New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 7

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, MEN NEEDE To Serve the United States Your Country Needs You DON'T 1916. Enlist in Company I NOW! Recruiting Office at State Armory and Crona’s Barber Shop UNDER CONSTANT FIRE FOR MONTHS .2 =z British Force at Kut Suffered Un- told Privations Before Surrender | London, June which Townshend's army at Kut, the remnant of the force which pushed almost to Bagdad, was reduced before it surrendered with the 22.—The straits to General approval of the home government are becoming only gradually England. knowna in letter from Edmund Candler, c¢ spondent with the expedition which attempted in the face of imp le weather conditions to relieve Town- shend’'s beleaguered troops, For four months Townshend's men were under almost constant fire with no possibility of making any safe pro- tection from the shells. During the last weeks of the siege the daily deaths from fire and diseasc caused mainly by hunger averaged eight British and twenty-one Indians. ¥ | water for the sick, and the | little | The latest contribution to | the annals or the siege comas in a | - | sent it Kut finally capitulated the vegiments holding the front line, which had hecn there a fort-night without rellef, was too weak to carry their equip- ment The real prl\a(lnns began in the especially in the When mllk gave out the diet was corn flour or rice ordinary rations for the wounded. ('nm April 21 there was a daily grain ! ration of four ounces. From the 22nd to the 25th the garrison subsist- ed on two days reserve ration issued in January, and from the 25th to the 29th on food dropped by aeroplanes. The details Candler sends were oh- tained from wounded British officers who were permitted by the Turks to join the main British force below Kut, hospital. hospital soldiers’ i The writer adds: “‘All the artillery, cavalry and trans- port animals had been consumed b fore the garrison fell. One of the last mules to be slaughtered aai bheen on three Indian frontier campaigns and wore the ribbons round its neck. The supply and transport butcher had back twice. Mule was preferred to horse, and | mule fat supplied good ripping; also | an improvised substitute for lamp oil. “The tobacco famine was a great privation, but the garrison did no: find the enforced abstention cured their craving, as every kind of substitute was there. An Arab brand, a species similar to that smoked in Indian hoo- | kahs, was exhausted early in_ April. | After that lime leaves were smolked | or ginger or baked tea dregs. Tn ( January English ‘bacey’ fetched three pounds a half pound. In an | generally AFTER THREE YEARS New Britain Testimony Remains Un- shaken. Time is the best test of truth. Here is a New Britain story the test of time. Tt is a story with a point which will come straight home | to many of us. Mrs. A. Cowlam, 84 New Britain, says: John street, “Off and on for years I have had more or less trouble | from my kidneys. At times the pain in the small of my back became very severe. Doan’'s Kidney Pills did me e great deal of good. The pain and soreness were soon removed and I felt better generally.” (Statement given August 9, 1912.) On April 18, 1916 Mrs. Cowlam | said: “My recommendation for Doan’s Kidney Pills still don’t hesitate to again endorse them. They are a good medicine and worthy of the highest praise.” 50c, at all dealers. Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. that has stood ! holds good and I | Foster-Millburn | | auction of a dead officer’s effects a box | of cheap Indian cheroots fetched over | thirteen pounds, a box of Egyptian | cigarettes eight pounds, and a tin of ! condensed milk two pounds 5s | before Gene Townshend’s force en- tered Kut large consignment of warm clothing had arrived, the gift of the British Red Cross soclety. This i was most opportune and vrobably saved many lives. The garrison had only the summer kit they stood up IRt NEW CHINE! Peking, June 2 > RATLROAD. The ministry of requested the provide imraediate l | | communications has | government to 'funrh for the construction | way from Peking to Jehol, | capital of Manchuria pecially | purposes as the bandits in Manchuria {and Inner Mongolia are very active and the government requires speeay meane of communication with the northern country. The route has al- ready been surveyed, but be:ause of the lack of funds no construction work has been done. The probable { cost of the line is $12,000,000 Mex- lican. Part of this sum will b2 real- ized from the profits of the Peking- Mukden and the Peking-Hankow gov- ernment railways, and the remainder will be made up by the flotation of a short-term loan. the ancient This line is es- I/ | aver | Just ) German Shell Tore Big Hole In British Ship at Jutland Figth of a rad- | needed at present for defense | E) CENTRAL REWS PHOTO SERVICE,SUPPLIED BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONG o e LQQ!NG ALO!‘TKG SIDE OF BRITISH WARSHIP HIT BY SHELL These pictures, made from the first ) the pictures show. photographs from England, received illust ate damage done to a British warship in the great sea |of the fight off Jutland on May 31. O=®>ef S B SN R admiralties’ sustained by the battle scarred side of the vessel; the other shows hew the shell hole, seen at the left T pleture, was stopped by victory or at German and British ' in the fight. America least bedding. accounts of each side still differ, each government c¢ AR in the e the damage battle aiming | partial victory, CARDALE MAY LPAVE | the failure of the amiable phi | ¢* friendship between Emngla: British Head of Naval Mission in | Germany, and an announceme G » Ready to Withdraw. ilhc dreams associated with e | dead. The Rhodes schalarshif neighborly a common spirit of and mutual appreciation wit} | Tiuropean family.” naming OUT, SHATTE! HRVOUY EM upset, monitors, | to g« WOULD BAR GERMANS, Will Try to Change Proe vision of Rhades Scholarship Trust, nerves ¥ngland them Londan, June 22.—The British gove ernment is preparing a bill to vary the conditions of the Rhodes Scholar- nounced that Rear Admiral Hubert! igposition to be at present the ranking officer of the leave Greece. He has been one of the SOLDIERS' WAR BAB capacity as a Britisher and an ad-| middle-aged and the hea ternal dissensions in this country, | 1ear their trenches in the Eas znd hauling of warring interests. treating, adopted the infant of “King’s party” and again, on the next | christen the lad, and bestowed | who desired to see Greece take up officially to adopt the child a favorite of both King Constantine and | reginning with his service under the | PEOPLE N war. Recently the King acted as god- } \\'ONDFRFFLL\_' PEEDY On the outbreak of the ‘urnmw-l‘ UNSTRU nent, took the squad of British naval It is simply marvelous, the organized | heavy artillery defenses of Belgrade, | are unstrung or dulled wore the uniform of Serbian | coming in just a few moments white eagle of Serbia from the hands | symptomjs off rur down aPrvd vous breakdown charging with powers gerous drug. Margo is a s ships of $1,250 each for young men | WOTSt nervous wreck inte a dowments, along with those for|?2Verage case (of. ‘*neryes” tion that “a good understanding be- | and “ginger’* and courage in| the world, and educational relations | OF its cost is nothing ark | ing on the pending alteration of the | Buarantee, p: greeing} Athens, Greece, June 22.—It is an- S. Cardale, the acting head of the | fostor British Naval Misslon in Greece and | Royal Hellenic navy on active ser- vice, will soan relinquish his post and | most prominent figures in ~Athens| Metz, Germany, June 22.— during the war, for in his dual| company of reservists—most miral of the Greek navy, he has been | families—who recently found a factor in quieting many of the in-| and a half year old baby bo which, ever since the war rted, has | ably left by, some mother been the scene of a continual pulling | irom her home by the Russian| One day Admiral Cardale has been | The reservists chose the alled upon to pronounce for the| birthday as the opportune t . to speak for the Venizelists, the | the name of Wilhelm Metz. 1 iherent of the popular ' statesman | of Metz, it is understaod, ms against the Central Powers.| vide for its education and m The admiral appears to have been a it mon s o et (RUTTAT NER SO royal family are of long standing, persanal command of the then Crown Prince Constantine in the first Balkan father to the admiral's son, FOUND RELIEF FOR the infant Constantine WORD? war in 1914 Admiral Cardale, secur- ing leave from the Greek govern- i i gunners in Serbia in hand | relief that a single Margo Ta the British, French and Russian | give any man or woman whosg cessfully mined the Danube and nd ambitionless. Every table| Sava, sunk a few Austrian straight to the nerve cell cclonel of engineers far six months, | despondency, “jumps,” “fidget | received the orde nd star of the | vous indigestion and all those| of King Peter himself, and the Kara- | that aré so surely thegosetu george medal for personal bravery, nervous prostration and gened Margo vitalizes your tired,] worked into nerves o mendous endurance and reser gy and does it without a sing combination of six of the mos ful and effective yet absolutel; students coming to Oxford. Cecil ‘:”‘1"”“‘” “jl”“‘h's systema Rhodes established fifteen scholar- | Should ~completely transfo of German birth, to be naminated by | Bealthy, vigorous man or wod the German Emperor. These en-| Margo really’ does more’gbo American students, were created, as|MOnth’s vacation because it his will explained, under the conv rests” the merves but puts n tween England, the United States and | entire body. Germany wauld secure the peace of Margo must accompl thes form the strongest tie.' erd and other le ng drugy | The Pall Mall Gazette, comment-| New Britain sell it with this bequest, remark “The cut- | fund the price pald to any paty ting out of Germany from the famous! fails to derive 8r¢ nefit i{ Rhodes i bequest is-a symbole -admission of days’ thful use