Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — Use of Barbed Wire in War. [ARTICLE]

Use of Barbed Wire in War.

The part that barbed wire has played in the war is reflected to some extent by the foreign commerce reports. observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. This is peculiarly an American product, the Blldden Invention havingbeen utilized on a large scale by John W. Gates at St. Louis. The descriptions from the front show the effective use made of this simple invention, which the late Senator Ingalls said was suggested by the manner in which milch cows avoided bramble bushes. It was woven and twisted into a barrier that seemed impregnable until the British developed the use of artillery in such amazing fashion? The study of fortifications has been followed from the beginning of human history, and it is a singular fact that a simple fencing device, designated for:an untimbered country, should surpass every other obstacle to the progress of a modern army.