Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 8, 1916, Page 4

THE BLUE RIBBON VAUDEVILLE SHOW BIG KEITH VAUDEVILLE z The Boarding School Girls and go under any and the samo as he claims to have done several times on ‘his way over, or he get his bear- ing before he sul and ?r‘noo url- der the waves he head in another direction and no one will be the wiser. ‘What he did in leaving Chesapeake ONE NIGHT - _THURSDAY, NOV. 9th A. H. WOODS Presents 1 dlorwich Bulletin and Goufied 120 YEARS OLD Subscription- price 12c a week; 50c a Being _tired, our imaginations riot. She had been kidnaped or fallen from a window. I even dis- patched a bellboy to the street below | to_look. ! ‘Just as John arrived on the scens, | wild-eyed, I having phoned his room “Nothing,” dramatically asserted the matron, teiling the story, “nothing ever will convince that hotel force that they entertained anything less than a band of suspicious persons be- ran had wonth; $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulletin Businass Office 480, Bulletin Editorial Room; Bulletin 35-; ‘Willimantic Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1916. e 3. Job Offica 83-2. Office, 67 Church St. bay he can of course repeat in leav- ing New London. The advantages there are as much if not more in his favor and there is little doubt but what he will be able to get safely away whether he leaves Friday or some cther day. Conditions are in Koenig’s favor. i NEW YORK’'S DYNAMITERS In connection with the many aéts of anarchy which have taken place in New York city within the past few years, none perhaps indicated a more determined effort to cause a great loss of lifs and property in the very heart of the city than the conspiracy to blow escceccecssensosoessases: {The Circulation of iThe Bulletin : ing the Entente offénsive on the 4 ad the key. out the lights the (offl T The Bulletin has the largest §|schemes, but if there is too much free- | the bellboy still ha g e office rang me. | Somme, eupply columns mingle in FOURTH efrculation of N in ltiu;em dom in the sale 8f dynamite, whether T ot Bk bt Sy ‘@otbes una ?S‘é’ifgg:-ffi:fl;fl ttgeogernu;:unaug bt Toohh “k:' contoaton BEt s ie EPISODE OF CRlMSON STAlN MYS [} ERY ] our § | ; - s u n h o avaer than that of any ind| (t 18 in New York or New Jorsey, thefe | ,ineg tne search. The night clerk pesty Norwieh. It i5 delivered to over ,000 of the 4,063 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per is considered tbe local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postoftice districts, and iural free dellvery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION - 1901, averag H H H i in Putnam and Danfelson to ovu’ 1805, average up the subway. - _An interesting situation which has been brought to light in this connec- tion is the statement on the part of Captain Tunney of the bomb squad who declares that the purchase of dy- namite under the laws of New Jer- is dangerously easy, and it is his belief that there should be.better re- strictions placéd about the sale of such explosives for the protection to people 2nd property. It may of course be placing an un- just charge against New Jersey, since the dynamite may have been bought clsewhere and taken to the big city, and from the number of bomb factor- ies which have been unearthed in the metropoiis it is evident that dynamite s not the only means which plotters have for carrying out their dastardly is good reason for surrounding it with the proper safeguards. When regula- tions are taken advantage of it is time gerous explosives are kept from the hands of those with anarchistic ten- dencies, the greater is the contribu- tion to the general safety of the pub- lic at large, against which those who have legitimate use for such an arti- cle can have little ground for com- plaint. CUBA’S ELECTION. If the final and corrected figures in the Cuban election prove that Gen- eral Monocal, who has served one longing to an asylum, out for an air- ing, with most indifferent keepers! ‘Our only intention when we dre? up there near midnight after driving some 200 miles that day was to go to sleep. It seemed to me at the time that a thousand dollars would be a small sum to barter for a good mat- tress and peace. John was SO ETOEEY from sheer weariness that he reeled as he walked, but we bad to bear up because we were the official chaperons of the trip. “All of us started up together on the elevator. When we reached the fifth floor it turned out that we alone were rooming there, Belle and Grace, blinking from sleepiness, eiected to remain seated in the elevator while we got settled, while Bert, who was on the eighth floor, got off with us temporarily. “When he bade us good-night, John gave one gasp, cleared his clothes With one jump and was in bed with another dead to the world. Presently the tel- ephone rang. It s Bert. He want- ed to know whether by any change Belle was in my room visiting. He said that when he got back to the ele- vator he had found Grace, still riding up and down, telling him that Belle had grown tired of ascentions and descents and that sie had got off at their floor, the fourtn, and had prom- ised to wait im the hall. They had searched the fourth floor and she was nowhere to be found and the elevator man was becoming very indignant at being forced to continue going up and down and something must be done. She could not be in their room because and all the bellboys came to help- We sleuthed around those halls madly, and there was no trace of the missing one. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socisty Sulina — With the capture of her most important Black Sea city, Con- stantza, by the Bulgarians and Ger- mans under Field Marshal yon Mack- ensen, Sulina is Roumania’s sole re- maining deep water .seaport. This town, which now becomes of prime im- portance to the nation in distress, is there was a shout up the elevator shaft from the third floor, where an energetic bellb had run down our prey. Belle not got off at the fourth floor at all. She nad got off at the third, curled up on a big leather couch in%an alcove and promptly fall- en asleep. All during our frantic search she had been getting in good work in slumber and she was most indignant because she had been inter- rupted. “The. combined force led Grace and Belle to their room. saw that = the door was locked on them and we again separated. Bert ascended to the eighth and we got off again at the fifth and then I had to explain fully to John just why I had seen fit to make him get up. The bathroom passageway between our rooms was long and he had to shout to be certain that I didn’t miss any of the inflections of his voice and the people next door pounded on the wall before he was entirely through telling me what he thought of me. “I was blinking dnto a traveling bag containing a pink negligee and a lace-trimmed gown that should have been pale blue and embroidery, when my phone again rang. It was Grace speaking. She said she guesséd she had my bag and for heaven’'s sake not to spill the 2imond cream bottle in her’s. Well, I rang up a bellboy, who looked at me as though I had been the cause of his grandmother’s dem- ise and engineered the exchange of bags. It was then well on toward 2 a'clock. i “Precisely when I was ready to turn if so would my husband kindly step down to the office. I explained to them that for nothing short of a mur- der case would I dare to awaken my next door had phoned me that he was unable to endure the disgraceful racket in 814 and repeated calls from the office brought no answer at the phone. They politely hinted at possi- ble , delirium of some kind and said that something must be done. Sud- den insanity was the horrible thought which flashed into 1y agonized mind. could be nothing else, because Bert devoted to ice water as a beverage. Shaking with terror, I rushed into Jolin’s room and pounded him awake. ‘We didn’t pause to (!res} we just got into dressing gowas and traveled up | NORWICH MOTOR SALES CO, Thames Square, H. F. McCurdy, Manager One is that most families have more money than they had last year to pay for food. The other is that the phe- nomenal rise in the price of provi- sions may lead Americans to rational economies in the use of food. We have the reputation of wasting enough to feed several small nations.—Water- bury Republican. | STORIES OF THE WAR | Supplying the Army. In all the villages, numbering be- tween thirty and forty, captured dur- more aparent than real, for every- thing works with the utmost precision and order. are made with extraordinary rapidi- ty. In the combatant lines themselves thé movements of the troops are nat- urally hidden from view. Every man is called upon to dig himself in and in a very few hours even on a field of battle such as that extending north and south of the Somme over a length of forty miles and a depth of perhaps ten scarcely a human being can be seen. Behind the lines distributed over an area. probably fifty miles square are parks of vehicles and provision and A .Bright Cheerful Musical Com edy Featuring Miss Tommy Allen 7—People— Mostly Girls — Speci: Scenery WILL ROBINS The Merry Minstrel DREAMS OF ART < The Most Beautiful Posing Act in Vaudeville—Novelty ”‘efi and DORQTHY DALTON = HOWARD HICKMAN In the Five Part Triangle Play “THE JUNGLE CHILD” THE LADY DRUMMER Two Reel Comedy MATINEE 2:15 EVENING 6:45, 8:45 The Greatest Dramatic Success In Years “Common Clay” By CLEAVES KINKEAD Presented by a Powerful and Per- fectly Baldnced Cast of New York Favorites.” CITY SEVEN MONTHS IN BOSTON PRICES,$1.50, $1.00, 75c, SEATS NOW SELLING 1 ONE SOLID YEAR IN NEW YORK » 35¢ 28c Paramount DANIEL FROHMAN Presents MARQUERITE CLARK IN A NOVEL ROMANTIC PHOTOPLAY SILKSANDSATINS Matinee at 2:30 All Seats 0o Evening at 7-8:30 Pictures dham ¢ So soon as a position has been taken 2 SHOWS—2.30 and & P. M cent. of the people. In Win to efther see that they are properly husband again and to tell me the|the suppiy flepflm move up and ar- || Wednesday ITORIUMM'“"“ S it is delivered to over 900 hodbes, §|enforced or else the weak spots are worst. rangements for feeding the men com- || Thursdny S e RS strengthened. Every time such dan- “They informed nie that the guest| posing the first, second and third lines 1,100, and in all of these places it An Entire Change of Program—Scenery, Songs and Costumes PHIL OTT AND HIS MUSICAL FOLLIES CO. PRESENTING “WHO WANTS A TWENTY—PEOPLE—TWENTY WIFE” MOSTLY GIRLS A RIOT OF MELODY AND MIRTH The Rumanian Situation. Go Together. Pretty soon even the fence that the ‘With every pair of high-heeled shces ammunition depots. These are all con- nected by dozens of lines of light nar- row-gauge railroads, laid with un- believable rapidity and intersecting the fields in every direction. Horses are tethered in thousands wating to be attached at any moment to vehicles of term in that republic, has been re- elected, there is reason for extending congratulations to that republic. This government has supervised the elec- tion in that island republic and ac- cording to the reports which have Rumanian finally jumped from may be obliterated.—Grand Rapids Press. to the eighth floor with the office force. People in nearby rooms were thrusting heads from doors and I could not biame them inasmuch as from 814 came muffled cries and roars and dull thumps. I hung onto John sold a nice, padded pair of crutches should be given.—Columbia S. C. State Old Samson, an Indian, is dead af 106, in Delta, Cal. described in the following war geog- raphy bulletin of the National Geo- graphic Society issued recentl “Sulina, a town cf about. 6,000 in- habitants, has assumed an importance 1o Roumania out of all proportion to China yearly imports 200,000,000 gal- lons of kerosene. . REPUBLICAN\ VICTORY From all indications and the ten- dency of the -returns at a late hour there was good assurance that the na- tional republican ticket has won by a substantial majority. From the early returns it was evi- dent that Charles Evans Hughes had received the endorsement of the elec- torate and s the figires continued to pile up this was emphasized. There were sunprises and Connecticut con- tributed its share of them but there was nevertheless an underground swell for Hughes and he continued to gain as the counting advanced. Not only throughout the east with & solld New England and New York and New Jersey back of him, but the blg states of the middle west swung into line and those further west show- ed a lead for Hughes which gave added assurance of his victory, even with the uncertainty which prevails in a number of the states, and th& claims which have been mada by the national republican committee fin his behalf appear to be fully supported. This means a vindication of the policies which have been advanced by the republican party and Mr. Hughes and it ‘means that the people are de- sirous that they shall be put into ef- fect. It is a republican victory of far reaching effect, and a repudiation of the present administration. THE I. W. W, AT EVERETT. For some time there has been little evidence of the activities of the I. W. W., and their policy of securing what they think they ought to have with- out regard to right or reason by means of violence. Thispart of the country has had recent industrial disputes, strikes and even the dispiay of vio- lence but they were not started or en- couraged under the name of the I W. W, and barring the, trouble at Bayonne they did not disclose the dan- gerous conditions and the total disre- gard for law and order which were manifested in the disturbagces atLaw- rence and Paterson. That the Pacific coast is undergoing its experiences in this respect is in- dicated by the trouble which devel- oped at Everett, Wash., where the I W. W. undertook to take control of thelocal strike and not belng able to put its leaders in touch-with the sit- uation by land chartered.a steamer and sent an expedition by water to take command. The party was armed and it manifested its determination to have its own way by firing upon the authoritles gathered upon the wharf to resist their interference. The ex- change of shots resulted in a number of deaths upon both sides but it made plain that the people of Everett were determined that such a disturb- Ing influence would not be tolerated in their city. They have taught such lawless mobs a lesson which should jave much influenés’ It that section in the future and given them to under- stand that law and order must be respected. -_— e . IN KOENIG'S FAVOR Whether or not Captain Koenig will have the Deutschland ready, for de- parture on Friday, in accordance with some of the predictions, it will prob- ably make little or no difference whether he attempts to leave this country for Bremen this week or next, or the week following. There are pood reasons for believing that he will be able to make as safe a get away this time as on the occasion of his previous visit. Then it was predicted that he would be forced to run the gauntlet of allied warships but after he slipped out of the Chesapeake bay and-submerged | 16 encountered no trouble. Once out- side the three-mile limit ‘the under- water merchantman would be legiti- mate preg for the ememy’s vessels eovidea they observed the rules of been received by the assistant segre- tary of the department of interior at)| Washington it is his belief that such will be found to be the result. A determined effort has been made by the liberal party to bring about tha defeat of the conservatives. Dr. Zayas was set up as- the liberal candidate and a leader in his campaign has been ex-President Gomez, Who because of the most unsatisfactory conduct of that government was d@efeated four years ago by Menocal. He has there- fore been doing his utmost to bring about the defeat of his successor and it was he who led the big demonstra- tion which took place in Havana when it was first announced that that city and province had gone for Zayas. Under Menocal, Cuba has exper- ienced some of the best government in years. He has been progressive and has backed legislation which was for the welfare of the republic. His de- feat would indicate a return to condi- tions which any republic should be anxious to escape and especially so in view of the fact that from the part which he has played and from all indi- cations on the surface Gomez would be- come the real power. If Cuba therefore has escaped that backward step it is in- deed fortunate and it reflecis likewise the good judgment of the people in discriminating between the nominees. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: This is the morning when the majority has a ‘chance to say “I told you so!™ P S v aite Each side was confident before elec- tion, but the vote proves, as is always the case, that but one side can win. Now the election is out of the way the investigation of the Marina case can proceed without interference. From the condition of-the egg mar- ket, it appears to be time to repeat that oft asked inquiry, Why is a hen? Rumania appears to have gotten to the point where the use of the strate- gic retreat excuse is no longer neces- sary. Things are not always what they seem. A destroyer has recently been rushed to a lightship to save a sick man. Von Hindenburg may think that France is dying, but to other people there is no evidence of it from the fighting it is doing. It is to be remembered in connec- tion with these new dimes that just because the artist's monogram appears thereon they do not all belong to him. oSS e The Housewives League in New York is urging the people not to buy eggs untfl the price ocomes down. ‘Whero is the prophet who can fix the date? & The preparations of Carranza’s troops to evacuate Chiluahua does not indicate a_very favorable state of af- fairs in Mexico except from the Villa standpoint. i With Germany temporarily regain- ing some of the positions it lost on the Somme it is showing the effects of the help that it has lved from the withdrawal from, Ve The food shortage in has sent prices sky high, but they are too high in this country and yet this coun- try is not engaged in any such con- fiict as that across the water. Captéin Koeni#" hopes to make an- other trip before the war ends. Unles: he expects a longer rest on his return to Germany than he received the last time he must be planning on an early peace. AP RITIAE SR Those doctors who found a thousand dollars in bills wrapped around the legs of a New York man they were about to operate upon no doubt dis- covered that it ‘was a se- rious case. its size, owing to the sudden fall of Corstantza. Surrounded by a marshy orea which stretches in every direc- tion and is of 1,000 square miles in extent, this port labors under the dis- advaniage of having no railway con- necticn with the interior. It owes its existence to the fact that it is at the movth of the smallest but deepest of the three great branches of the Dan- uke entering the Black Sea. The northern branch, which carries nearly 70 per cent of the water of the great river, subdivides and finally reaches the sea through twelve mouths. The suuthern or St. George branch is sec- on? in size, while the middle or Su- a granch, discharging only about nine Percent of .the total volume of water, is the one great navigable chan- nel through which ocean-going vessels of 4,000 tons register can proceed as fur inland as Braila, 100 miles from thc sea, while steamers of light draught go from Sulina to Vienna in peace times, and wheat-laden barges are towed even to the Austro-Bavar- ian frontier cn the bosom of this ‘father of waters’ for central Europe. “One of (he most striking pictures of Sullna as it was sixty years ago compared with the present city, is ziven by thé English enzineer, Sir Charles Hartley, who for half a cen- iury was in charge of the improve- ments of the lower waters of the river, under the supervision of the Kuropean Commission of the Danube, composed of representatives of Austria, France, tussia, Ronmania, Grea: Britain, Prussia, Sardinia and Turkey. This authority says: “‘“The entrance of the Sulina branch was a wild open seaboard strewn with wrecks, the huils and masts of which, sticking out of the submerged san banks, gave to mariners the only guide wiere the deepest channel was to be found. 'Phe depth of the chan- nel varied from seven to eleven feet, and was rarely more than nine feet. “'The site now occupiel by wide quays extending several miles in length was then entirely covered with water when the sea rose a few jnches above ordinary level, and that even in a perfect calm; the banks of the river near the mout®were only indicated by clusters of wretched hovels built on piles and by rarrow patches of sand skirted by tall reeds, the only vegeta- ble product of the vast swamps be- yond. “'For some years before the im- provements, an average of 2,000 ves- sels visited the Danube and of tI number mote than three-fourths landed either the whole or part of their cargoes from lighiers in the Su- lina roadstead, where, lying off a lee shore, they were frequently exposed 10 the greatest danger. ° Shipwrecks were of common occurrence. One dark winter night in 1855, during a terrific gale, 24 sailing ships and lighters went ashore off the mouth and upwards of 300 persons perished.’ “Since its organization in 1856, un- der the treaty .ef Paris, supplemented by subsequent agreements, the Euro- pean Commission of the Danube has deepened the channel of the river be- tween Sulina and Braila to a2 minimum depth of 20 feet, and this is maintained by constant dredging, the funds for which are obtained from the tolls levied on outgoing vessels of more than 300 tons, Another - important work of the commission has been the straightening and shortening of the navigable course of the Sulina branch by cutting numerous canals. For- merly the distance from the sea to St. George's Chatal, where this middle branch of the river joins the south- ern arm, was 45 miles, but by these engineering feats tbe = distance has been reduced to an almost straight waterway of 34 miles. “Before the outbreak of the Euro- pean war Sulna was a busy point where wheat coming down the Dan- ube from Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Russia was transhipped from barges to seageing vessels. “The town is the headquarters of the [Buropean Commission of jthe Danube, and is the terminus of sthe Danube Steamship y sel ) ‘whosz inland starting point is Pas- sau on the Austfo-Bavarian frontier. 1t is also a port of call for two steam- ship lines which in normal times maintain a fortnightly service between Braila and Constantinople. “Sulina is 10 miles south of that branch of the Danube which consti- tuies the Russo-Rcumania boundary line, and is 85 miles northeast of Con- stantza. The distance to Constanti- nople, due south, along the lane of steamship travel, is 254 miles.” ané they got the door unlocked and when we burst in headlong it was to- tally empty. It was 'then I shrieked and cast myself wildly onto the first shoulder handy. which chanced to be- long to the hotel clerk, an austere in- dividual who regarded me coldly, ‘“Well, they finally excAvated Bert from the thick-walled closet into which he had shut himself. He nad noticed that the electric light in it did not seem to go out when the door closed and he had stepped inside to search for the eleciric connection in the door jamb. Ard the door had shut after him and retused to open. Heartily disliked by the entire hotel force and a large portion of the guests we slunk back to our rooms. I heard a clock strike 3 as I finally attained slumber. And in about two minutes the phones rang, again and the sweet- voiced operator said, nonchalantly, “six-thirt: In the cxcitement we had forgotten to cancel our order to be called, which .we had given when we registered. I've been busy ex- plaining to John ever since that I didn't arrange the whole program just for diversion! That’s the trouble with husbands!”—Chicago News. OTHER VIEW POINTS As was inevitable the newspapers have become the most influential med- ium for advertising the wares the political parties have to sell. All otker methods have failed to give like satisfaction—New Haven Journal- Courier. s There is small question that both McAdoo and Willlams have used their offices to get even with certain greups in Wall Street. As a matter of fact, the administration is not so much opposed to Wall Street, except for effect, as to certain groups in Wall Street; and to thosz groups laigely for personal reasons. —Water- bury American. With coal $12 a ton in most inland places at this particular time, resi- dents along the Connecticut river should feel proud they are living on a navigable stream and only forced to pay a like amount. Possibly the riv- ers and harbors improvements ¢idea will reach this way in time to per- mit of all rail coal as a necessity. — Middletown Press. It has come to the point, however, where Britain has been forced to the conclusion that there must be a fight to a finlsh since the menace which has imperiled her very existence can- not be tolerated. The sacrifice must. be made to a man and the casulty lists tel] the grewsome story. Whether the lives and tfcasure have been expended in a way to do the most good is a question. England has not so far shown any remarkable generalship, but that she has paid an awful price in blood and money no one can deny. —Meriden Record. Our post office department is not so slow in the delivery of mail as eome would have us believe. A letter or newspaper delayed is not so bad as a letter_or newspaper not @elivered at all. Prof. Langdon, formerly of Ox- ford university and now curator of the museum of the University of Pennsyl- vania, has just opened a letter that was written 2,200 years before Chrigt and that was never delivered. It is written in the anclent Sumerian lan- guage. So it seems that the Sumer- ian post office department has a lit- tle something on our own. The letter was properly sealed. It was done up in a hard clay envelope ond Prof. Langdon had to use a hamer to open it—Hartford Courant. Tt cost thig family $12.69 a weel for food in October, 1915, and it cost $19.45 a week in October. 1916. Hun- dreds of thousands of other families, if they kept carcful record, would doubtless have a similar tale to tell. The difference would presumably be less in the smaller cities, where peo- pla are closer to many sources 6f sup- ply, but every year the cost of provi- sions in city and village comes near- er an equality. The worst of it is that the greatest incredise is for the particular things most necessary in a normal dist—flour, mesat, butter and beans. two red every sort used to despatch supplies to any part of the line. Along the roads, most of which have been specially cut even while the shell-fire was still heavy in order to relieve the main na- tional routes usually reserved for the heavy motor-lorries and staff motor- cars, convoys of carts ranging from the small donkey-cart to the large supply-wagon with a team of four horses continually move to or from the fighting line. Junior officers, many of whom in private life occupy high posi- tions m business, seem to have adapt- ed themselves swiftly to the new life so different from their regular occu- pation. At every intersection one of them is posted to_direct the traffic and they do so with all the efficiency of the memners of a city police traffic squad. Never during his sojourn with the French armies has the correspondent of The Associatted Press observed any serious congestion. Occasionally a German long-range gun will tear great holes in the roads in the endeavor to prevent reinforce- ments coming up or the approach of ammunition columns. At once larze squads of men supposed to be enjoy- ing a rest from the rigors of the front line are put to work to fill the gaps with fresh macadam and huge steam- rollers appear from cverywhere to level the surface. Then other men come on with tar pails and brushes and coat the surface to prevent the rising of dust as much as possible. The houses of the recaptured vily lages, when they are still standing, are largely in ruin but most of them are repaired _and utilized as stables for horses. Some of the cellars have not suffered from bombardment and fre- quently squads of men are billetted there. As a rule, however, the men in the rear of the fighting lines fire com- pelled to build or excavate their own habitations. Generally they rrefer to dig them ont of the slopes of the hills and often they are so ingeniously con- structed that only on near approach can thdy be scen. Tens of thousands thus live in cavcs, where they sleep on bundles of straw spread on the ground. -Durlng the twn years of war they have learned to make themselves very comfortable under these condi- tions so different from those of their ordinary lives. All the men look in splendid condition, and the army doc- tors report a very small percentage of sickness among them. Anyone who has lived with the Freench in times of peace at once re- marns that the soldiers meem to have increased both in stature and strength during the war. The men of the na- tion appear to thrive since they have returned almost to primitive condi- tions and been deprived of the com- forts to which they had become accus- tomed. Returned Englishman’s Story of 50 Zeppelins. After spending 54 years of his life in Saxony and having reached the age of 74, an old Yorkshireman. Willlam Lockwood, a native of Harden, near Bingle, has been repatriated by the Germans, and recently he arrived in Leeds. At the age of 20 he went to Ger- many as an agent for EngHshr power looms, and has lived at Meerane, near Leipzwig, ever since. When he left Germany nearly a month ago, he says, Socialists were holding meetings every day and passing resolutions favoring peace without annexation, ard every belligerent to settle his own account. Germans would be glad to get out of the war now at that price. Infirmaries, hospitals, schools and public buildings of all kinds are pack- ed with wounded soldiers. There had been celebrations for supposed victor- ies right up to the middle of this sum- mer, but the wounded ‘soldiers have opened the people's eyes. “This last few months I have heard wounded soldiers eay there is no chance for Germany now that there are so many men and guns against them. German people make no secret,” he adds, “that fifty big Zeppelins are being built expressly for the destruc- tion of London.” Mr. Lockwood says that three- quarters of the works in Saxony are shut down and people are nearly star- ving. The only foods that can be ob- tained without difficulty are potatoes at about 14. per 1b. and ryé bread at 4d. per lb. loaf. Butter tickets allow one-eighth ef a pound per person once a fortnight, and milk is only served once a week. 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