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our ‘own ‘missionaries haye been the ' Briteln | sufferers.”‘ " - 5 the country accounts of the wholesale by mall | massacre in progress there have been printed. . These accounts probably gave no impression of the conditions that really existed. The heroism of Dr. Packard, a missonary has been » round on sale at Hota- | Praised and today’s reports say - that 42nd St. and about 17,000 natives were under his d Hartiord: protection. It is estimated that 20,- 000 are dead or missing. E SR SRS Weonder if the Germens are having the .explosions coincident with the the f*’_fiulu ‘of the recent | handling of ammunition that the Brit- played by the battie- | Ish are? coast is the discovery rine equipment of the Hard to keep off the subject of ly inadequate. Sec- | weather these days. Makes a hit with has expressed himself | all the boys around the state. Glad stch is the cass and | we haven't anything of ‘greater im- tigate the ‘causes. 8ix | portance to talkiabout, lu_bmu}h_;eg ;m the flo- n nnd_ weére not avail- That German note on the Lusitania scretary has. changed his | ought to make a’good subject for dis- t-and will. do all that | o, usion before very long, further the building up % the gervice. Plans for | pepairs on the Main street pave- B of the twenty-five New | ment geem to be coming along in good its authorized by the six- | 51 now. Makes it hard on the traf- will be pushed t0 8 | 5 squad to 'determine the right of ‘advertising medium 1n jon books and press open tv advertisers. ‘the submarine in war- proven conclusively by At any time when this atened with invasion v il be supreme. The nsports and hostile war- ¢ miles at sea and the re- i from the face of the be the ‘duty of a sub- 3 . Where would the sub- Conference between southern re- e eectffive than off our | Publics and the United Btates i still Lhigh time the naval au- | 80ing on in Washington. We sure do pied themselves with the | 10Ve our little brothers, and hope they d acquired a‘ fleet of | reciprocate. They must know it by little boats for use | this time. They've been told so oftén emergencies, Thelr cost | enough in the last few days. ‘one-fifteenth: of the cost —_— lern warship and they aro.| yooks Mke the Clark case is: off ‘useful. our hands. for the time being. Uncensored despatches on war or- ders are strongly discouraged. Don’t know .whether. the boys over ‘in the stook brokers’ offices heve been seeing double or merely expressing ' their hopes. HEM] % i 3 b 4 Engiand Begs Question in Her Orisis, (New. London Day.) In the adjustment of her cabinet problem, and in relation to the very most important feature of that ad- 5 justment, England has hegged' the 3 and flows we constantly | g,e51i0n. « She " has retained Earl Point,.eriginally an Aus-| giopener ag war secretary, and has | It was occupled | appointed David Llayd George to be lege | mnister of munitions, the new.offico- ; nvestment | Created as ‘a sort of comprise with : d the situation that has:grawn up un- (814 | ger Kitcheneris regime. A T | ' The way they figure it is that put- ‘old | ting the department of war munitions ¢ | under ‘control of Lloyd George will ‘of Przemysl (pro- ‘might pronounce this ") seems to be the flood of battle in the r zome. As the tide of - A disarm those crities of Kitchener who defended by an Austrian |y ve neisted that 'the sphinxlike war month ‘after the countiy | secretary dd not knmow how to supply ‘entirely in the invaders’ ; mi o ll::fiy ';nd ;:‘ould not learn c 2 OW, also ab the influence of Mpplics were brousht into it | ;) 0y Geqrge. with the masses, wihilch 4 'the.attackers Were| iy greater than that of any other man ff for a long pericd. The|in Pngland, would enable him to ain of food and ammunition, &N“”B:l::““ :lflme of pn&triio:lm e the sh workingman and induce i brought about a ocondition |38 Ehe RN B nage. to not warrant any longer hold- | remain sober; keep 6n his job and nd the Russians were given | now and then enl d spot. ¥ How n’wy ma&t,w divde up the re- ussia sponsibilities of the war office in this . ghe B - favoe are way and place the divided responsi- ed back from Galicia the| yjlities in the hands of persons like investing the fortress on | Ktchener and Lloyd George, without acoount, In preparation | having lonflthor rt:?pu&,, it is difficult . to see. me or other must soon- ,m’mand‘thlm er or later become a figurehead, and ceatra] Ga- |'neither the stony Kitchener nor the ‘now being | aggressive and ' determined - Lloyd George is lkely to be willing to oc- The torten > | oupy that position. Also it is highly i 2 probable that the obviousness of the ded to ‘be ;dv‘hx to the sit-| gevice for wheedling Tom and Harry b in Galicla and if.the Germans | into enthusiasm over their dutles is essful in thelr attempt it will Hkely: to prove the defeat of its pu‘r-‘ abandonment of the prov- the Russians, The railroad, ~ Russian supplies, emberg will fall into other w«»" e ‘invaders will have to 4 save "their army from lack of ammunition. Mr. Balfour may be able to handle the affairs of the navy department, which | which already Iabors under the hand- icap of divided authority, more suc- cessfully than Churchill; and it may be that it cannot be done. Britain’s emergence from her: cabi- net crisis seems to be in a direction where lies another. cabinet ‘crisis at a ' 13 ittle distance. She has paltered with NS IN URUMIAH. a desperate situation. N ® announcement from ysin a despatch DSSIA ect that the Russian forces (Waterbury American.) Urumiah; Persia, driv- Germany’s argument against number of Kurds and | 4o ican assertion of its right utrals gain for either the great conflict should be ac- this country with little ex- T /The consii- ear Urumiah, where ‘migsfonaries are sta- been so horrble, how- with a feeling of ex- the to manufacture munitions of war and send them to any nation that will buy them, is her usual argument, the ter- rible one of force. The blowing up of the American steamship Nebraskan is the tnird ar- gument of this kind to be delivered against the United States. It is intimi- hglving that we hear of | dating when it takes such forms and tion of that town by peo magnitude of horror as the desolation o Peo- | 5¢ Belgium and the sinking of the Lu- Ve some sense of respon- | gitania. But with the single exception umeanity. of Luxemburg it has been without * yéaders' of ‘this city | moral effect, ‘nowever shocking the % physical consequences. It will not de- well aware of the attrooltles | (o "o, ynited: States from going on | been committed in Persia | gpout the business which humanity re- bands of Turks and | quires of hér and which neutrality The German or Turkish gov- | regulates. - The people of this coun-. be £ | try will continue to send money and m:k "‘e HeL v eTblmed o supplies to the victims of Germany’s place there. The fuct that | \nhumanity and food and munitions to &6 number of semi-clvilized fight- | such belligerents as need them. fien are working for the Turkish The Geérman argument of subma- pr cally without sane I . | rine attack upon innocent shipping e bra ors acki 'e:dax will only harden the heart of so much iy e GEPt ' 10 | o the world as Is still left outside the sible. The blood-thirs- the y ive melzed:| judgment. ranks of Germany’s enemies, to sit in From time to time in the press.of | FACTS ‘AND FANCIES, The Italians are imitating the Ger- | mans, yho started the fighting quick. |-This was ‘David Harum’s advice, 2 fust” has advantages.— Troy. Times. { We have no sympathy with Police- man',Becker, of New Yorx, but when that state kills him sne will be .as gullty as he ever was of murder.— New Haven Journal-Courier. The Germans are hating Italy so ‘‘unutterably” that it may put a crimp in their hatred of England. Hate so intense cannot be widely distributed. —Syracuse Post-Standard. The “statistics” of the Barnes- Roosevelt trial are interesting. Yet the statisticians failed to tell us how many times the colonel was near to exploding.—Rochester “Herald, When a man has finished a day's work, and is tired ana weak in the knees, the giggles of girls on a stréet car do not make him feel any hetter— Meriden Journal. How long have you- been married Old Top? In looking after the interests of the warring nations by request the Amer- ican ambassadors and ministers are the busiest diplomats in the world out- side of the . foreign offices.—Buffale Courier. The navy reports our coast safe, the invading fleet having been theoreti- cally repulsed by, the defenders. Good! This confirms our own pre- vious belief after examining the big guns at Lighthouse Point and on East Rock.—New Haven Union. Some of the poetry we read in the 15-cent magazines nowadays wonld. make Shakespeare turn over in Bacon’s grave or Bacon turn over in Shakespeare’'s grave, we don’'t know which. The jury is still out.—Bridge- port Telegram. According to the census bureau fig- ures of per capita wealth the average man is worth just $1,965; and if you confess to being an average man there are lots of ‘people who will tell you they know of a dandy car you can' get for that much.—Brooklyn Stand- ard Union. One of the best things said of Presi- dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan yet is the statement of Collier's Weekly that “they are not likely to do any- thing like the episode which made Roosevelt’s foréign policy famous— his ultimatum that thie Moroccan gov- McMILLAN’S Store Closed All Day Monday to Ob- serve Merhorial Day, WEARING APPAREL for the HOLIDAY No doubt you have some plans made to observe the Holiday and like most people want to be well dressed For Saturdays selling this store offers unusual values in all departments. CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES. $1.98, $2.98, $3.98, "$4.98 each, all the new colors in plain and embroid- ered. See the New. .Quaker collar Blouses. LINGERIE BLOUSES 97c, $1.25,-$1.49, $1.98 each, striped wash silks, plain and fancy voiles, crepes, etc. SILK PETTICOATS. $1.98 to $4.98 each. Silk messalines and Jersey tops, shown in the new- est colors. COLORED SILE DRESSES. Baturady at $5.98 each, these silk dresses for women are unusual values we have them both light and dark colors. WOMEN’S AND MISSES COATS. Saturday at $9.88 .each ..including ernment should _produce . Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”—Buffalo Eni quirer. %5 ¢ It is proposed to levy an additional water-rent tax on automobile owners | under the assertion that a great extra amount of water is used in washing their machines. Why not on owners of carriages also, or those who have front porches and verandas on their ‘housés and give them frequent wash- Jings?—Watertown Times, ¢ Cherming: as ' Queen Wilhelmina may be, we may doubt if Burope will’ take her to arbitrate all différences. Even the kaiser would sooner accept Mme, Curie or Mme. Bernhardt, The feminine mind, unspoiled by court at- mosphere, is more capable 6f judicial balance.—Brooklyn Eagle. 5 It is just beginning to dawn upon the public- that the ministerial over- turn in Great Britain mearn$ “mere’| than at first appearéd upon “the ‘st fade, It is due to widespréad dissatis: faction of certain phases of" the ‘war. The men in the fleld have measured up to a2 high standard- of efficiency, but' there has been serious blundering at home, and it hes not been confined, as was.at first supposéd, to the navy department.—Wilkesbarre Record. 8o Carrie Nationism is introduced into the suffrage campaign to the im- periling of its success, to the great sat- {sfaction of the participants and to the pecuniary benefit of newspaper pho- tographers, and to the dismay and dis- couragement of those suffragists who had been looking forward hopefully to the New York election.—New York: Times. Boy. Scouts of Glastonbury destroyed 1,903 egg masses of tent caterpillars, Saturday afternoon, and will probably win the pennant given by the council of Hartford to the troop that destroys the greatest number of nests in the campaign which the Scouts are wag- ing against the pest. Other troops of the Boy Scouts are active in the same useful work. A general war by those active ' young . fellows against the “public enemy’’ ‘could not fail to have wistbly ‘important resuits.—Stamford Advocate. President Wilson and Seeretary Mec- Adoo will find, however, that the sole instrument which the Baltimore plat- form prescribes for “fostering” the growth of a merchant marine is “the constitutional regulation of =com- merce.” Ownership and operation in competition with private enterprise is not conceivable; nor ‘is there in the Constitution one word warranting the establishment of a merchant marine owned and operated by the govern- ment of the United States. It is state socfalism; not democracy or Ameri- canism.—New York Sun, Italy should carry with her Ameri- can wishes for success. Our women and children havé been sacrificed to German necessity, our dead have been scattered -over the seas and now float with the tides because, hapless and helpless, American wonien and chil- dren stood between Germany and her purpose. This is what the German idea means. Ttaly has elected the only course that could avafl to save her from the German peril. She will fight for civilization. Will Germany insist that all other nations follow ? Will | she recognize that though our arms are not yet enlisted our hearts are | with her enemies, not because we hate Germans, but because the things to- day called German are the neggtion of all for which America stands?— New York Tribune, . all our coats, worth up to $20.00. MALINE Rm. Are fashionable we have them .in Black, Navy White, or black and white, Saturday at 60c and $1.00 each. SILK GIRDLES. At 69 and 98c each. All the. de- sirable shades also black taffeta and messalines. EAYSER SILK GLOVES Short 8ilks, 50c, 75c, $1.00 pair. Long Silks, 76c and $1.00 pair. . Black white and eolors. Kayser Silk Gloves, the finger tips are guaranteed to out- wear the rest of the glove. BOOT SILK HOSE. - For woman, 26¢, 50c pair. All cél- ors. ¥ ‘ NOVELTY STRIPED SILK HOSE At $1.00 pair, the latest in fancy striped beots also fancy tops. SALE OF mN’S SHIRTS Saturday, 89c each for the best half dellar shirt made. Giant shirts have full size bodies, every shirt guaran- teed. MEN’S ONYX SILK SOX Extra value, 25c pair outwear other makes at 650c pair, all colors, all sizeés. PALM BEACH TIES FOR MEN At 50c, are pretty nobby, betier have one for the Holiday. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET Postal Savings Banks. (Norwich Record.) Wisdom and experience are behind the order of the Jostmaster general opening the postal savings banks ta every section of the country. . Begin. ning with July no community will be S0 remote that it cannot make use of the institution. The demand re- sponded to is widespread and urgent and the autharities have wisely vield- ed. At present no person can become a depositor in one of the banks ex- cept at the postoffice where he or she receives mail. As there are thou- sands of post-offices which have na bank facilities, a large part of t'e public is shut out. But after July 1 any person may deposit in any bank he chooses, sending the money through the nearest post-office. Savings can be withdrawn by mail as_easily as they can be deposited. In anotter way, too, the government bank has been broadeded. Hereafter any cit- izen over 10 vears of age can become a depositor. As time advances the popularity of the bank increases in an impressive manner. In the eight menths ending April 1 the government banks gained $19,000,000 in deposits, as compared with a gain of $8,000,000 in the samé months of the previous year. Of course the war .and the neutral decreases in the foereign money order business had something to.co with. this big jump, but allowing for that the gain was such as to prove that the institution is appreciated in the ratio of its being undeérstood hy the mass of the people. tical PLAIN TAILORED SUIT! Group 1. $16.98, $18.98 Suits At $11.00 - jaunty little box coats, loose straight line, button trimmed able at WISE, SMITH Cloth at $8.98 These suits easily worth * $10.98 have good tallored. The skirt is strictly tafl- ored and very flare priced most. reason- 'S and the mewest MILITAIRE SUITS. Group 2. $20.00, $22.50 Suits at $16.00 $27.50, These suits have belts’ cut on and very ished and are very great e. Scout Suits and Outfits at Lower Prices Than Elsewhere. 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Appéal of Polish Comnitttee.’ Moved by unspeakable and unde- ecribable poverty of war sufferers of Poland, we, the Polish people of New Britain, for the first time In this city raise our voice and come to all gen- erous and kind citizens of New Britain, begging them to assist us fi- ndncially on the coming Tag Day, which will be held on May 31, 1915, It is a well known fact that Poles, having lost their political indepen- dence, are not in the fortunate posi- tion of Belgium to plead their czuse before the people of the United states and the rest- of the world. Belgium has found the hearts of the citizens of the United States open for the great cause of the innocent vic- tim of war of that nation. Poland although much larger geographically and geveral times more populous than Belgium, suffers the mosi, but the as- sistance received is out of proportion to the extreme distress imposed upon her. The estimated damage in Poland is about two and one-half billians of dollars. All well meaning Poles in the United States are trylng through various means to help the suffering millions of devastated Poland. The Pofish people of New Britain do not wish to remain indebted and are wrying to do their share in this great work. We know how unpleasant it is to stretch the hand and beg for public e#lms. We also know how uneom- fortable feels the persom to whom we apply for donations. We understand the humiliating position of ours, and may meet with some unpleasant re- marks on the part of some people, vet the meral obligation is so great and the pure, humane motives are so strong, that we can not remain in- different to the starving millions of our brothers and sisters. Helping Poland we help afl hu- manity, for, after all, we are part of one great family of nations. We believe that it will not be un- citizens of New Britain to contribute literally for the cause of sla.r\'w! women and inmocent children. e| ask for help not only on general priciples of humanity but also as the residents of New Britain. We are your neighbors and co-workers and we are working with you at ali times for the prosperity and giory of this great republic. All money collected will be sent to Henrvk Sienkiewicz, the president of Polish Central Relief committee in Vevey, Switzerland. THE PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE POLISH TAG DAY. Great Britain’s Announcement. (Hartford Courant.) Great Britain has announced ‘le terms and occasions on which ships of the allies and neutral ships may use the ‘‘northabout” and the ‘“‘south- about” courses, that is the course to out warning or possibility of escage. Oixilization vs. Barbarism. (Meriden Record.) ‘When Camillug, the Roman gen- eral, was besieging Falerii an oppor- 1tunny was offered to securé a victory {by murdering a number of children | of the Falerians who had been treach. erously placed in his power. ’ The proposal was so shocking to Camillus that he said to those who were by: “Was at best is a savage thing and wades through a sea of blood and iwrong; yet even war has fits Jaws, !which men of honor will not depart from; nor do they so pursue victory lainy and baseness.”—Plutarchs Lives. This was before the era of submar- ines and zeppelins and poisonous gases, Realling of the atrocities with which the several belligerents accuse eah other, and with some of the evidence which we have been able to get first hand, the term civilization is now a { misnomer, Sa confident was society that the | world had made great strides in tle humanizing factors, that the ghastly {events of the past eight months were |not considered within the realm of | possibilities. 1 In the fact of all that has been said of the barbarity and hrutality of past | ages, one feels like acknowledging that | camparison with the new era. The former made no elaims of héing an- gelic., The latter ha: attempted the role of reformer and there were those who believed the claims could be backed up. How terribly low madern “eivilization” has fallen can be m sured by the happenings in Europe | within the past few months. Colossd) {murder has been done in its most i vicious forms—and all in the name of patriotism! The Paragrapher’s Troubles, The Columbus Journai publishes this editoral lament: “A paragrapher, after untold men- tal toil and travail of soul will clothe in words from great idea for the ad- vancement of the race and nobody will pay any more attention to it than a i rabbit, and then he will jot down some fleeting thought on the pantalet- te and it will be copied and comment- ed on from Duluth to Houston and the bottam with all on board, with- | !as to avail ¥hemselves by acts of. vil- | ithe Dark Ages were virgin white in | fair on our part to ask the generous ! ; “ and the eourse to the south and north of them. Washingtan doesn’t quite understand the new instructions, and veéry properly desires to know more about them. The Washington dis- ! patches also tell us that the German and Austrian ambassadors are much interested, because they believé the new order affects the rights of neu- jtral ships even more than the Gec- man war-zone order does. We. beg leave to submit the proposition that nothing cpuld affect the rights of neu- tral shipping more then the iminent risk of being torpedoed and sent to Can’ Germany Be (New York Préss. . ‘What is t6 be done with Tl British army? A’ gobd part of it still in Great Britain and report is that some superficial sentiment con- siders that Britaln is not doing heéf share. Perhaps if all the truth were known Britain is doing exactly what the Allies’ directing authorities. want her to do, holding back until .dh: way shall be opened, by diplomacy, as in the case of Italy, rather thanj by storming fleets and armies as in the case of the Dardanelles, for a fari meore effective use of her great re serve in some new field of action. It is, of eourse, impossible that. sg startling a strategic plan- would communicated to the public; lky wige impossible that it would. not suspected by the Tuetonic fed: The British government cannot expected to fenude the tight I islande of all their soldiery ®o as there is a great German war in being; and therefore the con j lesue may be expected to remain | abeyance pending the naval ¢ which some time must come. The British have corked up German ocean at both ends and, au parently, turned it over to the Ged mans to play in as much as ¢l like, in the hope that Von will one day undertake a too Am bitious venture away from his bas and make it possible to cut o hi return and force the great battle, The decisive defeat of the Germif navy would be followed by a promi thrusting of the whole British arn into some promising part of the wj zone, and all evidence now poinl | to’ the likehood that this will be | region whence the great flank mow | ment can be launched against Ge muny. Every frontier of the Kalser frong-ringed realm must be gua Against this possibility § @ Small Potatoos, (Boston Post.) If it is true that Champ Clark W invited everybody in Washington o | cialdom to the wedding of his Jstg ter next month eveepting. only | secretary of state of the United the action is a good deal smaller ti the people have a right to expect firo the speaker of the house of rep sentativer. { Presumably this petty affront to Bryan is the resulf of the pique the speaker has nourished ever #i the last democratic national m tiom at which Mr. Bryan tugr t tide of victory ‘to Mr. Wilson fortunately it is needless to sal this time. It was a fair fight; was no treachery in it Mr. did his country a service. The try will be disposed to say t speaker's paltry revenge will more harm than it can the of state, » 1 v 'y it have been juryman woult How could that one lone the west and.north of the British Isles | Toom Capeted S the Golden Gate.” | the colonel?—Philadelphia