New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1917, Page 5

~ TOOK UP WORK OF HER SLAIN HUSBAND " Yena Butch_k;e‘fi‘*Fills Gap in Line Cansed by Death New York, Aug. 22.--It was the death of her nusband which promuted Vera Butchkareff to enlst in the Russian army and eventually to organize the Women’s Legion of Death of which she is commander and which achieved fame in a recent battle with the Germans according to facts received by the Russian infor- mation bureau here. According to this information, Vera Butchkareff is a voung country woman who went to from her native village in | the province of Toms ! Iaving learned in May. 1015, that her hushand was dead on the German | frontier. she made up her mind to ! continue the task which her husband bezan, and enlisted in the 2ith Re- serve Corps of Tomsk. After a comparatively short inz. she went to the front with a company that was o fill the ranks. Tolonel Stubindorf enlisted her as a regular in the 28th Polotzk regiment, second army. For three months, i Butchkareff fought with a | rifle and on March 8, 1916, was | wounded in the leg under heavy ar- | tile: on ~ i train- | i.ake Naroch. The wound withstanding, she remained at the froni with her comrades who cap- | tured iwo iines ol trenches and 1.000° = prisoners. On March 9. nafter the commnlandcer and the captain were killed, she led “he in an attack which ve- | sulted cictory for the Russians, i Afterward she went to the Austrian freni and was wounded in her arm, whil~ taking part in a counter charge | near the Doubova Korchma. Never- ineless, she retained her position in | ihe army. But in the next charge she was wounded severely by a fragment | of a shell. She was taken to the hospital where she remained for four months. Immediately upon recovery, she went to Petrograd and saw M. Rodzianko, president of the Duma, to ask permission to organize a company &4©f women. In a recent interview, Vera Butch- kareft safd: “I saw the president of the Duma and obtained permission to form a womans company which is to leave for the front at once. We will set an exampié to the men soldiers, many of whom misunderstood the meaning of ; liberty. It is enough to point to the desertions, to the fraternalization and 10 all the undesirable phenomena that are responsible for the disorganiza- tion of our forces. I will sacrifice my life for my country and I am sure | that I wil Ifind followers among | women. Woman's mission is not only to give life to man but it is also up | to us women to teach men how to defénd the new-born freedom.” not- P EEs i England Must Count Her Pemnnies. \ London. July 20.—Warning that | Great Britain could not go on spend- ing money at the present rate with- | out serous disadvantage, was given recently in the House of Commons by Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer. The disadvantage, he sald, would be realized more com- Pletely when the war was over than now. So long as the government was raising funds for prosecution of the war by loans, Mr. Law told the House | of Commons, the country was living in a false atmosphere. The position after the end of the war, he predicted would require all the skill and ability which the government could exercise. #le added that he would like to have raised a larger proportion of the war expenditures by revenues, but he pointed out the dangers of excessive taxation. The financing the wa government at present s aside from aid re- ceived from the United States, by use of short term exchequer bonds and treasury bills. The latter are mount- #ng rapidly and about £710,000,000 sterling of them are outstanding. Old Age Pension Incrensed. London, July 30.—Ol1d age pension- ers who hitherto have received five shillings a week pension will now be paid seven shillings and sixpense, the “hancellor of the exchequer has’ an- frounced. Itching Blisters "OnBaby’s Head S — And Face. Scalp Sorc and Red. Ttched so Had to Tie Hands. Hair Fell Out. Head Disfigured. »Cuticura Healed in 13 Days. ““My baby had blisters break out on his head and face. His scalp was sore and red and he was very créss and iret- ful. The breaking out itched and kept him from | sleeping, and I had to tie | his hands tp keep him from scratching. His hair fell out and his head was dx'sfigured. His face wag terrible. “M: m':i I]bou( C]:nixzra ai bought them. i thirteen dzayl." (Signed) Mrs. Felix Smart, 21 Seventh St., Old Town, Me., Aug 7, 1916. J (gmicur; Soap and Ointment are not only mest valuable for the treatment of imples, blackheads, redness and rough- 1&;‘:: dandruff and irritated scalps, but great mission is to prevent such conditions. Por Free Sample Each Mail, address Dept. R, Boston. niece was telling on}r and Ointment, e Return post-card: ¢ uticura, .>* Sold everywhere. was healed in | SHIP EXPERT NOW SPECIAL AID IN RUSHING SHIPPING ¢ Are in a battle which took place | | Admirai Francis T. whosg picture is reproduced | here, and Chief Constructor Elliott | assistants to Rear general manager of the emergency | fleet corporation. Admiral Bowles ' was chief constructor of the navy in | 1901-3. Admiral Bowles was at one time president of the Fore River Ship- building company, and Constructor Snow has been in charge of navy con- | struction at Philadelphia. . Admiral Bowles will direct the work of speeding up construction on ships building in American yards | taken by the Fleet corporation. Con- structor Snow will act as his aid. FLAGMAKING PART OF JACKIES' WORK Flotill’s Mother Ship Turns Out | Colors for Other Vessels Admiral Capps, ! Base American Flotillas in British Waters, July 30.—(Correspondence of The Associated Press)—Keeping sev- eral thousand flags in repair is one of the most interesting of the numer- ous duties of the tender or mother ship to the flotillas here. The work is in charge of the chief quartermaster who corresponds to a master flag maker in one of the American navy vards where flags of all flinds are made. He has a staff of assistants and a large supply of bunting brought along from the New York navy yard’s flag factory. The workroom is the charthouse under the bridge. Some flags are made here. Three were turned out for Vice Admiral Sims recently when he took over command of the station for a brief period during the absence of the British admiral. These were the reg- ulation vice admirals flag consisting of three white stars on a field of blue. One was unfurled from the staff over the admiral’s house and an- other flew from the dockyard. The third was kept in reserve. The three were made in as many hours in the tender’s flagship. Several Union Jacks have also been made. As the average American ovght to know but possibly does not, the American Union Jack is 48 white stars placed close together on a field of blue. The major part of the flagmakers® work here is devoted to repairing flags made either in the United States government plants or bought from the British flag factory on shore here. The work of keeping in repair the thousands of signal and other flags used by the American destroyers keeps several men busy nearly all their duty hours. There are no fa- cilities on the destrovers for this work. Pocketing the Sugar. London, July 21.—Diners-out in London are regularly engaged just now in a practice which popularly is known as “‘pocketing the sugar.”” The idea is to lay up a supply of sweetening for a day when it may be harder ta obtain or, on the part of non-sugar eating in- dividuals, for friends who like more than they are allowed. The custom is practiced all over the city and in all classes of places where tea and food are served. German subinarines lately seem to have been especiallly active against ships that happened to be carrying su- gar, with the result that, while there is enough to go around, the supplies for the distant future are none too large. Tea and coffee are served with just the allowed weight of sugar, usu- ally set alongside the cups in separate containers,and usually consisting of halves of thirds of lump: it is these pleces of lumps that most often are seen disappearing into the gold, silver and leather handbags of the women and the waistcoat pockets of the men. Sugar served for berries or other food is hard to pocket. Nearly al- ways it is of the crude variety and very sticky; but collectors of sugar even carry off this kind with them; having a convenient envelope or a Snow of the navy were named special * little cloth bag ready for it. 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Substitates .Cost YOU_Same Prire SGHOLAR AND POET UKRAINE PATRIOTS Grushevski and Vinnechenko Lead Movement for Autonomy Petrograd, July 88 (Correspondence of the Associated Press).—Leaders of the Ukrainian quasi-secessionist move- ment, which involves the fate of south and southwest Russia from Galicia to the Caucasus, with at least 20,000,000 inhabitants, are the scholar and his- torian Professor Grushevski and the navelist and poet Vinnichenko. Grus- hevski is the brain and organizing tal-J, ent of the secession. Vinnitchenko furnishes the fire and inspiration. Gruskevski, who is 61 years old vir- tually created the modern Ukrainian cultural movement. For 28 years he played toward the Ukraine the role which Count Etienne Szechenyi played in the renascence of Hungary. Grus- hevski’'s dominant aim is the union of the Russian Ukraine with Ruthen- jan East Galicia, which is inhabited by the same race. From Lemberg, where he taught as professor, he extended his propagandist activities to Russia, founded the famous little-Russian «Literary and Seientific Review,” is- suing Dparallel editions in Lemberg and Kieff; and in hundreds of lectures, pamphlets and articles preached Uk- rainian union. Grushevski is one of Europe’s most learned men. He is a sober and cau- tious palemist; and his leadership is invaluable in a movement which is largely controlled by unrestrained en- thusiasts Such an enthusiast is Vinnitchenko. Vinnitchenko was born in 1880; began his propagandist activities while still a student at Kieff; and was expelled from the university. Being called up for army service—the autocracy’s usual punitive measure against revo- lutionary students—he fled abroad After that he began literary work which made him famous throughout the Ukraine and Russia. He devel- oped markedly individualist views, praclaiming personal fredom to the point of anarchy. His novel “Honesty with One's Self” so shocked the read- ers of Grushevski’s review that publi- cation had to be discontinued. Vin- nitchenko’s views, the best-known of which are “The Lie” and “The Black Panther” express the same idea—that 2 man’s first duty is “to become him- self.” The revolution found Vinnitchenko in Kieff. He abandaned literature: agitated so successfully that he was | elected vice-president of the secession- ist supreme council; and started * Labor Gazette.” As orator, Vinn chenko is very effective, but he is ¢ alted and careless about facts Karelians for Autonomy. Helsinfors. Finl July . 31. Karelian Cultural Society has decla for home rule for the Karelian prg inces of Finland, which lie in The Kgfrelians spe fromy that of Tavasts who occupy the rest of Grand Duchy. The two allied were formerly enemies; but in years a common sentiment as has united them. The Karelians' mand also the incorporation in th new autonomous province of the R sian government of Olonetz, which largely inhabited by Karelian Agitation meetings.are being held 8 over Karelia, and a project will submitted to the Russia Constitutié Assembly. a Buy an Indiana truck.—advt,