New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1915, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915. RUSSIANS BURNED - POLISH VILLAGES Germans Had to Provide Food and Shelter for Inhabitants (Correspondence of T! W aw, Dec. rival in Warsaw, that they not ociated Press.) —With their ar- the Germans found had to support their own huge armics, but had also to provide food and shelter for an enormous number of Poles who had been driven away from their homes, and then later had been sent back to the villages in which there remained no single house standing, not one head of cattle and not one bushel of grain, That the extent of the might be correctly estimated, cial department to inv struction was formed only villages burned to ground, damage a spe- stigate the de- at once. and the cowntry reat ‘the needs inhabitants might be, They reported that the Russians not only had burned up all existing food supplies, but empty barns that were to house the unharvested crop. Cattle packed into freight trains had been destroyed by sendingthe trains been destroyed by sending the trains In individual cases special tracks had been laid, down which the cars were rolled to the water's edge. Set Town in Flames. Bands of Russian soldiers, the in- vestigators claim, went systematical- Iy through each village that was to be abandoned, squirted = petroleum over each house, and then set the town in flames. Between 3,000 and 4,000 villages were destroyed in this way, their inhabitants being forced under penalty of death to flee to the east. Bribery played a not important part i in the retreat, it is claimed. As conspicuous examples, there stand, here and there throughout Poland, Jone houses that have not suffered at | w1l The inhabitants maintain that their immunity was purchased with roubles, or that they were left un- molested because they were Russian rather than Polish, Villages Ravaged Also. « The Germans up to date have been able to investigate only a part of the territory evacuated by the Rus- | sians. They fear that the estimates of many hundreds of thousands of districts to see how of the returning » | boats before the steamship turned tur- I | | STEAMER YASAKA MARU, That the steamship Yasaka Maru, rine off Port Said, carried $12,500,- 000 Japanese gold with her to tne bottom was announced in Tokyo. Al- though the new 11,000 ton vessel wos almost hurled out of the water by the force of the torpedo and sank in forty-nine minutes, the commander maneuvered with such skill that every person on board in the small was tle and disappeared from view. A French gunboat, cruising near, picked up the passengers and crew at mid. SMOKING ROOM ANDSALON = sunk by a German or Austrian subma- | night and landed them at Port Said. On the passenger list were fifty-one men, fifty-four women and fifteen children, most of whom were British subjects. W. J. Leigh: the oniy Amcrican citizen on board, was born in China, His father was a resident of California. Mr. Leigh has passed most of his life in China, but recently | He was re- | has lived in England. turning to China on board the Yasaka Maru to take a position with a busl- $12,500,000 in Gold Went to the Bottom When the Yasaka Maru Was Torpedoed !ness house. The insurance on the ves- Isel amount to 5,600,000 yen ($2,800,- 000). The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, | owners of the Yasaka Maru, are d { cussing the feasibility of abandoni | the Suez canal route for future voy- ages of their vessels in favor of a route around Cape of Good Hope. News of the sinking of the Yasaka | Maru caused great excitement in Ja- ! pan. | i INDIGNANT MISS fugitives who now are homeless will mount into the millions eventually. “The investigations show that only the houses along the regular lines of re- treat were destroyed, but also that willages far removed from the main east-west roads were ravaged also. The only exceptions are the compar- atively infrequent colonies of Rus- sians, as differentiated from Poles. In thousands the inhabitants were driven eastward, but when the Ger- man pursuit became too hot the ci- yilians—including old men and wo- men—were ruthlessly turned to one side of the road and then ordered to g0 back in the hope that they woula obstruct Germans. « Died As They Returned. By tens of thousands the men ana women who had been torn from their homes died as they returned. Their graves line miles of the roads in Po- land. One German officer counted 927 civilian graves that bordered a sifigle thoroughfare within a space of 20 kilometers, Eventually the refugees returned to the places where, for months, the Germans and the Russians had con- ducted trench warfare. In the lack of ehhouses, the Poles sought the trenches and bomb-proof shelters as homes, and today are living in them | to a great extent. Supplied with the necessities of life by the Germans, they are cooking their meals in the bottoms of chimneys that still stand and slowly are building themselves new homes. Prepare for Winter. I3 anticipation of winter the Ger- mans began cutting lugnber from the Russian royal forests, and deliver- Ing it to the homeless Poles. The Polish Architectural society formu- | latedplans for houses—especially de~ signed to house Polish peasant raml-‘ lles and with a wing in which catlle{ could find shelter—and has supplied | each homeless family with them. Sev- | eral hundred have overcome their | suspiclon of the Germans, partly be- cause the house plans are promul- 'mated by Poles, and have erccted one- ftory homes of wood which are vast- Iy more practical than their old| thatched cottages. Thg. destructiop of the country villages, but inciuded also Russians was not confined to the every industrial plant in the Kking- dom—regardless of whether it might be turned to military uses or not. Thus, for example, the linen factory n Zhirardow, which was valued at | 5,000,000 marks and which employed | some 6,000 Poles. The ownership of \(he fpctory was in Polish and Ger- an “hands and in addition to the mnds in the main factory, about 0,000 Poles were employed in the pranches, which went out of busine: with the destruction of the parent RUSSIAN RED CROSS | TAG DAY JANUARY 1, 1916 New Year’s Day fithe Benefit of the retreating { s CALLS FATHER ‘LIAR ! suppose this man wants to go to jail,” | | | l Anna Koloski Creates Sceme in | Police Court This Morning Mike Koloski of 56 Smalley street, | who impressed upon the mind of Judge John H. Kirkham in police | court this morning the fact that he | was the father of sixteen children, was arraigned on a charge of breach of the peace and two of his daughter, the Misses Anna and Helen, appeared against him, painting him as a deep- dyed villain. Koloski was arrested at his home yesterday noon by Officer George Mof- fitt on complaint of his wife and daughter, who said he had been abus- ing them. On the witness stand An- na told the judge that her father uses vile language at the house and does not support the famly. ‘“He is never at home in the summer time but in the winter he comes around to live on us,” she said. “Where does he go in the summer time?” Prosecutor Klett asked. “Oh! He's out sporting around. Then in the winter he comes home and lets his daughters support him,” replied Helen. The accused father took the stand | and attempted to tell of abuse he suf- fered at the hands of his wife and daughters, but he had hardly opened his mouth when Anna interrupted from her seat in the court room, shouting: “You're lying now, don't be lying!” Order being restored the father at- tempted to tell the court that he came ! home yesterday noon feeling very sick | with the grip. Again Anna inter- rupted, thic time to say: “You're lying, you were drunk.” “That's what they say. They said | I got drurk and they all jumped on me. I never touched my wife at all,” the old man said. “You lie, I can show you marks on her arm where you did,” shouted the tempestuous Anna. Judge Kirkham placed the case in the hands of the probation officer to investigate and continued it for a week. Wanted to Go to Jail. Officer John J. King arrested, John Thompson of Waterbury on Church street yesterday afternoon for steal- ( ing a pair of boots from Theodore ‘Wilson's store. Thompson said he ! did not care to make a statement. *I remarked the judge. “Yes, I suppose that's what he | wants,” agreed the prosecutor, where- upon a fine of $10 for drunkenness and $7 for theft was imposed and this afternoon Thompson was taken to jail, féeling much gratified that he has a home for the next few weeks. | SCHEDULE! I KRUPTCY Hartfcrd, Dec. 28.—Schedules 1n bankruptcy have been filed in the United States district court in this city by S. Alexander Sons company of Meriden, clothing dealers, who were ! petitioned into bankruptey by credi- | tors, Liabilities are listed at $15,693 of which $6,176 are secured claims. All the assets reported are stock valued at $1,500 and book accounts of $1,117. Among the larger credi- tors are Rhodes Ripley Clothing Co., of Boston with a claim of $2,278, the Meriden National bank a loan of $3,600 and Sylverstin Bros., New York $339.00 BA | annual meeting. NURSE TO WED. Miss Charlotte Powell to Become Bride of S. A, Merrill of Walpole. At a dinner party given on Christ- mas eve, Mrs. Ann J. Powell of 228 Maple street announced the engage- ment of her daughter, Miss Charlotte Ethel Powell, to Standwood Adams Merrill of Walpole, Mass. No date has been set for the wedding. Miss Powell was graduated from the Hartford Hospital Training school for Nurses with the class of 1915 and is now engaged in factory welfare work at the Corbin Cabinet Lock and P. & F. Corbin branches of the American Hardware corporation. She is re- garded as a most efficient nurse and stands high in the estimation of her cmployers and also those with whom her work brings her in contact. Mr. Merrill is a Trinity college man and is at present employed as a draughtsman at the F. L. Fals com- pany in Walpole, Mass. BARRED FROM ENGLAND Delegates of Danish Trades Unions Affiliated With Socialist Party. Berlin, Dec. 28. By wireless to Say- ville—The Overseas News Agency says Danish trades unions affiliated with the socialist party elected two delegates to visit England for the pur- pose of conferring with English labor organizations, but that they were pre- vented from going to England by the refusal of the British minister to sanction the project. His declination, the news agency says, was based on the ground that the delegates probah- 1y intended to work for peace. One of these delegates, according to the Vo che Zeitung, recently was permitted to travel freely about Germany, PACIFIC COAST Togical . Place for Second Naval Academy According to Daniels. Washington, Dec. 28 —Secretary Danicls said today that when the in- creased building program for the navy ultimately ‘made necessary a second naval academy, the logical place for the new institution would be on the Pacific coast. Secretary Daniels has recommended | to congress an increase of the under- i graduate body a Annapolis to its full | capacit: twelve hundred midship- men, Further . increases, however, will require additional facilities. SUNSHINERS TO AMALGAMATE. Meeting For This Purpose Is To Be Held on Afternoon of January 3. Canonicus Branch of the Interna- tional Sunshine society will meet on January 3 at 2 o’clock for the purpose | of holdin gits annual meeting and an hour alter the Incorporated Branch of the Sunshine society will hold its In each instance re- ports for the past vear will be pre- sented and all unfinished business will be cleared up. Following these two annual meet- ings the members of both Sunshine societies, according to a vote of the Incorporated Branch at a recent meet- ing, will meet and amalgamate. The constitution and by-laws will be voted on also, as they have been partially changed. As a Christmas gift, the Incorporat- ed Branch of the Sunshine society gave each of the matrons of the Chi dren’s Home $3 and each of the 107 children were presented with hand made mittens and stockings. EMBARGO HEARINGS ON WAR MUNITIONS House Foreign Affairs Committee to Hear Arguments Relative to Shipment of Supplies. Washington, Dec. 28.—The ment for legislation imposing an em- bargo on the shipment of war muni- so insistant the has deter- move- has become *hat Chairman Flood, of foreign affairs committee, mined to call a meeting of the com- view to hearings on after congress re. tions abroad house mittee with a the subject soon assembles, The committee last year received ions signed by three million per- for an embargo. The committee is again being flooded with petitions while many members of con- gress are being urged along the same line. Representative Loback of Nebraska, stated today that he had in mind the introduction of a resolution authoriz- ing the president to put an embargo on shipments of arms and ammuni- tion to countries which interfere with American commerce. ITALY TREATING HER PRISONERS WELL Noble xample of Humanity and Civ- ilization Declares Spaxish Am- bassador i0 Rome. Rome. Dec. 27, 12:40 ~—The Spanish ambassador, having visited the prisone- camrs in different issued a after parts of the country has statement in which he & The treatment of Austrian prison- noble example of civilization. Italy is actng ‘owards the prisoners with chivalry, almost with affection, even imparting lessons to the :l iterates.” The Austrian prisorers in Italy are under the direct protecticn of the Spanish embassy., ers in Italy is a humanity and GRANDMA NEVER LET HER HAIR GET GRAY Kept her locks youtbful, dark, glossy and thick with common garden ¥ Sage and Sulphur. | B Tl | When you darken your hair with | Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it's done so naturally. so evenly. Preparing this mixture, though at home is mussy and trouble- some. For 50 cents you can buy at any drug store the ready-to-use tonic called “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound.” You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one ismall strand at a time. By morning |all gray hair disappears, and, after another application or two, your haid becomes beautifully darkened, glossy { and luxuriant. You will also discover dandruff is gone and hair has stopped falling. Gray, faded hair, though no dis- grace, is a sign of old age, and as we all desire a youthful and attractive appearance, get busy at once with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur and look years younger. BIG PEACE MEETING HELD AT STOCKHOLM Under Auspices of Ford Party— Great Enthusiasm Shown Stockholm, Dec, 28, via $:10 a. m.—The public reeeting held the auspices of the character- enthu last night under Ford Peace expedition most is ized here as the demonstration for peace that Europe | Nearly ! has seen since the war began. a thousand citizens at Stockholm tended. an end of the war applause. When Louis Lochner. the expedition, announced executive committee had formation that certain of the belliger- ent nations were willing to negotiate for peace the meeting became tumul- tuous. “It would astonisk the world said Mr. Lochner, “If we made known at this time what influences are at work for peace. This information has been in the possession oi the execu- tives of the expedition ever since we sailed from New York It was the real encouragement behind the ex- pedition. We have every assurance that our project will meet with favor, although at this time it cannot be said Jjust what is behind the movement.” Finds Fault With Wilson, The Rev. Charles F. Aked of San 3 o0 declared in nis speech that at- early prolonged Every mention of provoked of the in- secretary that secret he regretted to say not giving peace idea such support as might be desired. He found fault with President Wilson for what he char- acterized as the president's failure to take the initiative in leading neu- trals in a peace move:nent. ““The success of the meeting, which was the first of a public character since the arrival of the party in Sweden, is attributeda to the fact that most Swedes can understand English, For the benefit of those unable to un- derstand English the speeches were translated by interpreters on the plat- form. Each time a speaker referred to the unity of neutrals in the desire for peace the Academy of Music, where the meeting was held, rang with cheers. Further Encouragement, The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, chair- man of the executive committee, said after the demonstration was over that it gave a great impetus to the expedi- tion and argued further encourage- ment when the party reacked Den- mark and Holland. The committee Sweden and Norway send unofficial delegations and citizens from other neutrai countries will attend the final peace conference, The expedition leaves Wednesday night for Copenhagen. From that point it will proceed to The Hague, possibly by railway through Germany. May Return to Stockholm, Stockholm, Via, London, Dec. 28, 1:25 a. m.—Delighted over what they described as their sympathetic recep- tion in Sweden, the members of the Henry Ford peace expedition today are considering the possibility of re- turning to Stockholm, instead of re- anncunced that had arranged to London, | iastic | that America was | that | EDISON FiNDS-WAYq | TO IMPROVE NAVY | | | | | | 1 i | the EDISOI*h INSPECT:; ) A SUBMARINE SIS BV AMERICAN PRESS AFSVCIATIGN, 0 Thomas A- Edison outlined for the naval consulting board at a meeting at the Brooklyn navy yard his plans | for a physical research laboratory, or | “trial shop,” for the navy department as one of the most pressing needs of the campaign of preparedness. members of the board decided, as one of them put it after the meeting to “chuck overboard” their comparative- ly undeveloped plans when Mr. Edi- son had submitted one which he had worked out with his accustomed mar- vel of detail and practicability The members of the board were conducted by naval officers of he yards on an in- spection trip abroad the submarine E-2 which is equipped with the Edi- son storage battery, and the K-1, in | Fora it The | they are inclined to | of Stockholm as the od propaganda. Ox i= announced, Furope, including countrie: with litera termination of the . B. M Copenhagen, Dec. 28, Hanna of North Dal of the Ford peace yesterda suffert He has a high was admitted hospital, Copenhagen can minister, Dr. Maurid Fgan and many others the governor or sent flof peace Gov. n| B ber here fluenza. governor FOUR DAYS OON | American Civie Associa at Washing 28.. bef Washington, Dec. can Civie association here chief aim of the conventil velopment of the nationa tonight a national park sd I'e introduced in congre sentative Kent of Califor Jdiscussed The bill pro park service in the depa interior under a direct a by the secretary, and aski diate appropriation of § expenses. The measure v days convention | the secretary to sell timb parks and to grant leases of land in them, but onl stances which would cof scenery and the national cbjects in them. Wednesday afternoon garet Wilson, daughter of] dent, will preside at a cof 1he use of schools as com: ters and the Marchioness o will deliver an address. | KILLING JUSTIF | Coroner Finds in Case of Dy Who Shot His Stepf: Danbury, Dec. 28.—That Bochnia, the 17 years old and killed his stepfal PBochina, on the night of 20, was in fear of his lifi hodily injury from has step! was in law justified in defe self against the attack of father, is the finding in the ¢ shot which the lead battery is installed. The picture shows Mr. Edison on the E-2. maining at The Hague when a per- manent peace commission is formed. Many prominent citizens of Stock- holm including the mayor, have visit- ed the executive committee and ten- dered an unofficial invitation to the | cxpedition to make Stockholm the center of such peace negotiations as ;may rise. The Ford delegates an- I nounced today that the plan had been considered favorably but that they ! would withhold final decision on it. | Mr. Ford today sent a wireless de- | epatch from the steamer on which he is bound for New York. He sald he was improving in health and wished success for the expedition. The per- | manent board, the despatch added, | would be backed by Mr. Ford to the | extent of $2,000,000 if necessary, | On account of the welcome given | the delegates and the hospitable tone of the Swedish newspapers which to- day devote several pages to inter- views and descriptions of members of the peace party, the delegates say | 367-369 MAIN STREET by Coroner John J. Phelan port, and which was receive day. The criminal court is set for Prosecuting Attorney Noi Beers is conducting an inv of the shooting independent { i the coroner. He stated tod while the finding of the coro have some bearing on the would not affect the result criminal ring. ARRESTED IN MUD PU J. 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