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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917. 'UNDERGROUND €ITY HAVEN T0 SOLDIERS Poilus Sleep and Rest Safe From Death and Harm French Front, July 16.—(Corro- tspondence.)—Dozens of divisions of the French army now sleep under- }ground in comparative comfort, even 'in the front lines when the Germans are hurling tens of thousands of shells on the ground above them, thanks to the work of the companies ‘[of excavators formed since the be- ginning of the war. The men chosen to construct these shelters, which thave preserved so many thousands of "lweu, are soldlers whose age varies between 45 and 50 and who would thave been unfit to take part in the ‘actlve operations of modern battles, where quickness of movement , and }litheness of limb are absolute neces- sities. No matter what the nature of the soil, whether hard rock, quick- | ,iand, chalk or marshy land, these veterans have overcome all the diffi- rculties and have succeeded in con- K\structlng formidable bomb-proof shel- jters all along the line of the front jfrom the North Sea to the Swiss fron- | ‘tier until at the present moment any {fighting unit arriving at almost any tpart of the line finds A habitable dug- out awaiting it. The correspondent of The Asso- ciated Press has seen and been inside Yozens of these subterranean cities— for such they may be termed—at! many places, and, even where all the natural conditions are difficult, has found the shelters commodious. well- drained and well-ventilated. In some cases a battalion finds accommoda- tion in a single shelter, and each ,man lodged in it is provided with a simple bed consisting of a wire-net- ting foundation supported by wooden uprights. On this the soldier lays his regulation bundle of straw and, covering himself with his army and greatcoat, can sleep with freedom from anxiety as to any bombardment in progress outside. The shelters are provided generally with electric light or acetylene lamps, sanitary conven- fences, and, in some cases, with com- plete shower baths. First aid posts and dressing sta- tions with all modern surgical ap- | ‘pliances are also to hand, so that the surgeon attached to the unit may attend immediately to any wounded men brought in from the nearby battlefield. fiomc 3,000 Sauarc Yards in Arca. | So well are the shelters protected from the view of the cremyr that al- though in many instances the under- ground lodging covers an area of 3,- 000 square yards, not once in the course of the past year has one of | them becn destroyed by the enemy’s fire. They have many exits, the plan being to provide one for each section or quarter company, so that in case one exit should be hit and blocked, the men inside may escape through another opening. At the beginning of the war the goldiers actually in the fighting line made their own shleters, which were just holes dug in the ground and covered with tree trunks and earth and affording very littie protection, besides taking up much of the time of the soldiers and costing very much Jabor and money for transporting the | necessary timber. It was then decided to utilize the older classes of the reserve of the territorial army who had been called to the colors and who, despite their previous military training, had been found unable to bear strain of cam-! paingning. Several companies of them | were formed and they were first given | the task of constructing shelters in the Somme district and around Ver- | | CHIEF BENDER’S PITCHING KEEPS ! PHILLIES IN THE RACE FOR PENNANT Philadelphia, Aug. many critics claimed last season the pitching days of Chief Bender were over, the old Tndian warhorse again is in excellent form. His re- cent work for Pat Moran’s team is 24.—Although that almost equal to that of his best days on the diamond. Incidentally Mo- ran has not given up hopes of land- ing the pennant in Quakertown de- spite the fact that the Giants are away out in front. about the lines to observe what going on in the opposing position. Special army saw mills have been started to provide the props and planking for the shelters and every- thing is done at minimum cost. The veterans so employed have | sustained losses when working in e: posed positions, but no danger ap- pears to daunt them and they con- tinue their job as though they were working in the fleld at home. They have adapted themselves to the use of the most modern tools, and al- though the great majority of them had no previous experience of elec- tric drills and borers they now use them as well as practiced miners. RED CROSS LIBRARY CHEERS SOLDIERS is Detective Stories “Best Sellers” Among the Fighting Men dun. Their officers were chosen from | the engineer corps and from men | who in civil life were engaged in sim- | llar undertakings such as builders andi‘ miners. Most of the men were peas- | prits used to digging in the flelds and their work was very satisfactory, but | this kind of excavating work was| different and they suffered consider- | pbly from the unusual motion of hav- | fng to throw thc earth upward, or, wheeling it in harrows up steep in- clines. One of the officers overcome this trying difficulty by inventing an ap- paratus for carrying loosened earth or | Yock to the surface by use of electri~ | ywer. By this arrangement two men | ann do the work formerly done i ten. When the earth has reached the | purface it falls into barrows and s | Mheeled away along the level and | distributed about in such a manner ps not to attract the attenton of the enemy's airmen always flying London, July 30 (Correspondence of the Associated Press)—Opposite Mar- ble Arch stands the home of Lady Bat- tersea, which in pre-war days was the center of social activity. Now it is the headquarters of the Red Cross library and is run by Mrs. Gaskell and an ar- my of voluntary assistants. The house is packed with books from floor to ceiling, they cover the walls are piled up on tables and shelves, overflow into the servants’ quarters and even into the stables at the back of the house. . Nearly 50,000 books a week are sent out to all parts of the world, and, in addition to gifts, 100,000 books and magazines are purchased monthly. The by ; tastes of the soldiers are remarkable | and an amazing light has been thrown on the matter of best sellers. Far away into the millions soars the de- | mand for Nick Carter detective stories. Every hospital in France, of which there are some 290, receives a parcel Get the Round Package Used for ¥3 Century. / Ask For and GET HORLICK THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Made tract of from clean, rich milk with the ex- gelect malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infants and children the weakest stomach thrive on it. Agrees with of the invalid or the aged. Needs no cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, etc. Should be kept at home or when traveling. Anu- tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing Also in lunch tablet form for business men. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price Tako a Package Home of 130 books every three weeks. Poet- | ry is very largely in demand and ran- | ges from Shakespeare to modern living poets. The Colonial soldier has an in- satiable curiosity and his chief demand is for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 40 volumes. No demand is refused whether it be for the latest handbook on oil engines, theosophy, poultry, farming or boxing. These parcels of books go forth to all parts of the world wherever the Brit- ish soldier is fighting. Malta recelved 7,000 per month, Basrah 9,00, Alexan- dra 3,000, Salonika 2,000 and even units in East Africa, Italy and Russia are supplied. The Admiralty request ed the library to supply every sailor in the fleets with a book. Urgent summons often are received and when Gallipoli wag filling the has- pitals a cable message came ‘‘send 25,000 books at once, light and good print.” The other day a request came from Boulogne and within an hour and a half 3,000 books had been sent in response. ! | | Town of Jaffra in Ruins. New York, Aug. 20.—The town of Jaffra in Palestine, formerly the port for Jerusalem, virtually is in ruins,- according to information received from Cairo, Egypt, by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Jaffra was set on fire by the Turks and burned after many build- ings were dynamited, says the mes- sage received by the committee, which adds that of the villages and hamlets within twelve miles of Jaffra nothing remains but heaps of ruins and ashes. “From a line extending three miles narth of Jaffra to the Judean moun- tains, not an inhabitant remains nor a dwelling,” says the message. “All government records have been taken to Damascus and Nablus. The people who were spared from massacre were exiled to Hebron.” Jaffa formerly had a population es- i timated at between 20,000 and 40,000, It contained several mosques, churches, and convents, a bazaar, hospitals, ho- tels and fine gardens. It is connected with Jerusalem: by-a railway line fifty- four miles long. i Farmer Annoyed, Hangs Himself. Stockholm, July 27.—John Erson, a farmer of Njutanger, grew so weary of making out the various declara- tions required by the authorities con- cerning stocks of cereals, bread, su- gar, potatoes, etc.,, that he hanged himself in a final culmination of wear- iness and exasperation. Buy an Indiana truck.—advt. —_— e NAGLE SANITARIUM aXD FRIVATE HOSPITAJY. 50 CEDAR STREET. NEW BRITAIN. Medical, Surgical and Obstetric Patients. Quiet location, excellent eurroundings, fres from institutlonal atmosphere. The limited number of eight received assures close in- dividual attention. All physicians entitled to recognition. Conducted solely by MARY E, NAGLE, R. N. Hudson, Qakland, Maxwell Motor Cars Williams Auto Go. Office and Show Service Station Room 1 and 8 Main-St. 287 Eim B¢, If your skin itches just use Resinol No remedy can honestly promise to keal every case of eczema or sim- ilarskinailment. But Resinol Oint- ment, aided by Resinol Soap, gives such #zstant relief from the itching and burning, and so. generally suc- ceeds in clearing the eruption away for good, that it is the standard skin treatment of thousands and thou- sands of physicians. Why nottry it? Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap are sold by all druggists. NAVAL POSTS OPEN | TO RUSSIAN PUBLIC No Discrimination- Between Pa- trician and Plebian in Future Petrograd, June 30.—(Correspond- ence of The Associated Press).—Ma- Jor-General Klado, chief of naval edu- cational institutions, has prepared a radical plan of naval training reform, based on the doctrine that the recent granting of full political rights to fighting men of:both services involves the infusion of a new spirit into their education. The plan provides that the existing Naval Academy, School for Marines, Marine Engineering Institute and Sebastopol Naval Training Corps shal all be directed from a central naval educational institution in this city. Other marine and naval schools will be united with the Sebastopol corps into a single naval school to be situat- ed in Sebastopol. A radical reform is that, for these schools, all persons will be eligible who have had sec- ondary education. There will be no privileges for nobles. Thereby the career of naval officer will be opened to Russians oOf relatively humble posi- tion and means. The ultimate aim of the reform is that naval education after the war will be conducted in a pacifist and anti-militarist spirit, so as to prepare for the expected reduction of arma- ments. Fliminates Danger From Mines. Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 28.— ‘Experiments with a newly invented device intended to cut the anchor chains of floating mines and to prevent them from coming in contact with a vessel passing through a fleld, have been conducted here, it is claimed, with success. The contrivance was invented by Rear Admiral Goedhart of the Dutch navy. It was affixed to a steamship of the Batavier Line for a series of tests. The vessel steamed through a field of OUR DOLLAR SALE ~ On Men’s and Young Men’s Clothing Ends ISATURDAY, AUG. 25th If you have not taken advantage of this Great Sale up to this time, we advise you to do so before Saturday night. , There are many bargains in Suits and Overcoats left and you can purchase two outfits for a trifle more than the price of one. FOR EXAMPLE: ONE SUIT OR TOPCOAT ..... e s aes e e erraiens, $20.00 IC ANOTHER OF EQUAL VALUE .........cccumeeeeveenomens 100 TWO SUITS or TWO TOPCOATS, or SUIT AND 21.00 TOPCOAT OUR PRICES RANGE FROM ...... .$15.00 to-$30.00 When you buy one of these you are entitled to buy another of equal value for the small sum of ONE DOLLAR. SPECIAL—During the balance of this sale we will allow two friends buy together instead of two garments to one man. ’ STRAVW HATS . 25cC For Any Straw Hat in Our Store. = Values up to § Final Shirt Sale, 79¢, 95¢c, $1.45 and $2.45 BARNEY F GREEN &. CO: CLOTHIERS & TURNISHERS © NEW YORK harmless mines with the result, it is asserted ,that every mine whjch barred her course automatically was pushed aside and its anchor chain cut. The invention consists of a steel prolongation of the ship’s bow, which is easily hoisted or stowed away. It! exetnds 18 feet under the water and is designed to push the mine anchoring chains or cables aside to a distance of | 15 feet from either side of the vessel. | At that point the cables or chains are clipped and the liberated mine’ rises to the surface, fifteen feet from the ; vessel's side. Having once been passed safely, the plan is to explode the floating mine by shooting at it. After the clipping of the chain of one mine the apparatus is intended automatically to become ready to deal with the next. Emergency Money in France. Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 30. —Emergency money has long been circulating in large quantities in oc- cupied northern France. It is all of paper and similar material, varying from stiff cardboard to parchment. Here it is printed in highly artistic, ornamental style; there it merely bears the communal stamp with the mayor's signature. General Quarter- master Hahndorff is now endeavoring to introduce some order into the situa- tion according to a frontier corres- pondent and publishes a list of the approved notes. All paper money be- low 25 centimes (5 American cents) is invalid. Non-approved notes must be exchanged before the announced date. Notes of the towns of Bapaume Ham and Noyon taken by the Entente armies naturally fall in the category of those which must be withdrawn. A penalty of from six months to two years’ imprisonment is prescribed for the counterfeiting circulation and use cf forged notes or the alteration of genuine notes. Offers Villa for U. S. Army. Stockholm, July 28.—Mrs. Percy Proctor has asked the American minister, Ira Nelson Morris, to trans- mit to the state department her offer to place her villa near Mentone, France, at the disposition of the American army authorities in France. The villa has accommoda- tions for 40 men. It is Mrs. Proctor’'s idea that it should be used for a con- valescents™- home, i slump. His flelding, too, was: belo the average. He made many oostly errors. Now, however, hij HE WAS NO FLASH IN THE PAN |me s o n s monny has b climbed right up with the b n > 2 N leaders in the National league Kauff’s admirers say that before thi end of the season he will lead league in hitting. Rejected. (Buffalo Express.) He—How’d you like a pet dog? She—Now, Charlies, haven't I to you that I don’t intend to marry? HARDLY STAND Restored to Health by Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Fulton, N. Y. — “Why will women pay out their money for treatment and receive no benefit, when so many have Emved that Lydia . Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound will make them well? For over a ear I suffered so ‘'rom female weak- ness I could hardly stand and was afraid to go on the street alone. Doc- tors said medicines were useless and only an _operation would help me, but Lyrga E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has proved it otherwise. I am_ now penfec,t;ly well ;| and can do any kind of work.”’—Mrs. | NELLIE . PHELPS, care of R. A. Rider, « R.F.D. No. 5, Fulton, N. Y. £ We wish every woman who suffers ! from female troubles, nervousness, . backache or the blues could see the let-: ters written by women made well by L; dia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com; If you have bad symptoms and do not understand the cause, write.to the New York, ‘Aug. 24.——When the { Kauff, the much touted player of the | Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, ational league race-opened Benny | New York Giants, had a batting | Mass., for helpful advice-gi

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