New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1919, Page 5

xLAND HAD BUT 100 PLANES IN ’14 NECROLOGY ROLL AT * Corps Tlas Developed to Present Efficiency. .39 Members of Parish Have Died During Past Year | ! London, Jan. 4.—The declaration of [ war by Great Britain at midnight } August 5, 1914, found the Royal F ing Corps with only four squadrons in being—representing under 100 air- ! pianes. Three of these squadrons went instantly to France. A new squadron | followed these pionecers in about ten time, while a fifth squadron, mobilized and sent out in reached the fighting 7one middle of September. In those early days machine: gical reconnais; after the battle The of St. for the register Mark's church vear 1918, from January 1 to December 31, has been completed and published recorded and 190 and 239 deaths cover the year's record The list of deaths is unusually long this year, a number of them having used by the influenza epidemic. of deaths during the year baptisme are | 4avs the Twenty-five the books for confirmations, 15 on e ‘ about the marriages | of the It was not until the Aisne, when settled line warfare was established, | that artillery fire control from the air, and the cruder forms of coope tion with the infantry were practi and developed. As late as June ance seen ¢ of The list oliow Clifford Henry Case, James Lee, Fva Green, Victoria Josephine Henn, Fverett Ostre, Minor Maurice Fieber, | Goorge 'W. Smith, Richard Wm. Al- h lum, Charles Hatficld, James Adam British MoConkey, Mary Steiner Rict flung Malin. Rosina amforth North, ai Augusta E. Stignel Williams, E Moisson, Allan Swift Taylor, sliam John MeCartney, Charles H Charles -Monroe Burgess, Ric Henry Middleton, Burkinsh: Charles Cook, Howard B. Humason, h B. Wenz. James S. Carter, i = . Lo North, .Julia E. G. BRITISH TROOPS PROTEST. Howard D. Johnson, Alexan — Frederick (. Minkler, Ger- | Leave Camp in Monster Morrig Car A An- tion Against Discharge Derothy B e Smizer. London, Jan 4. —The ™olkestone Anna MeConkey What- | correspondent of The Evering News Clifford 1. Bull | s that several thousand soldiers Men's club of the ' marched yesterday in a body from n called Wednes- three rest camps the Follestone January 9 2:30 Town hall to protest agaiust the de- arish house. The club n demobhilization. Tley were ad- voluntary n ed by comrade. the cemc The meyor of Folkestone of the male the balcony of the Tcwn hall and ation. Officers that if the men would re- elected at the mps they would hear Women’s Gould whereupon the Tell Me the Old, mayor promised industry should s soon rossible. indant at Folkestone a message saying that he would and address the men at the which are occupied by troops to return to France. Barrows, )\ Alice Jane N ed 1915 .ordinary rifles shortened barrels were pilots, and hand grenades at enemy aviators in the by mer The development of formation fight- Wil nd the evolution of aerial gun- Fe a1y es from about this time, when machine gun hecame an essential of the equipment of fighting and observer: part pilots Cora | Tary | lise yrelio, Bades, trude Delay. vens, Tohn Clark, ineeting of the ¢l has b for to lay supporte ar nd nt- appeared of 1hers the year nual mec: he fric on announced turn to the some good news, merely sa: Story The essential to of the cong will be & of the been re. that be A boud has ceived by the church from an anony- mous giver, New Church fund. as REDUCING GERMAN ARMY. I meet camps, destined Berlin Peporis the Older Classes of ZoF DhijstausRDBcltarsec ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. The of Miss Margaret Wessels was an- Year's party given at 1 4 German armi- | ensagamen stice ‘commissipners, according to a | Muller and ]fl‘viy\ Berlin dispatch, have transmitted to mounced at a New the allied commissioners a note say- At the home of Miss Muller ing that on western front, be- Lincoln street on Wednesday. Miss cides the peaca-time garrisong, there Muller is a teacher in the local are now twenty divisions of which the | schools and the daughter of Mrs. older classes have been discharged. L. J, Muller. Mr, Wessels, who is a Tt is added that the dissolution graduate of the Connectfout Agrieul- the German high command is tural college, is manager of the Sun- ceeding. set Rock Orchards company. The Basle, the is of pro- 24 hours, | war, . were used simply for strate- . carried , Demonstra- | men ¢ old « 1681 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATUM NOT ALL RUSSIANS FAVOR BOLSHEVISH | While It May Be Good in Theory, Practice Is Difierent iondon, Dec. of the workmen 18, Associated (Correspondence Press.) and peasants are by no means united in a movement to per- petuate dictatorship of the proletariaf, aceording to a traveller who recently arrived here from Russia. Pretense that such is the situation in Russia is one of the efforts of the Rolshevik propagandists. For many months cow government wholly without the peasants have learned that Bol- shevism in theory and Bolshevism in practise are as unlike day and nicht. The people of the Russian vil- lages and country districts are de- clared 1o be so bitter against the B sheviki that workmen who are forced to return to their native villages for food dare not voice Bolshevik doctrine for fear of being killed by their rela- tives or former friends To the countrymen shevism now requisitions. an outs takes grain market rate. The peasant’s ear is no longer open to Maximalist theories. He cares nothing for ekilful Maximalist argu- ments setting forth beautiful social and economic doctrines. He has tried Bolshevism for a year. He has had much of his grain and other foodstuffs wrested from him by Rolshevik grain crusades. He knows that the only re- maining peasant Bolsheviki are shift- less ne'er-do-walls and will have noth- ing to do with them. As the peasants make cent. of Russia’s popu n their at- tude eventually may shape Russian policy, says the informant. They con- trol food production, and bread is the : basis of the present struggle. Krom ite inception the he says, the has been ant support Mos- pea for as i in Russia Bol- means nothing but food To him a Bolshevik is armed with a rifle, who at prices far below the | | der, | up 85 per commissars who were shipped all over the republic in special trains and pro- vided with armed forces which club- bed city and village governments into line. When commissars fell under local influence and became le: ' drastic in their methods the Bolshevilk authoritics at Smolny Institute with- drew them and sent others who would be more brutal in their methods. These methods worked for a time, but decreased in effectivences in direct proportion to the distance from Mos- cow. When the disbanded army re- turned to the villages carrying arms and ammunition the peasants began to initate Bolshevik methods They i ' { pry Russian | almost | Bolshevik | sovernment depemded upon traveling | ver: resisted with machine-guns and inaf rated the movement which ha nited soviet jurisdiction to less tham one-tenth of the old Russian empire. MAY WAR TROPHY. Appiy Gun. War Bureau Can if City Wants Hun Hartford, Jan. 4.—All of cut’s 168 war bureaus have formed by the Connecticut State Council of Defense to advise the Council immediately if a German tro- is desired. The Defense Council has been in- formed that the Ordnance Department is planning to bring to this country a Connecti- been in- “e number of captured German iro- | to . The De- | phies, and that it will be possible obtain some for Connecticut. fense Council points out to war reaus that it quite essential that any town desiring anything of this sort shall say so without delay, so that the Council may put in the request ithin a few dz . The notice of the possibility of zet- ting trophies has gone to all the states and the first applications ching Washington ill have the of heing favor: weted upon bu- is w WILL CRIPPLE GERMANY. | Loss of 2,000 Airplanes Cannot Quickly Be Overcome. London, Jan. 4.-—Tor the Allies to take 2,000 in airplanes from Germany accordance with the terms of rmistice, means militarily crippling Germa of early ing to the ae an aviation phasized, he savs, five months of the ing of the war, Germany combat with the British thing like 2,700 machines. total must be added the wrought by the French and r services. The expert asserts that for seve months before the armistice, Ger many's capacity for producing air planes was unequal to the task of placing her immense losses. 1ds, was strikingly ilustrated b, most complete failure of her air rmy during the final and most criti- 1 phase of the war. hope recovery, while immensely add- ngth of the expert. This by the fac heaviest afir fight- lost in aerial alone some- To heyond is em- that in sa S he COLUMBIA TO BE REPRESENTED. New 4.—Columbia ity uni- the York, Jan. bo meeting of the American Rowing association to be held in Philadelphia next week to discuss the proposal to have a Henley regatta for college crews this spring, nounced today. If the plans mature, it is virtually certain that the Blue and White will enter a boat. Colum- bia also probably will enter a drew for the Childs Cup race with Princeton and Pennsylvania. will represented at Allies, | this ¢ destruction | American | al | re- | College | it was an- | | prices of feo {of 1918, and al increase Ofi_ 15 to Sept. 16,8 November numb Labor Review, 188 of Labor Statistich# Every 1rticle fog i obtained by the burs crease of 56 per cé the five showed | more | cent. increases of 100 follows nork 105 lard, choy per cent.: flour, 100 per cent.; and’ per cent -~ f the 28 articles for which pricd were obtained for comparison! be- | tween August and September, /1918, ! only two declined in rrice, onions 9 per cent. and bheans 1 per cent. RBut- ter, e pork «chops, and ham showed the greatest increases. Sirloin steak, ri% roast and chuck roast reased less than five-tenths of 1 pe cent. Lanb, bread, flour, and pota- toes showed o change in price. Comparing Sept. 15, 1918, with Sept. 15, 1917, the increase of all ar ticles combined was 16 per cent. this period, round steak and boili beef showed the greafest in per cent.’ each. Hens showed the next 30 per cent. was no change in the p with a year ago beans, flour, su N 1d cheaper in >tember, i than in September, 1917 The age retail prices principal articles of food : York for Sept. 15, 1413, {and 1918, and Aug. 15, | forth in ine review. Food prices in 45 cities are shown | in another table, which covers each 1 month of the twelve from September, 1917, to August, 1918, inclusive. On | a basis cf 160 per cent. the prices in i some of these cities follow in- reases, 34 and chuck highest each in- There as compared Corn coffee 1918, the New 191 are set | ave of in 1914, 1918, Septemb . August, | 917 1918 107.13 116.50 24 18 5.43 .03 32 62 3§ | Atlanta Baltimore {EBoston WL NE D RE A Columbus, Ohio Kansas City New Orleans | New York | St. Louis | S8an F isco | wasn ngton NEW BRITAIN TRUST (X ce of bread | § Capital $400,000 — Surplus and Profits $300,000 Let Us Call Your Attention to a Few Things You Should Do Early in 1919 MAKE A WILL if you have not already done so Name this Company Executor of your will and if you desire to leave a Trust Fund name us as Trustee. RENT A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX. There are at least one thousand people in this city who cannot afford to take the risk of having their securities either burned up or stolen. You may be one of them. The cost is $3.00 per year and upwards. OPEN A CHECK ACCOUNT WITH US. Come in and talk with one of our officers about these important matters as soon after January 1st as possible.