New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1915, Page 5

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Rome, July 28.—The following let- ter was written from his deathbed by Lieutenant Colonel Negrotto, ane 7 of the most popular Italian command- ers, who fell mortally wounded when leading his men on the bank of the Isonozo. It is addressed to his little son: “To you, my son, at the moment of his quitting this life forever, this "is the message and legacy your father -4 bequeaths you: “Be ever obedient and dutiful to your mother. She who will now be aione in the world clinging to the name and to the memory of your father has a right to find her conmso- “lation in you, our dear san. “Be always and in all places, hon- est, hardworking, and brave, and proud of the name of an Italian. See that all you do helps to increase the “ power and glory of our people and tends to honor the unspotted name which I leave you as an heirloom. “I close with a kiss. From your old father who has been very fond of you always.” The letter has been widely quoted in Italy as example of patriotic de- votion and fatherly affection. It has been read in hundreds of schools and churches, and committed to memory by thausands of Italians. BESELER GOVERNOR GENERAD Amsterdam, Aug. 30.—Word has been received here from Berlin that Gen. Von Beseler, conquerar of Ant- werp and Noogeorgiasvk had been appointed governor general of the en- tire occupied Russian territory. This announcement js credited to the Po- sen Tageblatt, which also says that the civil administration of Russian Poland, heretofore at Kalisz, has been removed to Warsaw. MORE CANADIANS TO ENGLAND. Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 30.—Twelve Canadian battalions of infantry are to be placed in England for final train- ing, according to an announcement made by the military authori- ties. The troopers will be regarded as reinforcements ta be called for service in France or Russia as re- quired. This draft will bring the number of men Canada has sent to England to 100,000. {T’osl i | Toasties | Welcome to Qur Set Charming new flavour, exceptional crispness, and nourishing substance, insure for New Post Toasties a welcome on any breakfast, lunch or supper table. The new process of manufacture which imparts these qualities, not to be found in other corn flakes, raises tiny, pearl-like “puffs” on each flake—a dis- tinguishing characteristic of New Post Toasties Your Grocer has them now. GALLIPOLI WRECKED BY BOMBARDMENT Incident to Landing of Allied Troops on Peninsula (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Gallipoli, Peninsula, July 30.— There are few houses on the Galli- poli peninsula that have not been wrecked by the severe bombardment incident to the landing of the Allied troops last Apriland there are no houses that are now inhabited. There are wheat flelds Waiting for the reaper and vineyards and olive groves where work might be done, In the villages the few remaining shops stand idle. From the harbors along the Dardanelles and Gulf of Saros the boats have vanished, and the nets of the fisherman have dried in the hot sun a long time. ‘Windmills Are Ruins, Out on the fields the crude plows and harrows lack oxen. The wind- mills are ruins or have had their canvas sails stripped by shot ang shell. Town, village and countryside have been deserted by their populations. The picturesque civilian garb of Turk and Greek has disappeared and in- stead everywhere the dull olive drab and hardy brighter khaki uniform of the Turkish soldier. This is the Gallipoli peninsula to- day. Towns Have Been Razed. The British and French ships have thrown tens of thousands heavy shells on the narrow strip of land- Maidos and Noulain have been razed. Kir- thilia is a heap of ruins and Gallipoli stands as a mounument to what mod- ern artillery may do. To any of these must be added every other town, vil- lage, and hamlet on the peninsula, and they are by no means few in number. The expenditure of artillery and aeroplane ammunition of the Brit- ish and French has been enormous, and wasteful. This morning a Brit- ish cruiser threw into the town of Gallipoli, exactly 101 shells—a sort of salute to Czar Mars, because there is nothing in Gallipoli, to call for such an extravagance wiith the tax- payers’ money. At another point, nearbz 98 shells were hurled. Both bombardments resulted in a bag of one shepherd wounded. Bombardment Fine Exhibition- But the bomardment was a fine exhibition. For the greater part of an hour it kept the echos of the Gal- liipoli hills busy. Then the cruiser steamed to other parts—to one of the islands in the Aegean, where its crew may be enjoying a good rest at this moment. Not a square foot of ground on the peninsula is safe against the British ship artillery fire, though dugouts help- The British gunners start early—about 5:16 o’clock in the morning. Why, nobody knows. Light conditions for them would be best late in the afternoon, when the sun illuminates the hills of the peninsula from the southwest, when, in other words, it is behiind instead of be- fore, the gunner. But modern gun- nery is not hampered much by such trifles as light conditions, especially when indirect .fire, or “map” bom- bardments make the eye of the can- noneer almost a superfluous thing. Astronomy of Great Use. In the conning tower of the bom- barding vessel stands an officer with a map and a few other accessories, and puts the higher mathmatics, astronomy, and the reports of aero- plane scouts and abservers to good use. Astronomy and artillery may seem unrelated, but at a pinch the artillery officer of the ‘bombarding ship can make splendid use of it. If the land marks on the coast do not suit his purposes, well enough, he can establish to a fraction of a geographical second just where he is, measure distance between gun and target on his map, shout certain num- bers to his crews in the turret and— bang! The proceeding is simple enough and the landscape of the peninsula, were it a sentient being, would know it. The peninsula gives the impres- slon of a pest of very large and ex- ceedingly active males having visited it—together with a .violent earth- quake. Seen from an elevation, lo- cated where, the hills, slopes and nar- row valleys appear to have broken out in a sort of bad rash. Has Close Call. Daily the rash increases. A few days ago The Associated Press cor- respondent was waked at 5:15 a. m. by having a shell explode inconven- iently close—through the canvass wall of the tent in which he slept, or had slept until that moment. Other shells came and before the British cruiser designed to be silent over 80 shots had landed, both far from, and near to, the tent. But by that time the cor- respondent lay snug in a bomb-proof. If it isn’t artillery that spoils the Gallipoli landscape it his the busy aeroplanist’s bomb. The Aliies have many flyers and all of them are bent upon making the life on the penin- sula as recarious as possible. Every day these birds of ill omen come, and they all throw bombs, some explod- ing with one bang, others do the trick in three installments—in a sort of ripping crash that makes the sound of striking lightning a poor imita- tion of what man can do in that line. The hole left by the aerial bomb is not large but the landscape suffers nevertheless. Everything within a generous radious of the ex- plosion goes down. The grass van- ishes under the hot withering breath, and bush and trees are snapped like 80 many dry twiggs. Turks Pay No Heed. Ta the British bombarding ships the Turks pay no heed—for good rea- sons. The bombardments are carried on from so long a range that the Turksish batteries cannot reach these disturbers of the idyllic peace, but the l reason herebaout. MR. MERCHAN ‘Have You Met “MR. FEDERAL?” If not, phone 230 and ask him about this cam aign for turning New Britain’s business streets into A WHITE WAY Our Extraordinary Offer is Open Until Saturday, Sept. 4th Do you know that 200-5 Watt Mazda sign lamps can be burned every night of the month from dusk until 11.30 P. M. at a cost of $9.00 per month or Federal Electric Signs at Actual Cost Lamps Below Cost No Charge for Erecting 10 Monthly Payments 30c! Estimates and Color Sketches Furnished Without Charge The United Electric Light & Water Co TELEPHONE 230 aeroplane can be given at least a little attention. The hum of its motor is hardly heard when certain bat- teries get ready. But to get an aero- plane down is largely accident, and the aviator knows it. So on he sails and just to return compliments he drops a bomb when he imagines he is over the offending battery— which he hardly ever is accarding to two weeks experience of The Asso- ciated Press correspondent. What goes in the air must come down again. The law of gravity makes no exception, even in the case of shrapnel. So if the bomb of tha aviator has missed you, the frag- ments of the shrapnel may not. It takes Turkish nerves to stand a so- Journ on the peninsula for any length of time. Fatalism Splendid Thing. The Turks do not seem to mind the combination, in reality do not mind it all all. Their fatalism is a splendid thing under such conditions If “Kader” the supreme fate, wills death by any means enumerated, then, “kader” willed it thus, as they Ot course, a bomb-proof is a good thing they admit. But fate may reach any- where, even in a bombproof. So what is the use of a bombproof? Lately however, the men have been con- siderate enough of their fortune of war to observe the progress of the yellow birds from under the trees. Splendid summer weather prevails on the peniinsula. The sun is hot enough but the proximity of two large bodies of water keeps the breeze stirring. There are alternate spills of wind to the Black Sea and wind to the Mediterranean. It is cool even in the middle of the day under the pines and cypresses, through the shade of the latter is a scant thing and to keep in it one must keep shifting every few minutes. The slender cypress of these parts serves better as the column of a sun- dial than a parasol. The pine ig better, and in addition has the adl- mirable quality of permitting ths person resting under its fragrant roof to watch the aeroplanes properly, or at least make sure that the hum- ming noise is not merely that of an industrious, little bumble bee in- stead of an aeroplane—all of which tends to make life on the peninsula less unattractive. . Nature Not Affected. But nature does not mind a few scars: In the pine brakes the aro- matic rosin floors and the needles emit their pungent fragance at the coaxing of a warm sun. On the cresl of the hills and against the gentler slopes yellow wheatfields imitate the blue waters of the Dardanelles and the Aegean is showing waves under the impulse of the breeze. Cypres- ses sway and sigh as heretofore, the birds sing and the grasshoppers chirp —all tokens that nature at least is in status quo. There are many nightingales on the peninsula—when the sun has set they begin their songs, generally cut short by a renewal of the fighting. Every night there is fighting with machine guns, rifle, bayonet, knife, hand grenade and life destroying chemicals. Now and then somebody springs a mine besides. The noise of this sort of battde is mot partien- larly great even at short distances from the two arenas It moves over the anclient hills softly-—spasmodical. ly. The dull and equidistant raps of the machine guns are the sharp and regular en rifles, while exploding hai puncturate as it were, 1} of the paragraph of being wriitten. J Thus passes the night crow peace comes and the man in the conning read his map and and degrees for his large LAUDS LIFE SA' Washington, Aug. 301 partment has sent m ognition to men of the rado, who, on August 1 occupants of a sail boat] sized a half mile The people were restusd minutes, 3 | POMPE) _ OLIVE ¢