Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 26, 1918, Page 4

Willimantic Office, 625 Main Street. Telephone “Nerwich, Wednesddy, June 26, 1901, average ......eiveers... 48412 1905, average ... .....-.-w JUNE 22, 1918..... 10,060 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive- iy entitled to the usé for republica-: tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or fot otherwise oredft- éd in this paper and alse the local néws published herein. . All rights of republication of special despatches hérein are also reserved - . ] T ———— ST ——— SRR A oo B 7 “Right is More Precious than Peace” — THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Althouzh state politice have not hused the interést which they would have tundér ordinary conditions, it is peri®tly apparent that all seciions. of the state will manifest much con- cern over the action of the delegates now assembled in the convention of the republicans at Hartford for the §_relection of -the ticket to represent “that party next November. Congressman Tilson, whose district #shae just acted with such excellent judement in renoinating him for that office ‘o another term, made particu- lar reference to politics at this time in his address to the convention and TR SO S FESRTR 1o the statement “politics are adjourped,” that if this ven tinged all_ be per- ed to interfere wtih efiicieney in the conduct of the war we ail con- cur, but if it means that “during the war one partv must ceafe its activi- ties as a party while the other uses all the departments of the govern- ment, and the war itself, to advancs party interests. then I for one must vehemently dissent.” Adjourning pols itics certainly does not mean that the action should be one-sided, and entirely corréct iz the congressman in his declaration that this is not a political war but one in which all must help § regardiees of pblitics and orié in which ;3 the republicans in congress and this publican state havé sto6d unswerv- gly by the president. In keepitig with this spirit of loy- alty and the duty which rests upon individual, state and party to render the highest, patriotie service Con- saressman Tilton properly urged that “No candidate of any party is worthy of belng clothed with official power who is not ready, willing and able te “¥se effectively every possible means _1o win the war” and in pointing out JEhe nécessity of gelecting such . can- lidates he unquestionably antielpated he him and purpose of every delegate gathered in the convention. Under the leadership of Governor Holcomb Connecticut has established a high ‘record in the war and it is for the interest of the country and state that it ghould be continued and that the rémainder of the ticket should be made up of the best men that can be obtained. o s P ———_, A BITTER PILL. It may not be the first evidence to “the effect that the peopls of Ger- many are being brought to a realiza- tlon of the horror which attends the bombing of citles by airplanes, but tthen a member of the reichstag from Cologne tells that body that steps ought to be taken to conclude tredties which would result in the bringing to m end of the senseless murder of wo- en and children there can be little uestion but what he is taking a sane nd sensible view of the situation. It ¢ thus made quite plain that Ger- any Is being brought to the same tate of mind that the people of the llied countries long ago arrived at egarding the savagery of such con- uct. and the necessity for reform in ermany. It has, however, required some time 0 bring them to such a realization nd even now there does not appear! be any too deep seated conviction! at it was all the fault of Germany at such methods have been em- yved. Germany has been given a taste of its own medicine; it is being made to feel the same effects that other countries have and it is not @frange that it does not like the treat- ®ent. These acts of barbarity were cArefully guarded against in the rules war adopted during times of peace. hese rules, like ‘the promise to.re- epect Belgian neutrality, have all been cast to the winds, not only as regards Aerial attacks upon women and chil- dren but in many other ways. Ger- many has been the leader in this re- #pect. It has heen determined to win at any cost without figuring that by s0 doing it was likely to bring the same sort of treatment upon the peo- ple of Germany. That very thing has rred and now Germany ins. But until the time “I just mads up my mind” re- shop said nobody on earth could de: R marked the somewhat flushed and the | preathless caller,” /that I wasn’t going 5| the way I was in thé Thero can be no quéstion but what, Oy gret"::’efi any citles not more the war has placed a great burden seven hours apart, for the it b B e moos | night letters would thus b delievered upon the telegraph lines. It has done at the opening of business the next o amng *GNM to the 'e‘:fih"“fl Som- | merning as promised by the telegraph panies and great expenditures have)|oompany. B had to bé made to meet the require- Py R to bé formal with my new neighbors, last building where 1 lived. Why, I waited and waited for the otheér tenants to call on me and lived there a year—and, would you believe it, if 1 needed a pirich of salt or an egg or ran out of sugar I'd have to0 get dressed and trayel three blocks to a store be- cause there wasn't a living soul in thé place I could ask to borrow:.”. “Really?” murmured the woman who was being called upon, ] t's the truth!” her visitor assured her. “Why, the woman who. lived| across the hall from' me in the. last building would come out of her door tect that brand of pencil. pale lips. Somehow, you -don't think of those things so much in a emall town. Lewis opened the -window and threw them out and when I said every. body in the building used those things he roared so that I was ‘2id the. Jjanitor would come rumning up. “Men are awfully queer. We'll meet a woman on Michigan avenue with Héf face all whitenedq and roughed and penciled and Lewis will twist his neck admiring her and then he acts 11;0- nfth'cr different when I try to ok nice! t _“Oh, 15 that your husband’s pieture in uniform Your ‘brother! Well, I thought your husbapd was beyond the draft ages~he's a little bald, isn’t he? Does he have his suits made or get And I hate paid by the messengers, the profit to ments. With this state of affairs be-|the company would be ha.ndio‘t’ne; but inasmueh as it is undeérstood that these messengi travel on passes, th scheme was proving a regular bon- anza. For example a hundréd night letters from New York would amply pay the expense of ing pointed out to the postoffice de- partment, together with the method wheteby relief could be obtained fully explained, it seems only reasénable to beliéve that the provision of the law ‘and nodded. She stared at maybe just as I came out of mine—and |them ready madé- Lewis never 100ks the first time I sort of smiled at her|quite right in the way his coat fits me as!around the shoulders, but n, though I wasn't there and picked up|course, Iewis doesn't feel he can afford Her fuzzy dog as though she thought|to go to a tailor, just starting up in I was a kidnap) And:'she had a|business as he is and and éverything. usband who nevér was able to find|He says these are modest apartments d %Wflifio%fin‘ im a band TODAY 'ODAY_ © ONLY At 21158 P. M. This Is Your Last Chance to See [ the merger of the which forbide this very thing which|single mestungs . r, espécially if he has now resulted in prosecution could |traveled on 4 pass and more especial- have been témperarily waved even as|ly if he brought back a similar batch leading express|Of messages on his return trip the companies has been permitted for the |fOlOWing night. This practice while H ha. ar, apparently harmless is nevertheless in pagii ot 4 violation of the law th So far as known the messages have | 16,5010 O the law that forbids any received just as quick delivery by|{post office department to engage in sending by messengers over the rafl-|the business of carrying communica- roads as théy would hate had they|tions by the regular postal routes. As beeén handied over thé wires, and the|® first step toward stopping the cus- telegraph iines have been left free to]Om. five messenger's were recently ar- handle the speedier busineéss, and there can be n6 quéstion but what they have gone forward with greater des- patch than as if they Had been han- dled through the mails. It is the dis- tegard for the law which is making all the trouble. THE MACEDONIAN ARMY. Vere it possible for an allied army open an offensive at the present e aleng an eastern fromt, as in sia. there is no question but what end of the war could be greatly med Such a drive would cauce ‘onsternation to the ceniral powers and relieve the pressute which exists in the west. There is no army there however to make such an offensive, but there is fio small force of British troops oper- ating at the present ngth in Mesopo- tamia and Palestine, while a larger force is on the Macedonian front. It is not surprising therefore that the possibilities of am offénsive by this iatter army at this time should be calling forth miore or less discussion. Of late increased activity has been noted in that reglon, and it is fully understood that the danger from Greece in the rear has been vvercome 0 that today the Greek army is ready to lend a hand: With Bulgaria and Turkey dissat- isfied with the cutting up of Rumania, with cabinet crisés in Bulgaria and Austria, with the Austrian army oi the run and so teken up with its own defegse that it could spare few men to beé despatehed to the Macedonian front, it would appear {6 be an ex- cellént opportunity for siriking at a vulnerable vpoint and of distributing the activity ovér a greater territory. Generalissimo Foch is of course thor- oughly acquaintéd with conditior theérs -and if that force can he safely nd wisely employed at this time there is no guestion but what he will use it to its full extent. EDITORIAL NOTES. If all the reports which are beinz received are trué Austria Is hungrier than Hungary. The man on the corner says: Many 4 amateur has zotten tired of mak- ing excuses for the garden that doesn’t produce. From the officizl reports the Ameri- cans are not only holding 38 miles of the western front but they are stead- y going ahead. The German soldiers have been cau- tioned to look out for the Ameérfcans. it is good advice as those who have faced them will agree. 2 Every day appears to be increasing the number of the Russians who re- alize that their safety for the future lies in allfed interveéation: In spite of the magnificent response that is being made there is no danger of the supoly of thrift and war sav- ings stamps running short. It is possible that Austria will yet treat the kaisér as David did Gollath with the stone which he is offering when the appeal is for bread. Australia now wants a Monroe doc- trine for the-southern and western Pacific. More praiss for the good work of our former president. g With the sinking of the submarines #oing on twice as fast as they can be built, it ought not to be long before the seas are cleared of the pest. While the Austrians are announc- ing that they may try again, they should remember that the Italians haven't got through with them yet. Certain individuals are announcing that they will not be at Bar Harbor thig summer, and it goes without say- ing that many others will not be there either, — In view of the trouble which is be- ing experienced with poor seed, farm- ers were working against a big enough handicap without being handed a frost in June. ‘With military men escaping by air- plane and boat it s quite evident that Germany isn't the pleasantest place in the world at the present time even for a German. Tt is difficult to make the reports jibe when it is declared that the Aus- trians ‘have been reinforced yet are making a disorderly retreat back ncross the Plave. Even if it doesn’t stop it the sen- tence of a yvear in jail given to 38 men in the Unitéd States district court at Boston for getting liquor for men ia uniform ought to help. Austrians on being captured , ex- pressed surprise at finding Czechs fighting with the Italians. There are many ways in which the eyves of the Austrians could be opened if they were told the truth. The claim that airships will cross com- | the Atlantic under their own power arrives| has been made before but in view of ‘when reliance can be placed in Ger- | the accomplishments of war times it 3 Juice. on ny’s promises that country is like- |is useless to doubt such claims until to be allowed to stew in its own}proof has been secured ome way or the other. . r résted as they stepped from the night trains on their arrival in New York, Boston and Washiggton. One of these had about a thousand messages for New York that had been filed at Wash- ington Baltimore and Philadelphia. The Western Union claims that what- ever may be the letter of the law. the spirit was net violated, inasmuch as the wires are overful these days with war business and the relief thus ob- tained is necessary to the continuation of the service to the public. It looks however as if the company was rather inclined to conceal its methods inas- much as these train messages were lettered like regular telegrams. thus purporting to havé been sent and re- ceived by regular operators in the reg- ular way. The Austrian offensive that began June 15, with a furious bombardment for 100 miles from Asiago to the sea has resulted in a disastrous defeat for Austria. The battle line extends east- ward from Lake Garda roughly aralell- ing the Austrian boundary unmtil it reaches the Piave river, where it bends to the southeast around Monte @Grappa, Monte Tomba and Montello and follows the river to the head of the Adriatic Sea. Just behind this embattled line He the great industrial cities of Italy, Mantua, Verona, Vi- cenza. Padua, Treviso s‘mb Venice. Should the mountain line breéak, the troops on the Piave taken in the rear would be obligeéd to retreat and leave ail this region to the invaders; should the river line break, the mountain troops would similarly be forced to retreat. The defenders must win on both fronts to save themselves from utter defeat; the invaders need Wwin on only one front in order to score 4 sweeping victory. It was this two- to- one chance that induced Charles of Austria to throw everything he had at his command agdinst the entire Italian line from Asiago to the-sea. T Along the mountains whers the [the greatest cffort was put forth, the Austrians met their quickest defeat. The Italians, their morale entirely re- stored after tlteir disgraceful retreat of iast autumn. held absolutely fast. Not only this, but they actually gained a little ground, thus rendering this offensive unique among all the Téu- ton efforts. In all former attacks the offensive has gained considerable ground at first and has continued to advance until the defensive reserves however the British on the left and the Italians further east were absolut- ely immovable against 7500 gans and all the massed forces of Austria-Hu- gary. Nine desperate assaults always with fresh reserves were repulsed on Monte Grappa, alone, and not until a third of their shock-troups had been shot down and the ground was black with corpses. did the enemy cease from the'futile attempt to advance at all costs, and return to their original in- trenchments. On the river front the Austrians gained some small initial successes. Here they succeeded in crossing the river and gaining a firm footing on Montello, a plece of high ground jut- ting up out of the lowlands and do- minating th country for a considerable distance. A strong bridgehead was established and fifteen pontoon bridges were thrown across the stream. Pro- bably 40000 men crossed to the west side of the river. Further down the strearz three other crossings were made. Then followed days of as fierce fighting as has been witnessed on¥any field of the entire war. Try as they would the Austrians could not advance from the river. Again and again the Italians returned to the at- tack. Allied airmen including Ameri- cans rained tons of bombs on com- munications and concentrations of Jroops, and sprayed the advancing lines with machine guns. Nature also came to the aid of the vadiant defenders, for torrents of rain began to fall and | the Piave was so swollen that the bridges that were not shot to. pieces by the Italian artillery went down with the raging stream. Permanent bridges and pontoons alike all went down to the sea and the Austrians who had forced their way across were left with the river at their backs and the furfous Italians before them. Sat- urday night the retreat began and with Sunday’s dawn this turned to utter rout. While the Italian artillery con- centrated their fire on the river cross- ings, the infantry ettacke® all along the line. The Montello plateau was entirely cleared of enemy troops, the whole position was reoccupied and all the guns lost the week before they were captured. . The Austrians were driven down the slopes and, while waiting in masses for a chance to cross the river, were raked by the aviation squadrons until the passages were blocked with the dead, and the surface of the Piave was covered with thou- ysands of bodies amid the wreckage of the most disastrous defeat of the war. In the single great fight on the French front last week the Germans broke the hitherto universal practice of attacking at dawn by launching about the ruined city of Rheims. In their infantry attack late in the eve- ning. The scene.of the struggle was the drive to the Marne the German progress on the east was limited by the valiant defense of the forts of Rhimes. Though some of these forts were later taken, the French artillery on the hills to the south had bgen effective in keeping the enemy from the city itself, although their lines surrounded it on three sides. The viol- ent night attack was directed especi- ally at the position southeast and southwest of the city, in the hope of pinching off the salient. The prelimin- ary bombardment began in the late afternoon instead of before dawn and was terrific in its intensity. Then as darkness was closing down, forty thousand men advanced with orders to take Rheims at all costs. On the west they made no progress at all though returning repeatedly to the at- could be brought up. Along the Alps | the keyhole.” You should have seen thelr déor! It was all scratches and k"icn where he had jabbed it with his Y. ‘ “Po be sure, I felt sorry for her, hav- ing & bhusband like that. If she'd been friendly and talked it over real con- fidently she’d have felt lots better. “I can’t understand people who are sort of frozen up like this Mrs. White. I never in my life saw a complexion 1iké hers! I noticed right away that you have the same kind, only yours is real. I always thought of a piece of china when I looked at Mrs. White, —maybe that's the reason it was so hard for her to smile. Do you go in for cold créam to keep yours? Every beauty parlor I-stop at tells me that Chicago ruins your face if you don’t useé cold cream at about three-fifty a jar. “Nobody used cold cream in Bale- ville, where I came from. It doesn’t seem clean to me, like soap and water, ut maybe—what do you think about » ‘It helps,” admitted her hostess. “there’s so much soot in the air!” “Well,” said the visitor doubtfully, “T don’'t know what Lewis will do if I begin using cold cream! TI'll never forget the time he discovered the eye- brow, pencil and lip stick I'd bought downtown. I've been crazy over eye- brows all my life anq the girl at the and we're not going to try and look as though we lived on- the Lake Shore drive, like some folks who starve at home and put everything on their backs! — “Oh, T s'po you because you've just got that gor- ous summer fur, but I didn’t really! | Xod anay: have an inconie of your own or—or something! And then you can't tell about furs just to look at them! | Sometimes you can gét real nice 100k- ing ones quite cheap. 1 know that Mrs, Whitmarsir ‘back home siiled everybody knows what millions ermine That was -until ~ the Miller )sist rs came to Chicago to do their | spring buyinz—and Bsther Miller said ishe found .rabbit fur ermine exactly like Mrs. Whitmarsh's and it cost ex- actly $11.5 Not that I mean I think yours—I'm sure your coatee is terribly expensive fur.” I “Don’t mention it,” gravely said the {lady being called upon. “I'm sure you mpeant nothing. And the coatee is made out.of an old fur coat my mother gave me to use up! Come and see me again—and Pll show you how to make your own. cold cream—it wom’t cost! three-fifty, either!” “Oh, will you?-” gasped the fiuster- ed caller. Do you know. I think I'm going to be lots happler in this build- ing than in the last one!”—Exchange. i tack. On the east some ground was takeén only to be lost again when the French counter-attacked. Even had the Germans succeeded in occupying Rheims, - the success would have- been moral rather than military, for the French positions on the encircling hills would have prevented any further ex- ploitation of the advance. The net re sult of fhe whole operation was the destruction of three divisions of Ger- man infantry and the discourage- ment that must result from the. utter failure of a serious and determined effort of Germany's best troops. WASHINGTON AFFAIRS Fuel Administrator Believes Bitumin- uous Coal Shortage in New England, at an End—Connecticut’s Tobacco Production—City Market Service For New Haven and Bridgeport. (Special to The Bulletin) Washington, D. C., June 24th.—Fuel administration Qarfield, vesterday stated to Senator Gerry, of Rhode Is- land in answer to an inquiry, that he believed the New England bitumXuous shortage was at an end. “The bitu- minuous coal required for New Kng- land,” said he “is set at,thirty million tons and the plan is to distribute it at the rate of three million tons a month for six months ending Sep- tember 30, and at the rate of two mil- lion tons a month for the remaining six months. It is true that we have fallen below thése requirements, but an order has been issued which will rectify that shortage.” The fuel ad- ministrator stated that he had heard no complaints regarding the anthra- cite allotment to New England. Re- ferring to his recent visit to western Massachusetts to attend commence- ment at Williams College, Dr. Gar- field added “I was informed along the line of the Fitchburgh, where my early opportunity of inquiry extended, that coal was coming in abundance. Dr. Garfield said that while the week of June 6, fell short the week of June 15 showed marked imprévement. Congressman Porter H. Dale, of Ver- mont will be the 4th of July orator at the Litchfield celebration. He will be the guest of Congressman Glynn, who is also one of the speakers. M. Dale, although born in Vermont is of good old Connecticut ancestry. Connecticut raised 28,540,000 pounds of tobacco in 1917 according’'to state- ments of the department of commerce. Connecticut's acreage was 21,000 -and the production per acre 1,400 pound: Kentucky was the largest producer raising 474,000 pounds and North Carolina showed the lowest acre pro- duction at 830 pounds while Connecti- cut and Pennsylvania ran even at 1400 pounds to the acre. Te department states that the highest yields are ob- tained, as a rule, from localities pro- ducing the high priced types used. for cigars, which would put the Connecti- cut yfeld in the first rank as to qual- ity. The amount of tobacco leaf in the hands of manufacturers and dealers on January 1, 1918, was 1,176,234,657 pounds which is an increase of 12.6 per cent. over the 1917 showing. Of the total for 1918 chewing, smoking/ snuff and export types formed 76 per cefit; cigar types 19 per cent; import- ed types 5 per cent. The leading in- dividual type was that produced in the “Bright vellow dlstricts of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, of which there was reported 428,913,- 604 pounds or 36.5 per cent. of the total. Burley tobacco contributed 177,- 206 800 pounds or 15.1 per cent; andn the tobacco classed as “Dark fibred as grown in Clarksville, Hopkinsville and Paducah districts amounted to 177,- 118,386, pounds or 10 per cent. According to estimates made by the department of agriculture the total to- | bacco crop of the United States was 1,196,451,000 pounds in 1918. The lead- ing tobagco states and the estimated amounts grown by them are as fol- lows: Kentucky, 426.600,000 pounls; North Carolina, 204,750,000; - Virginia, 129,500,000 pounds; Ohio, 99072,000; ‘Tennessee, 81,810,000 pounds; Pennsyl- vania, 58100,000 pounds; Connecticut, 0,000; Maryland 22,594,000 pounds Although Connecticut ran the small- est acreage its yield per acre was not exceeded by any. state in the country, and only Penn!:ylvgnla. equalled it. The bureau of markets has extended its local offices of the city market ser- vice to Bridgeport and New Haven, to report the local markets for house- wives and growers. Two kinds of re- ports are to be issued, one for the local press and one for near by truck growers, atcording to information given out by the department of agri- culture today. Commenting on the milk depots es- tablished by the home £2monstration 28, agents in New Haven the department of agriculture says: . Three successful milk depots have been established at fire stations| through the department of agriculturée and the state agricultural society where plénty of volunteer help is avails e for handling the milk. Bottled m milk from two large daries out- sidé of the city is sold at five cents a quart. The stations aré open dur- ing the noon hour with two women volunteers on duty at each oné to superintend the sales. Children stop on their way homie from school. The firemen co-opérate in every way. They take full charge of setting up the tem- porary counters and lifting the hea crates of bottles as well as in keep- ing the children in line and helping with the sales.” { || LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Can Expect a Warm Reception. Mr. Editor: In the publication of the recent.couri case -in Hanover anent the juggling of smoked glasses and the purloining of poultry wherein Robert McDoniald was the defendant, the name of the justice of the peace, John Croft, was omitted. During the trial Mr. Croft remarked that at- tempts had been .made to enter his lenhouse, and upon his dog giving the Views of the Vigilantes OUR BOYS MAKING FRIENDS FRANCE IN of The Vigilantes Our soldiers were welcome in Franco last July when they first landed, bringing with them the tangible evi- dece lof America’'s military partici- pation in the war, and they certainly have not yét wora out their welcome. In the towns, and villages where they spent the -winter they made a =ood impression. Some of them misbe- haved, to be sure, but most of them succeeded in winning the good will and respect, often the affection of the natives, to whom they brought not only a certain amount of commercial prosperity after three years of ever- increasing poverty, but also the moral support of their good-will and friend- liness. . Last March an American soldier, walking along the streets of Toul, no- ticed an old woman and a little boy struggling to push a loaded wheel- barrow. She was too old and he 1 young for the task. The " 8ol stepped up-and trundled the barrow to its destination. = The old woman thanked him fervently.. “But that®is what we = Americans are here for; we are come to help France beat her burden.” “Thang %od, monsieur, that you are here, for I know not what we should do without you.” ; At Easter I was passing through a village . where the Rainbow Division had untid recently been quartered. Several of the natives enquired eager- lyv for news of “les Americans” and asked us when they were coming back. One middle-aged farmer said, “I mise those boys as if they were my own. Several of ‘them used to come to my i house and help me with the wood and the water and play with the children. Evenings they would come and sit with me and my wife around the lamp. We cause they speak no French and I speak no English, but we managed to get along. Since they went away they have sent me some postcards. They don’t, write anything on them, but T get their meéaning. Please say you think they are coming back to us soon.” ¢ Our soldiers get along famously with the French poilus, too. One sees them walking arm in arm _or sitting about the tables in the cafes or in the Y. M. C. A. conversing .in a kind of Jjargon Ithat lis neither French nof English but that .serves their -con- versational, purpose. A Montana boy showed: a_Croix de Guerre given him as:a_souvenir by the-French ' soldier that had won it. Such happy, easy comradeship {s good for our joint aims and ‘speaks well for the future rela- ltiions_ between the two greaf repiib- | round in her ermines for ages - and |, could not say much to each other be- | se yowll think I meant | o | AMBASSADOR- GERARD'S MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY Endorsed By U. S.-Government The Whole Story of German Intrigue’ Exposed By One Who Knows pnlCE Matinee 25c and 35c. “Evening 250, 38c, 50¢. COMING. THURS, FRI. SATURDAY THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Societys Ekaterinburg.—The National Geo- graphic Soclety, from its Washington headquarters, isswes the following bulletin on Ekaterinburg, the Russian town to which ex-Czar Nicholas' son, Alexis romanoff, is’said to have been removed: : = “Ekaterinburg, or Yekaterinburg as it is called, is the most important city in the Ural Mountains. ofi both banks of the River Iset, on the Asiatic side of the urals, and is 1,300. miles by rail east of Petrograd (about the distance from New York to St. Paul). ““The eity, which has a population of ahout 75.000, owes its presperity in the main to the fact that it is the center of one of the richest mining regions in the world. Forty gold and platinum mines, as well as numerous iron works, are to be found in this district, ile emeralds are also mined in _the vieinity. “The Russian government in times of peace maintained an important mining gchool, chemical laboratory and gold assay office, here, and it was the headquarters of -a ~department of mines, The Imperial Lapidary Works were engaged in cutting and polishing malachite, - marble, porphyry and Jjasper and the governiment mint for copper coins is located here. “From manufacturing and commer- cial standpoint Ekaterinburg is, or was also_important, its industries including paper, soap, candles, machinery man- ufactories, the milling of flour, and tanneries, while its chief trade was in cereals, silk goods from the iron and cattle. “The city owes its foundation to Phter the tlement for his empress, Catherine I, in 1721 Itedid not begin to grow, however, until 40 vears later when the Siberian Highway was diverted from | - Verhoturye to this place. “It presents an Aattractivé appear. ance to the eyé, the streets being broad| and regular, and there are palatial buildings, several both homes _and public structures. The two cathedrals are St. Catherine’s, founded” in 175, ang that of the Epiphany, which dates from 1774, alarm he has rushed forth and be-{ “Two important fairs are held in beld the would-be raiders fade away |Ekaterinburg annually. in obscurity. As the jaw is usually inefféctual in! dealing with these Henhouse looters I NTS the yedmanry are equipping them- selves with weapons and are listen- omER v w Pol . ing for the stealthy tread of the eneaking thugs and if they are dstact- ed it will make interesting reading Watter in (ue- newsbADH 1f many more nurses go abroad, BEMERSON PERKINS. {lhere will be a near-famine in tht Hanover, June 25, 1918. state. Yesterday 111 took the ex- TR TS iaminatinn at the capital and about as many in New Haven.—Manchester ‘Herald. A, letter mailed at Washington June 7 was delivered to The Repub- lican yestérday, taking only 13 days to reach the ity Probably this speed -was attained by postmaster General Burleson personally giving it {his attention in getting it started or i sending it by way.of the - new aeroplane route.~Waterbury Repub- Suggested as a question for every able-bodied American citizen, man or woman, to ask himself each day: “What have I done TODAY to help America win the war!” Not an easy questibn to answer, for real citizens, with patriotism, and a conscience. That help you gave the ed Cross drive some weeks ago, those Liberty Bonds you bought when Lib- erty Bonds were last for sale, or that work you intend to do for the Y. M. €. A, drive, when it comes—these things will not do. Bridgeport is full of opportunities to help. 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