THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JANUARY 2 V 1918.
AMERICAN FLAG IS MUCH SEEN AND HONORED IN FRANCE
Stars and Stripes Attain New Distinction in Bestowal of Decorations
for Bravery Vast Throng Hears Address of Russian Prime Minister Lenine Engines Built for Slavs on Duty in New Jersey.
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Ironff attended a. meetlns
addressed by Nikolai lenlna.
Prime Minister of me Bolahevikl
government. In front of the Winter
Palace" In Petrof?rad. The crowd w
made un largely of worklngmen and
soldiers. This was after the Bolshevik!
had taken over the government.
Marked with the insignia of the Gov
ernment railways, engliies made for
Russia, which have not been shipped
because of the uncertainty of the situ
ation there, are doing duty "some
where in New Jersey" pushing long
lines of coal cars toward their destina
tion to the places where the fuel is
creatly needed. The locomotives were
made in the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, and are of a different type than
the engines used regularly on Ameri
can roads. These engines have been
a great help in speeding the trans
portation of coal, and without them the
coal shortage would have been even
more acute.
' Italian women and children of the
northern districts have had a taste of
the same sort of suffering that tht
women and children of Belgium an'
France experienced early in the wai
The Austro-Gernian forces driving ove.
the mountains made them homeless
refugees. Knowing by report the fate
that awaited them if they remained, in
the path of the invader, they fled with
what possessions they could carry to
safety. ...
It was not always necessary for the
troops- of the British forces to drink
from wells and to chance making the
next watering place in their advance
through the Holy Lands over the Sinai
Desert. The troops who fought at
Gaza drank water from Kgypt pumped
through an American pipeline and were
supplied over a broad-Kauge railroad
laid clear across the ISO miles of the
Sinai tescrt. Every ounce of the ma
terial for the pipeline, the railroad and
the other works came from the United
States or Great Britain . The fall of
Jerusalem was made possible by indus
try, organisation and help of material
from the United Slates.
When the British forces were at the
height of their advance in the great
Cambral battle, the East County troops
were operating their machine guns
from the German second line system,
which had already been captured.
When they reached this position they
stopped for a moment in the thick of
the battle to get ready a few bites of
hot food to give new energy to the
men.
In the recent successful British
thrust toward Cambrai. the Germans,
driven to desperation by the powerful
attacks of the "tanks," supported by
infantry and cavalry, tried to place
every hindrance in the path of the
advancing British army. Unmoved by
the beauty of the monster trees that
graced the roadside in this pretty por
tion of 'rance, they hewed all of them
down to block the road over which the
British were advancing.
...
' The work of rushing the bonds for
the liberty loans to completion so that
the certificates will be soon in the
hands of subscribers is going on with
great speed in the Government Bureau
of Printing and Engraving at Wash
ington. Soon everyone who came across
and planked down his dollars for Uncle
Sam will have tangible evidence of his
patriotism in the form of the green
certificates that the Government is
sues. Important factors in rushing the
bonds to completion are the women
workers in the printing office.
The Stars and Stripes attain new
honors these days in war-torn France,
for it is becoming the habit of the
French Generals to salute a hero, in
the custom of his country, before an
American color guard. In awarding
decorations to military heroes the
French Generals pass down the line
of brave men and pin the cross of war
upon their breasts, at the same time
bestowing the accolade, which la a
kiss upon their cheek.
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