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4,4 b . cism! &orwich Bulletin i and gcufie? 122 YEARS OLD (RO il i o S ust S, price 18c & week; 500 o -2‘-'-"'-‘ year. at Postotfice Co . neo-d.—eh-u matter. Telephome Caller Bufletin Business Office 480. Bulletin torial Rool ulletin Job Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1918 CIRCULATION 1961, average ... 1905, average ..... MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclatad Press fs exclusive- Iy estitied to the use for republica- of all news despatches eredit- to it or aot otherwise credit- od in this paper and also the loca! news published herein. Al rights of republication of epecial despatches herein are also rved. at Norwioh e 35-2 ntic Offce, §25 Main Street. 210-3. impetas | to drive which are fiow being ‘western front. The same disconcerting facts cannot fail to have their effects upon Bul- saria and Turkey, which nations are in & wrangle amongst themselves and both of which are chafing under the tight rein which Germany holds over thém. Now that the alliés are able to demonstrate that the German strength is not sufficient to retard the advafice of Geéneral Foch’s foroes, op- erating to better advantage under the plan of single control, the task of maintaining the high morale which is reeded amongst the central powers is manifoldly increased. With the con- tinuance of the same kind of- pres- sure which {3 now beifig exerted there are indications which prompt the be- Hef that the central powers must sodn bréak under the strain. What- ever hope they had of success is be- ing seriously undermined daily . 6 disclosures made along the 3 AN AERONAUTIC DEPARTMENT. Efforts to get the airplane produc- tion in this Country out of the diffi- culties into which it has peen plinged and thorolighly reorganized under a single head who has the au- thority to see that the werk is prop- erly done have shown some prog- réss, but it is evident from state- ments which have been brought out before the senate committee on mili- tary affairs that the steps taken have not accomplished all that is desired. This is shown by the statement of Major General Kenly when he said that he believed that the thing te do was to adopt the poliey which had heen decided upon in Great Britain where an air ministry hag been made to- have charge of the production of aircraft and which looks after the needs of both the ariy and navy in this respect. The creation of a sepa- rate department- of aeronautics would mean the -naming of a responsible Lead who would have complete charge of the work, who would be able to give orders and upon whom the re- sponsibility would rest of bringing abcut the construction of the air- planes of which the country is in such creat need. It ig certainly time that the handi- cap’ which has been experienced in this direation was overcome. We must take a lesson from the blunders of the past and had we followed the example of Italy in taking models of machines’ which- were rendering effi- PUSHING BACK THE LINE. News of the fall of the town of Rove edly defended in which has been determ by the enemy since the pushing of the Montdidier salient shows witl what persistence and success the al lied farces are following up their ad vantage along the western front. Thel sangle we should ot hesitate to capture of this point not only indi-|adopt the idea. catés the early control of the whole Semme sector includinz Chaulnes and Peronne but it also makes it evident GERMANY -MUST PAY. {hat the Germans will not mueh longer to retain control Neyen which is fast being outflanked to the east. While this gain was being made to a3ainst one the south of the Somme of the strong points in the line whick the enemy was trying to hold, British have not been letting grass grow urder rorth. They have been pressing thei wdvantage around Banaume which is sm the vergs of capture and to the a8t of Arras they have succeeded hard fizhting in n yend. This makes it evident that the Teu- reserves tomie forees, in spite of the which they have brought un to stem the tide of defeat, are being rapidly puthed back over the ground which they fought during the spring and summer with such stea gains on layach an attack that it seems prob- abie that the Germans will have diffi- culty in checking th advance even of the Cambrai, St. Quentin and Laon line even though tha: means a con- siderable shortening of the front. Gen- eral Foch has the ensmy on the run and his plan is to allow them breathing speil. DISTRIBUTING THE PEACE FUND. When Theodore awarded the Nobel Roosevelt peace prize work for the furtherance of p the future his 6wn uses. The money wa: in the hande of the United government for the purpose of estab lishing a peace commission. eace Inasmueh as nothing had ever been done with it, war conditions blocking any possibility of such a step at this time, and with so many uses for ev. ery available doliar in variou branches of humanitarian work to day it was a justified some immediate benefit therefrom. be Having been put in his hands, the " ex-president has procecded to make % division of the money and as migh bave been ‘expected the way in which he has distributed it is above criti The Red Cross rececives largest amount $6,900, with the nex largest sum, 35,000, going to ‘Theedore Roosevelt, In France. Then follows gifts of $1, 800 each to the Y. M. C. A, Knight of Celumbus, Jewish Welfare Roard, @alvation Army, and Y. W. C. A while the remainder is divided among orzanizations doing work of relief in practically all of the allied nation: apd for certain war relief work four states of this country. For the motive' which him and the manner in which he ha digbursed the fund, Coionel Roosevel: is to be commended. - sprve a great and good purpose. EFFECT ON CENTRAL POWERS. ‘We have seen what effect the suc pass of the allied offensive and it i kmown that this country seme of the neutral side when the end of the war sidles, In this connection it will be inter- easting to note what effect is produced this same allied success upon the of Germany as well as upon the For a long time there has been a spirit of unrest in Ayatriz. That has been grewinz in- *tead of decreasing. It meceived a_big people of Germany. be able of the any their feet to the t only reaching the i Hindenburz line but in soing be- ient service at the front and devot- ng our whole energy to the produc- tion of such airplanes in quantity there are reasons to hzlievé that the situation would be different today. The creation of a department of aero- nautics may be advocated at a latej date but if it will straighten out the! 1 Only what mus: have been expect- ed was the decision handed down by i| Judge Mayer cf the United States dis- trict court in New York when, after 5 long and careful review of the evi- dence in the suits brought against h | the Cunard Stéamship company for damages suffered as the result of the sinking of the Lusita: he finds that| the steamship .company is not liable tut that the blame for the “cruel de- struction of life in this catastrophe” rests upon these who plotted the crime. . . The judge finds that there was no foundatioh for the cluim that the Lusi- tania was armed or that it was ecar- rying explosives at the time it was sunk. The company had taken all the precautions expected under the circumstances and | Fe justifies the sailing of the shlp in spite’ of the warning printed h could have been by German.agents in the newspapers at the part of the allies wherever. they]n B o The responsibiiity for the destruc- tion of the vessel and its human car- German government and it ig to that that thos> who seek damages the time comes to press those claims 50 rests upon the the when no was he saw the opportunity of putting it to in rather than devoting it to placed tates appeal which Celonel Rcosevelt made in asking for the return of the fund, amounting to ever $45,000, that it might be divided among war relief organizations and zained the Mrs. .. for her work in prompted It is bound to an that it pertends, now that it has the \spistance of the American army and is peyring a hundred thousand or more Wen menthly into Europe to back up thess who are already there, is having natione. iy are anxious to be on the right is veaohed and they are already begin- wing to recognize the strength ef the t can be expected that this govern- ment will do its utmost to see that they are collected. It is probable also that the damages of $14.000,009 sought 1s the result of the destruction of that ship will by no means cover the claims for similar losses during the war and it is entirely possible that the entire German properiv seized b the United States will not be suffi cient to meet the indemnity eclaims which will be included in the peace - | terms, EDITORIAL NOTES. It is time that all the taik and plans for labor strikes were ended unti] af- ter the war. As fast as Germany summons every available man to the front the allies are driving them to the rear. it must gail the Hun to think that he is being driven out of capturead ter- by the contemptible British s What is bothering the Huns the mdst is the fact that they are not be- ing allowed to select their own mov- ing day. The fact that the ailies have reach- ed the old Hindenburg line at one point doesn't mean necessarily that they are going to stop there. Who ever Iz‘rd of the champlon- ships in the Dig leagues being won without stirring up more enthustasrs and everyone rooting for his favorite! If the letters of the German sol- diers are to be accepted as honest the Huns have been defeated and all that remains is to make them squeal. When the German papers admit ths ‘ull strength of the Americans in Bu- rope it permits the German people to understand the better why their ar- 5 mies are falling back. t The man on the corner says: These are the days when many mere than the younssters are not satisfied un- 1?: they are neck deep in corn on the cob. Strange as it may seem it doesny - | refquire much in these days to prampt workmen to strike even though they have a working agreement for the pe- riod of the war, Berlin protests to Spain against the decision to geize German ships fer Spanish ships torpedoed which indi- cates that it intends to continue sink- ing everything which corhes along. If the nerves of the German em- press are so likely to be upset there is mo question but what she must be kept away from the hospitals in the future, for conditions there will grow warse before they improve. Although- the New London Day is somewhat mixed up eon the streets there can be no doubt but what it hag properly. indicted the condition of several of the main arteries of travel. t t s 5 No greater surprise has in all the war's surprises nouncement within two weeks that a British expedition has reached the Caspian Sea and is at present de- fending the oil port of Baku. Right here where the Caucasus range rufs into the sea. is the most remarkable oil field in the entire world not even excluding Pennsylvania, for within ten miles of the city of Baku is produced one-fifth of the worlds’ supply. The immense value of this region can be understood when it is considered that thesa few square miles of already de- velopea oil territory furnish but a tiny fraction of what Russia will eventu- ally produce. The oil fields of the whole region are estimated to cover 14,000 square miles, part of which lies under the Caspian Sea. These oil de- posits have been known for 2,500 vears. On the Apsheron peninsular jutting out into the Caspian is the site of the ancient temple of the Fire Worship- ars. Even as late as 1830 members of that cult were in the habit of making pilgrimages to the sacred spot from 41t parts of India. When the Russian government at last put a stop to the entry of pllgrims, the priests must Have felt righteously indignant at the interference with their business, but the last of the devotees must have 'ex- perienced a rude shock to see a mod- ern oil refinery under the very walls v haired i back ffom the country awfully. early? You .ldok rested and refreshed, of course, as if yoird had a r:guh vacation, but your stay was shor . “Uh, huh,” said Isabel. “Maybe I didn't get the common or garden va- riety of vaeation—and that is no pun or war gardening, either—but I feel pretty good. It was funny, too, every thing considered. “Of course’ you know that I went back to the old home town in order to recuperate from an excess of war Work during the winter. My .hours at the Red 'Cross tearoom and the Sailors’ club and the surgical dressings were rother strenuous, to say nothing of knitting every spare minute. So I did not take an inch of wool with me, or a needle, and I packed a lot of awfully frivolous nevels in@my cute little steamer trupk. “Browntown, you know, has only about 500 peeple and most of them are natives, so my chance for relavation seemed very good, indeed. Especially as I had always pictured the old town as peaceful and even positively somno- lent, just as it always was, with noth- ing more militant than the call of the turtle dove and the drope of the sawmill. { of their temple utilizing for industrial purposes the very fire that they had piously come & thousand miles to worship. The entire region about Baku fairly reeks with oil and gas. For centuries the white variety of petroleum has been collected by the Persians and sent into the interior of Persia and India where it has been used as a medicine both externaily and intern- 4lly. In some places the oil exudes from the surface of the ground and solidifies into hilis that have the con- sistency and appearance of asphalt. The peasants make large use of the gas to burn lime. Formerly gaseould be found at a depth of a few feet, but naw it is necessary to dig fifty feet or more. When gas is reachad the pit is covered over and small surface canals rofed over with stone slabs and -earth lead the gas to the heaps of limestone that have been stacked ready for burning. The anclent altar of the Fire worshipers was similarly fed with un- metered gas to the enrichment of the priesthood and the deception of the pious devotees. It was this fabulously rich region on which the Germans had their eyes when they arranged by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk that Russia must cedeé to Turkeéy not only all of Turkish and much of Russian Armenia but also the Black'Sea port of Batum, by which alone the oil of Baku fields finds it way into the outer world through a pipe line 500 miles long. The infam- ous treaty of BrestaLitovsk however is not accepted as final in all parts of Russia_and down iu the Caucasus the brave Armenians are making a stand against the Turks, who. not content with Baum and the Black Sea littoral eavoring to seize Baku. The only possible relief was from the Brit- ish in Mesopotamia. Bagdad lie four hundred miles.southwest of the Caspi- an Sea and the route is through a wild and mountainous country. So urgent was the need however that the British government secured a thous- and white men to volunteer for the perilous undertaking. A thousand pounds api guaranteed them care for their never troops and, equipped with apparatus and explosives for the destruction of every oil well in the Caspian region, they started across northwestern Persia. The story of their journey is yet to be told. Suffice it to say that they reached the Caspian at Enzeli, took ship 200 miles to Bakue, and found the defenders so well estab- lished that instead of destroying the region they joined forces with the Armenians and now form one more point on Britain’s far fipng battle line. Unlike the Germans who regularly let weeks elapse between successive strokes, General Ioch has kept ever- lastingly at it ever since he launched his first blow July 18th. In those early days of the aliies' advance their at- tack was viewed as a counterblow es- pecially organized to check the Ger- man advance beyond Chateau Thierry by cuttine into their rear along the Ourcq. But six weeks have passed and as the strokes continue now here and now there, it is dawning on the world that the preparations necessary for so sustained an effort must have been planned weeks before July 18th. The drive into the flank of the Marne sa- lient, would have occurred or sched- ule time regardless of what the Ger. mans- might do. As matters turned out it was most fortunate for the al- lies that the Germans had launched their blow southward before Foch struck into them from the west. It took time to change the direction and style of a southward offensive move- ment io that of a westward defensive operation. Henge the Germans could not oppose Foch’s thrust as stutly as if they had over-extended, them- selves toward the Marne and the blow that they received was so staggering and other blows have followed so fast that they have never been able to re- cover themselves. A week aga the Germans counting from the north, Albert, Bray, Chaulnes Roye, Lassigny and, around the turn toward the eastward, Noyon, “Already the British have retcken Al- bert and Rrav and are all around shell-shattered Bapaume. Tn fcur days they have come nearer to the town than they were able to do in five months in the first battle of the Som- me. By most valiant fighting the French have succeeded in taking all the high ground about Lagsieny and forcing the evacuation of that place, so that the fighting is fast closing in about Noyon. The fali of this vital point can hardly be long delayed, ag the French are well to the south- east of it on their victorious progress up the valley of the Oise. American forces have been station. ary this week as far as is known. They still hold the line of the Vesle between Soissons and sRheims ready w spring forth at the word of command and drive the enemy back of the Aisne. Meantime American artillery keep the enemy back areas under constant fire making re-enforcement and retreat equally difficult. The latest extension of the active battle front has been a British advance above Arrag along the River Scarpe. When the German line gives way, as it must very shortly, the hinge will be perhaps a8 far north as Lens and the entire ling may be affected as far as Rheims, 150 miles.away. This is the longest battle front that has been active during the whole war and the fact that ¥och can maintain this activity is proof of the immense number of men and guns at his command. STORIES OF THE WAR Hunting Submarines By Airship. A sea sport which has arisen out of the war—hunting German submarines by airship—is described in the London Times. The writer's story concludes with telling how the erew of the U- boat apparently preferred death to being captured. One of the crew of an airship spotted a submarine lying on the bed | of the ocean, in fairly shallow water, “The wireless sparked,” reads the aecount in The es, “and soon away You see our streets arg in new hands now. . Ot LA F PN T Ll on the horizon there appeared a little Gastroves followed far astern by four j U-boat 4 “I got the first shock 1hel very in- stant I stepped off the train. A girl with a box of ribbons came and pinned one on me. It was tag:day for some belligerent cause or other. When I got into the stage the woman next me was knitting a sock and she kept poking me - with her needles just as they do on street cars.. And every time the bus jolted she dropped a stitch and asked me to pick it up for her. because she could - not see well Vhen I got to my grandmother’s iplace T found that grandma had been out weeding her war garden and was so fascinated that she had been late to the train. My first dinner intro- duced me to a new kind of flourless bread and some vegétables that grew where her marigolds used to be. “Well, I saw right away that a change had eome over Browntown. It was busy. My dear ancestor actually squat trawlers, all racing toward the spot above which the airship cruised around. “The destroyer came up first, course, and it was not long before, guided by wireless instructions, hér guns were trained in readiness to greet the unsuspecting U-boat should it bob to the surface. It seemed ages to the impatient crew before the traw- lers arrived, but things moved rapid- “Working in paifs they anproached their vietim from opposite directions, steaming toward each other. Be- tween each pair a strong ‘“sweep” was stretched and allowed to hang in a huge loop that it might traverse the seabed. The vessels met and crossed each other's tracks immedi- ately above the doomed craft. The sweeps’ of either pair engaged the fore and aft simultaneously and held her in a gigantic cradle. “Thus far the German boat had shown no signs of alarm _althouzh those with her must have heard the churning of the trawlers’ screws. Now she sudenly seemeéq to awake to the menace that threatened her.” The the submarine. “She wriggled, and squirmed about in a frantic endeavor to escape but it was useless. Not a loophole was there to he found, and her plight, Ehe ceased This fact was duly to strusgl wirelessed stroyer below. enemy vessel could eurface did she =d desire, and, British oraft now minutes. She preferred to lie stili; destroyer} the starboard foremost | trawler and the port aft one attached a tin of high explosives to each of the ‘cradle wires’ and allowed it to slide downwards until it rested upon the U-boat's hull. Then those in the! airship flaggeq a signal and upon the | two trawlers two firing keys were pressed. “Followed then the uprizsing of a geyser of water, and when the troubled | ocean became calm, of the submarine there was no trace other than an ex tensive patch of oil floating. upon the surface of the sea.” Posting Reliefs. (Correspondence of The Associated Press) : In the old wars, reinforcing troops “marched in the direction of the fir- i Today, when a two-hundred | may be ablaze, the sound is too continuous and tco widespread to afford much indication as to where the reinforcements are re- quired . In the ordinary way, reliefs in trenches are carried out according to a carefully arranged time tabie and on a fermal plan: The business of “taking over” a line of trenches from | the outgoing battalion has long since been reduced to an exact formula. But when the fighting is in open country and the line only partially dug in, it is more difficult, and great care has to be exercised lest advanced patrols and contact sections blunder inta the enemy’s positions. ually men of their own battalion sent up previously to get familiar with the new positions. Even with this ‘as- sistance, it is often a difficult busi- ness. The relief takes place at night, and in dark and bad weather, the 2-6 ord $35,000 in Pumes 4 fiomomwmu&l | «coNNECTICUT A1 WAR" | Ry the State Couaell of Dedonse. Labor Day, Dak very of article goes on to describe the fate of at length, realizing ihe helplessness of by i those on board the airship to the de| Trapped securely, the still rise to the o give her an opportunity to do so, the waited for several and so, at a flagged signal from the left my preakfast or ¢ went to a canning bee, and little Gid- eon Grubb, a boy scout, who lived next door, woke me early by practicing bugle calls on 4 tin trumpet. Goldi Grubb, his sister, who used to OTHER VIEW POINTS When . experts ? war will last three years, or five years, their opinion s a8 ‘g00d ‘as ours. but no better. But ‘when General ~March. .ju‘-wt airs and a professional of excellent sitting at the center of aff epend most of hér time hanging around the soda fountain in Jones' drug store, was learning stenography in crder to enlist as a veowoman, and asked me whether I'd mird dletating to her for an hour every day, “I think it was the first afternoon that a reépresentative of the Ladies' Aid came and asked me to talk to them on war work that was being done in the city, and the %econd day the minister, called and asked my ad- ;viice about becoming an army chap- ain."" Then old Aunty Bates, tne one who used to do such beautiful tatting, couldh’t wait to have me teach her how to knit twin socks. You see, they thought I was sort of an author- ity on war in general, Gideon Grubb even wanted me to teach him military drill. and his father asked me wheth- er there were any improved war time methods for milking cows. The edi- tor of the weekly Trumpet wanted an article from my pen and everybody was awfuily hospitable about asking me to the Red Cross workroom and knitting bees. Altogether it was very restfull” “Perfectly grand!” said the eympa- thefic hostess. “But I don’t suppese there is a place to rest nowadays any- whers in the land unless it's a sani- (bari»l,lm. *Why don't you try -one. Isa- T should say not’ ‘said Isabel. “They're probably the busiest places on earth. They set me to knitting socks as a soothing exercise for the nerv T've had -enough vacation, Besides, it did one good ng for me—it gave me a lot more enthusiasm! % “Tt cheered me up to see the way people in Drowntown are working. Why, just think, if they're doing that all over the country we're beund to win the war! I guees enthusiasm is better than rest anyway. Will you hand me my knitting bag, Jane? I think I'd better get to work again.— Chicago News, % e way ean be easily missed among tlie maze of strange trenches. When moving up’to open fighting positions, it is harder still, for there are no trenches to give the direction. The open line on which the day's fighting comes to an end may run unevenly, perhape along a hedgerow, & bit of wood, some ruined farm build- ings, or unduiations of the ground. Beyond this line lies an -indeter- ly once they were at the scene of | minate area of No-Man's Lond. Out action, for they Knew their job of|there lie scouts and hidden snipers. old. Little groups of men, the ‘“contact patrols” of both sides. watch ome ano- jther’s positions ceaselessly for signs yof attack or any movement that may betray the enemy’'s intentions. Just hefore dawn these watchmen the ‘night come in and new are posted.. {. Fach side of course is on the look-out to hdrass \in-coming hostile irellas. Therqfore complete silence and great caution must be ob- served. As a ruie, movement up to or from an open line in daylight is imnossible. Every evening reliefs are taking place somewhere along the battle line. and, in addition to the movements of battallons and_brigades, whole divis- lons are withdrawn at longer in- tervals ,and have a six weeks’ rest and trairing epell in areas some miles of men behind the front. These peri of ‘rest’ however, are quite stinet from the usual routine of reliefs, A Dbill was submitted to the Brazil- ian Senate on Wednesday authorizing the issue of paper money to the ex- tent of about 200,000 contos of reis. iwho have lost two successive cro land coliect the loans. constantly | in possession of trustworthy and full information, tells the assembled newspaper reporters that will end next stimmer if eighty divisions on the prediction is based -on and we can feel assured that end of the great war which eed and folly of the Germams in- ficted on the world is in sight. Eighty American divisions 18 a great many men. but we can fur- nish them.—Hartford Times. President Wilson has placed at the disposal of the treasury and agei- cultural depariments $5,000,000 000 to enable them to furnish aid to wheat growers in certain sections of the west by winter kiMing .and drowght. The Federal land banks will act as finan- cial agents of the government to make This fund is not intended to be lent to farmers who have banking coliateral; the action of the war finances corporation in urg- ing the banks to finance such farmers and its promige to support them in such financing, it is believed, will am- ply provide for them.—Waterbury Democrat. : THE WAR PRIMER Bal The National ' Geographic Society iesues the following ‘war geography bulletin on Baku, Russia’s great oil ¢ity, occupled recently by a |flr ish force: ‘The City of Baku, built in the form of an ampitheatre on the south side of the Apsheron peninsula, which! juts far out into the Caspian sea, 'Si the Tampico of the Slav empire, Two | vast oil fields, containing more than| 2,700 wells, make it the chief oil| center of Europe. Had the Teutcnic} powers succeedad in reaching it be-, fore the British forces occupied ‘it, the blow would hive been even more se-| rious to the Allied cause than waa the! seizure of the Roumanian oil fields by the German army of occupation many months ago. “According to a census the year be- fore the outbreak of the war, Daku was a city about the size of Oakian Cal, Providence, R. 1, or Tolede, Ohio. It is the chief city of the Russian province of the same pame, and is situated in the midst of an unattract- ive, treeless piain which stretches along the western shores of the Cas- pian. The Caspian is 84 feet below sea level and Baku rises only 30 fegt above the great inland $ea so thot it is more than feet below the ocean level. “Many centuries ago e o e e FRIEND HUSBAND A New Mack Sennstt Comedy BURTON HOLMES TRAVELOGUE DAVIS | Dorothy Dalton In Her Latest Success Six-part Paramount Picture THE ALLIED NATIONS’ WAR REVIEW Distributed by the U. 8. Govern- g ment ALMA RUBENS In the Five:Part Triangle Drama FALSE AMBITION of produstion was reached 14 years ago when the output of the district was nearly ten million tons of crude petroleum. In 1905, however, there was a disastrous fire which considera- bly curtailed production for a time. The latest authentic figures on pro- duction are those for 1815 when a little more than -seven miilion tons was produced. Muech of the output of the wells which vary in depth from the fire-worshippers discovered that natural gases issuing from fissues in|500 to 2,0000 feet, is transported by Persian the the rocks near Baku would burn, and there may be seen, a few miles from the city, the remains of one of their ancient temples. The eity itsel? was in existence as early as the sisth} century. It did not become a Russjan possession until a little more than a hundreq vears ago. “The upper part of the city's cor- respending to the back rows of an ampitheater, i the pictufesque Tartar quarter, with its many narrow lanes and oriental bazaars. A fifteenth- century palace of the khans is in a very dilapidated condition, and has |been used for many vears by the Russians as a military magazifh. The mest characteristic structure in the! town is the massive Kis Xai or | Maiden's Tower, which rises to height of 147 feet and which i8 now used as a light house. It dates from the By- zantine period. pipe line to Batum on the Black Sea, bu: Bakn is also eonnected by rail with this seaport as well as with ostov-on-the-Don. The former city es 550 miles to the west, by way of Tifiis, and the latter is 813 miles to the nofthwest. “In addition _to its oil interest, Baku has drydocks, flour mills, sulphuric works and tobacco factories, {while it is the chief entrepot for raw cotton. silk, fruits, dried fish, wines and rice produced in Persia and the Transcaucasus territory. “The town derives its name from the squalls (badkue) which are fraquent'y very violent bn' this paft of the Cas- plan coast.” " Ohildren Ory - FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA “Fouf-fifths of all the oil produced in the Russian empire comes from the Baku fieulds. 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