Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — Distances in War Zone. [ARTICLE]

Distances in War Zone.

War, besides being a great leveler, is also a great educator. Places we had never even heard of previously 'are now becoming as ‘‘familiar in our mouths as household - words.” The distances so often mentioned , in dispatches are apt to be somewhat confusing unless understood.’ It ought, however, to be quite easy to remember that a meter measure., about one and one-twelfth yards, or ; more exactly 39.27 inches. A de- ! cam etcr is 10 meters, a hectometer its 100 meters and a kilometer ,is 1,000 meters, or a little more than three fifths of a mile. The Russians express the length of their marches or the distance .from place to place in versts. A verst is rather more than a kilometer, the exact distance being 0.66288 of a mile, or between threefifths and four-fifths of that dis-tarice.-—Boston Transcript.