New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1915, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, MARCH 22, Leading Dealers Ranges Advocate and Sell Furnaces Steam Heaters Hot Water Heaters The Largest and Most Complete Line Under One Name in the United States Magee Ranges and Magee Heaters MAKE LIFE-LONG FRIENDS 132 Main Street, 4], A. ANDREWS ™ New Britain ¥ Magee Furnace Co,, Inc. 38 Union St., Boston, Mass. i(‘anmnun ¢ Infantry Had X Notable Carcer.’ \ Qttawa, Ont, March 22:—Colonel Framcis Douglas Farquhar, D. S. O. commander of the Princess Patricia’'s fafifidlan Light Infantry, and late “military secretary to tne Duke of (flonnnuxht governor-general of Can- has been killed in acton at the fro jt. - Al cable message. fo.the chief of staff of the Capadian militia de- partment conveved the news late last night. The jate Colonel Farquhar came to Otfawa; in October; 1913, as military secretary to the Duke of Connaught angl became a popular figure in official und sovial circles in the ecapital. On the ‘organization of the Princess Pa- tricia’s regiment he was chosen com- mander. He had a notable career as 2 soldier and won the distinguished service order in the South African campaign of 1899-1900 while serving with his regiment, the Coldstream Guards. He married in 1905 TLady Fyelyn Hely-Hutchinson, daughter of thig ifth Earl of Donoughmore. Lady Farquhar is at present in London. Colonel Farquhar's death makes the third officer connected with the gov- ernment house to fall in the present war, the others being Captain Rivers- Bulkley, Scots Guards, formerly comp- troller of the household, and Captain Méwton, forimer aide-de-camp, who was the first officer of the Princess Patricia’s to meet death in the action. The megsage from the war office rvead: % “Colonel Farquhar, Princess Patri- tia's dead. Lieutenant Mason of same regiment, dead. Three killed, twenty wounded. The message was communicated to | government house, and the Duke and Duchess cabled a message of condo- ience to Lady Farquhar. A separate messagé of sympathy was sent to the rcgiment by Princess Patricia, whose name it bears. Two ‘officers and eight privates are siven as killed in action 1n the list, while the deaths of two others are re- corded and fourteen are mentioned as wounded. 7,000 ENGLISH WOMEN TO SERVE COUNTRY Offer Services to Great Britain to Fill Places of Men Who Go to ' the Front. London, March 22.—More than 7,- 000 women, representing all classes of society, already have reésponded to the government's appeal for women wark- ers to take the places of men in bus- iness and industry in order that more recruits may be provided for Lord Kitchener's great army. . The offi- cers of the central labor exchange were besieged by women Saturday. The majority of them were from the well. to-do-middle class. An outstanding feature was the willingness of the ap- plicants to take up the line of work for which they were considered by the afficials to be best fitted One woman of good position who has had experience in Indfa in the uses of horses, offered to drive a de- livery wagon. Another wrate: “I am the mother of five soldiers and sail- ors, and T want t6 do my little bit to release further men to go ahd fight.” A member of a prominent women’s club expressed her willingness to drive a taxicab. Some volunteered to do milking in dairies, while others of- fered to do clerical and secretarial work. ‘to ensure what is required at Liver- | The labor press continues strongly | to oppase war service for women. The “Daily Citizen calls the movement a sweating crusade.” MANY. SOUVENTRS. Diplomas, Medals and Coins to Be | Given at Panama-Pacific Exposition. Washington, March 22.—Many and varied are the. souvenirs that are to be prepared for the Fanama-Pacific Exposition by the federal government. They range from coins and medals to engraved and printed diplomas, and werk on some of them is already under way. ‘ The diplomas, which-are to be made at the bureau of engraving and print- are to b emade at the Philadelphia hibitors at the exposition. The medals | aer to be made at the Philadelphia mint and the coins at the San Fran- cisco mint. KITCHENER WARNS LIVERPOOL DOCKERS Te¢lls Them That Delay of Munitions of War and Food for Troops at Front Must Stop, Liverpool, March 22.—"If this ap- | peal has no effect I shall have to con- sider steps that will have to be taken pool being done,” was the declara- tion made by Lord Kitchener in a letter which he personally handed to James ¢ Sexton, secretary of the Dockers’ Union. Lord Kitchgner, who week-end inspecting the Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham bat- talions of his new army, expressed spent the Opening All the latest styles in Gentlemen’s Hats. 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DUTCH STEAMER ¢ Germans Hold Batavier stroom. and Zaan- Amsterdam, March 21, via London —Another Dutch steamer, the Da- has been selzed by the Ger- cording to the ‘‘Telegraaf.” The ship left Rotterdam Thursday for London with a cargo composed of meat and general merchandise. The Rotterdam Maasbode has learned that the crews of the Ba- tavier V and the Zaanstroom (a Dutch steamer seized by the Germans Sat- afternoon), together with the women and children who were on the two vessels were released upon their arrival at Zeebrugge, but that the offi- cers and sixteen Belgian passengers have been arrested. says it FOUR SAIL S LOST. | P — | 300 Persons On Board Spanish Ships | Drowned. Algeciras, Spain, March 21, via T Four sailing vessels with Spanish dock laborers on board have been lost in a furious storm. It is estimated that 300 persons on board the vesscls were drowned, One hundred vessels of various na- tionalities have taken refuge from the storm in the bay of Algeciras. | ing AMERIC British Suspected Navahoe of Placing / Mines. Haven American Vineyard March 22. —The Navahoe was seized and detained in British wa- that Mass., steamer ters six da; she ¥ys on suspicion had been engaged in placing mines, according to statements by her offi cers yesterday when the ship put in here short of provisions. The Navahoe is bound from Brem- en fot Hampton Roads in ballast for orders. Her commander Captain Louis Congdon, said that when forty-fiva miles northwest of St. Kilda Island, the Navahoe was seized by the Brit- ish patrol steamer Patuca. In spite of the captain’s vigorous protests a prize crew was taken into Stormoway in the Heb- rides. Captain Congdon appealed to the American ambassador in London and after six days was allowed to pro- ceed on his voyage. 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