New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1917, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. COME AND SEE OUR NEW FALL CLOTHES You’ll enjoy looking at them whether you come in to buy or just to look. And we enjoy showing them, even if you come in just to be shown. <* mceritg CLOTHES They’re here in smart models for young men. But men of more conservative tastes have also been ‘B provided for. Fine range of models and fabrics. $15 te $30 Tre ASHLEY BABCOCK CO. HOLLAND'S TRADE FAR BELOW AVERAGE Shipping With Many Countries Comes to Complete Standstill Rotterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 27, Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.—Rotterdam's shipping trafiic last year fell to the level of the year 1870 as regards the number of ships, eand to the level of 1892 in respect to tonnage, according to the annual re- port of the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce. The shipping arrivals of the whole country numbered 5,114, with a net tonnage of 4,681,117, ag .lcan enjoy myself adain since Resinol cleared my skin ‘When my complexion was red, rough and pimply, I was so as ed that 1 senever had ‘any fun. I imagined that cople avoided me—perhaps they 2:id/ ut the regular use of Resinol Soap— with a little Resinol Ointment just at first—has given me back my clear, healthy skin. 1 wisk you'd try it! 6,621,478 in 1915. Traffic with Spain, Russia, Ruman- ia and many tries is entirely at a standstill, that with Africa almost in a like con- 1co|nr\nre<l with 6,351 ships measuring other European coun- and dition. Nearly half Rotterdam'’s ship- | ping traffic was carried on with | Britain, Norway and Sweden. The other half was with the United States and Argentina, whence came the country’s grain imports. | A large part of the Rhine fleet was { employed in the transport of gravel 1from Germany and Holland over in- land waterways to Belglum. This material is destined for German mil- itary and other uses, and its convey- ance through Dutch waters has not been viewed with much favor to the Entente Powers. Holland maintains such transport is permissible under international law and that in these circumstances strict neutrality for- bids prevention of the traffic. An- other considerable part of the Rhine fleet, in the absence of the usual busy traffic with Germany, was char- tered to carry coal from Belgium (Antwerp) to Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland. Germany, Austria and Belgium be- ing cut off from the Netherlands Fast Indlan market, and Britain’s supplies being mostly confined to textile goods and fertilizers, the re- port says America and Japan took advantage of the position to consider- ably increase their sales to the East Tndles. America supplied more ma- chinery and ironware than formerly, and her exports to those colonles are oxpected to Increase. It is probable, [ in the chamber’s opinion, that Japan vill continue to serve the Nether- ands Bast Indian market after the war flll an important role as middle- man between the present belligerent countries, whose commercial rela- tions may not at first be of the best description. Russian Refugees in Dondon. | London, Aug. 30.—Nearly a hun- | dred Russian soldiers who have es- | cape@ from captivity in Germany are now in London, awaiting repatria- tion. They are occupying their en- forced period of idleness by holding almost continual ‘meetin in teristic Russ hey gravely at which, an fashion, and verbosely the greatest affairs of state and pas jl‘esoluuous and memorials dealings SHIPBUILDING EASY IN BRITISH YARDS Transportation Unnecessary Glasgow, Aug. 28. Correspondence of the Associated Press.—The ship- builders of Great Britain, who soon will be turning out virtually nothing else but standard ships and war ves- sels, have one advantage over the shipbuilders of the United States that will be hard to overcome. They have nearly all their materials at their back doors. From the decks of ships in one of the yards in the northf of England, for instance, everything used in the construction of vessels 1s within place. On the other side of the yard are great coke ovens, smelters, fur- naces and rolling mill: Plates and steel forms may be carried from the mills to the ships under construction in carts drawn by horses. A single company extracts the ore, prepares it with its own fuel and sends it away from its own plant as finished ships ready for the sea. There are many such examples here in the north. The success of more than one of the ship- building concerns may be partially traced to the proximity of materials used. Makes Munitions on Side. So great is the supply at the dis- posal of the shipbuilders that in many cases they have entered into the man- ufacture of other things than ships. One yard, which owns a great roll- ing mill turns out, in addition too steel for its own tremendous needs, something over 2,000 tons weekly of great steel forms which are shipped away to be made into projectiles. Another yard has turned over some of its buildings and sheds to the ac- Al Material Accessible, Making | sight. Iron is extracted from hills | & that look to be almost across the | street. Coal comes from the same tual making of projectiles from steel taken from its own plant. Still an- other is engaged almost solely upon the construction of standard ships and thereby has released quantities of its equipment to making “steel for the Germans.” Another had a large stretch of land in the rear of its place which before the war was used mostly as a slag dump and a storage yard for steel. All this has been cleared away and now the site is covered by a big air- plane factory. Needless to say, this plant is so isolated that the Germans never could locate it, and if they did know where it was they never could damage it. The shipbuilders of Britain are in- tensely interested in what the United States is going to do toward increas- ing the shipping tonnage of the world; and they are anxious to do everything possible to assist in the plans. Only one thing did they have to suggest; they were unanimously agreed that under no consideration should workers in the yards be per- mitted to join the armed forces. When England went to war the shipbulld- Ing concerns encouraged their em- ployes to enlist, but now and for some time past, with assistance of the government, former employes are being released from the army and the navy to return to their work. A shipbuilder or a man with a know- ledge of shipbuilding is worth ten times as much to his country in a shipyard, company officlals say, as he is in the armed forces. The builders of ships for Britain have all the material they need and gradually they are getting a sufficlent number of men to do the work that only men can do. Female workers are all very well, they say, but a woman cannot handle an automatic riveter or swing a sledge. 1917 HOW IS THIS FOR A | “CURTAIN RAISER”] CHARLES NEARLY OAPTURED. Austrian Emperor Narrowly Escapes Being Taken Prisoner. Geneva, Sept. 21.—An official Aus- trian telegram from Landeck, in the Tyrol, states that Emperor Charles with a large staff in automobliles vis- ited the Alpine outposts of the Aus- trians in the Trentino, and that his visit took place Sept. 15. After crossing the huge Ortler gla- cler on foot, and also the Trafoler glacler whose summit the Italians pos- sessed, the journey was continued on Stelvio pass within 600 yards of the Itallan trenches on the ice. The tele- gram declares that the emperor's visit was brave, but risky, and adds, “although the attention of the enemy wag attracted by the important escort, the emperor's descent from Stelvio pass was performed without incident.” A Lugana report, confirmed by Swiss troops watching on Stelvio pass states that the emperor and his whole staff narrowly escaped capture be- cause the Itallan commander was in- formed by an aviator that many auto- mobiles were in the vicinity. The Ital- ian troops thereupon attacked and captured an Alpine outpost while the royal motor party fled down the Stel- vlo route under machine gun fire. The party, however, arrived safely at Prad and then proceeded to Meran. with every conceivable phase of rev- olutionary activity in their native land. They recognize seven differ- ent parties or factions of political thought. “Stocking Banks” Not Depleted. Paris, Aug. 29.—Receipts of the Bank of France show there is still a considerable amount of gold in pri- vate hands in France. It is com- ing out at present at the rate of about 2,000,000 francs a week. In searching the residences of a recently interned Austrian subject at Nice the other day, the police found 22,000 francs in gold coins of sev- eral different countries. This gold was turned over to the Bank of France, while more than 1,000, 000 francs worth of securities were put under seal. FOR THE FALL AND WINTER SEASON Just to interest the early buyer and to induce others to buy now, who would ordinarily wait until later on, I announce for today and Saturday a preliminary sale of the New Fall Woolens. SUIT OR OVERCOAT MADE TO MEASURE AT | $18—$22.50—$25 | The values are ordinarily $22.50, $27.50 and $35.00 and will be sold by me at these prices later in the season, but to whoop things up a bit they are sacrificed at virtually cost. Incidental to this sale I also wish to formally invite my cus- tomers and the general public to visit and see the new styles that the fashion ex- .perts and leading designers declare are most correct and proper for the season. No use of my geing into the details and trying to picture in fervid lan- guage how handsome they are. I have hundreds of different patterns in all the wanted weaves in colorings from the best mills of this country see them to realize their beauty. No obligation to buy. Just walk in and look them over yourself and if you feel interested in any particular style call my sales- man and he will be glad to give you any information you may desire. ALL GARMENTS MADE ON THE PREMISES “TOM” MURRAY 394 MAIN STREET GROOMING "PLANES Constant Attention Demanded by | “Eyes of the Army” Behind the British Lines in France, August 29, Correspondence of the As- aerodome. Night flights are not fre- quent, but the night is the time when the mechanics are buslest, putting everything right for whatever tomor- row may bring forth. Long after the sun has sunk be- neath the tops of the hangars and the trees have changed from green to black, the hard-worked airplanes drift homeward, crossing the evening sky llke black specks on a purple cloth and landing with a deep droning on the clipped grass, lame and weary from a long afternoon’s work over the lines. The day’s work is finished; reports are handed in, and the pilots saunter down to their mess-tent among the tregs. The mechanics appear, wheel the machines into their respective hangars, and the night's work is be- soclated Press—Night, as well as day, | is full of work and hustle at an army | gun. It is 17 miles to the shell-holes of war. The long white road, thick with the dust of transport, is silent. flat aerodrome is in darkness but the hangars, looming black against the evening sky. are bright within. There is much to be done. Mazes of wires must be overhauled; many must be chines are riddled and need long and No Man’s Land, and all the horrors of ! The replaced or tautened. The enemy anti- | aircraft artillery has heen active and some of the planes bear witness of its work. The canvas wings of one mi- patient attention before it will be fit for service again. flying struts must other, the wings are out of shape, the result of stringing maneuvers in aero- The whole means a hours’ of work for the entire staff of mechanics. They a matter of routine. machine comes back from the lines it has to be overhauled, mantled. planes are after pieces of mechanism and need ‘con- tinued attention. useless, aoy of hundreds the trustworthiness of parts, are essential to good flylng and reliability, and just as much depends on these factors as on the skill of the pilot. The airplane mechanic doesn’t share tho dangers of the fleld or the hard- ships of the infantrymen or artillery- men, but he has very heavy responsibility. When there !'is heavy air fighting he must frequent- | 1y work all day and all night and woe | § | betide the pilot any of his work. rests the strength of and its efficiency. The officer in charge of the aero- the drome during known as the Warmly clad, to of the night he walks around the busy sheds and hangars, now and then of- New gadgets must be fitted, the engine repaired and cleaned. Air- even dangerous. On another, the be renewed. On an- | telephone bell, for hostile aircraft. hard seven settle down to it as You will have to fering a word of advice or encourage- ment, but always with an ear for the at any moment orders may come through bombing or the warding off of some Such orders are very rare, but everything them when they come. The work in the hangars is so ranged that the steeds appointed the next day's work shall be read: hour before dawn. As the first 1 of the sun light up the aerodrome, machines are wheeled out on “Tarmac,” oiled and attuned’ for morning’s flight. Every time a perhaps dis- all very delicate Without it they are The accur- of measurements, hundreds of endless work, and a if he should skimp Upon his shoulders the squadron night hours s “Orderly Officer”. keep out the chills BENJAMIN M. KNOX, Teacher of Singing. Rooms 39 and Tuesday No Charge for Telephone 545-3 Afternoon and I 10 Booth's Block 1 oz § or Credit. Voice W. F. 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