New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1917, Page 4

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Culti hand size .... cesenspanes . sz% ......... oo atiss sy Wheel Caltivators . ..... 0-256 PARK STREET, New Britain appreciate this: fact but I|doubt if anybody, .-however, in all of Europe knows that the internal commerce of the United States is so enormous that we could do very .well without any foreign trade whatever. “Italy is aware of her own necessity for the development of her foreign trade as well as her internal resources. The coal situation in this war showed her how helpless she is, for instance, with steam instead of electrical power. Her national poverty in industries is today registered by the exchange value of her money, which loses some thirty per cent abroad. She is gour- ageously .preparing to increase her industries, such as silk, to make her nd_Italy, should send ome to | soil produce mére wheat and other States ,and the two com- | foods, and improve her land and y-should co-operate, if these'wnu transportation systems, and to (mu want to fully develop |develop her natural mineral deposits.” eommerce,” said Ernest E. e, @ American Chamber of for Italy and representative | of one of the largest banks of ork. - ve been in Italy eight months clear to me that the big war the United States is now ‘here can be continued after the both - Quntrles pull togéther,” fnued. Pest asset and wealth of Italy ‘working spirit that the war has med. The nobility of Italy have in the trenches that work is dh‘race and all are eager t i ;their old custom of cane d party dancing, ’o her fellows in the trenches, e always worked more or less ing are going to come out of » graduates of a fine working nd. they are going/to go to ‘the shops as skilled work- LURE TO TRADE m Abroad Believes U. §. ould _Send Gommission , May 25.—*“The United States send a trade commission to | SERVICE FOR DEAD CANADIANS- Londén, May 26.—A solemn serv- ice, which will be attended by the king and queen, will be held in West- minster Abbey on the morning of Monday, July 2 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the con- federation of Canada, and also in memory of the Canadians who have fallen in the war. TWO GUINEAS FOR RACE HORSE. . Newmarket, England, May 25.— The ban on horseraging is having a serious effect on the price of horses. After running in the two thousand guinea trial plate, & thoroughbred named “Minister ¢Bell” was sold for two guineas, This is believed to be the lowest price ever pnid for a thor- oughbred horse. _— NEW SHIPS HAVE COMFORTS. London, May 235.—Standardized ships now in course of construction are to have accommodation for sea- men and firemen on an entirely new basis. The men will have their quar- ters aft, there will be a mess-room and complete bathroom and lavatory arrangements. m an American point of view, ¥ has become a fine market for steel, coal cotton, electrical iment, for mechanical tools, for machinery tools of all kinds. the war Germany sold largely e materials here, but now the s are going it alone. They have oped self-reliance as a national nd this lasting result of the 1d improve the market for products. big point in salesmanship ,and fitrade commissons could do by securng closer govern-. co-operation, by ' regulating revisinig commercial laws, by closer together the business ‘0f the respective nations, by jxpert information for the es- ent of credits. What my firm Italy is indicated by the fact first European branch was d in Genoa _October last, four months to its Petrograd Of course Genoa is a big center for all of south .internauonll this is $20d SOFT HATS FOR ES. London, May 25.—Derby hats are gradually giving way to the soft felt and other negligee type of hat owing to the ministry of m unwilling to grant supplies of wire which are used in the brims of the hard felt, or derby hat. MANY mlflz()l!l SAVED. Londol, May ‘26.2-While ~Viscount Grey, former secsetary of foreign af- fairs, was fishing in Scotland the other day, his home. Fagjloden hall, Northumberland, was d yed by fire. Most of his famous pictures, his collection of books and heirlgoms ‘were saved. hile the Americans in Italy are le, trade commissions of other , such as Japan, are active. A deal of Italy’s new trade will go ith America, but the credit ex- ns possible in the United States be an advantage. The Italians tions being GERMANS, IN RE]'REAT N NORTHERN FRANCE, LAY WASTE FRUIT ORCHARDS IN PATH OF ADVANCING ALLEES finished. Why not stop? FRUIT TREES DESTROYED BY GERMANS s In the accompanying illustration’ is shown another exhibition of “fright- £ UNLIKE THIS COUNTRY- French Cattle Raiser Getting - Less Money for Beef Than Heretofore. Paris, May 26.—The Agricultural society of France has coilécted figures Showlng that the cattle raiser gets ve. centimes (1 cent) a pound less ! for beef on the hoof than he did a ' year ago, notwithstanding the con- tinual increase in ‘the retail selling prices. The society appropriated funds to pay the cost of experiments to discover who gets the difference be- tween the icost of meat on the hoof and on the table. A certain number of beef animals will be followed from the stock farm to the butcher shop to determine what are the inevitable intermediary expenses and & reason- able retail price. The government and the city of Parts will be invited to send delegates to follow the experiments, fulness.” In the open space there once stood a row ‘of rich fruit trees. When the Germans retreated before the advancing allies these trees. were PRICE OF SIGHT SEEING RISES. Stratford-On-Avon, England, May 25.—The trustees of Shakespeare’s i birthplace and Anne Hathaway’s cot- !tage are missing the usual influx of ! American and other visitors, the lack of which has seriously affected their | financial position during the ,year. It has therefore been decided to raise the price of admission, to re- strict free passes, to reduce the staff | and invite Monorary assistance in ;BuldI!II visitors. London, May 25.—One of the few features on the stock exchange re- cently has been the steady recovery in values of Brasilian securities, ‘which are now from four to nine per cent. above the lowest prices touched this year. This is due to an increased | demand from investors owing to the rapid recovery in the Brazilian ex- change. cut down. In all parts of France where the Germans have retreatec they have destroyed everything, leav- ing nothing but barren wastes. A VALUABLE SPOT LOST. . Copped Hall, England, May 25.— The building composing the Copped Hall farming school for girls whe: the young women practiced at milk- ing “dummy cows” with the intention milkmaids, were destroyed by fire last lnight. They were on a Iargé eccles- iastical estate on the border of Mp- ping Forest, near London. OIL COMPANY IN BAD. Mexico City, May 26.—The Standard Ofl company has been ordered by the department of commerce and {hdustry | to remove about fifty oil tanks erected in the Tampico fleld. These tanks the department declares were erected without permission and wers mot erected a to @overnment standards. It is ssld the tanks cost approximately $500,000 to construct, _|GERMANS QUIGK T0 . GIVE UP THE FIGHT “Tommy Miirs” St Surpnsed by Ease of His Gonquests London, May 28.—“Fritz don't seem to have any sand in him these days; nothing like what they were at Ypres in 1915, said a private of the Can- adian Expeditionary ‘force recently re- turned from' the fromt in ,France. “One of them whom we captured along with a party that was’/making a réal Hindenburg advance to the resr in double time said to me: *“This war no good at all. We “I told him his whole machine had got to be smashed right up before there would be any stop, so far as we were concerned. “After that we went into a Ger- man dugout that turned out to be ® combined trench-mortar emplacement and munition store.- It was very deep, and had hardly been damaged at all. A sloping passage led up to the em- placement, and down below there were piles of mortar shells. We found the whole crew of the mortar hiding behind one of these piles, and they surrendered at once. Theéy could eas- ily have blown us all to kingdom come.” Other men wounded on the Arras battlefield tell similar incidents. A corporal of the Devons who was sniped on outpost duty when the Ger- mans were being driven from a vil- lage near Croiselles, said: 1 think their shipers are about the beat nren they've got left, now, and ever they throw up their hands directly you get near them, and will only fight at rifie range, never with a chance of tasting the bayonet. , I saw the cavairy attacking that vil- lage; one of the finest fights I've seen. They came over a rise of ground, and galloped clean through a screen of whizz-bangs. They were great. It was fine to see them sweep through. past |of volunteering for farm labor = as[Our boys got up in time to take over the prisoners.” Easy Work on Vimy Ridge. A Canadian bomber, who was hit after several days of very strenuous fighting, said: “Just under the crest of Vimy Ridge, Fritzs had a lot of machine guns that he’d never used before. He had kept their emplace- ment very carefully hidden. They held us up for a little bit, but it wasn’t for long: That was where our rifles grenadiers came in. They lobbed bombs ail over those Emma Gee em- placements for a bit, and then a Can. adian battalion went right -through them and over; and that was the end or“th- Fritzes on the crest. ‘After I was hit and sent back, 1 Conn foll in with & party that was clear-- ing dug-outs, and stayed a . bit with them. One quest thing I saw ‘going" back was four German machine guns in m,phoz. all iindamaged, and the fouy crews of the guns all stone deadq, killed by our ‘shrap.’ When I got to the dreesing station at last, T found a Fritz doctor in charge, #ith his whole, staff, working away on our wounded like good ‘uns” - { Another Canadian, told of & double dug-out which must have been either 2 battalion or a company headquar- ters. In the smaller divisiort were four officers, with two orderlies mak- ing coffee for them; in the . larger division opening out of it, thirty-five officers and men. Not one of the whole lot were wounded, and all, ia- cluding . the four officers, surrendered without a murmur. i “There's & war on outside, gentiemen,’ he said; but those Boche officers they only scowled; not a smile or a word from the bunch.”, £ The adjutant of & London regiment, whose shoulder been broken, said: “The men were splendid in this show. But they have been.from start to finish; couldn’t be better. But I think they are more highly, skilled now than they ever were before- Apart from that, the.two things that struck. one most were the magaificent gun- nery, and the fine staff work. I had only been out five weeks, when this show began. I was wounded last July. And I was immensely struck by our progress in tactics, staff work. and co-operation between the different arms. It really is a wonderful ma- chine now: The acouracy and, pw cision of it all is amasing.” ESCAPE IN BOAT. Cratt by Night With Secrecy. Cairo, Egypt, May 35.—A family of refugees from Tripoli, Syria, has just arrived here, having escaped from Turkish territory in a boat of their own manufacture. The boat was constructed entirely at night, being bullt inslde their house with the ut- most secrecy. As soon as completed, it ‘was launched late one evening on a rough sea. The journey to a place of safety was & terrible one, the oc- cupants of the boat being much of the time waist deep in water and es- caping sinking only through tireless and ‘persistent bailing. According to information brought by this family, ‘the population - of’ Jerusalem had been reduced about 60 per cent. since the war. Some smalier villages, particularly on the northern coast of Lebannon have only one- seventh of their old population left, | the remainder having either died or emigrated to. the interior to escape starvation. This year's crop in Syria is esti-? mated at only 35 per cent. the mor- mal aversge.” The price of bresd in" B-mut is about 30 cents & pound,” or $1 &-pound in m money,