Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1915 — Deadly Barbed Entanglements Are Made in America. [ARTICLE]

Deadly Barbed Entanglements Are Made in America.

It has remained for an American to devise the most murderous form of fortification that cap be used in the present European war. Since the "latest inventions in big siege guns have made ordinary fortifications not only useless but deathtraps to their garrisons, barbed wire' entanglements have come nto general use to hold aq enemy at bay. But where was the kind of barbed wire necessary for this work to be found. A Kokomo, Ind., manufacturer has answered the question to the satisfaction of some of the nations at least. A plant at Kokomo manufacturing wire has just completed special machinery for the turning out of barbed wire for the use of the allies in the european war. This special wire has barbs more than an inch long, wound on a one-eighth inch steel rod. The barbs are placed in sets of four at one inch intervals along the steel core, the points standing out at right angles. The barbs are sharper than those on the usual barbed wire and are capable of inflicting severe injury to a horse or a man. In spite of the size of the core rod the wire is flexible to a remarkable degree and is wound on ordinary feels for shipments. The local company expects to turn out immense quantities of this special wire in the near future for England and France.