New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1915, Page 14

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. e T N L Y T T TR D GITS THM WD pE USEFUL AND ACGEPTABLE = CE===n—_T——————> [Electric Toasters. Electric Sad Irons. Beef, Steak and Game. CARVING SETS Silver Plated and Steel. Table Knives and Forks. Hot Water Bottles Cello and Universal. Boys’ Chest of Tools. Machinists’ Tool Chests. Alarm Clocks. Electric Flash Lights. Shaving Mirrors. Polo PERCOLATORS. Tea Ball Pots. Casseroles. Pie Dishes Sticks. Ingersoll Watches Razor Strops. Grape Fruit Knives. Air Rifles. and numerous other ARTICLES. RAZORS All kinds—25¢ to $5.00. OFFEE MACHINES E ABBE for everyone. HARDWARE COMPANY, 279 Main St. That Card Marks every style'of our BISSELL’S CHRISTMAS CARPET SWEEPERS. It indicates that the Sweeper is made of one of the richest woods in the world—made specially for a Christmas present. We have twelve different woods marked with those cards. Your,| pick at regular price. GET F255% <ta s Lunch Kits. Thermos Bottles. SKATES From 50c to $4.00. POCKET KNIVES SCISSORS and SHEARS THE MIDGET CARD CASE! Something new for holding membership cards of Elks and other ternal organizations. To be worn on your watch chain. They e, made| in SOLID GOLD, GOLD FILLED and STERLING SIL- E}!“wl(h insigna of your society. The prices ranging from $4.00 p .00, Monograms Engraved Free! GARDELLA, EMBLEM HEADQUARTERS. Asylum St., Room 2, Upstairs, Hartford. Open Evenings. FIGHT TO END OF WAR | i AUSTRALIANS WILL I New Zealand Premier Calls On Coun- try to Present a United Front To The Enemy. i Melbourne, Australia, December 23.—George Foster Pearce, Aus- tralian minister of state for de- fence, in a speech delivered here, said the withdrawal of the Brit- Suvla Bay regions of the Peninsula would neither lessen the determination of the Australians effort to raise men. Wellington, New Zealand, Dec. via London, ish troops from the Anzac Cove and | Galtipoli | to* see the war through nor affect a new , 11:40 a. m.—"It is bet- ter to face the position and be done with it than to proceed with an en- terprise which is commonly believed to have been the result of an error in judgment,” was the comment of ‘Wm. Ferguson Massey, premier of New Zealand, relative to the aban- . donment by the British of the Anzac | Cove region of ‘the Gallipoli sula. forget personal and political animosi- ties and present a united front to the enemy. GRANTED SAFE CONDUCTS. Britain and France Compliod Request of U. S. London, December 23.—The ish and French governments sented to give safe conducts to Cap- tains Boy-Ed and Von Papen, the ! German attaches recalled from the United *‘_J(Cs. “in deference to the express Wish of the United States gov- With Brit- con- GET THE MAS DINNER AT THE SOVEREIGN TRADING CO. Everything From the Turkey to the Vegetables. Extra Fancy Birds. Select Fruits, Nuts, Vegetables and the Best of all—the Needed Groceries. <= PRICES VERY ATTRACTIVE -2 Sovereign’s Building, 160 Main Street Good, Clean Coal and Wood. Orders Taken at the Store. ernment” Lord Robert Cecil, parlia- mentary under-secretary for foreign affairs, stated in the house of com- mons yesterday. The under-secretary's statement was in reply to a question implying condemnation of the granting of safe conducts, th: questioner suggesting that by this the attaches would be enabled to ‘““direct their energics to- wards the injury of this country near- er home.” GERMAN 1ZF ARGO. Into Port as Prize of War. London, December —The steamship Argo has been taken into a German p&rt by a prize cpw, Exchange Telegraph Company’s | penhagen correspondent says. The | Argo put into the Danish port of Aarhus or* Monday after having baen tin collision with a German torpedo | boat, which fired several shots in an ! attempt to stop her. She sailed from |Aarhus on the following day. The dispatch says two German torpedo boat pursued her into Swedish wators {and boarded her, declaring her a ! prize of war. Ten men were left on the Argo to take her to Germany. The Argo’s cargo consists of tools for Russia, manufactured in Den- mark. The Swedish government, ac- | cording to this account, has instruct- ed its minister at Berlin to make an investigation. Co- FOREIGN TRADE LARGE. Washington, Dec. 23.—Foreign trade of the United States in Novem- ber jumped to the unprecedented to- ment of commerce statement issued today shows that imports as well as exports broke records for the past month. A record of five billion dol- lars for the past twelve months, ex- ports and imports, was set. | ister of munitions, Penin- | He called on the country to Steamer With Tools for Russia Taken | the | tal of half a billion dollars A depart- | | other commodities shipped from ! west of Canada to the east. Construc- MRS. FARWELL, CALLED “CHICAGO’S FAIREST, IN WAR NEWS WS WALTER FARWELL When the capture of the Serbian | city of Monastir by the Bulgarians broke communications with that place | fears were expressed for the safety of Americans engaged in Red Cross work and other activities. ~Among them were Mrs. Walter Farwell, wife of a newspaper correspondent of Chicago, and Dr, Forbes of the Red Cross. Mrs. Farwell and Dr. Forbes were not al- and it is reported that they and the American flag were grossly insulted. The matter has been referred to the i American government. Mrs. Farwe! is very well known in Chicago. She is the daughter-in-law of a United States senator, and she has been called the most beautiful woman of Chicago. Later reports called her safe in Mon- astir. BURNED TO DEATH. Stratford, Dec. 23.—Mildred, three | year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Gindrod, of Surf avenue, was i burned to death yesterday as the re- | sult of playing with a box of matches. The child’s mother had been to Bridgeport on a Christmas shopipng rip and returned home to find the child a mass of flames. The girl was rushed to thc hospital but the burns proved fatal. The mother is in a critical condition from the shock. LAST WORD IN STRUGGLE. London, December 23.—The speech in the house of commons on Monday by David Lloyd George, min- by Truth as “The last word in the keen struggle of the preceding months between him and Kitchener.” Jowed to leave Monastir for Greece, ' | i l' is characterized | 2 ESTABLISHED 1886 o Globe Clothing House —— ome to Us for the Right Gift Open Every Evening Till 10 Until Christmas Globe Clothing House “The Quality Gift that everybody wants$ | Adkins Printing Company 66 Church Street Accused of conspiring to blow the Welland canal, one of the most important of the world’s artificial waterways, R. E. Leyendecker and Paul Koenig (left and right respec- tively in No. 2 in the accompanying picture,) were held in heavy bail up .in New York Through the Welland canal passes much of the grain and the tion of the \V_ellzmd canal was begun in 1824, and it was first opened to Canada Guards Care/ully Welland Canal; Germans Accused of Plotting to Blow It Up ki i e small vessels in 1833. It extends for a distance of twenty-seven miles in the province of Ontario, Canada, con- necting Port Dalhousie on Lake On- tario with Port Colborne on Lake Erie. Its chief importance to Can- ada lies in the fact that wheat and hides may be shipped direct to Eu- rope from middle western Canada by way of the St. Lawrence river. Befora the war the annual tonnage through the canal was approximately 1,300,- 000 tons. 3 Its size has been increased three times since it was opened, in 1844, 1882, and 1886, the last excavation increasing the depth of the water on the sills to fourteen feet. It is ee- timated that the total cost of the can- al is 100 feet wide. It have twenty six locks, making a rise of mo than 325 feet between the two lake The canal is well guarded by tn Dominion of Conada military author. ities. No. 1 is the holdup of & m seeking to approach the canal an | the production of a military pass b him,