Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 215, 21 August 1915 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIU1I AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY AUGUST 21; 1915

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This picture shows Gen. Gaillot, of the French army during what was probably the happiest moment of his life, decorating his son, Sergeant Gaillot, with the French war cross for valor at the Auxiliary Hospital at Neuilly, Paris.

To see M. George Bakhmetieff, the Russian Ambassador to this country, at his summer home here one would never suspect that the clouds of war troubled his mind. M. Bakmetief f arid Mme. Bakhmetieff are leaders in the social life here and are seen at all the important functions. This picture shows the Ambassador dressed in his favorite summer costume, white flannels, with his pet bulldog, on the lawn of his summer home.-

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BELGfAN MOTH&l AM; Ftot. CS PATHE& SYtN& SoMB OF, & CHtLDQEN. Top A Belgian refugee family. Bottom Rev. Henry Syoen -with some of his little charges. One hundred and sixteen Belgian women .and children have arrived in New York in the second cabin of the liner Ryndam in the care of the Rev. Henry Syoen, pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Detroit. All of the refugees have relatives in this country. It was at the instance of the relatives, most of whom live in Detroit and Duluth that Father Syoen, who is a Belgian, undertook the mission of bringing the refugees to this country. The majority of the refugees come from East Flanders. - ' ' "

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Despite the building of heavy and new model guns by all armies since the beginning of the European war, the French 75-millimeter gun continues to do magnificent work. ' : When repairing the gun behind the lines th e barrel is lifted bodily off its carriage, so that the grooved trough on which the barrel recoils may be greased and Otherwise prepared for further activity. The recoil cylinderconsisting of a brake and running-out gear combined, supported in a

cradle which is itself carried by trunnions on the gun-carriage, is not detached, as the removal of the barrel also allows this part to be cleaned. - The British soldier has heen greatly struck by the French 75's and never speaks of it as the ."75," but calls it the "pa-pa-pa-pa." No one who has heard the un in action could have any doubt as to what gun he was naming. Partly by perfected mechanism and partly by absolute division of labor, the French "75". can be fired as often as twenty-eight times a minute.

Mme, Catherine Bresbkovtkaya. well known the world over eight years ago as "The Grandmother of the Russian Revolution" now serving a life exile' in Siberia, has been transferred to the far northern city of Yakoutsk. on the "edge of the arctic circle, according to a letter received from her by Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of this city. . . , Mme.' Breshkovskaya ;. is " seventyone years old and is suffering from cataract of both eyes, so that she cannot' read. " Her . only recreation, she says, is sewing for a few, hours each

day and, then only on white material. Her banishment to Yakoutsk. - Jeast desirable of all towns in Siberia, eame after eighteen months solitary-- confinement at Irkutsk for trying to es

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kovskaya came to America 'and made many friends here among them Miss Jane Addams and Julia Ward How.

arrested, with many other leaders and sympathizers in the - - growing movement for popular government. She was charged with distributing arms, found guilty and sentenced to Siberia foi life.