New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1916, Page 6

nNEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, AN GIFTS [ED BY FRENCH b Member of Ambulance § Describes Distribution fing that it will be of interest [ people one another it the front the Herald he following letter from Philip who may time or to sol- repro- fils who is on the firing line with nerican ambulance corps. At the ont: In November Eliot: fice I haven't fleeting for B vou our news, have received the of the ity new men on the out to the American Red Cross and pave the ambulances all ready for h the new section under the com- dl of o “‘Chief,” vour brother, be prepared take over their with French Army Di- In as soon the men arrive “au had an some opportunity you iime I word way to or anot lbelieve ‘“the chief’” is arranging ave the thr sections, Harjes bn, Norton's section and the new bn, do all the service for a single b corps. Tt 1l be a great ad- hse as it will keep us close to- pr and enable us to bac each up in tight places. You see sections, Harjes’ and Norton's, been in continual service al- since the war started and the brities now have absolute confl- b that we can handle our job and here to stick; but we need more land can promise every man who s out that he will be close kh to the fighting all the time ep him from imagining he is in ica. jlay we have been having rather bl time at all of our hospltal Of course you know almost hospital at the front is within of enemy artillery, but You expect a hospital marked plain- over with Red Crosses would t alone—but, in this war, it that a Red Cross, is Fritzies’ rget. Moving the Wounded. has been shelling the haospital Ings afternoon, and we been helping to move out the led to safe places. Poor fel- it seems as if they ought to little rest from being shot at. isn’t a mew trick of little s at all and it Is one of his kt pleasantries, e of our new men got their first ion of working under fire. The hty is not altogether on the e's side for he is certainly taking bt ambulance drivers here. weather is and has been vile £ a mean piercing qualit jivd all over everything. VAN did hotels;. a delightful tropical te. Horse racing at Oriental Park. ASSAU sakamas b, motoring, tennis and surf-bath- | Large modern hotels. ings Thursdays and S [Yorlk. MEXICO lar sailings for Progreso, and Tampico. ROUGH THE PANAMA CANAL Coast ports Central America, and Cruz, Mexico, direct. Regular sail- Connections at Cristobal, (Colon,) puth America and the Orient. ® passenger steamers sailing under merican flag. For literature and "WARD LINE 8. 8. Ceo. York and Cuba Mail of Wall Street, New York. any Railroad Ticket Office Authorized ‘Tourist Agency. el all AND POINT IN CUBA turdays from Vera have sent | will | as | ! wonderful French THE ROSEBEN HAT SHOP WISHES YOU “A HAPPY NEW YEAR” hard in well the decp s0 metaled roads are molasses-like mud, but v off in comparison to the soldiers that shouldn’t mention any little forts. I wish I could des cheerfulness under it all trenches. ibe their in the How It Feels. To give you a picture of it. Imagine vourself out of doors in a cold Beston winter's night—in a mean rain and no waterproof; then get a gun and stand in ice water and mud up to middle with the ever present prospect of a shell landing on you and then inches | ha - | fellow we | discon- | your | and then only will you begin to get the | idea. the s and the picture will grow clearer, but it doesn’t seem to dampen the French ardor, for every Poilu in the army knows they have the Hun beaten and it is only a question of time hefore his squeals will grow louder. For even new the Bosche prisoners coming through every day are all telling the same tale,—“We have had enough We are taking on what we are commencing to carry out with enthus- iasm and pleasure, viz: distributing the gifts from America to the French soldiers as they go into the front | trenches. Before T left home T used to wonder | sometimes if the men and women at the Lafayette dances ever thought much about the fellows who were going to receive the “Lafayette Kits"’ and uncer what surroundings the Poilus would finally get them into their hands. Proud of American Women, One day last winter I strayed into one of the central offices of the Lafay- ette society in New York and there saw some of the girls whe had been dancing the night before, sorting and packing the kits. My pride and con- fidence in our American women was rewarded, and now it is our oppor- tunity (I wish 1t was the girls' also) to see and hear the gratitude and thanks with which the soldiers re- ceive their personal gifts from Americz. They are amazed and elated that the Americans think enough of them to send them gifts. The chain is complete from the ball roogy to the trenches. THe American clearing house at Rue Francols Premier in Paris, was started at the beginning of the war. It is run entirely by Americans and receives all the American gifts of all kinds and starts the distribution and we take the packages from the rail heads to the soldiers and distribute to each battalion in turn. Pile a few nights and days of me kind on top of one another | | Norton’ dy, well set up, well serious faced but smiling eves listening in miration to their captain. Then their expression of thanks to America as | they took their gifts,—candles, sweat- | ers, raincoats, towels, soap, needles, | thread, socks, underclothing, mufflers, gloves, ete., would have amply repaid iy American who ever made a gift to France. It was wonderful Tt certainly is a great pleasure for section to he a link in such a chain and I hope it wiil be a never ending one for the French are surely doing the fighting for the world. We are also distributing bandages and hospital supplies of a rectly to the hospitals and nt Richard Norton §. 7. care of American Clearing Paris, will come on directly they will be a real benefit. We are in this service—every one of us—to be as much help as we can, and any money you can collect for new cars and repair expenses will help us carry it on. Every wounded man for our cars gets a, little pillow put under his head as he lies on his stretcher while we slide him into our ambulances, and that pillow stays with him till he gets to his bed in the hospital. Tt helps to make him a little less uncomfortable and we have use for all the little pil- lows any one sends .us—and the wounded appreciate them. Ever vours, fed young with bright, tentive ad- any B Y House, where to PHILIP MILLS. JURY WILL DECIDE RAE TANZER PERJURY CASE Some davs ago was our first distri- | bution. men filed up to the loaded Company by company camions the | The French captain generally made a | little speech explaining that these | were personal gifts from Americans to | them, sent from America and handled | from start to finish by Americans Could you have only seen them gath- ered about in a semi-circle, stocks AISSION. . . FURNITURE IN FUMED OAK It adds to the Dining-Room an air of comfort and cheerfulness at can be gained in no other The simple, wholesale designs and lendid oak ish Our e atmosphere solid construction make Mi it that distinguishes them from graceful proportion, the and the rich nut brown, fumed luxurfous without showiness. on designs possess a touch of individuality, and exclu- the ordinary. Be- uge of the comparatively simple lines and rich nut brown finish, will harmonize with almost any style of decoration. 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No Alcohol-Just Blood-Food Sqott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. 1626 Extraordinary, affords an opp THE FINEST. your choice. U. S. Should Not Receive German Submarines Peacefully Washington, Dec The United States should prepare for a renewal a more terrific scale than ever. country should make ready by abol- ishing the limitations now placed on ‘defensively armed’ merchantmen, and by organizing a flecet of light cruisers for the purpose of attacking submarines which ventured into American water With these steps taken, the threat of a renewal of the submarine attacks would not as a terrible menace to the billi lar export trade to the Allies ) opinion is highly in allied diplomatic circles and who is frequently consulted by ambassadors of the Kntente power “The representatives of the Allies,” he said, “are finding it difficult to con- vince their governments that there was no collusion between President Wilson and Germany in his peace move. Tt is the natural assumption. But I find that the Allied diplomats here do not generally think that the president did act in conjunction with Germany: at least they have been convinced that Washington planned its peace move independently. But transmitting this conviction the water is another question, and one which has so far not succeeded to any noticeable extent. iendly by a man whose esteemed Relations. “This is very regretiable, for noth- ing should be permitted to happen which would strain the friendly rela- tions between the Allies. Tt try hag fought wars with them-—Great Britain—and has no particular reason to good wiil, but with tions have heen most cordial, and enlightened self-interest in the Unitea States would be in favor of a continu- ance .of the friendly feeling hetween the two peoples, especially if one looks back to the negotiations of John Hay, for instance, when he was s retary of state, “Tt seems not to he generally know that, due to his representations, Gr Britain declined to enter the com- bination aimed at that time against America’s Monroe Doctrine, and that Great Britain’s refusal caused failure of the plan, which obviously might have had the most serious con- sequences for the United States. “There is no doubt in my mind that President Wilson sent his note be- cause he is afraid that unless peace comes the renewal of the submarine warfare would force the United States into war. The German menace is the more terrible because the prosperity of the United States Is so amazingly bound up in the export trade to the Allies. Never in the world's history has there been such a volume of trade between such limited areas. narines, stationed just outside the e-mile limit, could paralyze that de. Could Block U-Boat Threat, “This threat wouid be made of lit- I» consequence if America would take Cause for is true that this coun- one of Rerhaps bear her ortunity without ARE THE MOST FASHIONABLE, THE COL In making these statem . 30 per cent. less than those now beir 0 the same manufacturer, from the same materials and the same models. Those of you who have attended these sales saving opportunities they afford. Those of you w come and see for yourselves. ADVISES MAKING WAR ON U-BOATS i reserve in by Germany of submarine warfare on This | :into a loom ! This statement was made vesterday | across | | with | banking the United States and | { pany, France the rela- | i der the A fleet of | 1916, Hartford One-Price Clothing Co. ations with to the arming merchant ships against subma With the mec- chant ships carrying guns wherever they w ed to mount them, they would bag so many of the attacking submarin that the attacks would merely be annoyving, instead of fatal, when the entire volume of trade v considered. Also, the United States would organize a fleet of light cruis- er such have heen used so su cessfully in British waters, for the ‘owed purpose of hunting sub- marines. This fleet could be held in case of violations of Ger man piedges to the United States regarding the character of submarine warfare. “With that America would at the idea of a with Germany, threats would not ur”limi re; of nes. off the & as sleeve, tricken force up her not be pani break in relatiohs and the Teutonic force this country false position, compelling her virtually to play Prus game in the peace negotiations!” ia's MUNITION ORDERS Britain Placing Contracts in Colony, Say Bankers New York, British tion orders amounting to hundreds of millions of dollar: Canadian Dec, muni- being placed manufacturers, ac- cording to information obtained in quarters yesterday, while few are coming to the United It w learned that few order for than States. the shells within days an s the placed in this country last year had been lodged with the Montreal Titd., the ( American it biggest contract Locomotive com- of | the Locomotive company. As that the Bethle- hem Steel Corporation got a shell or- $15,000,- | 000 ,an estimate on the Canadian or- | anadian branch was believed last year amounting to was of ours in other years know But it's a case of “first come, first served.” der between $175,000,000 $200,000,000. 0 Steel manufacturers have for several months that few orders for completed shells come to the United States, not a matter of general that Canada was slated to take up a | vast part of the work. It had been | supposed that the hundreds of muni- | tion factories which have sprung up | in Great Britain, England, and Italy | would take over the tasky -News that Canada had developed facilities | to handle a shell business which may amount to fully $400,000,000 next year, if the war continues, was surs prising to many persons of the finan- clal district, who recalled that last vear parts of a number of Canadian orders were sublet in this country. Several important influences have caused the allied munition buvers to switch shellmaking to Canada. In the first place, of course, there is a desire t0; e the facilities of a country hi kudirect part In the war, whose plants and workmen will profit from the business. Another consideration is the economy to be effected in having the finished goods and known | more | would | but it was | knowledge | A. KATTEN & SON 114-116 Asylum Street, Hartford base of sup- Whether the made in Can- close to the material. turned out plies of raw allied war material is ada or in Europe, a great part of the steel rounds and brass plate used will have to come from this count As the completed shells can be ship- ped across the Atlantic cheaper than steel, copper, and zinc in the rough, it would be in keeping with the econ- omic plans of the fighting nations to have munitions made up on this side of the water. Besides supplying much of the ma- terials to be used in the <heil factories, hankers expect the financing of the purchas be done in New York. The 000 loan floated here by the Domin- ion early this year was a pronounced success, and bankers feel that re auests for additional would receive immediate attention in this country. The assumption of more of the war expenses by the Canadian government would relieve the British treasury of a heavy load and make stronger the credit of the home gov- will ents we do so without reserve, having in mind the fact that the prices 1g asked by leading specialty shops for identically the same Suits, made by ] Canadian | that | ,000,- | | made accommodation | Extraordinary Sale of 85 Ladies’ and Misses’ High-Grade that this should b tended to mean something still greater, for this is an offering which e ;al?a[ilel. elgéERY SUIT IN THE COiLECTION IS NEW, THE MATERIALS ORS, THE TRIMMINGS AND THE WORKMANSHIP ARE quoted are well what tremendous money- ho have never benefited by these events before will do well to Don’t delay. 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