Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1919 — REAL WAR TRAIN COMING [ARTICLE]

REAL WAR TRAIN COMING

TRAIN BEARING MANY RELICS OF WAR TO BE IN CITY 1 APRIL 23-24. A war exhibit train sent out. by the feature department of the War Loan Organization of the Seventh Federal Reserve district will start on a tour of Indiana towns and cities Wednesday morning, April 16. * All of the important towns in Indiana will be visited on this tour, which will continue until Tuesday, May 6. .The first city at which the exhibit will be on view will be Gary on Wednesday, April 16, arid the last stop will be at Indianapolis. The train will consist of several carloads of war trophies captured from the Germans by members of the American Expeditionary Forces, including large and small connons, airplanes, rifles and machine guns of all kinds, various sorts of amriiunition with some of the big calibre shells used by the German army in the reduction of the allied trenches and fortifications. German helmets of all kinds with other paraphanalia of war collected by our soldiers also will be on view. . - The train will be accompanied by an armed escort of a number of returned soldiers who have seen service on the battle front in France. At the majority of places where stops are made there will be special patriotic meetings arranged in the interest of the Victory Liberty Loan, and well known speakers will make addresses. The new American battle tanks of the “Whiffet” class, built on the model of the French Renault type, will not accompany the War Exhibit train, but will make a separate tour, going overland from city to city. In this way the country districts through a great part of the state will have their first view of these modern engines of war winch the United States was ready to produce in great numbers at the time the armistice was signed last November. The tour of the tanks through Indiana will not only give the Hoosier people a chance to see this latest development of the war. but the trip will be a thorough test of the machines themselves. The War Exhibit train will carry, in addition to the trophies of war captured from the Germans, many of the latest device manufactured for the American army. These will include the most modem types of cannons and machine guns, and will be an example of what the government of this country was doing in the way of preparation for the overthrow of the German forces. Practically feyery instrument of warfare on exhibition was being produced in large numbers at the time the armistice was signed. The train will arrive in Rensselaer at 6:00 A. m. April 23 and will leave at 5:00W m. the following day.