New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1916, Page 7

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1916. NOONDAY LUNCH 11A. M to2P. M FOR MEN AND WOMEN 25¢ HUDSON LUNCH 284 MAIN STREET _—Y o You Can’t Play without Sticks. ‘Prepared to Resist German Attack Our August Mark-Down IS NOW IN PROGRESS Reductions of 15 to 56 Per Cent. in All Departments Fumed Qak Mission Furniture ifor Living Rooms An extensive assortment of Davenpoits, Re- clining Chairs, Arm Chairs, Rockers, Libiary Tables, Bookcases, Desks, Magazine Stands, labourettes, etc., in the red sut brown fumed oak finish—all at reduced prices. G 7o’ UALITY RICE. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS AGENTS FOR GLENWOOD RANGES OVERLOOKING CAPITOL GROUNDS #0-56 FORD GTREET WHERE HARTFORD HIGHER THAN | The big ! of a wall of an inn on which was in- | scribed BELGIAN GOAST 15 OTRONGLY FORTIFIED o from the Sea (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 28.— (Correspondence of the Asso. Pr i) A correspondent who has just been permitted to visit the Belgian coast reports on the formidable defenses that have been raised there. A long line of barbed wire entanglement stretches along the coast, and an end- less series of long slender ship’s guns protrude from the coarse grass of the dunes, and behind the dunes crouch | the heavy howitzers. No Spot Unguarded. Underground dwellings of bomb- proof concrete form part of the great trench along the entire coast, he A “Nn spot unguarded. Evervwhere the endless line is occupied by who endeavor to find relief monotony of their life in and in the care of their p rabbits and birds. “Here and there one comes across an enormous unexploded shell, hurled ashore by one of the big British war- ships, and which now forms the orna- mental center of a flower garden. 1 saw a big fellow among them, some of 38 centimeter caliber. “What one sees in the way of de- struction is the work of the fast tor- pedo-destroyers, which have on occa- sion hailed smaller shells on the coast- al towns with their quick firing guns. The corners of houses are gnawed away; here and there a gable exhibits great holes. But the damage is not very bad, at least not in Ostend and Zeebrugge, much less than one would have supposed. Even on the seaside the towns appear to be little damaged. bath hotel at Ostend is un- touched, and the great glass Kurhaus shows no breakage in its innumer- able panes. A few big buildings by Zeebruzge have been leveled to the ground, but that was the work of the Germans, owing to the fact that these buildings helped to direct the enemy’s fire cn the occasions when he sought to destroy the most susceptible fea- ture of the harbor, the hig dock. Ruins Seen Everywhere. “The real work of destruction be- zins where the French land guns have been able to have their say. Middle- kerke is a mass of ruins. It is a re- markable fact that 600 people con- tinue to crouch there. The school is even still attended by eighty children. But every house has its underground refuge, such as the soldiers construct in the front lines. Shells still fall in the place almost daily “Middlekcrke is now in such a stata that the Germans no longer take up quarters there, but prefer to live in dweélling-holes burrowed ir: the dunes. Some streets always lie open to the French observers and gunners. Long walks can be taken in the southern part of the place, by winding cover ways that have been broken and dug out, half in, half under the earth, through garder walils, houses and cel- lars. A deep trench is the only safe communication with the Westende watering plice, where no house re- mains standing. In the village of Westende, which is if possible even more thoroughly knocked to pieces vhan the watering place, I noticed thut the enemy’s shells had spared the part sailors, for the irdening | goats, its name, “In den Vrede,” “(The Peace Tavern.)"” BECOMING SHARP SHOOTERS, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 18.—A big increase in the membership of the Swedish Rifle societies is shown in the annual report just issued. The so- cleties have enrolled 211,000 mem- bers, more than 200,000 of whom are ! the societies have asked the govern- ! ment for $100,000 as a subsidy to di- active riflemen. The promoters of to { out of sight | rrised to find that | served him so noiselessly and compe- | or in a vide among local rifle societies | throughout the country. HING MILAN'S SON WAITING ON TABLE Is Discovere(i Performing Menial | Labor on Dining Car (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) One of the gitimate sons of the late King A\Hlun: the Christich | been pretenders | Vienna, July ille- knawn have of Serbia, brothers, to the Serbian thrope, is now a waiter | in a dining car running between Vi- | as who enna and Budapest, according to an alleged discovery of a newspaper man who formerly knew the Christich | brothers. When King Milan trusted one of he boys, died en- these whose beautiful his life-long friend, Count Zichy of Budapest. The vears treated him as an awn son, sup- plied him plentifully with all mate-| rial things—and then died without re- riembering him in his will or without | mother was the Artemesia, Fugen latter for | making any provision for him. Thus | falling suddenly from comparati affluence to poverty, the man dropped | completely. His present | who was making a trip from Buda- | nd who knew the in the old day: was alive, was su the waiter who rest to Vienna, Christich brother: when Count Zichy tently was no other than one of these | Christich boys. The latter told him | with some reluctance that he had | tried to make a living in ane of the| slate ministries but had failed be- cause he possessed no qualification: had tried the stage but had been, ruled off by the police because he had | billed himself as a prince; and final- 1¥ had turned to waiting on table, be- cause he knew of nothing else he could do efficiently. The foregoing is of interest partic- ularly because of a story from Rome Rcme recently copied in this country to the effect that one of these illegi- timate sons of the late Milan, had been proclaimed king of Serbia at Belgrade by the Austrian and German The Vienna correspond- | crce appears to dispose of that re- | port from Rome, for the other of the | Christich brothers was recently re- ported by a London -newspaper to be in London, emploved as a ladies’ tail- large department store at a salary of $15 a week. In January of | last. vear he applied to Sir Thomas | Lipton for passage to Serbia on hoard | the yacht Irin, saving he was desir- sus to fight for his country, but Sir homas refused his request and so far | as known he is still in England King Milan ruler of from authorities. Serhia Negiti who, but stories of Milan's offspring by Artemesio Chris ras the wife of the pri cf King Milan, and who wa! of Queen Natalie's divorce from her husband, have been given full cred- ence. There has, however, always been considerable mystery about the subsequent career of these two sons, not known from the des- patches which of them is in Lon- don and which in Vienna, but it seems apparent that neither of them have Leen proclaimed king of Serbia by the Gecupying forces of Teutons at Bel- 1een assir the cause | | despatched | interesting of the exhibits. BEATING BLOGKADE INTERESTING SPORT Censor’s Museum in London Con- tains Many Curious Exhibits (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) London, July 26.—The mast inter- esting museum in London is not open to the general public. seum of the of mast curious exhibits which represent attempts that It is the mu- censor and contains a collection have | been made to evade the British naval blockade since the outbreak war, Most of these exhibits come the United States where thousands of people of of the German all sorts of useful things ta friends and relatives in the father- land. Many of the exhibits indicate the pains and ingenuity of the send- ers; in some instances they made a pound of lard look like a copy of the morning paper or a packet of pure rubber like a bundle of narcissus lulbs, A side af bacon weighing forty pounds is mute evidence of the at- tempt made by a St. Louis man to as svage the hunger of some friends or relatives in what was undoubtedly his tormer home town. In his anxiety to get the bacon ta Germany this man sent it by first class mail and at- tached stamps to the bacon itself to the value of nearly $5. There are many other instances in which the stamps on the packages by far exceed the value of the con- tents. Many parcels have duplicate covers. They are addressed to some- one in a neutral cauntry, whose busi- extraction have from | | | | | | | ness it is to pull off one cover and re- | post them to the German or Austrian | address revealed An enterprising Buffalo a large number of letters each con- taining a sheet of pure rubber. Rub- ber has been a scarce cammodity in Germany for more than a year and efforts have repeatedly been made to et through the blockade all sorts of these articles, Once in Germany the below. man sent rubber would be sent to a central de- | pot where it ultimately emerged as rubber tires. This censor's museum would have contains | huge bundles of newspapers or what £ppeared at first glance to be news- rapers. Closer inspection reveals that the neatly rolled ends are but cleverly made plugs of paper and wood. When one of these plugs is pulled out there is uncovered a long sausage-shaped bag of callco con- taining anything from sliced ham to Para rubber, from rice to tobacco. Two iron crosses are not the least They were being the original article and sent from Germany Tnited States. The consigner maker of firm that th to and in an tter he susgests that the \r them Shoes re the m the exhibi and most irom the United States, In several cases they are carefully in a piece of cather. 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