New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1917, Page 13

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The long black hulls of the destroyers are so close together that at half-tide they swing at anchor broadside toward the sea, almost touching, and presenting & double line of batteries pointing off at the German submarines darting along the coast. But Lisbon feels secure m.lm an enemy attack by sea, for besides the double lines of destroyers, ready for defense or quick sortle, there are cruisers and gunboats with steam up, and back of them the big land fortifi- cations on both banks of the Tagus, rising on high terraces and present- ing a semi-circle. of massive stone front topped with lines of heavy guns.' And besides these land and sea de- fenses, there is the feeling that the British fleet is not far off and presents & pretty solid -barrier aganst the Ger- man fleet bottled up in the Kiel canal. - When the British naval commission visited here a short time ago still an- ‘| other naval defense was devised and has since been put into execution. This is a héavy steel net .extending clear " | across the channel leading from. Lis- | .bon to the sea. This can be lowered at stated intervals for the passage of commercial traffic. But when in po- sition it is not only a bar to subma- -| rines, but any which venture near it are likely to be caught ‘nd held in its meshes. ere are two German submarines which appear, to 'be keeping a pretty constance vigil of the nearby coast. How they are provisioned and equip- ped is a mystery. They have not done much damage to large merchant ships but give their special attention to the smaller craft and the fishing fleets. It ‘has practically put an end to the coast- ing trade, and a good share of the trade of Oporto has been stopped. The shipping to England and France is | also greatly curtailed. This is adding | to England’s food danger, for much of her fruits and vegetables and most of her wine was drawn from Portugal. - .~.. No Casl at $40 a Ton. Portugal is feeling the pinch alse, in being cut off from a supply of coal from the Cardiff coal mines, and in having its supplies of fish cut off. Coal has gone up to $37 and $40 a ton | and is so scarce it cannot be obtained at any price. The normal price is | about $7 a ton. Besides the derange- ment of domestic heating and . cook- ing, and the misery caused to the poor, the lack of coal is proving a ser- ious menace to factories, railroads, tramways, and the heating and light- ing of public places, hotels and. thea- ters. The government has sought to remedy the situation by reducing the lights in the streets, inguishing all 1lighting at an early holr, and advanc- ing the legal time by one hour #o that people will get up earlier and live more in the daylight. { Withj a long seacoast Portugal has .always had such an abundance of fish as to feel proof against any lack of meat and other foods. But with the. submarines stopping fishing, the nor- mal supply of fish has suddenly been stopped, and the price- has doubled and trebled, until the poor are un- able to get the usual supply of fish on which they 'depended. Four fishing, boats were sunk within the last week, |one fisherman being killed and three | injured. ® The war is making itselt felt in many other ways. Most of the young men have becn called into military service, as the small peace footing of the ‘army has now been incréased to a war footing of several hundred { thousand men, including about 40,- . 000 sent to the western fighting front, i as many more to. Portuguese FEast Africa, and a large reserve for home defense and recruiting the forces at the front. The streets of the cities and towns are now crowded with sol- dicrs, and at the railway stations one sees long lin€s of freight cars loaded with light field guns and military cquipment. In the agricultural sections, also, the war is showing itself in the ab- nce of men and the increased num- af women doing the farm work. ~ ride of a thousand miles through farm country, with the spring - ploughing and planting at its height, not a man was seen in the flelds, but | scores of women were in the " fur- , roughs following the plough and doing ! the other heavy work. This is not un- : usual in Portugal, but war has made | it universal. GREAT BRITAIN STILL SMOKES.. London, May 4.—Despite the gov- : ernment’s restrictions against tobacco ! importations, last year showed a heavy ! ! increase in the amount consumed in i ! Great Britain. A total of 48,600, 000 ; pounds sterling was spent last year gm- 130,700,000 pounds of tobacco, against 40,000,000 pounds uterllng on ' 126,000,000 pounds the previous year. England’s tobacco expenditure per head for the year was $5.25. INCREASE WOMEN’S WAGES. London, May 4.—Wages of women and girls employed in munitions work in England will be raised by from 10 to 15 per cent. under a wage-readjust- ! ment order issued by the minhtry of 1munmou { g WEYLER ALONE LEFT OF "8 WARRIGRS Spanish Heroes o -War With America Nur Extinction Madrid, May 4—(!'1.\9"1 ‘Weyler, captain general 'uba’ du) most critical peried: of. its is one of the few: of the Spanish-American . war. tically all the others are gone—Ad- | miral Cervera, Who- was first. bottled up in Santiago harbor.and then made the dash against’ the fleets of Samp- son and' Schley; meral Linares who fought 'the land: fight," at - against: snmr, Leonard ‘Wood, Roosevelt and the .others;'and Gen- eral-Blanco, who, was.in corimand at Havana until tHe ‘evacuation. General Weyler, as pain be among the notable, pérsonalities of public life. His high military rank gives him a perghanent place in the senate, and his short stocky figure is seen often about the streets during the sessions. It is his 'old rank, how- ever, and not his present part in pub- lic affairs, that gives him his promi- nence, for a neyjigeneration has come on” since: his: time;> and. memories of the war are ah entirely forgotten. The captai rals are received in royal audience each year, and this brought about ‘a’‘remarkable incident in the case of General Weyler when he made his lsst call ‘of ceremony- ‘These calls are.attended with great. formality, the king in 'full uniform and the captain ‘generals also in bril. Hant uniforms with a staff of attend- {ants. General Weyler's audience had concluded and he was about to with- draw. As he passed through the out- er court, one of the sentinels of the royal -guard stood rigid at ‘the gate. The sentinel looked straight ahead, motiopless as the captain general M paying. no attention .to his exalted military rank. Noting this, General Weyler, turned. sharply on the soldier, and eommundefl “Present arms.” - " The sentry obeyed the eommand and came to a present, while the cap- tain general, feeling that the’ dignity of his high command had been suit- ably respected, passed on. But this aid“not end ‘the" iricident. The sentry,.being one:of .the royal guard, proniptly reported: the occur- rence to the “captain of the -Royal Guards, making the point that while the king and royal family were in the palace the ‘salute of the royal guard 'was_reserved exclusively for members of the royal.family, and that any sa- luung of - persons outside the royal cir¢le was deronflon of the dignity due them. ¢ The. captain of the guard sustained the sentry, but as a captain general was at. . issue the case was re- ferred-to. the ‘minister of war.. This head of the military establishment duly considered the case, heard the view 'of the captain general and of the plain ‘soldier, and finally gave his decision upholding the soldier. It is one of the few cases on record be- the | tween the highest and the lowest rank 'the army in which a soldler's view Bas been ,upheld against a captain general, TO CENSOR CINEMA. Brisbane, Australia, May 4.—Insti- tution of an official censorship ~ of cinema films is expected here short- ly. Now there virtually is no censor- ship, although films are subject to examination at the custom . house, where the officlals can refuse to pass any which they consider morally ob- Jectionable. METAL WORKERS RESUME Mexico City, May 4.——Metal foun- dries, smelters and metalurgical plants have been instructed by the Depart- ment of Fomento to resume operations before May 28 as conditions, it is as- serted, now are such that the raw ma- terials from the mines are a ble. “the.cap- | Pages 13 to 20 14,000,000 IN EGYET. . Cairo, May 4.—The dec sus of Egypt took place ot of March 6. In Bgypt the o always taken 'simuitaneously ti out the country, and the hour: fixed this year for midnight. count is expected to show abou normal rate of increase in the @ :17:;0"' glvlng a total :of abou POLES FLEE FROM GEHR Harlem, Netherlands, ' May great has been the influx of R Poles from Germany, many of fleeing from forced labor under vation conditions, that more 1,000 of them are now wand about the country. the expensxve kind are the ones you buy and' never weat. “If La France- Shoes - were boughtfi:tstylealonc,fm- ofwmwouldmake ‘inexpensive. : But their wearinviting - inex- pensiveness is confirmed by a. pmed:cmostsuspxaouspm a.pptova. 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