New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1915, Page 10

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For rates and other information, call' on the Local Superintendent, or apply to General Trafic Agent—Room 408— Second National Bank Building, New Haven, Connecticut. f HERE SUCCESSFUL. Enroll Local Boys for:Open- ‘of St. John's College. successful two days' visit in lev. Brothers Benjamin, ha Sylvan of Ste John’s Pre- icollege in Danvers, Mass., leave here today. The have been here in the in- ‘the .college and report that red a number of young men from this city to attend the school when the fall term opens next month. St. John’s college is one of the lead- ing and most rapidly growing educa- tional institutions in New HEngland and already there are & number of New Brtain boys enrolled there, It is un- der the.supervision. of .the Xavarian brothers, who occupy an important chapter in America’s educational his- tory. The school is.delightfully sit- uated a,short. distance from Boston and although it is one of the younger institutions in New England its ath- letic teams have already carved' a niche in the hall of fame for them- selves. The three brothers met with signal success while in New Britain and the Hardware city is expected to have a large representation in the school during the coming year. WANT RUEF PAROL¥D. Petition Again Before Board of Prison Directors at San Francisco. San Francisco, Aug. 7.—A petition for the parole of Abraham Ruef, former political leader, wno was con- victed of offering a bribe to a San Francisco supervisor and is mow serving a fourteen year sentence in San Quentin prison, is asam before the board of prison directors, it was announced today. Ruef has served four years and five months, wWhich witn credits fnvr good behavior, constitutes half his sentence. His last petition was _de- nied on the ground that it was agalnst the board’s Tule to parore a prisoner ntil he has served at least half his sentence. ey CATHOLICS TO CONVENE, Toledo, O., Aug. 7.—At the conven- tion of the American Catholic So- cieties,, which will open nere Sunday, August 15, representatives of various Catholic nmewspapers throughout the country’ will be in attendance. The convention will close on Wednesday. " Where's the - Wanderlust Leading You? Is it months in the Orient or a week at the shore? Wherever you go keep in touch. There is no use in losing track of your friends at home. " With Uncle Sam’s help THE Herald Will tellyou what isgoing on wherever you roam. Fifteen Cents a Week Will Bring You the News 14,398,000 Paris, Aug. 7.—The losses of Killed 460,000 «.. 181,000 France ... England . Belgium Russia Germany Austria Turkey ost in European War Up to the End of May ¢ompiled by the French Ministry of War, are as follows: t ‘Wounded 660,000 200,000 1,680,000 1,880,000 1,565,000 144,000 Burope in the war up to May 31, as Total 1,300,000 471,000 113,000 3,780,000 4,000,000 4,385,000 349,000 Prisoners 180,000 90,000 15,000 850,000 490,000 910,000 95,000 49,000 Totals .5,290,000 This table was prepared for blague in addition to war they 6,478,000 Withheld because the French authorities feared the enormity of the figures might have a bad morgl effect an computations, while probably not exact, may be considered the most complete record of losses So far put together. Serbia are not available, but as that country has ,630,000 14,398,000 publication rly in June, but was The the people. The losses of suffered from must be large. e Sm o Psvoe ¥ FIND TRAGIC NOTES ON DEAD BRITISH Diaries Picked Up a Gallpli Re veal Awful Character of Struggle (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, June 19.—Many dead British soldiers have been buried by the Turks—usually af- ter a trench has been taken. Before the body is dicposed it is searched for letters, or some other means or identification. In the course of this many interesting documents, among | them dairies of fallen officers and men, have been found. A number of these were placed at the disposal of The -Associated Press might care to S Turks make use of. to Be Feared. A dozen of the dairies were read. Parts of them are given here. Life in the trenches is pictured as one long round of “fatigue and squading” and keeping back the Turks, whom nearly all had come to respect and fear. The dairy of Private R. Charbes- worth, 5th plattoon, *“B” company, 8th Manchester regiment, 32 years old, is somewhat typical of those kept by men of his station. There is a quaint charm in 'his simple descrip- tion of the trip to Egypt and the in- stalling of the regiment in Mustapha Pacha camp, Alexandria. The insects there were a plague, his dairy say: and the men were glad when th were transferred to Polymedia camp, on the island of Cyprus. Then come references route marches and drill. regiment was sent to Cairo. marches' followed. and often officers with ‘humane n- clinations would help some poor an- listed youngster by carrying his rifle for him, The regiment was picked for vices in the Dardanelles. barked on the steamer Glasgow. For about a month Private Char- besworth fought at Sid-el-Bahr, life being a series of alternate shifts of “work and rests.” Then comes the last entry. “On the 26th (May) we finished the trench. On the 27th we moved to the second line of trenches.” “A march past Sir Ian Hamilton” in Egypt appears to have been the most important event to another, whose other entries made in a calen- dar, consist entirely of ‘‘on” and ‘off"” duty and similar remarks. The dairy of another contains (he owners will on the inside ‘page of the cover, It reads: “My Will: “Everything I possess to go to my father. (Signed) “Wilfreq Hayes, 6th Batt. Manchester Regi- ment.” Dairles Matter of Fact. The entries are extremely matter- of-fact. “May 15th, Turks advance.” “May 16th one of our officers shot dead.” May 21st, nothing doing all day.” Many references to attacks by the Turks follow, the ‘“Royal Scotts,” are given much credit by the writer for their brave conduct. “May 27th, not a minute's sleep for three days and three nights.” “May 28th, we were obliged move to our reserve trench.” May 29th, during the afternoon the 8th B. M. R. (8th Battalion Man- chester Regiment) were digging 1n a trench, which they had advanced to during tae night, when they were surprised by the Turks, They 1e< tired, behind. We saw the Turks playing with the rifles and bayonets which were left behind. The artillery and infantry peppered them. The 8th Iis- sex were to take back the trencn and the Sixth who were in the reserve resting after two nights of advancing and trench, digging, had to go and support them. The 8ta lost heavily. although the 6th had few casualti The 8th got the order to davnce with fixed bayonets but flunked it so we 6th would not let them stay in the trench and pushed them over the parapet. Same day a wounded min crawled into our trench and said that a sergeant and four men were the on- ly survivors in a trench. Reinforce- ments were sent.” “M 30th. We are still in trenches and are getting very are tired.” “May 31st, Turks attacking. Kighth unable to hold their own; one of our platoons to aid. The 8th begin to re- tire, but tae sergeant in charge of the 6th will not allow them to retire.” Then comes the penultimate entry. It is dated: “June 3rd, Cousin Richard killed only me left out of three of us.” “And then the last: “June 4th, preparing to take hill to long Later the More It was em- “Ionian” of to the worn I correspondent ' with permission to copy such parts he | Many men fell out | ser- | leaving rifles and equipment 709 at the point of the bayonet. o'clock we charge the Turks at boint of {he bayonet.” Carried Mother's Picture. Private William Sykes, of the Sth Battalion, Manchester Regiment, en- listed as No. 2029, at the age of sev- enteen years and five months had | nothing but his letters on his person When found. Most of them were writ- ten by his mother, a gentle middle- aged woman, according to her photo- graph, which the boy carried with him. The letters are addressed :o0: “Our dear son Will.” There is a pho- tograph that snows “Will” among “is five sisters and there is another tax- en when enlisted, showing “Will” a chubby youngster with a wondering innocent stare in his large eves. He = clothed in a very smart uniform that is a trifle too large. One can almost sense his endeavor to fill it. 12 t{ne Story of “Lucky” Lynch. The most remarkable document in the lot is that of a captain K. 1. Lyn:n regiment unknown. There 8¢ doubt as to the second initial, whi may be intended for a “D" or “J.” His diary is well kept, gives the most minute details, and mirrors a mind constantly under great strain. There are in it many illusions to him- self as a “lucky” man or a man wilth a ‘“‘charmed life.” The captain left Rugby on Wednes- day, March 17, for Alexandria. The French he met en route he refers as those ‘“‘funny little Frenchmen.” His stay in Egypt is given in the diary in bieak notes devoid of interest. On Wednesday, April 21 his ship arrived in Saros Bay. On the same day the Turks fired on the British transport ‘‘Manita” with the result that about 70 soldiers jumped overboard, of which number about 60 were drowned according to the entries in Captain Lynch's diary. Of the many entries a.few will be given here in the exact words of Cap- tain Lynch: “‘Sundz April —1 survivor out of a company of 85 rank and file, the majority of | whom were killed outright. In the morning just before we retired, I ban- daged a sergeant of the R. M. L. I., whose brains were hanging out of the back of his head. A sniper sud- denly fired a couple of shots, wound- ing again some of the wounded. 1 took a little time to locate the devil, and fired a shot, bringing him down a hill 200 feet above. I took the beilt from his rifle and put it in my pock- et for a keepsake. I was very much surprised to find him to be a Ger- man. I gave him a fine deata about six of seven bayonet thrusts just ‘o finish him off. 1 didn't try to kill him.” (sic) Military Routine Recorded. ‘“Between April 5 and May 15, Cap- tain Lyrich confined himself to entries of little interest. Nothing but mili- tary routine is recorded. “May 15, Turkish guns reached base killing 85 horses and four men, and wounding sixteen men. On the 13th the Turks killed 80 horses and twenty men.” In the same entry Captain speaks of a deserter who had caught and, as he thinks, will be seca- tenced to death. Four others, e says, have already been sentenced to death, but sentence had been com muted to ten years’ penal servitude. Of the four one was a sergeant cor- poral and three were privates, be- longing to the Munster Fusileers and the Worcester Regiment. There i little sleep to be had, and the Turks give no quarter, says the entry, nor do they permit the care of the wound- ed and killed, because the German of- ficers are against this. Captain Lynch writes of his own trench as being filled with dead men and accoutre- ment. was the soie Turks Are Plucky. “May 19, Turks showed great pluck. We like the way the Turks come n to us in great bundles as the Ger- mans. They fall like nine-pins. Yon can’'t help hitting the brutes, taey simply walk into our bullets.” “Saturday, May 22, had a very nar- row escape. Was unbuttoning my great coat I bent my head to see what had happened, when a bullet hit me a bang on the top knot. Had I not bent my napper I would have been buried by now. My luck must have been in. The bullet was like a (on of bricks falling on top of me. Fighting at its worst at present. The firing is awful.” “Tuesday, May 24, the Manchester Brigade has been split up and sent to different units for discipline, some of them giving us great laughs; of { course, they are only Terrier Turks Splendidly “Saturd May 29, are dropping terribly near. fragments of German, French, lish and Turkish made shells are splendidly equipped as firearms and ammunitions.” | “Tuesday, June 2, digging commun- | jcation trenches all day long, wishing we were in firing line. Getting messed ahout something awful. Some strong chemicals have been put in the water | Equipped, Turkish shells Found Kng- Thav regards i dition of clearing house hanks & ESTABLISHED 1886 <~ Globe Clothing House D e Star Attractions In Sale of Oxfords ur Shoe Dept. and Low Shoes : All Suits and Trousers Are Marked at Our Half-Yearly Sale Price Choice Wide Enough To Suit Everybody Hart, Schaff- ner & Marx Clothes 29 Years We Have Had Guar- anteed Sales! to discourage men in drinking it. Wrote Addie another letter.” The last entry reads: “Wednesday, June 3, called out last night to go to base, but the order was very soon cancelled. We are not sorry to go to our beds.” Captain Lynch must have mistaken some of the blond Turks, with Geor- gian and Circassian ancestry, for Ger- mans. An inspection by the Associat- ed Press correspondent of the Sid-el- Banr Turkish trenches and camps has established that today there are not more than a score of Germans at the front and that up to May fourth none at all were active there. REAL ESTATE REVIEW. Transfers Re- This Week. Seventeen Property corded With City Clerk The following is an official copy of the property transfers recorded with the city clerk this week Mary E. Dowd to Andrew Sejerman, land at Columbia and Griswold streets G. 7. &mith to Title Realty and De- velopment g¢ompany, land and build- ings on Judd avenue. E. N. t{adley ct al to Robert G. Had- ley, land at South Burritt and West Main streets. Home Banking and Realty company to Mary P. Curico, land and buildings | on Locust street. Mrs, Elizabeth Miller et al, to Frederick J. Miller, land and build- ings on South Main street. Bessie Andrews et al to Bodwell Land company, land on Hill Crest ave, Bodwell Land company to Oscar Anderson, land on Hill Crest avenue. G. L. Smith to Title Realty and De- velopment company, land on Judd avenue. Title Realty and Development com- pany to Jacob Baumgartner, land and buildings on Judd avenue. Henry C. Hine to Charles N. Fox, land and buildings on Florence street. Thomas B. Farrell to Mary A. Far- rell, land and buildings on Park street. Thomas B. Farrell to Mary A. Far- rell, land and buildings on Wilbur street, Claude D. Clark et. al, to J. J. Wat- son, land and buildings at 21 High- land street. James J. Watson to Frank C. Rock- well et land and bulldings on tiihgland street John Carlson (o land on Acorn street. Wallace L. Illaley to Bodwell land on Hill Cres Land company to land Belvidere extension LxX., Theodore Land company, avenne, Bodwell Rernardi WEEKLY BANK REPORT. New York, Aug. 7.—The actual con- and trust companies for the week shows that they hold $166,508,340 reserve in excess of legal requirements. This is a decrease of $14,325,710 from last week. | States torpedo Dudjack, | PLAN TO END WAR. Henry Clews BSuggests Ways . Peace May Be Restored in Europe. New York, Aug. 7-~Germany to sell to France Alsace-Lorraine for an equivalent of. its real value and retire from France and Belgium, but to hage commercial access to the Belgian u& port, which would be declared a fry port; Germany to pay over to Belgium the amount acquired from France to restore Belgium; the colonies to be restored to Germany to be England's and Japan’'s peace concessions; Aus- tria and Italy to agree between each other for a settlement and urged to do 80 by the other nations; Constan- tinople to be a free port to appease Russia, Turkey to acquiesce and Aus- tria and Servia to agree between themselves to settle their differences;’ establish a world court able tv enforee its decrees by an international police force of the world—military and naval forces superior to those of any single power in the world. All the above nations' to pledge themselves for a peace to last fifty years at least, agreeing as advantages to be gained thereby to reduce their armies and navies to a peace basis, which would admit, during that period, of their liquidating their li bilities incurred by the war. All these nations to obligate themsélves to work in unison to maintain peace not only amongst themselves but throughout the world. 1 feel quite sure that the United States, South America and China would gladly join in the coms bination for theé great advantages thal would accrue to them by the certal assurance of peace prevalling for th next fifty years. HENRY CLEWS, President of the American Peace and Arbitration League. PERRY AWARDED TROPHY. U. 8. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Capturef Prize for Its Class. Aug. 7.—The United boat destroyer perry has been awarded the trophy for the destroyer class in the engineering cor porations for 1918-1914, according to an announcement today by the navy department. The Perry led the list of T twenty destroyers which compieied the tests, the Preble being second and the Beale third. Twelve vessels did not finish all the required trials and were not assigned standings, In the submarine class the trophy was awarded to the with the K-8 second and the (-4 third. Twentys seven vessels in ‘this class entered thel tests. Washington, PRIMARY IN Louisville, Ky., KENTUCKY. Aug Democrats, republicans and progressives of Ken- tucky balloted today in a weneral primary for nominees for all state of- fices except one-half the state senate. Most interest centered upon the fight for the democratic gubernatorila nom ination, for which three aspirants had? waged a warm race, with the liguol question the issue. -