New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1915, Page 13

Photos by American Press Assoclation. 1—Polish recruits leaving for front to fight against Russians. 2.—German soldiers dividing food with poor Bel- gians. 3.—Polish Russian Jew ref- rugees on the road. 4.—Shows traffic regulations on road in Belgium; on right, troops; in center, automobiles; on left, transport train. 5.—Group of German sailors on Bravo fountain, Antwerp. 6.—German marines pack- ing shoes which Belgian soldiers left behind fleeing from Antwerp. 7.— French prisoners of war gathering cabbages at Wynsdorf. 8.—Belgian aeroplane captured near Antwerp by Germans. TORIES dealing with different phases of war in Europe are reaching this side by mail and from arriving tourists. Re- s:«cent events prove that there is a woe- ful “missing” list and that exalted rank, great wealth and powerful in- fluence has been of no avail in secur- ing the release of prisoners or aliens detained for prudential or retaliative reasons. In each of the countries in arms are thousands of prisoners of war. Many of them became so as soon as declara- tions of war began flying last August. Letters and teleg #home never reached their destination jn many cases. Travelers from Eng- ‘land, France and Russia in the domin- fons of the two kaisers were complete- ly isolated for awhile by the censors of their own countries. The season at the German and Austrian watering places was at its height, but the censors took no regard of the hardships imposed upon even their own countrymen by shutting them off from communication from their native lands. The agony columns of the London Times soon filled up with inquiries for the missing, couched in dignified lan- guage, brief but no less eloquent. In Petrograd the bulletin boards in the railroad station and the high walls on Avenue Morskaja, near the foreign hotels, were plastered with frantic in- quiries. Exalted rank, great wealth and inti- mate acquaintance at the courts of the enemy sovereigns were of small avail ms to relatives atlin getting prisoners of war freed. The czar’s only niece, Princess Yousoupoff, the daughter of his sister, Grand Duch- ess Xenia, was in Berlin when the Mus- covite and German armies started against each other. An overzealous po- lice officer quickly seized the oppor- tunity to become famous by imprison- ing a personage so closely identified |country and thereforc &ation until more impg |,“ m to Nieh at the { | the war, gave a war| | graphic scription g part played in the. Sd work by the Americi Surgeons and nurses States were the only ol nto Belgrade during i rdment They still 80 far as Mme. Groult lare safe, although all diers and clvilians demol from the siege guns river and build It is understood tha ] the Ami that 4 ed by thi red, and neral stal with the hated czar, and the princess was not allowed to proceed. * gram to the crown princess of Germany for relief brought no reply—perhaps was not delivered. The little princess, a bride of only a few months, might still be an unwilling guest of the emperor if the ambassador, belonging to a neutral immune from surveillance, had not unexpectedly en- tered the hotel when the officer’s back was turned. Immediately grasping the situation, he whisked Princess Yousou- poft into his automobile and raced across the frontier, depositing his fair burden in the arms of her grandmoth- er, the dowager czarina, who awaited her there, a courageous knight like those of old, but aided by the latest methods of transportation in succoring a woman in distress. N » * . . . Foes Only When Battle Is On. When a battle is not in progress the best of feeling appears to exist between | the Irench and German soldiers, who [for weeks have faced one another on |the 1ong line between Nieuport and | Belfort. | So close are the camps to each other that it is possible for the two forces to exchange words. They friendly contests, shooting at spade tar- gets, with no intention of hitting any |one, and competing for hares, which | run between the lines. ‘ A French soldier amusements | “A target is painted on a spade and moved through our trench in such a way that it shows about two feet above |the ground. The Germans shoot at it. | With a stick we indicate the results of | their fire, and when one hits the bulls- |eye he is rewarded with the waving of ‘a French flag. writes of these “There is another sort of target prac- |tice which is very popular. The region around us full of cabbage fields and indulge in | rabbit These hares sometimes cross our own private meadow. Immediately both trenches are all aflame. Long sounding volleys follow the poor little | beast. He makes a graceful somer- | sault, throws his ears up in the air and a martyr to Europe’s militarism. Then comes the time to divide our | spoils. If Br'e'r Rabbit expires on the | German half the custom of the country | prescribes that a German may leave the trenche day the ( ‘ave ‘hasenbraten.’ nimal dies on him and we eat ‘Lievre farci’ But if |he should die most inconsiderately right on the line then there is trouble. We fire is opened, and we run the risk of being killed by friend as well as by enemy. “The other day we did not know on which side of the line a hare had died the cabbage flelds are full of hares and We looked out of our trenches and the The Germans peeped |surgeons and twelve and we fired. Final- {5t Nis} at first Germans around the Iy a court of arbitration took the mat- [g i yospital neas A loud German voic « itch said ter in hand ed out 1 he climbed ¢ t weand of the the hare and get the prize. That | man ce dwellers eat | minut ing, and we were preparing our st party as a gulde our side we man to fetch The frequently other with singing moments late will i both rush for our meal while a terrific | one “Like Fourth of July.” Slavko Groultcl whose place was charge d'affaires the reque | “When the mission | can Red Cross society, t they el One of our me est it to them becal | showed the Germans three pacl es of | danger involved, but cigarettes mission, to the dead V there were terrible, cigarettes and an upit simpl ¥ returned. A Ger of Ihe perils the tobacco. 8 we dr rmans were s ris of Belgrade, I entertain ecact g into the of And perhaps a few |[dropping in unpleass fforts of both sid carriages. Whe whistling—bullets alx an 200 feet from us Gladwyn, R miled and sald g ke the ¥Fourth of Jul gin to tell of the splen and whose husband |[en and women in ou at the Servian le- | They were magnificen Jam of Nawanajar Joins the Allies Photos by American Press Association. |clip the ball before it pitches. JAM OF NAWANAGAR AND TYPE OF INDIAN TROOPS. ARIED, indeed, are the types of soldiers who go to make up the Indian native army. Representatives of a thousand tribes, of score of races and sub- races, a wonderful heterogeneous col- -tion, affording many a tangled skein for the ethnologist to unravel should he feel inclined. Men of the north, the east, the west and the south, varying in complexion from lighter olive than that of the Spaniards to a brown so deep that in certain light 'twere difficult to distinguish it fromblack. Tall and well | built some, others of medium height .and_ptrength, and_yet others short,|and was & member of Mr. Stoddart’s thick and compact, like Japangse, and the diversity of features even more marked. The latest member of Indian royalty to join the allies on the firing line in the Kuropean war is Prince Ranjit- sinhji, the jam of Nawanajar. The prince visited New York about fiftecen years ago as captain of a crack cricket eleven, Prince Ranjitsinhji is a graduate of Trinity college, Cambridge. As a crick- eter he came into prominence first as a member of the Cambridge eleven in 1893. He represented England in 1896 Australian eleven In 1897-8. e has played for Su since 1895. In writ- ing of the prince C. B. Fry, the crack “His great fame as a batsman is due not only to his success as measured in runs, but also, and in chief, to the originality’ and peculiar charm of his | vle. Nothing as ‘effective as a striking result produced without any apparent effort. There are many bats- men who make some one stroke with such wonderful case and effect that all their other strokes reccive in compari- son but scant appreciation. | In_Ranjitsinhjl's case every turn of | his bat has this appearance of extreme racility—to such a degree, indeed, that his style seems almost casual and care- less. The distinctive trait of his cricket is an electric quickness both in the con- ‘eption and execution of his strokes. ihereby is he able to do such things that a slower eye and wrist dare not attempt. In making the ordinary rokes he differs fromn the run of bats- men in that he judges the flight of the ball about half as soon agaln and can therefore shape for his stroke more readily and with more certainty. At the same time he need not, owing to his marvelous rapidity of movement, allow himself as much margin for error as others find necessary, and it is this quickness that enables him to take, 2ven upon the fastést wickets, the most unheard of liberties without fatal re- sults. “Who, for instance, but Ranji can hit across a fast straight ball without either being bowled or making an ap- palling miss hit? Yet Ranjl finds not the slightest difficulty in doing so. This hook is perhaps his most notable stroke. He has a miraculous knack of timing the ball accurately from the pitch and tlicks it round to the onside with sup- ple yet terrific power. He meets the slightly overpitched delivery with a similar hit, reaching right out so as to There never has been a greater master of cut- ting and leg play. In cutting his facul- Ity for quick and accurate timing gives him the power of varying and placing his stroke, as well as of making it with force and precision. “His leg strokes are sometimes called ‘glances,” but they are really wrist strokes, as the ball does not merely hit the bat, but it is turned aside with a like forcing movement. His forward play is somewhat unorthodox, as he walks out to the ball as he hits, but it is none the less strong and safe. He can drive finely in all directions when in the mood; indeed, at his best, he can | use every stroke in the game. fe is a beautiful flelder in any posi- tion. He excels at point or in the slips, where there is scope for his quickness, but as he can pick up a ball very clean, catch anything and throw well, he is almost equally good as extra cover or in the long field. Hi: bowling is HERE are indications that the coming year will be the big- | gest year in the history of this | country in the fight against | tuberculosis. Six years ago there were but two open air schools where the great white plague was systematically fought. Now there are more than five hundred. The Red Cross seal campaign which opened on Dec. 1, has been very successful despite the added demands due to the great war in Burope Wherever the fight against tubercu- | losis is waged the name and praises of Dr. Robert Koch are sung. Dr. Koch was one of the pioneers in the syste- | matic campaign against the dread dis ease. He lived to see some of his pet projects carried out. He visited prac- tically every civilized and uncivilized | | country in the world on behalf of the | | German and foreign governments in *h of the causes of and weapons against epidemic diseas. He was awarded the Nobel prize of $50,000 for of the antitoxin of tuber- discovery of the germ of the white plague won him distinction throughout the world. One of the leading physicians of the | country recently defined the two factors | in the perpetuation of tuberculosis as: | “First—The individual's makeup or | constitution or a temporary state of the body, which makes him either continu- | | ously or at times susceptible to the dis- | ease. This is called disposition | “Second.—The presence of the bacll- lus in his surroundings, which, if he | cannot escape it, is his compulsory | milicu—this is included in the term ex posure. The sources of infection to which man is exposed are other tuber culosis human beings and tuberculosis | food.” He outlined the regulation of dwell- | ing houses, the protection of workers in factories and elsewhere against dust and other mediums of danger, the regu- lation of the hours of labor and the |life enforcement of the greatest possible | workmen's s means of limiting “dis- | public position” while diminishing “exposure.” | letic feguarding [ may holic sleanliness He also touched upon the of the food supply, especially milk and | somewhat underrated. e rarely goes on without getting a wicket or havir a catch missed off him. He bowls me- dium pace, keeps a good length, make the ball breai from the off and has plenty of resource. He is the keenest of cricketers, very observant, and is also & first rate judge of the game.” - WILLIAM SCOTT. 1 subsldizing pivate efforts to encourage ! the duties of wife and mother, | upon the necessity of the general im- I provement of the nutrition of the peo- |tuberculosis meat, from the tuberculosis bacilli, | ple at large and the power of the gov- |tion is ithorities to minimize the [and | danger of infection in schools and pub- | gently lic buildings and to increase the ability | continued ernmental Tuberculosis Fight Nation be enjoyed lect of rational r on Sunday DR. KOCH AND OPEN AIR SCHOOL. air, b stablishing t spect ind by providing e of t g 1l ) where ath- | be portance He deprecat : . oty 1t haste and the ne that ame clvic ad 1 women with a scourge 1 " e i mord antituber 1 t tw ! es this for its off ind ‘ 1 our yo men Lo I nd in ciy hot I thereb, “In this respect efforts must | dians of the public heal to resist the disease in individuals by |[center in the education of women for | help the fight wonderf; WALTO