New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 22

RAGIAL MASTERY AT STAKE IN WORLD WAR C R Lord Northelilie Predicts Strug- | gle Will Be Very Long Announcements here by Charles Bence, 18 Main street, have been received Buick agent in New Britain, in which it is explained that the 1916 of the Buick Motor Car company will be confined to six cylinder models ex- clusively. This decision, they declare, upplies a° complete satisfying answer to the most insistent demand of present day motorists—the demand for more power. For two seasons Buick sixes have been in the service, and it is the ver- dict of thousands of users of these product and cars that nothing but a six will sup- | power, | ply the requisite amount of smoothly and evenly delivered, that is required to meet the universal mo- toring need. Thousands of users that the six cylinder motors yields the utmost in pleasure that is possible for a motor | car to give. gole basis for the Buick determination to confine to six cylinder machines. | The 1916 valve-in-head sixes carry ! into another season that great motor principle which a quarter of a million users have proven correct and super- ! ior under every conceivable condi- tion of motor car service. have proved company's For this | season this motor, unchanged in prin- ciple but refined and improved in nu- valve-in-head | motoring { NEV, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY merous details, supplles the basic value in what the company firmly be- lieves is the best line of motor cars ever marketed. The new Buick sixes are complete in every detail. In beauty of line and | finish they measure up to any car, no | matter the price. The Buick seven-passenger, cylinder touring car. model D-55, pic- tured here, combines all the essen- tials for perfect motoring pleasure. | There an abundance of power, | srace of line and finish and Buick is construction insuring the utmost value in workmanship and material. The roadster, model D-54, also pic- tured here is a successor to the "Big Six” roadster. It is built on the same cha as the big touring car, with a fifty-five horse power moter and ranks high in both contruction and appearance. Mr, Bence is anticipating an excep- tionally fine season for the Buick car and he looks forward to many sales in New Britain before the close of the summer. This great fact is the | its product | Btk Valow v Hnd i (3 )oler Gourr Cor Hodel D55 AMERICAN AVIATOR DELIGHTS JAPANESE! Feats of Charles Niles Witnessed by Large Crowd (Correspondence of tne Assoclated Press.) Mokio,—Rarely has an event excited the Japanese people as did the flight of Charles Niles, the American aviator who recently gave two exhibitions. be- the state of aviation in Japan is quite similar to the state of when Commodore Perry came. confidently expect that the progress of aviation in' this Empire will be en- hanced greatly by your flights and hence we can appropriately give you the title of the ‘Commodore Perry of the air.” The visit of Niles has served to arouse interest in flying in Japan and has suprred the Japanese aviation corps to greater activities. A na- tional aero society which will be de- | voted to the cause of aviation and at the same time a campaign will be | started to secure contributions by | which the society expects to organize a volnutary air service squadron. fore some of the largest crowds ever witnessed in Japan. The first day’s ! erowd was estimated at 200,000 and | the second at 300,000. The house- | tops and other points of vantage | about the Aoyama, parade where Mr. Niles, manoeuvred in the air were black with people and many arrived | hours before the time of fying in or- to get a good position. Prince igashi Kuni who is deeply interest- cd in aviation was present on both occasions were several of the junior princes of the Imperial Jap- anese house. Mr. Niles did his flying under the auspices of the Aero club of Japan of which the president is General Gaishi Nagaoka, This was the first time that the peo- | ple of Japan have seen aviation feats in mid-air and manoeuvres of Mr. Niles who flew upside down, looped the loop and gave an exhibition of what is called “falling leaves” caused wonder. The great crowd became | frantic with cheering and became so unmanageable that it broke loose and rushed to the place where M had landed. only after s desperate struggling that the man's assistants were able to force their way through and rescue the ma- chine as well as the air man from the enthusiastic and somewhat embar- rassing acclamations of the crowd. | Mr, Niles was presented to Prince Higashi Kuni who warmly compli- mented him upon his exhibition, the like of which. he said, he had never seen. Several floral pieces were also officers presented to aviator. Japanese headed by General Nagaoka gave a dinner to Mr. Niles at which Nagoako referred to him as the “Commodore Perry of the air.” The officer said: three thousand most of them close line and with the roar of artillery in his ears, is the past year's record of {take a AMERICAN SURGEON WITH CZAR'S FORCES Dr. Hurd Has Performed Over 8,000 Operations in Past Year Jan. 23—More than surgical operations, to the fighting Petrograd, Dr. Eugene Hurd, until recently the lonly American surgeon at the front with the Russian forces. Dr. Hurd is chief surgeon in charge of the twenty- ninth, known as the “Grodno Nobil- | ity” Flying column. He has the rank | of colonel in the regular army. His physique—he stands six feet three i ches in height and weighs 225 pounds —makes him a conspicuous figure, even among the big fellows of the Si- berian corps among whom he works. He has acquired a reputation among the simple minded soldiers for doing the impossible. A soldier returning from the hospital told his fellows that the “big American surgeon could hand that had been shot off, patch it together and put it back on good as new.” Hurd has been reported several times killed, wounded or missing. He has made a number of hurried get- aways, but he has always turned up with his outfit when the smoke clear- ed. His column was outfitted by the noble families of Grodno soon after the outbreak of the war. Then they ““You have come to us at a time when looked about for a surgeon to take Let us quote you the NEW rates for Automobile We Insurance. can give you complete coverage in one policy with the AETNA AC- CIDENT & LIABILITY INSUR- ANCE COMPANY of Hartford. Prompt and satisfactory adjust- ments guaranteed. fo= 3 = HOME BANKING & REALTY CO. AGENTS. “Dickinson Building” civilization | wa Wa | vices to Russia. Through the Russian About that time Hurd, who Seattle, charge. in consul in Seattle his offer was ac- cepted and he sailed on Noyember 28 for Vladivostok. He was at once sent to Grodno with a contract to serve during the term of the war. He believed he was giving his ser- vices gratis, but several months later, when he had time to have his con- tract translated, he found that he was to receive 400 roubles monthly. First Taste of Battle, His first taste of battle was on the Grodno front. On the retreat of the Russian army last summer Hurd narrowly escaped an ‘involuntary transfer of his activities to the Ger- man side. After a twenty-hour stretch of hard work he was ordered to retire by night to Orani. At three o’clock in the morning he had reach- ed an estate six mil and there he decided to rest untii ylight. When preparing to resume his journey the following morning he found the stable yard full of Russian some of them wound- A Russian soldier informed him that Orani had been captured by the Germans early in the morning and that they were approaching less than two miles away. He made a hurried exit southward through sand where Napoleon lost his transport on the retreat from Moscow. four o'clock in the afternoon, when he reached new Russian positions he was between the hostile lines uncer- tain as to the location of either army. At another time the German caval- ry broke through the Russian lines before Hurd was aware of the fact and had cut his field telephone. They passed his operating base, evidently believing his capture assured on their return. But the American doctor harnessed. his horses and with his operating force made a break for the retiring Russian army. The Ger- mans turned a battery on him and with shells bursting all around him he galloped his teams over the gres of a hill and eventually made his way to safety. Works Mile Behind Trenches. Dr. Hurd works customarily about a mile back of the trenches in line with the light artillery and in front of and under the heavy batteries. “T believe the Russian soldier be the best in the world,” he on a recent visit to Petrograd, his third brief absence from the trenches in more than a year. “The Russian is a fatalist, is absolutely fearless, willing to attack under any conditions, and is an expert with the bayonet. hi favorite weapon. I am convinced that the Germans lost twenty men to our one on the retreat jast summer. New Trench Bomb. “A new form of trench bomb, filled with an acid that acts like vitriol the last element we have had to con- tend with. The effect is fatal if the fumes are inhaled and the least effect is to produce total and permanent blindness. These hombs are fired at close range and explode on contact. From one to seven men are affected where the explosion occurs among men unprotected by respirators. Often the men have not time to adjust their respirators in time to escape. “A remarkable thing that I have observed is the number of cases of frozen feet among German prisoners, while T have yet to treat the first Russian for that trouble. The reason is that the Germans wear close fit- ting boots, while the Russian boot is large and in place of socks he winds his feet in yards of woolen cloths. The boots are water-tight. One sel- { dom finds a Russian soldier with { wet feet. Another thing: the Russian trenches are deep enough and wide enough that the men may stand and | move about. ‘Trench-foot’ due io { cramped positions and impaired cir- to is culation, is unknown among our sol- diers. Rigid Discipline insist upon rigid discipline in my corps of assistants. and through {a system of packing and handling twhich T have devised, I can break | camp and be on the move within | twenty minutes, or T can unlimber and | begin an operation within ten minutes upon arrival.” 1 The only other American surgeon | | was offering his ser- | | e dunes | Until | said, | “at the Russian front is Malcolm Grow, recently made surgeon of the twenty- first flying column with another - berian corps. ENGLAND DID GREAT FAVOR FOR TEUTONS ' Blockade Blessing in Disguise for { Central Powers, Say Austrians (Correspondence of The Assuciated “ress ) Vienna, Jan. 1.—Economic cond in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey are described |as satisfactory in a number of re- views of the year appearing in the Austrian press. Articles on the sub- | ject keep the war in mind, naturally, and whatever is said has the inten- |ticn of the Entente to starve the | Central Powers into submission as a | background. tions All writers agree in professing that the almost total cessation of import, dueto Great Britain's attitude contraband, has been a blessing disguise for the Central Powers, though most annoying at times. Un- &able to import from ovérsea markets what formerly had come from abroad, Austria-Hungary and Ger- many, the writers point out, mobil- ized economically shortly after the { outbreak of the war. The untiliza- tion of home resources and the pre- j vention of waste, and later the par- tlial withdrawal from general con- sumption of stuffs and materials on in needed to carry on the war, made the from that point | S e two empires economically self-con- tained. Science contributed much to this. The result was that while the Entente bought in foreign countries, the Central Powers, unable to do so, Rept the money which otherwise would have gone out of the coun- tries. Today the population of the 1wo empires s become accustomed the frugality and self-denials which assert that the degree of as- cetism which has been fostered in this manner has become impor ant casual agent of military spirit and strength. Has Interesting Features. The economic scheme which war forced upon Central Europe the is | not without its novel and interesting features. In the first place the the- ory that moneyv was likely to be the biggest factor in a modern war has been exploded, say the writers. It has been proven that the capacity to resist economically is more import- ant, a condition which presupposed both the availability of raw material and a good industrial organization. | Germany, it is pointed out, possessed the latter to a high degree, and, ably supported by its scientists, the em- pire was in a position not only to obtain maximum results from its re- sources and stores, but to augment them, principally by the aid of its well-developed chemistry and physi- cal sciences. Austria-Hungary fol- lowed suit, so that at the beginning of the year 1915 most channels leading to economic waste had been shut. One of the most disquieting prob- lems was that of metals for military purposes, notably copper, tin and nickel. The were needed in large quantities; copper for the guide- flanges of the artillery projectiles, and copper and tin together, in the form of brass for shrapnel heads and rifle cartridges, while nickel was required for the shells or mantels of rifle bul- |lets. Iron and steel were available in | unlimited quantities. Much copper, tin, brass and nickel were during the summer turned over for use of the armies by the population. Thou- | sands of tons were unearthed in the “metal campaigns.” These ‘are still going on, but with the taking of Ser. bia, and the opening of the road to Turkey, copper and tin are now no i longer on the list ‘of worries. Cop- per is produced in considerable quan- tities in Serbia, Bulgarla and Turkish Asia Minor the latter country also producing tin. Never Really Scarce. Chemicals aind other substances needed for the manufacture of ex- plosives have never heen really scarce. This is especially true of cotton, one of the principal ingredients in tri- nitrocellulose explosives, of which gun cotton is the best known. Tt is considered likely that the costly meth- ods in which some of the chemicals were won, from the nitogren of the air, for instance, will be superfluous as soon as transport conditions from Anatolia have become normal. In that part of the Ottoman empire many of the elements needed in pyro-technic chemistry are found. The food question, by reason of its magnitude, required much thought and attention. the articles say. It af- fected the entire population. No pra- cedents were available. Mistakes were made, but in the end satisfactory re- sults were obtained. Supplies were husbanded by restricting consumption, 10, The Auburn Car THE MOST FOR THE MONEY 6-40 6-38 4-38 7 5 5 Passenger, 126-in. Wheel Base . Passenger, 120-in Wheel Base . Passenger, 114-in. Wheel Base . .. $1,375 .. $1,050 895 Sixteen years of success as builders of Motor Cars finds ex- pression in the NEW AUBURN. The artistic lines, rare beauty § of finish, luxurious upholstering, charming individuality. Roomy driver’s compartment and tonneau are all reflections of our won- derful resources. Auburn Cars have always been noted for their easy riding qualities. There is a complete absence of cho]!py riding and swaying of body, the motion being of an undulating character. The Auburn Car must be seen to be appreciated. - They can be seen, and will be demonstrated, at the Central Auto Station. THIS CAR CAN BE SEEN AT THE HARTFORD SHOW CENTRALAUTOSTATION | M. J. KOVERMAN, Prop. Telephone 1096 238 Main Street were prevented by fixing n\:\ximum‘ rates for some articles, and making the ““handling of necessities and com- | modities for profit” illegal and pun- ishable with heavy fines and impris- | onment. i Made Little Difficulty. War loans were little | difficulty, says the reviews. The fact | that littlc 0f thelmoney by | | made with so raised the central powers governments went out of the country is largely respon- sible for this. Had Austria-Hungary and Germany been able to buy abroad they might be in a difficult position to- day, especially since an unrestrict or partly restricted import would in | no wise have been counteracted by ex- | port. With nearly 12,000,000 men un- ' der arms, German and Austro-Hun- | garian industries could not hove to supply their foreign purchasers in a measure great enough to maintain the balance of export and import of now- mal times. Tmports, thercfore, it is said, would have caused detrimental financial drains. As one of the wrii- ers ST England did us a great favor cutting off our avenues of trade.” Fully ecighty-five per cent. of (h» war loans have remained in the two countries. The money has been spent for war material turned out in the, home plants and most of it has been | paid out in wages. Rich and poor| alike have subscribed to {he loar The savings bank su ip- | tions and participation of working | people show that the war loan more or less the same money in culation, The surest barometer leakage is the conversion of com-| mercial irities. it is asserted, and this, while increasing a little with | each successive loan, has nevertheless been slight. Example in Texthooks. The relation of war loans to present | the in war | | { | economic conditions of central is likened to the first example powers one finds in econom; the case of exchanging part of his of the food produced by the tiller of the soil. The example scems to fit with the exception that the fish in this case is not properly but merely a loan, the interest+of which the soil tiller must later pay if the capital can not be returned from war indemnities. Wages in Germany and Austr ational the fisherm catch for part textbooks on and speculation and “‘price driving’ | Iungary have gone up two and three F o, | cent more | production more costl 1 its fact that labor is scarce, on an average of geventy-five expensive.\| On the hand, the emplo, One of the res lot of the working cla improved, a wealthy havi dwindle. Wars one of the writers, great economic levellers, demands made upon all are of the ame character. Society r steps towards that primeval which the defense of the ha seen their becaus in LOOK! FOR HARTS HORACE and living | per | olis other | ment at sqkilled labor of unskilled men and women has made | in many cases. that as the | been | the | incomes | on a large scale, says | have always been | > the | plies bought there it undoubtedly has, 1lmost traces | interests of the tribe lessened personal prerog-| to UP-TO- DATE. sending scores of would-be mond s of food and the like il the German Austro-Hungatidl | penitentiarie | Much comfort stufis and the has is derived from | fact that the debacle of Serbia made the foodstuffs of Rumania, fhe lkan and the Ottoman empire #& ble. Tt is expected that the & port to those countries, which e central powers are fully able to mee will pay for the food and other Sups Economic o8 contrar; th certain i almost idl to the abill will not ensue, on the new conditions will favor | dustries which have lain and will thus contribute arry the on war THE RADIATOR SIGN b 2 GARAGE HART, PROP. 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