New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1916, Page 10

“DRESS UP NEW, BRITAIN DRI April 10th Dress Up the Home, Dress Up the Shop, the Club, the School, the Church Dress Up the Horse, the Dog, April 10th DRE DAILY HERALD, WEDNbbDAY APRIL 5, s U A pril the Yard, the ihe Cat, Store, 1916. P 1Sth WEEK BEGINS MONDAY the Office the Automobile Dress Up the Whoie Family Above All Things “Dress Up Yourseli” From Head to Foot April S U 1Sth P I IMPREGNABLE RUSSIAN ATTACK ) and Nature it Has Been Strongly Fortified ondence of The Assoclated P! Russia, March 10.—The thir- kilometers of the a around e been fortified since the army took its position here >tember as probably no other on any front, east, west, or st. The Pripet swamp, which, unt of the mild winter, has a natural barfier between the and Russian lines, has both the German advance Russian counter attacks. But rmans have realized that a -0ld snap might make the passable, and to forestall thing, they have resorted to nown expedient to make every their positions impregnable. i, in and about which the Ger- rces are lying, is an overgrown village of 45,000 inhabitant , on a tongue of land project- ward into the swamps. An d Press correspondent, the first per man to visit Pinsk since | s occupied it, mas just re- fMm'a tour of the Pinsk front, hough he has pervious ral positions in both the east- western theaters of war, the like appearance of the “p 5 ressed him re- Y. s flanked on the de by the swift running river ‘ond the river lies half a swamp. Then comes the riv- ymen which, to the westward gradually and joins the Pina. rther beyond lie more swamp whivh extend for sev 1 miles mainland and the Russian posi- o the northward runs the river ia, flanked on both sides by of swamp lands, on either edge ich lie the Gerr and 1 fan 5. troops w the unately for the he northern section, where an offensive e expected, the swamp land ter- fes in dunes which are easily d for defensive purposes. Along 1ern section regiments of cav- aboriously dug themselves ound and have perfected ns to make it impossible for ussians to break through. Series of Defenses, defense scheme is a series of tzpunkte” or supporting points. e place the supporting point is a pletely surrounded by es, shelters and entanglements. pother is a sort of fort built in- le earth, with subterranean pas- protected Ly sand bags, earth hich only can reason- | and wood, and ringed about with hun- dreds of thousands of running feet of barbed wire. KEach supporting point is not over 500 yards distant from some other, and they are connected by wire entanglements from 100 to 120 feet in width. The cavalry regiments that are | guarding the northern section are among the finest in the German army. Their officers include some of the greatest nobles in the empire whose names are known all over the world. I7or almest six months now they have lain in their position, living alter- nately in underground shelters and in the great villa that stands on an ele- vation plainly in view of the Russian | positions. “How is it,” asked the correspond- ent of Coynt S——, cousin of a fam- ous German naval commander and chief of the brigade, “that the Rus- sians do not oot your villa to pieces? The hearest Ruassian artil- lery position isn't more than six kil- ometers away. The count laughed. “There seems to be an unwritten and unspoken agreement that we won't touch the Russian headquarters if they leave ours alone. They have had ample evi- dence of the accuracy of our guns and know that we could demolish their vil- la if we wanted to.” Thanks to the fact that there is an almost unlimited quantity of wood on hand, for Pinsk in peace time is one of the timber centers of Russia, the Germans have been able to build out across the swamps and in this way to | establish far flung outposts on every hummock of ground that is large enough to bear a blockhouse. Paralleling the Strumen half a mile to the south is a narrow, muddy dike or dam that was built some time ago by the Russians, partly to check the swamp waters, and partly as a pro pective railroad bed. This dam ex tends to within a few kilometers of the Russian outpost positions at Ljubans- kawo and Gornove, With the help of wooden stagings that crisscross the swamp in almost every direction, the Germans have free and easy access to this dike, and have erected on it a series of blockhouses or supporting positions which are ver- itable arsenals, Bach is equipped with machine guns, and from each extends, again on the stagings, runaways “Horchposten”—Listening sentry po- sitions. So near together are the blockhous- es that care has to be exercised not to sweep one with the artillery of the other. To prevent such an occur- rence great painted signs have been erected in the swamp in front of each blockhouse, indicating how far to right or -left the machine guns of any one fort may swing withoyt bringing a neighboring fort under German fire. Almost due south of the farthest sguch blockhouse, which is said to be the most easterly position which the Germans now hold, are the TRussian positions, at a distance of about 800 meters. Between the two lie a series of hay piles or stacks, piled up long before the war. Because the swamp effectually pre- to | vents any attack of a major and because the men on both side grow restless from inactivit th hay piles have come to play an inter- esting if unimportant position in the warfare at Pinsk. Each time that a frosty night stif ens up the swamp a bit, both Russian and German sentries make for the piles in an effort to carry off a little hay on the one hand, and to take pot The Russians thus far have the best of it so far as the hay is concerned, for the piles are nearer them, but the Germans claim tae record for patrols wiped out or dispersed. Whole Street Fortified, One of the lines of defense lies Pinsk itself. One street i trench ready for instant and the houses that line the are barricaded with sand bags and earthwork. The street, as well as the entire town, is constantly patrolled and it would be only a matter utes in case of an attack before the whole section would swarm with men. Though the methods of defense to in one long occupancy, city itself, vary considerably, the ma- chine gun plays an important everywhere. Every supporting point in the long chain, both in the dunes and in the swamps, has at least one | of these deadly weapons. And so close together arve the supporting points that the whole section may 1 said to consist of a ‘“‘machine gun front.” Artillery plays probably a less im- portant part in the Pinsk section than anywhere else along any other fron The Russian guns thus far have never been able to reach Pinsk and do any damage. All shells fired thus far have fallen short. The Germans on the other hand need their artill only for defensive purposes since it only a waste of ammunition to destroy Russian positions across the swamp when no follow-up attack with infantry is possible. It is only once i a while, therefore, that the roar guns heard. Oftener it is the vous clatter of machine guns firing at Russian scouting patrol. The German defence incorporafes one feature that is as beautiful and spectacular as it is useful—the flam- ing rockets and searchlights that are used on dark nights to illuminate the swamps in search of approaching fore It is worth the trip from Ber- lin to see the vast, dark area sudden- ly transformed into a blaze of lights as rockets mount from all of the blockhouses in the rough semi-cirel while powerful lights sweep every inch of ground for miles around Pinsk itself is squalid degree absolutely unknown in America, or in any of the western [Buropean states. With the exception of a few buildings along the Pina waterfront, its struc tures are all one story in height and of old, tumbledown wooden construc tion. 1Its business has from time im. memorial been confined practically to the timber which floats down to it on the Pina, the Strumen and the Jassjolda, rivers. In spring and carly ne summer the nature, | water rises and inundates part of the : shots at each other on the other hand. | | ing { ha treets | { which : f for of min- | tie south and north of Pinsk, and the | part | | county { down MEPR U | just { town, Just how serious the spring | and summer of 1916 is going to be for the German troops is a question that is giving those in command some wor- ry. Towering above the dirty, shacks, stand three enormous and im- | posing churches—a Russian cathedral, | a Catholic edifice and a synagogue. | Of the sixty Bond Issue New York, Ap roore than $70,00 Morgan & Co., one story | a through the The chec Bank with the thousand human being found in Pinsk when the German moved in, fifteen thousand wer | erable refugees from farther west— | Poles and Jews who had heen driven ! from their homes ahead of the retreat- Russian armies and then aban- doned to the care of the when food became scarce. This horde presented a problem that only partially been solved by sending back westward some thous- sands of refugees, part to their old homes and part to abandoned farms they can cultivate and util time being, and by doing so | food problem in Po day House. Nationa] on e of The check will 1 Peavy financing Germans | wol caiq loan had Canada ther, mis- | | the 1 | piace | in the Unti shoul the help to solve ihe land and Russia Petrograd, 1,000 Ap members | erally known as CANDIDATE DIE: AT POLLS. Hurriedly | cuss what still | done to turn to a | ources of the | boses of national Brother of Placed on Ne York, April not permitted to interfere with politics in | City. hefore Ticket, is Death Island hour Long One vester ericks, SIR LOWTH the polls opened | fternoon George Pred- 13 yer ok, candidate for | committeeman on the demo- cratic ticket, fell dead at the polling place of the Sixteenth district of the First Assembly district, No. 411 | Tenth avenue. Before the their ballots cratic club bassador at London, April Gerard Augustus brning. demo- met the 475 the began the had for of citizens at 4 o'clock of the district and placed in nomination place Frank Fredericks Jamaica avenue, Lrother dead man sir Gerard of the Hon. Lof the horn Feb. rvied Miss | Atherton | entered the Brit vice in 1879 and | the embassy at W {1899 tin third 16, Alice B Blight o Kar a ER MEASURE Can., April sir Wilfred for inve: LAUR Ottaws mand of position leade parliamentary committee of ctases and contracts of the dian shell committec w in the House of (' night. The government's majc was reduced to 38, four of ‘its lowers voting with the Lourier ind a number absenting m the division. BLAT The varier, op- tization by il pur Cana- voted mnons last ity fol- forces de- ter yvear. In 1908 bassador at Const remained for created themsely For Infants SYS A brought the war the in popularizing of weight report of th of weights and measn o zed, showes tha to give 33,000 metric during 1915, year the | | e — — ! { \ TEM POPULARIZED. London, ril 5.—One nges Bears the Signature of the about i Iinglish effect it is the metric The tor habits by is teu wres spe ndon, s called | approval to , ' and measures ' in the previous nnual iss he w his officiul weights where: number upon und 3 colors }AHFUBD TYHEY. was 1,700, State Street. CHECK FOR $70,000,000. ¥sed in Connection largest ever drawn, was paid yester- of Commerce in con- the Canadian government yesterdaly as y money market. | WILL EMPLOY EVERY RESOURCE of committees have assembled here from all parts of the Russian empire to dis- country { Was Former Secretar; Augustus William L.owther, brother 1858. November, appointed minister five a baron on CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought Bt T MULTIGRAPH LETTERS ‘ac-simile of Typewriting done in | who recently Albany were searched, of gypsies through in vain. Letter First passed & but ‘With Canadian | of $75,000,000. BLACK DOGS DEMAND RANSOM OF §5,000 Threaten to Kill Eight Year 0ld Boy il it Is Not Paid Albany, April 000 has been nappers of eight-year-old who h been mi: The demand for News From Boy. The letter is the on word indis cating that the boy is still alive, It was immediately turned over to Capt. Lasch, chief of the local detectiy bureau. With the postal authorities, be is trying to trace the source of the missive | The persistence of stories that boy was last seen going in the di- rection of the Country club, in the western part of the city, caused the police to renew their search in that section. A camp of foreigners wai visited but all of fhe occupants pro- fessed ignorance of the boy's where- abouts. ril 5.—A check for 0,000, made by J. P. | nd said to be the New York Clearing k was drawn on the thes $75,000,000 bond occasion temporary among banks. 1t that no part of t been transferred 1 the transfer takes d be no disturbance 5—A ransom of $5,~ the kid- Billy Clark sing for eleven days. the money came by mail and completely prostrated the lost boy's aunt, Mrs. John Shea, his guardian. The letter read: To the Owner: If you need child he will be returned if you a price on him for $5,000. If not will be killed by The Bluck Dogs. “I am now sure Billy is alive and is being held for a large sum of money,” said Mrs. Shea. Billy Clark disappeared while ing in an afternoon crowd to gain admission to a local moving picture theater. A minute before he had been standing at the side of his aunt. Boy couts joined the police in the hunt at once. The woods to the west of the city were scoured without suc- cess. Police of nearby cities were no- tified, but nothing was heard of the A month's mind r boy. Scores of reports that he was | ed at St. Mary's chur seen in different places were traced | at 7 o'clock for the down and the camps of several bands | net demanded by inclined to scouting by & that not are in The police are the letter as serious, idea that it was written tical joker. They believe supposed kidnappers are that the boy's guardians to pa the sum demanded | letter. At all shown & regardg the prac- the aware unable t he your put he ril More than organizations gen- military industrial the local theaters there is each performance a movs ing picture of the bo; er holdir | his portrait in her with 1 ppeal “won’t you find my lost brother.” The disappearance the Doy ! frightened parents in Albany many children are being kept homes. needs to be ccount all the re- for the pur- defense. wait- hand, nelp me has sl in the of ER 1S DEAD. / to British Am- Washington. 5, 11:40 Lowther s was celebrate h this morning late James Bens m.—8ir ed this ARBOURYI Rug and Drapery Co. $00 Trumbull Stree’, Opposite the Allyn House, The scarcity of ORIENTAL RUGS is beginning to make it- self felt. We would suggest an examination of our line. We:- think we have some good rugs and would like your opinion on Lowther, son 1 of Lonsdale, w In 1905, he mar light, daughter of f Philadelph e ish diplomatic ser was secretary of shington from July 1901. He was to Chile in the lat- he was made am- antinople, where he vear: He was Jan. 1, 1904. Hartferd and Children. % = | ! o sees ) the subject. nm iX[Hk[E ns | Haxtford, m;_———m——