Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 18, 1917, Page 14

We advertise only what we have and exactly as it is Service You know all of these everything new here. Prompt Clothes For Out-of-Town Visitors Here If you come to this city during Eastern Connecticut Week, you'll appreciate the way you can walk into this store and get what you want quick. Better still, you’ll find here Clothing, Furnishings and Hats, that are the best of its kind, for instance: Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes, Cluett Shirts, Arrow Collars, Onyx Hose, Guyer Hats. good garments; you’ll find You'll find the accepted styles in Shirts, Collars, Neckwear; you’ll find Hosiery and Gloves; the very latest ideas and shapes in Straw, Soft or Stiff Hats. This is the men’s store of Eastern Connecticut; it’s worth knowing about. You are cordially invited to visit us, make this store your headquarters, meet your friends here, leave your bundles here, make yourself at home. Mty M- 207 MAIN STREET FIGHTING THE SUBMARINE. No One Knows the Extent of the Har- vest or How It Has Been Gathered In. (Special to The Bulletin.) Washington, May 17—Without min- imizing in any degree the frightful seriousness of Germany’s submarine warfare, there is a ray of hope and enceuragement in the reasons for se- crecy on the part of Great Britain ccncerning just what is being accom- plished in stalking these snakes of the sea. In a communication to the Na- tional Geographic society, Sydney Brooks, the English journalist, gives some of the strategic reasons for si- lence relative to the euccess with which the British admiralty is meet- ing in bagging this nefarious game. A part of the communication is issued as the following bulletin by the so- clety: “Just as Great Britain never adver- tizes the feats of her armies, so she allows the world to think that the Prussians are having it pretty much their own way with their submarines. As a matter of fact, the German sub- marines have scored very few legiti- mate successes—by which I mean suc- esses that conform to the usages of ilized warfare. It must be nearly two years since they sank a British man-of-war of any importance. rates preying upon fishing awlers, Atlantic liners, and itmen of all nations, they have added a new and infamous chap- ter o naval history. Otherwise it is, I believe, the opinion of most naval LADIES! READ! HERE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE We, The Ladies’ Specialty Store, are going to move to 140 Main Street, July 1st, next to Plaut-Cadden Co.’s Store, now occupied by Reuter, the Florist, and we are going to sell our entire stock before moving at VERY BIG BARGAIN PRICES. men that in German hands the sub- marine has proved disappointingly in- effective. “People, I remember, were thrown into a state of quite unbalanced ad- miration when the Deutschland ap- peared in American waters. It was spoken of as one of the most remark- able achievements of the war. Few stopped to remember—even indeed if they ever knew—that the war was only a few months old when ten Eritish submarines crossed the Atlantic from Halifax to the British Isles—the first submarines in naval history to make the journey under their own power. “While we publish the number of vessels sunk by Prussian submarines, we say not a word about the U-boats whose careers are brought to a sudden stop. I do not know how many of them we have caught, sunk or destroy- ed. It may be 180; it may be 200; it may be 220. They come out and they do not return, and there is no one in Germany, and perhaps not half a dozen people in England, who know what becomes of them. “The reasons for our secrecy must be tolerably cbvious to anyone who thinks the matter over. All that the Germans are able to infer from the faflure of any given U-boat to return to port is thet somehow or other it has been lost. But how or where they cannot_tell. “It may have been through some er- ror of structure or design—a thought to send a chill down the spine of every admiralty official. It may have been through a mistake In navigation. It may have been through one or other of the endless and constantly changing devices that British enuity has evolved and brought into play against the new piracy. It may, too, have happened near the German coast or after the U-boat had reached its ap- pointed station. They cannot tell. “They are faced with a blank wall of possibilities that they have no means of verifying. Weeks must often elapse before they can be sure that a submarine which they thought was op- erating in a certain area had really perished, and that another boat should be despatched to take its place. “Sometimes, however, the veil of mystery is partially lifted. Sometimes a German U-boat is towed up the Thames, moored t6 the embankment, anad from $75,00 to $100,000 collected for some naval charity by throwing it open to the public. Sometimes if you are dining with a naval officer you will hear wondrous tales of subma- rines netted, bombed by aeroplanes even when they are well below the surface, hunted and caught by de- stroyers, induced by one ruse after another to show themselves where they can be got at. “Sometimes, too, In a British port the men o the merchant marine will teil you of Homeric combats that would have warmed the heart of Nel- son and Farragut and made Drake and Frobisher gasp and stare “But these are mere haphazard per- sonal gleanings. No one knows the full extent of the harvest or how it has been gathered in. But we do know enough—or at any rate we think we do to feel fairly confident that the Ger- mans can attempt nothing and car in- vent nothing that we cannot find the ! means of countering; and that confi dence has been rather more than just Suits, Coats, Dresses, Skirts, Waists, Corsets, Hosiery, Etc. = reduced phenominal. | —— | — e [——]| | RO 5 R = — 1 Manhattan Offer FOL!,OWlfiG SPECIAL VALUES FOR THIS WEEK ONLY Women's and Misses’ Suits FINAL REDUCTIONS Our entire stock now is grouped into two lots for quick selling. As- sortment comprises the season’s best styles, materials and colors. Suits $16.50 were to $35.00 Il Sui Your choice at these prices—Nothing reserved TO CLOSE OUT CHOICE SELECTION OF - Coats $12.50 from $25.00 A limited number of Smart Coats in fine wool veicurs, gabardine and French serge, mostly one of a kind, but all sizes are represented in the lot. The values are Summer Styles ARE NOW READY! DAINTY DRESSES WASH SKIRTS PRETTY WAISTS CAPES AND COATS SILK SUITS SUMMER FURS Fares Rebated To All Out-of-Town Cistomers The Manha 121-125 MAIN STREET, GRADUATION AND CONFIRMATION DRESSES Complete Showing [————]] ~ Norwich, May 19th ts $25.00 # Splendid Styles AT SRS R ST ey | ey - =} N =3 -~ =2 were to $55.00 e —— e —— i SPECIAL OFFERING BEAUTIFUL STREET AND AFTERNOON Dresses $14.50 were up to $25.00 Assortment includes a liberal selection of Taffeta, Georgette, Crepe-de-Chine and Combination Silk Dresses, in a variety of becoming styles—Sale for this week only. Shirtwaist Sale at $1.65 FOR ONE WEEK ONLY Splendid variety of Silk and Cotton Voile Waists and Garden Smocks. Fetching styles just received for summer selling, regular prices are $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00. e —— g S o ——— o s " ON SALE THIS WEEK ONLY $1.65 art NORWICH, CONN. Special Values fled by all that has happened since Feb. 1" German Science in the War. Professor Both of Greifswald, Ger- many, gives an account of some of the accomplishments of German science since the war in the Dusseldorf Gen- eral Anzieger. H says in part: “In the first place, Germany has learned in this war to make us of her water power for the production of electric- ity. This has been necessary for pur- poses of coal economy. This use of water power has powerfully contribut- ed to the saving of human labor, with the result that Germany can now produce almost as cheaply as the countries possessing an unlimited supply of water power. Numerouss industrial concerns have undergone a process of modernization which se- cures to them still greater advantages than before. A description of the expansion and renovation of the iron and steel in- dustry, especially in the production of the finer types of metals, follows, and mention is made of the discovery of surprising substitutes for _copper, which Germany has been lacking. In the field of chemistry, he adds, rapid advances have been made from the laboratory to the manufacturing stage in the synthetic production of import- ant organic compounds, as well as of such war materials as rubber and ex- plosives. “Above all, the chemical conquest of the air for agriculture has made great progress,” he contin- ues. “The business of extracting ni- trogen from the atmosphere has been up and down like the float on a fish- line, and on the bottom are weights that keep the whole thing in a per- pendicular position. The submarine cannot submerge to very great depths on account of the pressure—200 feet being about the Hmiting depth. It sails innocently along, therefore, until it pushed its nose into these meshes. The net now trails along on both sides of the submarine—its progress reveal- ing the fact that something below is supplyving the motive power. Perhaps, the net suddenly stops; that means that the hidden submarine has stop- ped, its navigators have made the hor- rible discovery that they are trapped —or perhaps the net has bccome twisted in the propeller. Under these conditions the wise submarine rises to the surface. It surrenders, becomes the property of the enemy, and its crew are made prisoners. If it docs not take such action one of two things will happen. The enemy will wait up- on the surface until the submarine comes up, or, if it starts moving the enemy will_follow until the inevitable uprising. But perhaps the surface commander gets impatient: in such so successful that in 1917 the govern- ment will be able to dispose of flve million tons of ritrous manure, which is four times the amount needed in peace time. The equally difficult prob- lem of the producticn of _glycerine, toluol, benzol, sulphuric acid, has also been solved.—Don B. Mowry in Amer- ican Industry. PRICE NO OBJECT Sale Starts Today and Will Continue for 30 Days Until We Move The Ladies’ Specialty Store ON THE SQUARE, NORWICH How Submarine Nets Work. A submarine net is made of wire rope, about as thick as a lead jpencil, and the meshes are of great size— about ten or fifteen feet square. The net has flioats on top that keep bobbing a case he can let a bomb down into the water, which will explode when It touches the roof of the submarine. Of course, the submerged Germans know that this bomb is likely to drop at any minute; the “psychology” of such & situation tends to persuade the im- prisoned crew to surrender.—Indiana- polis News. Tobacco Ash Valuable. It appears that smolkers are throw- ing away annually about eight thous- and tons of valuable material, the same being the ashes of the tobacco that they consume. The ‘ash left on burning tobacco is considerable and, as a matter of fact, the mineral matfer of fhe tobacco leaf frequently amounts to as much as a fifth part of its weight. Thus a ton of tobacco leaf would yield four hundred. weights of ash, which represent val- uable mineral constituents withdrawn from the sofl which have to be re- placed by ‘abundant manuring. It has been calculated that a ton of tobacco withdraws more tban A huse ol —— | —— [ ——=|——=|——|—= | —=d] some of the more pessim fear that the T Anclents to ai national economy. dredweight of mineral constituents per acre of land. This would appear to be an astounding waste of material, which must be of enormous value to the soil, considering that 75 per cent. consists of calclum and potassiuvm salts and 15 per cent. of magnesium and sodium galts, including nearly 5 Socialist Peace Mesting soclalist T Our idea of a per cent. of the essentlal constituent |Ing in Berlin is that t >re to all plants—phosphoric acild.—Wash- [a ham sandwich wo r ington Star. in a riot in two minut Wa Post. A Berlin official that all the reéent rumors illness of the kaiser are u Horrors of War. The flowing bowl has been abolished by the Society of Colonial Wars, and THE LYONS CO. Wauregan Block Norwich, Conn. Eastern Connecticut Weelk | SMART STYLES, EXCELLENT QUALITY AND PRICES TO SUIT ALL Corsets—Nemo, Redfern, Madame Irene, Successor, Bien Jolie, Warner’s, R. & G., and American Lady— | prices 50c to $8.00. Brassieres, lace and embroidery trimmed, 50z, $1.00 to $3.50. Gloves and Aprons. Stockings, Socks, Waists. 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