. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in theirhomes and escorted 500 of them to theworks, where, on their refusal to workthey were incarcerated. Finding the menstubborn the Germans penalized the one was allowed to enter or leave itand the population had all to be indoorsby 6:30 p. m. Still the men would not condemned to death and immediatelyexecuted; the two others were sentencedto IS years hard labor. In order to ter-rorize the population the town wasplacarded with their names and punish-ments. We may be grateful thus fa
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in theirhomes and escorted 500 of them to theworks, where, on their refusal to workthey were incarcerated. Finding the menstubborn the Germans penalized the one was allowed to enter or leave itand the population had all to be indoorsby 6:30 p. m. Still the men would not condemned to death and immediatelyexecuted; the two others were sentencedto IS years hard labor. In order to ter-rorize the population the town wasplacarded with their names and punish-ments. We may be grateful thus far toGermany for giving us their names tohonor, Achille Debacker executed, HenriDebavoy and Jules Leuridan facts are well authenticated andcould be largely added to, and are partof a report of the official commission onthe violation of the Rights of Nations. Spark Arresters and Ashpans. The Railroad Administrations mechani-cal department circular No. S providesthat a careful and thorough inspection ofevery part of the spark-arresting appli-ances in the front end of locomotives must. BIG GUN MOUNTED ON A RAILWAY TRUCK FIGHTING WITH THE ALLIES IN FRANCE. amount of traffic has been carried on bythe use of these locomotives that couldnot have been accomplished in any otherway. They may be said to be an out-growth of the necessities of the war, andwill in all likelihood pass into disuse withother war material that has served itspurpose. It might be added in this connectionthat the railway men of Belgium haveshown a spirit whereby they may be saidto have become ennobled. After thefailure of the Germans to break throughto Paris or Calais and their defeat at theMarne, on the Yser and before Ypres,the Germans began to organize for a longwar and to draw all fit men into essentialservices. As many Germans as are re-quired for an army corps were employedon the Belgian railways and, in order tofree them for military service, the occu-pying government tried to persuade the gi
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