Her private Bilikoff, whose amazing ex- jn battle will probably go to piolt tn capturing a machine gtm from oone and she was sitting the Germans is related in official dis- Prussian front. a®1ve |Germans from their trench at the Puhllc supposes. Nobody killed, and a detachment of flf- 8 melee ®''ve teen from a neighboring trench was coming to the rescue. But Bilikoff lbeat them to lt Rushing forward, ho qlllckly removed soldiers are misleading, generally carriage, and, placing it on his back, speaking such fighting never, or very where rarely, takes place. for the Russian lines. On his way to "For instance: Imagine yourself aig^^g^ ^wo buiiets struck the gun, hlg to J'ou In a 'Vive la France, and a U^ht shlnes been attacked by aeroplanes ninety- ln normal times of 22,000,000 tons aiin his eyes, the light of ardent Pat_jflVe times. The total number of lives year, are in the hands of the invad- rlotism. In short every man neceives .1qs(. ed through the busy city of Liege on burned with excitement. the Paris-Berlin express at night, he I "It doesn't always happen the same, saw thousands of splashes of fire-! way," the colonel went on. "But If there is such a thing as divine glow ln the fleeting shadowa, where! usually the soldiers count off, one, love, there Is certain divine hate as the restless furnaces of foundries two. "Then all the No. l's leap from! well." says Ida Roe, a well known trading with every country labored., the trench. The artillery has already German writer in an article appear The American traveler who watched 'prepared' for the attack by slamming ing in a German journal received 1 I -i 1 11 ,i .. .. V. 1T UNAMIT'N VL O Y*£». "The iron, zinc, lend and maganese trenches are 'firing' as will protecting deeply than all the other nations put itnow that Jim was In the army, but mines of Belgium lie behind its ene-jtlie charge. A whistle blows. The. together, and I have a mortal hatred .they preceded to make Inquiries and my's lines. Its rich quarries of marble, No. Ts fall on their stomachs and against them. fOUn(j that he was back from the granite and slate are in'its northiern I hide behind any little natural protec-1 "TO US mothers and women of Jer- front with a nasty wound. Jim, on and eastern provinces. Here also, tion they can find. If the object is'many, this consuming hatred is the his side, had no idea that Jack and are Its forests and its more Impor- really worth while, like a stump a only thing that enables our learts to Harry were in the navy, but there tant manufactures. These sections. foot in diameter, there is a regular bear up under the sufferings we now have been in the hands of the invad- scramble for lt, I tell you! If there have to endure. Do not talk to us ers from the early days of the war.! is no protection of any kind the sol- Ghent is the capital of the Belgium dier takes his soup spoon, usually al- There is no room for any of these In textile industry, an industry which oc- ready in liis hand at such times as the hearts of those who hate the cuples many of the cities and towns these, and digs a little hole in the English with that terrible hatred we of Flanders, where woolen and cotton soft, wet ground to stick his face German women bear for them. stuffs and lace genres are made, but and part of his head in. Now and I the looms all lie behind the German then he lifts his head and shoots. front. So, too, is all of Belgium's "'Forward! Another dash!' comes and under the bullets, all that now remains under the forward again. Or maybe they run ,00 shadow of Belgium's battle standards, forward on all fours. Back of them the gun from its it acted as a shield, he dashed he waa unhUrt, finally depositing trophy in the Russian trench. None of his comrades returned, and the gun carrlage were hauling Germans. and the dogs which it remained with the Warsaw is the most bebombed ot all cities in the various war areas of Europe that have been visited by air craft. In the past five months, ac- to an official report, it has ftg the resi)lt of these been nlnety.tW0i nnd raids has curiously enough a period there was one per- son knled ln each 8eparate attack. I boil with anger at the mere 0f mercy, charity and corffpassion. Running no Risks. 1 NEJW {marines. DISEASE WINS FOR THE ALLIES Pasteur Institute and Individual Sci entists Keep the French and English In Good Health. BROTHERS REUNITED German Officers Who Are Prisoners In England, Are Made as Comfortable as Possible. [By Ed. L. Keen, United Press Staff Correspondent.] LONDON, March 16.—(By mall to New York.)—Battling with disease Is bringing victory to the allies' "arms" —victory even more striking than the fray of lead. From all parts of the battleground comes reports which thrill scientists. Immunity of the troops in the west ern battlegrounds from tetanus, ty phoid. dysentery and similar martial plagues is declared to be remarkable. This Immunity is said to be largely due to the Pasteur institute of Paris and individual scientists. Accompaniment of each division of the army toy a bacteriological labra tory is said to be a great step ln medical science of war. These labo ratories continually test the soldiers' drinking water, test man's blood, and give anti-tserlum treatment upon sus picion of microbe infection. The medical advances made are re garded as the paradox of the war. While scientific genius has brought the machinery of death to the Nth degree of perfection, it has also dis covered new means of keeping sol diers free from disease. ne iWTANAT|OUI 6*RA3FTIC" CO 1 I Typhoid, which for a time threaten ed decimation of the allies' ranks in France and Flanders, is now greatly decreased. Absence of tetanus is said to be remarkable, at a percentage below that ever attained in all medi cal history, considering conditions un| der which wounded are treated and the enormouB number of men involv! ed. There are no "epidemics" of any sort in any territory of the fighting. Separated for many years, three brothers owe their reunion to a war incidence. Two are in the British army, and one of them, a survivor from the torpedoed battleship Formid able, met his sailor brother by chance in the Strand. The other was Just off a warship back from the Mediterra nean, and while they were exchanging yarns, a mutual friend Interposed with the remark, "I suppose you is in hospital vour brother Jim near [United Press Leased Wire Service.] tershire. one of the most Deauunn drift and stretches where dairy farm- from the enemy rifles the soldiers freighter Blotberg was a float- verted into a home of rest for Ger- warned ln time of an approach from ing was carried on in peace times are rise to a stooping position and run a lS hpr Rtapks an(1 maats flaBh. gt*telv here." The two did not even wa8 aa jolly a family gathering hospital rules permitted, as soon as the sailors located him. The British government is doing its utmost to make the enforced stay in England of captnred German officers as pleasant as possible. At a cost of ($100,000, Castle Donnlngton, Leices of the most beautiful YORK, March 27.—The Rot- old halls of England, has been con- paratus foot tlonB Across each side in big green. act as valets to their superiors. It, is true that the money has not been spent on luxuries, but the pris- Section 1 »r w™ maToffloers. There is accommoda- any direction. Still off to one side (Continued on page S.) HiSj-fc.,, TEN PAGES KAISER'S ATTEMPT TO BE CONCEALED His Every Move ait the Front In thm Western Theatre of War la Known by the French. IS ALWAYS GUARDOED Spent the Day In One House, When Night Came, He Moved to An other. But [By Henry Wood, United Press Staff Correspondent.] PARIS. March 16. (By mail to New York)—France laughed up her sleeve during the second visit of the kaiser to the western battlefront over his efforts to conceal his whereabouts. Since the beginning of the war. the emperor 1B known to have taken ev ery possible precaution to keep the enemy from knowing even the city where the headquarters of the gener al staff are located. The Journeys ot the kaiser baoK and fourth from the French and Russian fronts is some thing which cannot be concealed. To make up for this his brief visits eith er to the western or eastern general headquarters are surrounded with the utmost secrecy and mystery. Possible attempts against his life oan only be prevented, he is convinced, by keep ing the enemy ignorant of his actual whereabouts. Despite these precautions there was not a moment while the kaiser was at the western headquarters that his every movement and every detail of his life were not known to the French. They even know every pre caution taken to guard him against possible attacks, and to safeguard his goingB and comings. So far from having been able to conceal from the French the location of the general staff. France knew this from the mo ment that the site was chosen. It was early In September that CharleviUe, situated the- Moose, just nortfnfest" of Sedan In the prov ince of Ardennes, was selected by the Germans as the basis for theft- cam paign against France. The little French town, Just over the Belgian frontier, has excellent railroad com munication with Germany and Is not so far into France that the general staff could not beat a hasty retreat Bhould French successes render that necesbary. The principal pufcllc and private buildings of this town have been di vided up between the kaiser, the members of his staff, and various de partments of the government. Of all. the men who hold out here, no one figure is perhaps more picturesque than that of General Von Haeseler. As former chief ot the Fifteenth Ar my corps, at Metz, lt was he who, during .the last maneuvers of the German army, turned the marvelous 'trick of capturing, at least theoreti cally, the kaiser. His eighty-four years prevent an active participation in the war, but having demonstrated that the kaiser might be captured, he was retained at the western general headquarters for the express purpose of seeing that his august sovereign wasn't. The general has been given the residence of J- Jacquet, the vill&B© notary, and from an easy arm chair. he directs those portions of the army that come under his commana. The ministry of war is located in the newspaper plant of the 'Petit Ar I dennals." The residence of M. LonguervflJ^ the village flour dealer, is held down by the commander in thief of the German army operating against France. The two commanding gen erals of the army are living ln the residence of M. Masson, owner of the "Magazlns-Reulns.'" the principal de partment store of the little town. The residence of M. Marcadet, fh the Place de la Gare. bears the sign :,'De Moltke,. Generalissine" and al though General Moltke is no longer there, his successor is. It Is also in this same Rquare that the kaiser him self has picked his residence, that or M. Georges Corneau, editor and di rector of the "Petit Ardennais." The house is of no particular style of architecture, although since the kaiser took it over lt has become known as a "chateau." It Is three stories high, with a mansard roof, while two towers with round pointed cupolas flank it on two sides. There is a dog kennel on one side of the house and the village commons on the other. A few steps away th'ere Is a pond fed by a little stream called the "Virgin." On the top of the porch, of the near by railway station there have now been installed a battery of machine guns. They guard completely the ap proach. A little farther away there has also been Installed a wireless ap that the kaiser may be f0r over 300 officers and on the near the Meuse, has been installed lawns there are wooden huts special cannon for combating aero planes or any other aerial attempt which might be made on the life of the august occupant. What amazes the French more tha$ (Continued on pag* &>' I .ul in [!v