Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 9, 1918, Page 2

pen 4 4 ] t ‘ OT ER at ee 4 i i i i { u pinning nities i i + { Bs ive. *’ Count Czernin, ‘for the bare Ukrainian cupboard on » the shoulders of the Czecho-Slovaks. irmapge store mvc pe baie 15 HUNS DIDN'T GET ) UKRAINE GRAIN It Was Burned There by Rem- nants of the Czecho-Slovak Retiring Army. TOUCH TEUTS IN STOMACHS Food Allowances Reduced, and Star. | vation in Some Places Is Appar- ent—Take Revenge for Oppres- sive Treatment of Bohemia. Washington.—Amid the many easy triumphs which enabled the Teutons | this year to slice great sections from the map of Russia, like coupons from a bond, Germany and Austria both suf- | fered one frightful disappointment, And the pang was In the weakest part of their political anatomy—the collec- tive stomach of their peoples. The grain of which the two kaisers | expected to plunder the Ukraine was not there—at least there was so little of {t that Germany had to lower her bread ration, while Austria continued | to starve a bit more rapidly. The sup- plies had been burned. These fires were lighted, with a kind of poetic justice, by the remnants of | the Czecho-Slovak army—deserters | from the Austrian ranks and invet- | erate enemies of the Hapsburgs, who | had been reconstituted into Russian | military units under the Kerensky | regime and fought so splendidly for Russia before the whole nation col- | lapsed from the gnawing of the bol- | sheviki. Fortunate for the Allies. Until March of this year this Czecho- Slovak army had been stationed in the | Ukraine—50,000 men in line and 50,000 | more in reserve. Then bolshevik rep- resentatives dissolved their organiza- tion and took away their arms, though | about 20,000 refused to part with their weapons. They were given promises that they would be allowed to leave Russia for the United States, but, of course, no means of transportation were provided. And so they remained where they were. It was fortunate for the allies that they did. As soon as they realized that Germany’s chief objective in Russia was the Ukrainian grain sup- ply they began a systematic campaign of pillage and burning, in which they were assisted by the peasants them- 6elves, aroused at the thought that the old landowners were to return un-. der German protection. , The evidence that the Czecho-Slo- vaks were successful is incontestable. Austro-Hungarian prime minister until. his little ex- change of pleasantries with M, Clemenceau, placéd the responsibility German representatives in the Aus- trian reichsrath repeated the charge io greater details. A Magyar deputy in the Hungarian parliament recently de- clared that the Czecho-Slovak army in Ukraine had burned or taken away everything of value. Had Their Revenge. Not only did they destroy what they could, but they fought bitterly to pre- vent the Teutons taking what waz left. Retiring and hampered by their laek of equipment, they stopped to meet the advancing Germans repeat- edly in the field, Their last battle, one of those confused struggles which get little space in the cable reports, was fought near Bachmac, halfway between Kieff and Kursk on the road to Moscow. After the fight, though the Ozecho-Slovaks had been armed chiefly with axes, they themselves buried more than 300 Germans. Certainly in Ukraine the Czecho- ‘Slovaks have had their revenge for three centuries of suffocation and oppression in Bohemia. But through- out the war they have launched shat- tering blows against their Austrian and German enemies and the whole _4dea of Mittel Europa. — KEEP LOST MEN’S PHOTOS Navy Department Is Anxious to Per- petuate Memory of En- 5 listed Men. ‘Washington.—Secretary Daniels is anxious to preserve in the navy’s rec- ord photographs of all men of that branch who have lost their lives in the service. He is requesting rels- tives and friends to send photographs to the recruiting division, bureau of navigation, navy department. The purpose is to perpetuate the memory of enlisted men. Officers are required to provide photographs and official pictures are taken of all grad- wuates of Annapolis. As rapidly, as photographs of en- Usted men are received copies will be made for the records of the navy de partment and the originals returned to the owners. A photograph of each man will be forwarded by the de- partment to the training station where he began his career In the service. There, a memorial gajlery or hero's corner will be formed. ~~ ‘ Sets Example to Teachers, White Cloud, Kan.—Professor Rob- erts, superintendent of the schools here, has set the example in patriot- trict trtrinintte FINDS LATEST VARIETY OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR Chicago.—Chicago has _ pro- duced the latest variety of “con- scientious objector,” and, as a result, John Taylor probably will not serve Uncle Sam overseas. John, who had been called for service, walked into a court- room kere and confessed to em- bezzling more than $3,000 from his employer during the last two years. He said he objected to going to the army with a black mark against him—so he con- fessed. He was held for the grand jury. MMMM ARMA RL, BLUEGOWNS ARE BUSY Restoring Maimed Soldiers. to Trades, Their Job. “Reconstruction Aids” Coax Wasted Muscles Sack to Their Nor- mal State. Washington.—Tcachers, nurses and healers too, are the “Blue Gowns” of the army medical corps, at work now in the hospitals of the United States and “over there.” Reconstruction aids is their official name, but the cheery hue of their dis- tinctive uniform already has won a handier name for the special corps of seventy women whose membership treats and teaches among the maimed soldiers brought back from the battle front. Theirs is the work of coaxing back the wasted muscles and disused limbs of wounded men, and later by patient tutoring instilling deftness “in new arts and vocations which the hos- pital schools are planning for the re- turned soldier, Most of the “Blue Gowns” were re- cruited from the instruction staffs of manual training schools and civilian hospitals, - “Beside a table a young fellow in uniform was carving a conventional flower border on a wooden picture frame,” says an official description of their work. “The design was his own and the work was his first piece. He was inclined to be clumsy because he was using his left hand. A ‘Blue Gown’ was ready to guide and advise him, As he becomes adept in left-hand- ed carving he is preparing for the time when he again will begin to draft, this time with his left hand. This mental concentration upon a new task is be- Neved by doctors and psychologists to be a valuable antidote for discourage- ment. “At the same open-air workshop one man was knitting a scarf. One group of men, temporarily crippled, were earving designs upon wooden blocks, and several were learning to weave up- on hand looms.” In the treatment rooms_ inside the “Blue Gowns” were guiding electrical appliances and administering the com- plicated series of treatments that per- fect the restoration work started by the surgeon at the front. BAKING PIES UNDER FIRE As heroic as the American soldiers in the trenches are the courageous Salvation Army girls who are braving enemy fire day and night to bake pies and doughnuts for our fighting men, Many of the women are also aiding the wounded in huts established within rifle fire of “No Man’s Land.” This picture shows some of the undaunted workers making the kind “that moth- er used to make,” so that our men can enter battle with more pep and vim. TO HARVEST CLOVER SEED South Carolina Planter Invents Inge- nious Machine That Does the Business, Greenville, S. C—An ingenious ma- chine for harvesting clover seed has | been perfected by J. L. Cannada, a pl- oneer clover raiser near Greenville, Mr. Cannada devised an exhaust fan mounted on a wagon driven by a small gasoline engine. A mouthpiece ism for his men teachers. Instead of attending a county teachers’ institute he has gone to work raising garden fruckemaferm 2 owiisivis Fae Me) ys. i ca) « connected with the fan is lowered over the cloverheads and the current of air lifts the seeds out and deposits them The ma- jaf lives. THE SEARCHLIGHT Allies Find Powerful and Far- Reaching Illumination an Im- portant Factor, USEFUL IN SPOTTING TANKS Pick Up Hun Bombing Planes at a Distance and Keep Them Con- stantly in View—Equipped With Sound Detectors, New York.—Last fall, when the Aus- trians were driving the Italian sol- diers from their hard-won mountain fortresses, the defeated army had one weapon which it constantly used to harass and impede the foe. This was the electric searchlight, a newcomer on the field of battle, Powerful lights were trained every night upon the advancing Austrians whenever they came to a river cross- ing or whenever they were obliged to halt for another reason. This ham- pered and irritated the enemy ex- ceedingly. It was not only that se- rious danger attended any disclosure of their operations. They suffered also from nerves when the long feel- ers of light brushed over their faces and hands and revealed every detail of the work upon which they were engaged. The use of searchlights by our own expeditionary forces is becoming an important branch of the engineer- ing service. Not long ago congress voted an appropriation of $1,000,000 for searchlights of both the field type and the anti-aircraft type. The lights commonly used are 36-inch lights, hav- ing a candlepower of 1,000,000,000, and a maximum range of approximately 10,000 yards, or nearly six miles. First Use in Warfare. When searchlights were first intro- duced in warfare it was expected that they would be primarily service- ‘able in battlefield {llumination. The scheme was to throw light upon the opposing battle line and show ad- vancing companies of infantry the kind of ground over which they had to go, Another plan was to have rows of searchlights parallel with the trenches and sweep the terrain be- fore them, lighting up the barbed- wire entanglements laid by the foe and exposing parties of enemy sol- diers at work repairing them. How- ever, neither of these uses turned out to be especially significant. .The dif- ficulty was that, as soon as the lights were in operation, they were easily picked off by the enemy’s guns. In the same manner, they could not be placed along the line of trenches More recent experiments have dem- onstated that there is a real useful- ness for field searchlights, They are now being employed to spot the en- emy’s tank advances. Instead of be- ing hauled by horses, like the first field searchlights, the newer ones are mounted on motor trucks. They are flashed for only a minute or two at a time, and are instantly shifted to an- other vantage point. This affords them a greater measure of self-pro- tection. The antiaircraft searchlight is the most valuable type of light now used by our soldiers. It is our most ef- fective defense against the low-flying night-bombing plane of the Germans. Antiaircraft guns have proved almost hopelessly inadequate in coping with night air raids, and if it were not for the long pointing fingers of the search- light the foe would be able to effect some very deadly work in night at- tacks upon supply depots and ammuni- tion dumps. The method is to pick up a hostile bombing plane when it is about five miles away from its objective. For this purpose the searchlights are lo- cated at points likely to be attacked. They are sunk in holes in the ground and are heavily sandbagged. Both the light and the men working it are given considerable protection. Fitted With Sound Receivers, To detect the approach of airplanes the searchlight apparatus is furnished wth sound receivers, Without these receivers the outfit is practically use- less. The receiver can be swung around to catch the sound vibrations, and they are remarkably accurate in discovering the position of the plane. Usually it can be located within a few degrees, The light is not turned on at all until the airplane ts practically lo- cated. Then it is suddenly flashed on the craft. Once a bombing plane is found it is hard for it to get away from the inexorable pencil of light. Bomb- ing planes are not like battle planes; they must fly in comparatively straight lines and are not free to twist and turn so as to wriggle out of- range of the light. The first thing an aviator does when he finds himself in the spotlight is to rise. That is just what the operator of the searchlight wants him to do. The higher he goes the less accurate his aim beeomes and the smaller grows the chance that he can hurl his bombs at a desired point. Furthermore, he is dazzled by the light and his sense of security is completely destroyed. Some- times he can be found out by one of the antiaircraft guns, or’ pursued by one of our own airplanes. Even if the searchlight crew does nothing more than to frighten an airman and drive him away it has performed a defensive act which may save quantities of stores and ammunition, to say nothing READY TO FIGHT BOCHES Spokane, Wash.— James L. Dorgan, a subject of Greece, is in a training camp preparing to fight for Uncle Sam against the jermans. Four years ago he came here from Athens with only a slight knowledge of the Eng- lish language. In these four years he was graduated from the public schools and the high school. While attending school he worked in a newspaper office and accumulated $600. He also owns a Liberty bond and bought War Savings stamps. SARA, SAILORS EAT SEAWEED Victims of Hun Submarine Drift Eleven Days. F PATRIOTIC GREEK MAKES Crew of Norwegian Vessel Picked Up in Midocean in Pitiful Condition. An Atlantic Port—he Norwegian steamer Augvald, 2,098 tons, bound from a French port for Baltimore, has fallen a victim to a German subma- rine. A transatlantic liner brought the news of the sinking of the Augvald in midocean and also landed 11 members of the crew of 27 men. Three of the crew were drowned and the remaining 13 are unaccounted for. The rescued men were picked up by the liner after having drifted help- lessly for 11 days, subsisting most of that time on seaweed and rainwater wrung from their clothing or caught in their caps. They were in an ex- hausted condition when picked up, but by careful nursing on board the liner they had fairly recovered when they reached here, : According to the crew the steamer was stopped by shell fire, the crew or- dered into two boats and the ship was sunk with bombs. Captain Egge of the Augvald left the ship with 12 men in his boat and it became separated from the other lifeboat containing 14 of the crew. For two days the latter boat drifted about and was then upset in a storm. Three of the men were swept away and the others managed to right the boat and bale it ‘out. They lost all their food and fresh water and even their oars were gone, Drifting helplessly, the men began to suffer for want of food and water. Seaweed was eagerly snatched up and chewed and every device they could think of was resorted to to catch rain- water. There was a succession of rain- storms and the men were almost con- tinually drenched. Day after day went by and finally the rescue ship came over the horizon and the exhausted and starving men were soon safely on the deck of the liner and given every comfort. FRENCH CITIES ARE GROWING Secondary Municipalities and Towns Are Gaining Rapidly by Im- migration. Paris.—The statistics for the popula- tions of the secondary cities and towns of France, completed before the exo- dus from Paris began, show an extraor- dinary increase owing chiefly to the immigration of foreign and colonial workmen employed in munition and other factories. Marseilles, with about 600,000 inhab- itants when the war began, has now a population of -more than 1,000,000. With the many refugees from the towns about Paris, evacuated because of the German advance, and with some of the population of Paris which flew from the big cannon, that figure may be said to be even higher. Lyons has increased its population from 530,000 to 740,000, without including additional thousands in the suburbs, Bordeaux’s population has risen from 261,678 to 825,000, and the suburban parishes have grown from 88,520 to 120,855. Havre has increased from 136,159 to 159,000 without including the garrison of 30,000 foreigners and 80,000 ref- ugees, mostly Belgians. GRANDDAD IS STILL YOUNG Readily Accepted for Place in Engl- neers’ Corps in United States Army. Spokane, Wash.—When James A, House of Clinton, Mont., bade his friends goodby and started to war af- ter he enlisted, he had to kiss a round of grandchildren, along with the other relatives he left behind. Mr. House has a son in service and three daugh- ters in their own homes, and yet 1$ possessed of the youth and physical qualifications that made him eligible for a place in Uncle Sam’s army and was readily accepted for the engineers’ replacement company when he offered himself to the Missoula recruiting of- fice, $650 for a Tree, Edinburg, Ind.—The W. T. Thompson Veneer company here has just bought from Wabash college at Crawfordsville a walnut tree for which it paid $650. The tree is on the campus, which is made up in part of native forest growths, Its body will be eut into air plane stock, while the stump will be made into veneer for piano cases. W. 'T. 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