Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 30, 1917, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 386 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER - 30, 1917 TEN PAGES—76 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS TOWN OF CAMBRAI - -UNDER BRITISH FIRE General Byng’s Forces Are Reported to be Pounding Hard Along Their Front in the Cambrai Sector BATTLING OF INFANTRY AT FONTAINE CEASED After Violent Artillery Preparation the Germans Undertook a Raid in the Champagne, But Were Beaten Back by the French—Along the Italian Front the Contending Armies Are Maintaining a Violent Bombardment—But Little News Comes From Petrograd—Fifteen Nations Are Represented at the Inter-Allied Conference in Paris. There has been little change on the various war fronts, according to the meazgre information coming out of the capitals of the belligerent countries in the last 24 hours. But the British are pounding hard along their front in the Cambrai sector. The town of Cambrai is now diredtly under the fire of the British cannon. The battling of the infantry for the { possession of Fontaine Notre Dame and between Moeuvres and Bourlon bas * ceased temporarily, but at times the artillery fire s of great intensity in these regions. Near Poelcapelle and between Becelaere and Gheuvelt and in the Arras sector the big guns of both | groups of belligerents are maintaining ‘2 heavy bombardment. Attacks on the Belgian position east of Merckem by Bavarian storming troops netted the enémy some prison- ers and two machine guns but an- | other hostile attack on Belgian troops in the neighborhood of Aschhoop was beaten off after a bitter fight. After violent artillery preparation, the Germans in great strength under- took a raid morth of Carnillet, in the ,Champagne, but were beaten back by ithe French troops, who inflicted heavy losses on them. Two other German attacks, ome near Bothincourt. -on the left bank of the Meuse, and the other west of Vaux les Damloup, on thS right bank, also were repulsed, whils a French raid on the German lines in the Argonne west of the Aire was car- ried out successfully and resulted in the taking of some German prisoners. Along the entire Italian front the batteries of the contending armies are maintaining a violent bombardment, but no infantry actions of importance are reported from this theatre of the world war. The German war office reports that Itallan attacks against the Austro-German mountain _posi- tions on the west bank of the Brenta and on Monte Tomba failed. News from Petrograd is meagre and no exact detals of conditions in Rus- sia_are availgble. The all-infportant inter-allied con- ference has begun its sessions in Paris. Fifteen nations were _repre- sented at the first meeting and much is expected from the discussions and decisions of this conference in the way of co-operation In carrying on tfe war against the central powers and the pooling of the great Tesources of the allies. Important meetings of the supreme war council, composed of representa- tives of the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy, will be held shortly at which the military opera- tions on the entire western front will come under consideration. CONFERENCE OF LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEEMEN Has Been Called For December 10 by Secretary McAdoo. Washington, Nov. 20—To perfect Liberty Loan organizations through out the country for the period of the war, Secretary McAdoo called a con- ference of representatives of Liberty Loan committees in each of the twelve * federal reserve districts ¢nd of the Wo- 's Liberty Loan organization to be Feld in Washington, December 10th. While the secretary has announced that thers will be no further Liberty Joan issued at least until after Feb- ruary 1” said a treasury department announcement, “he believes it essen- tial that educational work in prepara- tion for future loans be conducted continnously so that the people may become- fully acquainted with the. worth of government securities, the Sdvantage of thrift and economy and the financial needs of the government to wage war against Ge y." Governors of the fede: Teserve banks have been asked to attend the conference and also to designate “and send at least three of the principal Liberty Loan executives of their dis- tricts. The members of the Women’s Liberty Loan committee and the fed- eral airectors of that committtee also have been invited to the conference, ‘which is to continue about a week. FELL FROM DOORSTEP AND BROKE HIS NECK Willism Tighe of Meriden, 25, Died Almost Instantly. Meriden. Conn. Nov. 29.—Stepping jout of the ground ficor of a house mear his own home at six o'clock tonight. William Tighe, aged 25, lost his balance on the doorstep, fell and roke his neck. He died instantly. His fall occurred on a stoop of two stairs.. His head struck ageinst a nearby buflding. dislocating the first verter- brae. He was single and was employed at Factory E, International Silver Co. The medical examiner pronouneed the death a naccidental one. TWO AMERICANS KILLE_D BY BURSTING O FSHELL Which Hit a Loaded Ammunition Wagon, Which Was Blown Up. With the American Army I France, Nev. 29—(By The Associated Press.) —The killing of two American soldiers to a heavy German shell whic hit a loaded ammunition wagon. Some of the men were on the wagon and were nearby when the shell, was a chance shot, struck. The ‘wagon ard its cargo was blown up. Some of the wounded are in a eeri- ous condition, and all of them are in the hospital A GERMAN DESTROYER SUNK BY A MINE Off the Coast of Holland—Only Two of Her Crew Were Saved. London, Nov. 20—A German tor- boat destroyer belonging to the brugge flotilla struck a mine off ‘Westkappelle, Holland, and sank, ac- cording to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Amsterdam. Only .two of her crew were saved. . GREAT ARMY OF AMERICAN AVIATORS Has Arrived Near the War Front in France. ‘substantial ! MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE MAKES PLEA FOR PEACE Before War Leads to the Ruin of the Civilized World. London, Nov. 29.—The strongest im- petus to-a remewal of the heated dis- cussions of the rival schools on the war policy of the allies was provoked today from a most unexpected quarter by the publication of a long letter from the Marquis of Landsdowne, strongly pleading for a revision of the allies’ war aims .and an attempt to secure peace before “the prolongation of the war leads to the ruin of the civilized world.” The Marquis of Lansdowne is a ty- pical representative of the oM Tory party. He was a member of Asquith’s coalition administration and was sec- retary for foreign affairs in Lord Sal- isbury’s and Mr. Balfour’s ministries. He was viceroy of India and govern- or-general of Canada. He was the last public man to be suspected of pa- cifist tendencies, OKLAHOMA COAL TROUBLES SETTLED Operators ‘ Have Reached an Agree- ment With, H. A. Garfield, MecAlester, Okla., Nov. 29.—Oklaho- ma coal operators’and H. A. Garfield, federal fuel administrator, have smoothed over their differences, ac- cording to a_telegram received here tonight from William Wilkinson, pres- ident of the Oklahoma-Arkansas dis- trict, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, now in Washington. A tentative agreement has been reached which will allow the operators an advance of five cents a ton, advance to be re- troactive to November 1, Mr. Wilkin- son_so_announced in his telegram_to F; F. Ross, secretary of District No. FIRE OF MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN AT READING, P Gutted Restaurant in the Heart of the City’s Business Section. Reading, Pa., Nov. 29.—FIre tonight of ‘mysterious origin, in the hefl.r“:‘ of the city’s business section, gutted the building occupied by the Preston res- taurant on Penn Square and did dam- age to the building and contents to the extent of $70,000. Several other build- ings nearby were also threatened. The fire started in the basement, which is used as a stock e 3 Four firemen weré slightly injured. A Greek employed as a steward was arrested on suspicion and held with- out bail for a hearing. GERMANS PRAYED FOR PRESIDENT WILSON Services in St. James’ Catholic Church, Baltimore. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 29.—Several thousand native-born and their descendants gathered here today in St. James' Catholic church and prayed for lent 'Wilson and the men who have fallen g0 far in the war. The prayers were in particular for Nicholas ‘Wagner, who went down with the destroyer several weeks ago. He was a member of the congre- #ation. Practically all the congregation is of German exiraction, and 120 members are in the United States service. At East African Campaign. London, Nov. 29.—The end of th East African campaign before Christ. mas is predicted by, the Reuter cor. respondent at Ndara. He declared that by that time the German com- mander-in-chief Will either be a pris- oner or in_exile. - EN R Lady Mackenzie is D¥ad. Toronto, Ont., Nov. 29.—Lady Mac- Kenzle, wife of Sir Willlam Macken- zle, president of the Canadian North. ern_Railway, died today at her home Cabled Paragraphs Renewal of Trouble in Petrograd. London, Nov. 29 —The second edi- tion of the Daily Mail today contains an apparently mutilated telesram from Petrograd dated four o'clock Wednes- day indicating there has been a renew- al of trouble there. Scandinavian Conference. Christiania, November 29 —The Scan- dinavian conference was opened yes- terday with speeches by King Haakon of Norwayy and King Gustave of Sweden. ~After which the ministers representing the three nations confer- red several hours. A banquet was held last night. CROWDER CALLS UPON POLICE TO AID ARMY By Taking Slackers Into Custody—$50 Paid for Each Delivery at Camps Washington, Nov. 29.—Every police official_in_the country will become a part of the great -machine organized for building the national army, under war. department plans_announced to- day ' by Provost Marshal-general Crowder. Postal authorities also will play an active part in helping to car- Iy out the new regulations and the department believes that with the aid of these two agencies, local exemption boards will be greatly assisted in reg- istering the men and getting them to the training camps as they are called. Police throughout the nation will be instructed to take into custody men who fail to report for physical exami- nation or who violate any of the new rules and regulations. They also will be charged to.arrest and deliver to camps men who have been inducted into the military service by the local boards and who fail to entrain for mo- bilization. Such men are classed un- der military law as deserters and re- wards of $50 will be paid for their ar- rest and delivery at the camps. All the elaborate machinery of the postoffice department will be used to see that questionaires are delivered to the men and are returned by them within the seven days time limit al- lowed for filling them out. Postal of- ficials also_have been instructed by President Wilson and Postmaster- General Burleson to co-operate with the lgcal boards +n delivering and for- warding notices to registrants, par- ticularly notices of entrainment, as failure to respond to this notice classes the registrant as a deserter. HOW THANKSGIVING WAS OBSERVED IN LONDON A Picturesque Service Was Held in Historic Church of St. Ethelburga. London, Nov. 29.—Thanksgiving was observed in London by the flying of American flags ,an informal dinner at the American officers’ club and a pic- turesque united service on behalf of the United States and Great Britain in the historic church of St. Ethel- burga. It was this church in which Henry Hudson was a parishioner and made communion before -starting - on his first voyage of discovery in the New World more than 300 vears ago. Ambassador Page and Consul Gen- eral Skinner were represented official- 1y ‘at _the. seryice,.wl a by several distinguished Engiishmen and a number of American residents of London. The quaint old church, which is one of the landmarks of thd city, was decorated with American and’ British flags. The service in- cluded prayers for King Geerge, Pres- ident Wilson, Great Britain and_the United States, and the singing of Hail Columbia, The Star Spangied Ban- ner, the Battle Hymn of the Repub- lic,'God Save the King and My Coun- try "Tis of Thee. The Rev. W. F. Cobb, .the rector, in his sermon, spoke of President Wilson as a worthy successor to Washington and Lincoln, and as in some respects even stronger than they. No man, he said, ever so well expressed the great cause of freedom and justice for which America and Great Brit- tain are striving, united in a bond such as now exists between the two countries; a bond of the heart, which never can be undone. CAMOUFLAGED PUMPKIN PIE; GINGERLESS GINGERBREAD Experimented With on One of the Army Transports. Washington, Nov. 29.—Camouflaged pumpkinless pumpkin ple and ginger- less gingerbread are the latest experi- ments in food conservation tested on one of the army transports, and, ac- cording to the report of the troops, there was only -one objection—there wasn't enough. Supplied by the national emergency food garden commission, the recipes were tested on the transport Grant with great, success. The ple is, as lts name implies, camouflaged with corn- meal, with Indian meal, salt, brown sugar, cinnamon, two eggs and ginger. The singerbread, however, is ginger- less, molassesless, eggless, butterless and’ milkless. PLATTSBURG OPEN TO POLISH-AMERICANS Its Use Has Been Tendered by Secre- tary of War Baker, Boston, Nov. 29.—Secretary of War Raker has shown America’s apprecia- tion of the new army of 200,000 Pol- ish-American young men being raised in the United States to fight on the side of the entente allies by offering the use of the camp at Plattsburg for the training of Polish officers, Ignace Paderewski, the famous pianist, an- nounced at a patriotic mass meeting ©of Polish people here today. The meeting, which was held in Tre- mont Temple, was 'the concluding event on the day's programme of the celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Thaddeus Kosclusko, the Polish patriot. Delega- tions from various sections of New England took part. e BISHOP C. B. BREWSTER DEFENDS HERBERT BIGELOW Kentucky Pastor Who Was Threat- ened by ht Riders, Hartford, Conn, Nov. 28—Bisho) Chauncey B. Brewster of the Connecs. ticut Episcopal diocese in a sermon here today spoke in defense of Her- beri, Biglow, a Kentucky pastor who was.recently threatened by night rid- ers. The bishop declared that the Kentuckian had not violated restric- tions upon speech when-he criticized the government but the bishop made 1t plain that he was not defending the substance ‘of such criticism. RBishop Brewster also alleged in his sermon that the press of the country had fail e pul pertinent paragraphs contained in the rules ¥ the' voluntary censorship s- down_ for Washington authoritie: = bstitution of Wood Eor Coal OBJECT OF CAMPAIGN STARTED BY FUEL ADMINISTRATION PLENTY IN N. ENGLAND L Glaim is Made That One Ton of Coal Released for Use in War Work for Every Cord of Wood That is Substi- tuted as Fuel. ‘Washington, Nov. 29.—To help meet the shortage of 50,000,000 tons in the country’s coal supply, the fuel admin- istration in co-operation with the de- partment of agriculture has inaugu- rated an intensive campaign for the substitution of wood for coal. Cord of Wood Equals Ton of Coal. “One cord of hard wood is equal to a ton of coal,” sald an announcement by the fuel administration. “One ton of coal is released for use m war work for every cord of wood substitited. Statistics show that there is a vast amount of dead wood in many sec- tions of the country and that the sup- communities is in ply_of wood in_ many hsufficient for domestic those parts.” Much of the wood in communities is destroyed as waste, it was pointed out, and its conservation not only would conserve coal, but would prove a measure of economy to the users. An Abundance of Wood. New England and the south, the statement said, have an abundance of wood and in the latter section ac- tivities already are under way look- ing to an intensive campaign for the substitution of wood. tion it was announced that the de- partment of agriculture would pro- vide the services of expert foresters without charge to supervise the cut- ting of wood so that no damage would be done to growing timber and that the largest use might be obtained of the wood supply. purposes PHYSICIAN TESTIFIES AT s MEANS MURDER TRIAL That It Would Have Been Impossible for Mrs. King to Firc the Shot That | Killed Her. Concord, N. C., Nov. Over the vigorous gbjections of the defense, Dr. W. H. Burmeister, pathologist and coroner’s physician of Cook® county, illinois, was allowed by the court to ¢estify ‘today at the trial of Gaston B. Means that in his- opinion it would have been impossible for Mrs. Maude A. King to have fired the shot which caused her death at Blackwelder Spring, near here, the night of Aug- ust 29, An examination of Mrs. King's bod, 2t Shicaso by Do Burmiiser s local coroner's jury had decided that her death was accidental, resulted in the starting of a new investigation and the subsequent arrest of Means cn the'charge of being her slayer. Dr. { Burmeister told the jury _that the wound was in the back of the woman's head, that therc were no powder 2 stains and that he believed it woulfl | have been impossible for a woman as stout as Mrs. King to have inflicted the wound upon herself. Dr. Burmeister’s testimony and_the introduction of a number of letters, telegrams and other documents, in- cluding a photosraphic copy of the probated will of the late J. C. King, husband of the dead woman, while Americus B. Melvillé,.of Chicago, Mrs. King’s former lawver, was on the stand, were the outstanding features of the second day of the state’s pres- entation of its case MRS. DE SAULLES ENTERTAINED But She Did Not Sit at the Dinner Table With Them. Mineola, N. °° Nov. 29.—After a re- cess over Thanksgiving day, the trial of Mrs. Blanca De Saulles on a charge of murdering her former husband, John L. De Saulles, will be resumed tomor- Tow in the supreme court here and is expected to be hurried to a conclu- sion by early next week. The putting of a lengthy hvpothetical question to alienists and other medical experts representing both defense and prosecution is expected to occupy thost of tomorrow’s sessions. The hypothetical question to be ask- ed the epeci: \ts by Mr. Uterhart was completed today. Tt will compre- hend everything occurring @uring the defendant’s life which ‘her attorneys belleev may have influenced her men- tal state at the time of the shooting. Mrs. De Saulles today “entertained” her fellow prisoners in the Nassau county jail at a Thanksgiving dinner. Among her "“guests” were two prison- ers awaiting trial on charges of mur- dering their wives. Mrs. De Saulles did not sit at the same table with the other prisoners. She. dined with her son, John L. De Saulles, Jr., aged four and one-half years, in the room in the sheriff’s quarters which has been her “home” during her three months’ im- prisonment. EMPEROR OF JAPAN HAS RECEIVED REPORT Of Viscount Ishii as Head of Present Mission to the United States. Tokio, Wednesday, Nov. 28—The emperor today received the report of Viscount Ishii, head of the Japanese mission to_the United States, which recently returned to Tokio. OBITUARY. Rev. Charles Edward Sawtelle. Hartford, Conn, Nov. 29.—After a long fllness, Rev. Chatles Edward Sawtelle died here today at the home of his sister, Miss Mary Sawtelle. He ‘was pastor of the First Baptist church of Needham, Mass., and a former pres- ident of the wsetts Baptist State Conference and had held the same office in the Greater Boston con- ference. Born in San Francisco in 1868, he camt east early in life and was’ graduated from Colby College in 1396 and from Newton Seminary in 1904, in which vear he was ordalned pastor of his Needbam charge, where he has since been. His widow sur- vives. In this connec- | HER FELLOW PRISONERS Warm Welcome For Service Men BOTH IN NATIONAL CAPITAL AND IN NEW YORK CITY FED AND. ENTERTAINED! In New York 6,000 Soldiers and Sailors Were Given a Dinner in Madison Square Garden—Uniform Was Badge of Admission. Washington, ‘Nov. 29. President Wilson observed Thanksgiving day quietly, spending, much of the timc reading in his study. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson he attendgd services at the Metropolitan Methodist chnreh this morning but a drizzling rain this afternoon caused him to abandon a contemplated automobile ride. To-| night the president and Mrs. Wilson Attended a ball under the auspices of the Navy Relief society. Dinner at the White House was a simple and informal affair. Only members of the president’s household were present and the menu was ar- ranged with a view to food consers tion, Mrs. Wilson, havinz been one of the ‘first sizners of the food pled: cards, Dinner For Sailors and Marines. All of the members of the cabinet, except Secretary Wilson, who on the Pacific’ coast, remained in Wach- ington for the holiday. Secrata and Mrs. Daniels entertained at din- ner twenty convalescine sailors marines from_the naval hospital here. Mrs. George Dewey also was present. Thousands of - uniformed men from nearby training camps were dinner guests in Washington homes and many relizious and fraternal organ- izations held specfal entertainments in honor of the enlisted men. Thunderous Applause in Church. At the church services where the president attended a great congreza- tion apnlanded thunderously _when | Bishon McDowell. contrasting Ameri- can diplomacy with the intricuinz di- plomacy of Germany, déclered that the historic documents penned by Presi- dent Wilson would stand indefinitely | without fear of repudiation. Taudine the motives which brought the United Statos into the war, Bishop McDowell declared: We are eager for victory, but we are more eazer for honor. We are eas- er for prosperity but we are mor2 eager for humanity. We are eager for peace, but we are vastly more eazer for righteousness.” < INEW YCRK WELCOMED THE NATION’S FIGHTING MEN. 16,000 Attended a Dinner and Entertain- * __ment at Madison Square Garden. New York, Nov. high cost of .furkey nor the.food con- servation , campaign had any visible i epect upon the observance of Thanks- 29.—Neither the giving day in New York. But there was a martial note inthe festivitics which has been lacking in other years, for thousands of soldiers, sailors and marines were honor=d guests in homes, clubs. hotels and restaurants. In fact, so great was the.desire to honor the nation’s fighting men that there were not_enough of.thém to o around and ‘many persons, who had extended invi- tations had to do without khaki or blue clad guests. It was essentially a soldier’s holiday and estimates placed the number of them entertained in the city at 30,000. The day began with services in the churches, where heartfelt prayers for the success and honor of America's arms were offered by hundreds of pas- tors. priests and rabbis. Then ' fol- lowed the feasting and the entertain- ! ments. - Probably the biggest event of the {day was the dinner and entertainment given at Madison Square Garden by the Patriotic Service leazue. A uni- form was all the admission ticket re- quired and 6.000° soldiers and sailors { were given a cordial welcome. Scores {of famous actors and musicians pro- vided a continudus program from 3.30 | o'clock | night. AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS 2 BATTLE WITH EACH OTHER | Two Regiments Were Nearly Extermi- nated Before Mistake Was Discovered| | \Jleadauagters of the Italian Army in orthern , Wednesday, Nov. 28— (By The Associated Press). Detalils have been officially received of one of the most sanguinary fights in the northern zone, in which two Austro- Hungarian regiments fought until they almost exterminated each other. The fight was back of Asiago during one of the main attacks against the Ital- ans. . . The enemy advanced from the two flanks, and toward night a- regiment of Hungarian Czechs became' engaged with a regimest of Galiclan _Poles, both wearfig a different form and speaking a. different di The ri- fle fire was followed by a bayonet charge and -then a hand-to-hand struggle with es lasting through the night, until ¢he -two _regiments were disentangled after heavy losses, When it became known that thy be- longed to.the same side. . neeas. simstion. S mot mator- The ially changed tonight along the north- ern and Piave fronts. “BOOZERS’ DAY” SERVICE AT SALVATION ARMY BARRACKS EoTeies =7 300 Self-Cdnfessed Drunkards Signed and | in the afternoon until mld-1 Condens_ed T;feg,rams The cost of selling real estate in Massachusetts has joined the general upward trend. Traffic on the general railway com- pany of Buenos Aires is almost at a standstill becausé of a strike. Christmas trees from Maine will be furnished the drafted men in the na- tional army cantonment at Ayer, Mass. American Red Cross relief for Italian families driven from their homes by th> Teutonic invasion came just in time. The December term of the criminal superior court will convene at Hart- ford’ Tuesday next with 68 cases on the docket. At the request of the railroads war board, the allies have centralized their requests for embargo modifica- tion permits. The centennial of the death of Kosciusko, the Polish national hero was observed by Polish societies in Massachusetts. Four men were brought to Camp Devens from Bridgeport, and locked up pending investigation of charges that they evaded the draft. At at meeting of the directors of the | Connecticut Milk Eroducers’ Associ- ation held at Hartford, it was voted to continue the present price of milk. Daily publication of wholesale and retail prices of foodstuffs was decided upon at a meeting of the newly org- anizea federal food board of New York state. There will be no formal announce- ment for the present of the attitude of the United States and the allied na- tions toward the Bolsheviki regime at Petrograd. Three inches of snow * covered the groufld at Camp Devens when the first of 20000 soldiers who . had been sranted Thanksgiving leave started for their honies. Three French steamships of more than 1600 tons and one of less than that tonnage were sunk by subma- Tines or mines during the week ending November 25 James T. (Ted) Hequembourg, in- structor in aviation at Newport News, Va., died there yesterday as the result| of injuries in an airplane accident in| Hampton Roads last May. Major G. M _Peek, intelligence of- { ficer at Camp Devens, announced that | 600 commissioned “and ~non-commis- sioned officers at Camp Devens had successfully passed gas tests. To extend immediate relief to that part of the population of Poland be- | hind the German lines which is facing | starvation, the American Red Cross | war council has appropriated $200000. | Branded on her breast and back, ap- parently with acid, and dazed as, if from drygs, Mrs. ida Browning, aged 24, of Somonauk, Ills, was found ! semi-conseious in thé Union Station at Chicago. - Joseph Noddie of Baring, Me. and! George Mosley of Deer Isiand, N. D.. were crushed to death by a puip wood pile which caved in at the mill yard of the St. Croix Paper company at Wood- | land, Me. Col. William M. Morton, 72, Civil ‘War veteran, theatrical manager and assistant _postmaster-general during the administrations ~of Presidents Grant and Hayes, died at his home at Newark, x i The senate priveleges and elections committee which is investigating the alleged disloyal speech made by Sen- ato La Follete at St. Paul, will meet next Monday to ‘discuss plans. for further hearings. The vast machinery of state coun- cils of defense will be utilized by the internal revenug ‘bureau to.dissemin- ate information” to the 7.000,000 per- sons who will pay income taxes un- der the new law. William E. Chandler, secretary of the navy during the administration of President Artur and member of the nited States Senate from Néw Hamp- shire for eighteen years, is seriously ill at his home at Concord. The Second Battalion of the 304th Infantry, U. S. N. A, made up from Waterbury's quota of drafted men at Camp Devens, were home for Thanks- | German ESCAPED FROM GER MAN PRISON CAMP Thrilling Story Told by Li American Officer in British Flying Cor A TALE OF HARDSHIP, P Leaped From a Train Traveling a eut. Patrick 0’Brien, s RIVATIONS AND PLUCK at the Rate of Thirty Miles an Hour and Fled Through Germany and Across Belgium to the Dutch Frontier—For Seventy-two Days He Subsiste on Turnips, Beets and Other Vegetables He Found who is a sturdy younsz man | of twenty-seven, was flying in the merican Aviation squadr San | Diego, Cal, when he went -1 B. G, and obtained a commission Going Me distinguish- the Canadian arm: to in France the next ve: cd himself by his great daring ov the | On_the moning of | August 17,-enemy. gunners forced him to doscend, but, fortunately, he land- | ed hehind his own lines. | Late in the afternoon of the same dav saw him up again cver the Ger- man lines, fighting the enemy. There Were twenty German machines ‘o six British in the encounter ("Brien’s ma- imes. chine alone engaging four enemy craft and accounting for one before O'Brien was shot through the upper lip. He with his damaged airplane from a height of eight thousand feet.| O'Brien says he cannot explain why he was mot killed. When he regained fell Fields Along the Road. London, Nov. 29. — Rivaling in sen- consciousness he was in « sation and sheer daring the most vivia | hospit3l imagings of writers for movie thrill- How He Escaped Train ers the story of the escape of Lieu-| Later the lieutenant ¢t tenant Palrick O'Brien, of Momenence, | Weeks at o prison camp and across Delgium to e e e frontier reads like Be,nad Dhetwint ST romance. The story By pun| DIinnELor thel smicEes : after his arrival in 15, stye | TIHEE Featn s SHONERY most stirring tale of hardship, pri-|ide many and traveling here since the beginning of the war. |take a desperate chance. H Subsisting only on a piece of boiog-|from the train. skinningz the na he had when he leaped from a, Side of : <“ = Teopss train traveling at the rate of thirty |In his lip and losing « : | miles an hour which ws transportins | Was about four o'clock r him to the interior of Germuny, he 8nd the darkness shiel h spent the days that followed in_cou-| D¢ recovered be was 1 : stant danger of beins detected. When | Then for sevents-two e the bologna was gone he did not aare | fugitive, traveling o ht k for food but subsisted on turnips, | trudged throush fi a heets and other vegetibles he found|ers and canals in 1, T in_the flelds along the road. After|DUTE and Belsium befy i w venty-two days of hiding he réach- i the Duteh frontic ; ca the Dutch frontier, which he cross- | his fizht he had a piscc ed in the garb of a nessant, which|Which he subsisted had been given him by a friendly Bel-| 28T, Which Die co® - na gian | a4 of turnips a ¥ Will See Mother Soon. | O Lieutenant O'Brien wil! leave short Meets a Beigian. Iy for America to visit his aged moth-| O'Brien did not know any Germ er. -Mrs, Margaret (’Brien, at Mo-|but he used a little Frenck on mence He has ultad Am- | ly Belgian who was so hanr bassador F his wisi to|an American in British uniform join the Ame Fiying corps. | he shelterea him for s al ¢ Since his in T.ondon Lien-|Belgian then wave him temant O’Ericn has been dined and en- |cover his uniform and directed tertained by his many ds among|to the nearest route (o front ¢ officers, who had believed him:O'Prien swam the River Me n since he disappeared on August|Namur and the next day v {lensea by German sentries cided he was a But his narrow served for his Jast a 2 f y when he could see Dutch te circumvent the cha r 3 built a bridge in a a threw it ucross the wires. T under his weight and O'Bri a shock which he says h When he- recoyered he Qug Wit bare hands n -tunnel under t and, although, it was slow progro after several hours he had a b enoush to crawl through, which b aid_unobserved. Even then O'Brien was not was in Dutch territory, so he cor - ed himself in a_hay barn unt next morning. When dn the first thing he saw was ing wooden shoes. He nto the open and hurried to est British consul, who arrang his transportation to London. “TAILINGS” THROWN AWAY NOW VALUED AT $1,000,000 Peterson Lake Silver Cobalt Mining Company Will Reclaim Them. Toronto, Nov. 29.—A_ court judg- ment in a curious suit Was felt on the stock exchange when Peterson Silver Cobalt Mining company stock today jumped five points on receipt of the news that “tailings” estimated to be worth $1.000,000 and now at the bot- tom of Peterson Lake are legally the property of the Peterson Lake com- pany. At a time when mining processes were less advanced, the Nova Scotia Silver Cobalt Mining and Dominian Re- duction companies dumped great quan- titles of “tailings” or crushed stone and slime, into the lake, then owned by them, in order to get rid of the ma- giving, numbering 709 and- command- |ed by Coptain W. S. Davison. Six men, all members of the crews of of three Duch steamships lying at Baltimore, Md., were drowned and nine were rescued when a launch car- rying them fo their ships capsized' in the harbor. All were Hollanders. As/ part of their Thanksgiving din- ner, many poor families in Lynn. Mass., served potatoes raised on Lynn Com#on last summer under the direc- tion of the commissioner of public property. The first drowning through the ice in the vicinity of New Haven occur- red yesterday when Patrick Coady, 35, walked onto a thinly frozen pond at the Montowese brick yard plant just, over the city line. William A. Saxe of New York, sec- retary and treasurer of the Standard Concrete Steel Company, was instantly killed at Baltimore when struck by an automobile driven by A. Morris Carey, Jr., 17 years old, member of a promi- nent Baltimore famfly. y rick O’Brien, a native of Seattle, who had been flying with the British for a months ago . arrived camp. The Rev JU: Fontans, pastor of the Bvargelical Church bound over td . the federal district court, charged with ' seditious - utter- ances. Mrs. Helen Studebaker Henderson, daughfer of the Jacob F. Stude. baker, one of_the founders of the Stu- debayer corporation and wife of Lu- cius Henderson of New Rochelle, N. Y., was yesterday ‘in an auto- mobile ’mm near -her homie. “Twelve thousand dollars & year “pin |ing money™ for the wife of he president of | Dokerty and Hon. C. C. Ballantyne at- the United States or “the first lady of | tempted to speak. The front of the :Jand” is provided in a fund inn Londo | the soldiers. abroad, the police today after escaping’ from a German prison | raided a house in the East Boston dis- German of New| This is the second successful Salem, N. D, and T. A. Schrieber, | conducted by the police - within former auditor of Mercer County, were | past few days in'their efforts to-breal terial, The latter todaye is worth money and the companies which dis- carded it laid claim to FOUND TWO LODGERS DEAD g FROM GAS POISONING Felix Shuluk of Boston Also Found His Wife a Serious Condition. Boston, Nov _29.—When Felix ‘Shu- luk returned from work today he found two of his lodgers dead and his wife in a serious .condition from gas poisqning, . Breaking down the door of a bedroom, he found John Cowesky and Ignoz Nedbala lying on the bed with gas pouring out from two burn- ers. Mrs. Shuluk was overcome while asleep in the next room, but physi- clans think she will recover. After an finvestigation 'the police expressed the opinion that the two boarders had turned on the . gas as a result of a suicide pact. GANGS OF THIEVES ON BOSTON WATER FRONT Boston, Nov. 23 Following reports year and who was taken- prisoner on |of numerous thefts of foodstuffs and the western front by the Germans two | other supplies intended for shipment to trict and recovered 5000 .army shoe soles. Two men found. i the house were taken into custody. raid the Up gangs of watér front and ware- house robhers i A RIOTOUS CROWD # AT SHERBROOKE, Broke Up Meeting at Which Borden Advocates Were Speakers. Sherbrooke, Que., Nov. 29.—A ri- atous crow tonight broke up a meet- here at which Minister of Justice QUE. EIGHTEEN MINERS SAID TO BE IMPRISONE In the New North Mine in Illinois, Fo lowing an Explosion. Christopher, Tils., Nov. miners are believed to have been prisoned_in -the new North Min the Ola Ben Coal Corporation her: lowing an explosion in the mine night. The explosion wrecked ¥ shaft and also the air shart The m In the mine were caught on th foot level. Rescuerers are at work reach the imprisoned men. night they had made their feet down the shaft. A. T. Morey, an official of company, said tonight that little hope of bringing out the oned men_alive. 29 —Fizht the . m: tryh At the MOBILIZATION OF TUGS AND_ TOWBOATS IS PROPOSED To Relieve Freight Congestion Great Lakes and Along the Atlan tic Coast. Washington, Nov. 20—Mob of the tug and towboats of Lakes along the Atlantic cou winter months to aid in reliey freight congestion. by greater the Inland waterways and has been proposed to Secretary ker, Lack of coastwise towboats p wide use of barges, and as towboat on the lakes soon will be frozen is suggested that they be brought through the canals to move COasty barge traffic during the winter TO KEEP HIGHWAYS OPEN FOR MILITARY TRUCK TRAINS For Relief of Railroad Congestion Pennsylvania. in ‘Washington, Nov. 29.—The Pen venia state highway commissi day advised the Hishways Tr Committee of the Council Defense that it is preparing itse thoroughfares in readine passage this winter of military trains, designed - to ve railroa congestion. The council announced that ¢ states along the main overland would be expected to follow Pe vania'z action. CAMP LACKED NOTHING # BUT THE HOME FOLKS re Boys Left at Devens Enjoyed a Holiday Feast. Ayer, Mass., Nov. 29.—“It nothing but the home folks,” was report of their holiday 6,000 troops tailed to guard Camp Devens their comrades who flocked bac! the cantonment tonight after a the theatre In which the meeting was be- the estate. of Henry G. Freeman, Jr. |ing held was. wrecked and there were @ wéalthy lawyer, who died in Phila. delphia. The estate is walued at $3,- 000,000 and upward. ° P - | many fist fights among persons in the audience. Mr. Doherty is a member of the cabinet of' Sir Robert Borden. spent at the family table in v sections of New Englind. Nume crganizations, co-operating with viduals in ' surrounding citl towns, joined the army cooks in & ing the boys left behind ae real holi- day feast. 2