Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1919 — WAR EXHIBIT TRAIN COMING [ARTICLE]

WAR EXHIBIT TRAIN COMING

Will Be in Rensselaer W’ednesday Evening, April 183. A war exhibit train sent out by the feature department of the war loan organization of the seventh federal reserve district will start on 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. lue first city at which the exhibit will be on view will be Gary on Wednesday, April 16, and 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 cannon, airplanes, rifles and machine guns of all kinds, various sorts of ammunition with some of the big caliber shells used by the Germap army in the reduction of the allied trenches and fortifications. German helmets of all kinds with other paraphernalia 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 American 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 which 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 Genmans, many of the latest devices manufactured for the American army. These will include the most modern types of cannon 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 every instrument on exhibition was being produced in large numbers at the time the armistice was signed. Following Is the itinerary for Rensselaer and this section of the state: Wednesday, April 23 —Leave Logansport, 7:30 a. m.; arrive Delphi, 8:15 a. m.; leave Delphi, 12:30 p. m.; arrive Monticello, 1 p. m.; leave Monticello, 5 p. m.; arrive Rensselaer, 6 p. m. Thursday, April 24 —Leave Rensselaer, 5 a. m.; arrive Lafayette, 7 a. tn».; leave Lafayette, 11 a. m.; arrive Fowler, 12:15 p. m.; leave Fowler, 3:15 p. m.; arrive Lafayette, 4:30 p. m.; leave Lafayette, 5 p. m.; arrive Frankfort, 6 p. m.