South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 20, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 20 January 1918 — Page 5

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Six-ton Machine Drops Many Bombs on German Cruiser Near Constantinople.

LONDON. Jan. 19. (Correspondence.) Interesting details of th; recently announced f.ight of a Rritish battle airplan from Ix)nc'.on to Constantinople where It bombed the battleship CJoeben, the German headquarter? and the Turkish war office, were riven at a banquet hero the other day by Handley Page, who described it as the longest distance military attack on record. The flight of 2.000 miles was made without mishap. The feat was accomplished by a biplane with two 270 horsepower engines, crryii'g two pilots an engineer and two mechanics. Veigt.el Six Ton. "leading up at Hendon." said Mr. rage, "the machine, which with spares and luggage was over six tons in weight, proceeded to Paris, Lyons and, to avoid the Alps, continued by way ot Marseilles. From Marseilles the Journey was by way of Spezzia to Pisa, Home, Naples and Otranto, the .1ast point over a friendly country. The next and perhaps the most difficult stage of the Journey, was over the Albanian Alp to Saloniki, a trip of 2 50 miles acros mountains varying from S.000 to 10,000 feet, with no suitable place for landing in case of need. In covering thl-i distance only two stops were made, the first at Paris an 1 the secon l at Pisa. "From Salonikki the adventurous party flew to their base, overhauled the machine nnd prepared for a long distance bombing expedition to Constantinople, a distance of 12n miles. "On their attack trip they set forth with 16 bombs and on arriving at the sea of Marmora throttled down from 2,000 to 1,600 feet, the Golden Horn and other points being clearly in view. "After a short survey of th lights f Constantinople, and to make sure f th'dr objectives, they cam1 down t 00 feet and dropped a salvo of f.mr bnmhs. hoping to hit the Gon-b.-fi which was anchored just 'beneath them. Unfortunately they ;tisrd thf chip, but managed to hit u- or two submarines that were Killer abmgsid" her. Made Second Attempt. "Tuniintr on their track, they mad" another attempt on the Cloe-b-n. and this time lr spite of the attentions of a nu ruber of Turkish German an'.i-aircraft guns. Ii-,. i linked to land four riombs on the battleship. Then they t!e. to a ship Heil th.' General, which was the bMbuart rs of the Ormi n staff, and dropped two bombs tu her. Nt they made their way .' the Turkish ;ir office and dropped two more bombs on that building, the Turkish otfbdal report of the iro tleii st.iti.ig th it 'the war office w as not destroyed "After half an hour's bombing on Convtantinople they turned round and made for their bae. One of their ngines uns disabled and n fewer than 2K bull'-t holes werrt made in their machine. The journey to Constantinople and back, a litaiue of 40 miles, occupied hour-. They were ::0 hovirs In the air on the Might from Rondon to 'n.tantinople.

In an army as in a nation, vigour ! alone, when they are placed against

and progressiv ene.-s. run roughly inia background of nearly five milion

proportion to the amount of meat

consumed per capita. The only reason under heaven why any nation.

or class in a nation, docs not eat

men and figured out on a percentage

basis, they ihow only about the figurewhich might be expected of men of these ages in civil life in

plenty of meat is that it can't get it, time of peace. cither on account of poverty or lack Kvon the larger estimate would of intelligence. j figure out only about one and oneThe healthiest and most vigorous half percent, while the frequency of rice-eating, or potato-eating or cas- I tuberculosis in induVrial life at milsava or banana-eating nation in the itary ages is believed to be between world can be "fed up" to from 30 two and three percent. The main percent to CO percent higher work-i reason why tuberculosis in the army ing power and healthf ulness by a attracts attention is that all soldiers liberal addition of meat to their diet. ; have bcn kept under constant mediWhat Is more to the point in thecal observation for three years and present instance, the wide Colonial every case reported and dealth with; experience of both England and either by discharge or by treatment France with native troops had j in a sanatorium, so that the whole shown overw helmingly that almost world 13 made aware of It. any tribe or race of black, brown, j A similar ctudy of the same numred, or yellow varieties of the genus ! her of men in peaceful pursuits in humanuni can be made into first 'any one of the neutral countries, for class fighting men against both the j instance, would probably have unfoe and disease by feeding upon 'covered quite as many cases of tueven an approach tv- European berculosis. only, as the old proverb

army rations, with meat, rat, ana .has it: "what you don't know

wheat bread. The next most important anti-consumption element in the army ration has been the liberal supply of good bread. Not only has the army bread ration been liberal to the point of extravagance, but the quality of the bread is better than that

supplied to the civil population.)

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An excellent and well arranged system of special hospitals and sanatoria for tubercular soldiers has been planned out by the French government, and an important division of

the American Red Cross, backed by

the Rockefeller institute, is to coop-

That I found to be the case on prac-lerate in seeing that these stricken

tically every front that I visited, and j defenders of their country are given other observers with whom I have 'every possible attention and chance

talked had the same experience. Indeed, outspoken and unhesitating

testimony to this effect is volunteer

of cure. Another more genuine exception

to the general rule is that of the

comes home on leave, or Poilu on permission.

ed by almost every Tommy who j French prisoners in the German

prison camps, who appear to be showing a very high rate of tuber-

Just what this is due to is some- culosis, from vile food and overthing of a puzzle, in part, probably crowding nnd tilso of tne unfortuto the fact that the army bakers nate inhabitants of sorm of the war and cooks under the watchful super-zones just behind the western fronts, vision of the medical, sanitary and Ry the steady and ruthless policy army service oüicers. do their bread-'of constant and indiscriminate bommaking more intelligently and care-J bardment of everything that their fully. Rut most of it is due to a; guns can reach, particularly with

Population of Jassy Increased Four Times When Capitol is Moved There.

lower percentage of bran and other indigestible husks in tho Hour. A considerable amount of the

gas shells, the Germans have driven tens of thousand of these unfortunate people to live a considerable

army flour has been bought by con-, part of their days and the whole of tract abroad, and hence is of the , the night in cellars and caves and civilized or white variety. And this, j underground shelters. With the rewhen mixed with the S." percent war! suit, which need surprise no one. bread flour, lias mitigated its un- that examinations made by various palatableness. In several places I,civlian relief organizations of the have found that the bakers for cw- women and children of these regions, tain units, who had had their bread (show in appr.lling amount of tuberration issued to them in the form . culosis. ranging in some instances

from 40 percent to 60 percent of iiiooc examined. Rut thi.s, of course, is only a part of the general policy, openly avowed

J by the German commanders, that

of flour, were deliberately sifting or bolting it themselves before niacins it into bread, so as to remove a considerable percentage of the surplus bran.

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i ii'-) ujiu me im- i.iuit-i iiiouuf .iupy are maKir.g war, not only upon and unexpected fact that by doing; the French army, but upon the enthis and sifting" out the bran par-'tire French nation, men. women. tides, they could Met more loaves j and children. of bread to the hundred pounds of j Curiously enough, such civil staflour than by using the whole un-jtistics a.s are available in France sifte.i Hour. So that It went just as would seem to show that in the mass far and the men liked it ery much J of the country, taking Paris as an better. j example, there has been little mark;ed increase in deaths from conIndeed. the experience of the sumption, but even an apparent dearmies is beginning to raise a doubt j create. In Paris, for instance, acin the minds of thoughtful supply I cording to the reports, there has experts and army doctors as to the ' been a diminution in both the total real and fundamental economy of ! number, and the proportion per

50.000 LABORERS FROM PORTO RICO COMING HERE

the S3 percent war bread flour. Onehalf of the eight percent saving supposed to be effected by it is known to consist of fragments of the husk of the wheat berry, which

are entirely indigestible in

human stomach

thousand living, of nearly 10 cent between 191;; and 1916.

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WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 Ar- ? a ri'eio it for the early transportation of .".0.truv common laborers to tlw Fnitcil Sratrs from Porto K;.-. are being made by the employment. -orice of the department of

As soon a tonnage is avail;n.o00 others will be brought

om Poro Rico and the Virgin is

la r..b sufficient, the department anno inred to, lay, to take c:,re of any shortage in th domestic supply of railroad and agricultural workers'. T:reetor Gen. McAdnn ha asked the employment service to . ssist in supplying the railroads with labor for maintenance and shop -.cork. The first men imported will be sent to the pouth and southwest for railroad work with the understanding that they will be released for farm service during the press of the agricultural season.

While, of course, too much confidence cannot be attached to theso

the i figures, on account of the tremen-

As tb-se frair- td o'.is fluctuations of both i.onnlation

ments are not only incapable of as- and proportions of various age .imil.ition hut set up an irritation i clashes, yet it is also In keeping in the stomach and intestines "with with the er.era! death rate, which or uithout diarrhoea which sweeps J shows a similar decline, as reported, away more than their own bulk of, of about six percent, the digestible elements, of the flour I One of the most consoling feaunutilizcd. it is an open question tures of this terrible war. ha been whether the saving supposed to be ; the way in which, on account of it t -ffeeted by their retention i. not u : being wajred c hiefly by munitions.

fallacious one. It v oubl be very helpful to have careful experimental tests made up-

machinery. and elaborate mechanical contrivances, it lias, instead of diminishing industrial activity and

on squads of students or soldiers or output, increased it. Thus it has other volunteers to see whether this ; provided abundant occupation and saving is a real or an imaginary one, I higher wages than ever before and also to test whether, if a given 'known for practically every man, amount of ST. percent flour were woman, or child of the civil popusifted before being made into bread, j lation who has ben able to take admore loaves of the latter would bei vantage of it. .So that the masses

eaten per week than of the unsifted 11 ou r.

The third element of importance

of the people ami this is true not only of England but of France and

Italy have far more money to

0RUMST0WN, IND.

Jan. IS. Mrs. O. J. Walters was in South Rend Tuesday. Mrs. C. G. Riddle was a visitor in the shool Wednesday afternoon. Miss Katherine Shean of Chicago, and George Worster of Chicago, formerly of this place, were married last we'ic They are guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Iay of this place. Mrs. K. Mit'oy returned to her home here Thursday after a three weeks' visit with relatives in South Uend. Paul Roger and Carl McGraw of Ivirell were guests of the former's uncle. Alfred Roger. Frank Suit and family of NorthDakota spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. James Day. Miss Jennie KowalfW.-ki. . . ugnter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kowalewski of this place, and Stephen Crbanski of South lU-nd. were married in Chicago, Jan. . Mis I',at ill- Smith, of South Hend pent Thursday and Friday witn Tier parents here.

in the soldier's diet in keeping up 'spend, and are consequently better his superb health and high degree' fed. better housed and better clothof resistance against disease has , ed than ever before in history, been the sugars, and their recogni-j After rather careful and fairly tion as a real food. In every army j exter.sh e observation. I can only ration, on eery mess table, on the sa that I have won no signs of thrre western fronts, sugar In some tfvnuine food scarcity or of underform. fruits, dried, canned or pre-'Ceding in any part or in any class sered. chocolate or syrup, has been'of England, France, or Italy. Food made a regular and substantial fea- i is high, but wages are higher. ture. j The craving, gnawing sens of SIGNAL CORPS NEEDS comes over a man after two or three, WOMEN PHONE OPERATORS weeks of the old style army, or lum- j ber camp, or cow camp, "dry ra- i A"l' l""' J'?" ''f : ,n ... . . , , . : ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 1?. The tion. is not onlv almost irresistible, .

but a sound and wholesome instinct.' . ' - .

The first and intensest craving of our

operators, between 23 and H5 years, who are in irood health and speak French and English fluently. Experienced operators are preferred. Salaries range from J0 to $125 a month with rations and quartew. the same as received by army nurses. Fnits of women telephone oper-

ators to be sent abroad will wear distinctive uniforms and be considered fro-i a military standpoint as 'in a similar tosition to tso mem.

abundant and varied supplies of:r f lh rriti,h wonien-s auxI1.

iary corps. Wives of army officers and enlisted men in Europe or able

cowboys, our lumber-jacks and our miners when they come down to he little frontier towns, is for canned peaches and pie and sweet cake, their second fcr whisky. There can he no question that the remarkable sobriety of the huge armies in this war, and the rarity of alcoholic excess among the soldiers has been closelv connected with the

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that other ' readily assimilable car- j

bohydrate" sugar, cither straight or in the form of dried fruits, preserves, sweet biscuits or syrup, in the ration! A partial exception to this general sweep of triumph over tuberculosis would appear to be the French army, in which, particularly within the list year or year and a half, a considerable number of cases of tuberculois have been reported.

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RANK STATEMENT. NEW YORK. Jan. 19. Average Loans decreased, J19.:92,ftCJ: demand deposits increased. Sil.'.OT,ooo; time deposits decrease,, J4T.0.00Ö; resere decreased. $2. 990. 230. Actual Roans decreased. 152.-

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numbers have been variously JTT,.. 0.000; time deposits increased.

estimated, but while the figures may !."fi.000; reserve decreased, 1 1 0look large in the mass, and taken sy6."80.

JASSY, Roumania, (Correspondence), Jan. 19. Few cities in Europe have been more profoundly affected by the war than the little city of Jassy, now the provisional capital of Roumania. From a quiet, tranquil municipality with a population of less than 7 3,00'J. the place has suddenly grown to such proportions that the government authorities have found it difficult to provide comfortable living quarters for the civil population. which now numbers over 300,000. Ater the evacuation of Rucharest, this modest little city became almost over night the home of the king and queen and the seat of the entire government. Here also are located the kjations of all friendly foreign L'favernments and the headquarters of the Roumanian army and of important divisions of the Russian forces. Refore the war Jassy was known chiefly as the ancient capital of the province of Moldavia, and as a city of interesting churches and historic associations. It is now the center of all official, commercial and military activity in the unoccupied territory of Roumania. When Rucharest and the southern portion of the little Latin kingdom were evacuated, a large part of the population of that section sought refuge here. Schools, colleges, churches, stores, barracks and indeed any form of structure that affonied shelter, had to be converted quickly into living quarters to provide for the great influx of homeless people who fled before the invading Germans. Provision had also to be made for the various departments of the government and for the many branches of the army. Many Interesting1 Features. To the American observer the city presents many features of uncommon interest. Along the m;iin streets are to be seen gr-rat throngs of Roumanian, Russian, French and Serbian officers or soldiers, in uniforms so varied in color and pattern that all strict standards of uniformity seem to be sacrificed to utility and comfort. Here and there an American Red Cross ollicer in his distinctive p-arb of yellow gives added color to the animated .scene. Numberless military automobiles, bearing generals, colonels or other officers on important missions, dash back and forth a feverish speed. Scores of motor lorries, laden with the materials of war. make their lumbering way through the streets, with utter disregard to the comfort of pedestrians. Now nnd then a Reil Cross motor ambulance, fresh from an errand of mercy to the front, s-tops in front of a hospital and discharges its burden of sick and wounded. In a few minutes it is off again to the rear-lino trenches to gather another batch of the country's crippled soldiers. Marching up a side street, under guard, is a large number of Austrian and German prisoners, just in from the front, some of them ragged, thin, unclean and disheveled, but all apparently hap,y at being relieved from the hardships of war. In another section of the city, accompanied by several armed soldiers, is a small company of deserters or slackers, most of them dejected and spiritless, with crowds of curious onlookers commenting derisively on tho lack of courage which made them seek freedom from military service. At the railroad station a long train of cars enters, bearing hundreds of Roumanian Transylvanians

captured by the Russians from the

Austrians and now turned over to i

the Roumanian military authorities for service under the Roumanian flag. The men seem happy at the prospect of serving th country of their nativity, but are conscious of the grim fate that awaits them if t-aken prisoners by the Germans or Austrians; for if retaken by the Teutonic forces they will be summarily shot as traitors. Residence of Royal Family. Not far from the center of the city are the residences of the king nnd quen, which in times of peace were the quarters of military companies. In keeping with the tendency of the times, they are severely plain in all their appointments and surroundings, and it is ditficult for the visitor to realize that within the plain, rude walls are housed the sovereign heads of a nation. Th? queen may be seen almost any day setting out from the royal residence in an automobile, unguarded, and attended only by one of the ladies-in-waiting from the court. The king likewise is a familiar figure on the streets of Jassy. He Usually travels by motor, accompanied by one of his generals or military aides. The royal family is much loved by the people, and both he and the queen mingle among their subjects with a spirit of democracy and catholicity that is deeply Impressive to the visitor from other countries. In the poorer quarter of the provisional capital is a large public market-place where hundreds of farmers and peasants gather daily to dispose of their meagre wares. Of most striking interest perhaps is the fact that the ordinary method x paying for goods with money has given way in many custs to the, primitive custom of barter and exchange; for in the present scarcity of food in Roumania money has come to have but little value. At this market place may be seen an itinerant merchant trading a bushel of pwUitoes for a quantity of wood, a peasant womar. exchanging a pound Cf butter for a package of sugar, or a farmer swapping a suckling pig for a few riects of leather. Sail Sight. TH), While the city has many picturesque aspects, it is not without its

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scenes of sorrow and depression. .Making its way slowly along a narrow street is a shabby, diIipidaU box-like vehicle, so small that it re sembles a toy wagon, which the natives generously call a hearse, and which is bearing the find repose tn. body of one of the late residents oi the city. Drawn by a s:ngle horse pitifully deeripit and lame, the hors, I-; followed by a young man on foot Then, in turn, comes a crude gray cart on which is seated a patri archial tiure, bent with the weigh of years. The spectator inquires the detail of the sombre spectacle and is in formed that a young woman Im fallen a ictim of typhus that tei rible scourge which has claimed s many thousands of Roumania' population; that the yocnj man ii the rear with bowed head was thyoung woman'.-: fiance and that tl old man on the wagon, who is to feeble to walk, is the last of tb family of the deceased. Scores of military otlicers and soldiers bar their heads and stand in silent a; tention while the little processiomakes its way to t.ie local ceme tery.

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GRANGER, IND.

Jan. 18. A. L. Stephenson moved his fa:n ily to South Rend Thursday. Noal Renn moved his family into the Stephenson house Monday. Men with teams and shovels havopened the roads so we are once more able to get out into the world Mrs. Albert Remley returned from the bi-ennial Gleaner's convention held at Kalamazoo Friday. Mrs. A. Patterson of South Rend spent a few days at th home . her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Japei Smith the first of the week. Miss Mildred Lowrj- was in South Rend from Friday till Monday. John Radican was called to South Rend Monday by the illness of his son. R. L. Strang was in Chica-o Thursday. 12. M. Remley was in South Rend Monday and Tuesday. Red Cross workers met at the Gleaner hall Thursday. Kverybod welcome at any of their meetings, which are held every Thursday from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. There was no train service on the Rif Four from Friday till Wednesday morning, owing to th; storm.

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