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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-7-4, Page 2,. TIE LURE O SIBERIAN GOLD THE GREAT TRANS -SIBERIAN RAILWAY SYSTEM, Necessary For Allies to Act Imme- diately if Russia is to be Saved From the Huns. Siberia includes all of Russia's Asiatic possessions, excepting Trans- caucasia, Transcaspian territory and Turkestan. The Ural mountains and river are the natural boundary be- tween European Russia and Siberia. The Transural district, which contains the greater part of the mineral wealth of the Urals and contains a great wheat -producing section, has long been given over to European Russia and not to Siberia, where the credit of production actually belongs, says a consulting engineer for seven years In the Russian service, Also the steppe Ural and Turgai regions, extending far beyond the Ural River and more than a thousand miles into Asia, have for more than half a century been giving a great yearly output of grains, livestock, minerals, etc., and the credit has been given to European Russia, when, in fact, it was all a Siberian output. Siberia is formed into sections: two Governments east and west of the Obi River, namely Toholsk and Tomsk; two Governments of the great Yenisei River basin, one at Yeniseisk and one at Irki<tsk, the latter city be- ing the principal capital city with a governor general. One Government of the territory of Yakutsk, in number of acres, is equal to the United States east of the Mis- sissippi River. This is the largest of the territories forming Siberia, and has five large rivers, the principal one being the Lena, the most famous geld -producing c•ountry from placer mines of the world, Three Governments for the Amur and Littoral region, consisting of Transbaikalia, the Amur and the Lit- toral. The whole coast zone belongs. to the basin of the Pacific, or rather' to the seas adjoining the lands, in- cluding the vast Peninsula of Kam- chatka and the northern part of the Island of Sakhalin. Tine Steppe Kirghiz region consists of three territories—Akmonlinsk, Semipalatinsk and Semirescensk. Siberia occupies, in miles square, a; territory larger than the combined countries of Japan, Germany, France • and the United States. Trans-Siberian Railway. The Government of Russia under -1 took the task of constructing the: great Trans-Siberian railroad system In 1893. The history of constructing the line is too well known to here re peat, but a fact remaining to be spo- ken of is that the Amur branch line, running from Vladivostock northerly, crossing the Amur River at Khabar- ovka, and running westerly 1,200 miles joins the main line at Chita' Junction, has lately been completed, giving to Russia an all -Russian rail- road in all -Russian territory, from ocean to ocean. The figures furnished by the Min- ister of Communcation show that Russia has spent, within Siberia, over six billion of rubles in development, of which four billion (over two thou- sand million of dollars) are for rail- roads and highways. Rich in Minerals. To those acquainted with the min- ing game it is known that placer gold -bearing ground in California is now being worked that pays but ten cents or over per cubic yard, What would these mine workers think of ground that averages $16 the cubic' yard for hundreds of miles? The Lena river gold fields have several hundred miles of such paying lands. ' Some of the big mine.s are owned . by Americans, English and Russians.: One company has 158,000 acres of gold, placer -bearing ground. Since the, formation of this company and their active work, 1912-1917, sic years, they have produced 108 tons of pure gold, of a value of over $50,000,000. The former Russian owners produced from the same mines over $300,000,000, all; by hand labor. 1 The drill sheets of one Lena gold e feline show a gross value of more than la thousand million dollars. This come pang is the largest producer of gold en Siberia, but there are several thou- sands of men, from an individual, fin- anced only by daily labor --hie total! capital being his pick, shovel and pans —up to large corporations, who are daily producing gold. The richest ° mimes of this vast treasury vault lie to the north and east of Lake Baikal, t the eastern section of Siberia. Every; n mountain in the vast territory of. all;f Siberia carries paying geld-beari. zonea. Even along the shores of the p Pacific there exist undeveloped Klon- dikes. I Other Minerals. Siberia was once inhabited by a jpeople who, according to legend, were Called Chud (wonder men), It is not s hown when thee° people lived, but e main monuments o£ their former becistence eve ancient mines, chiefly c ,yeith open diggings, only in rare in- v `stanees underground workings. Poe- h enibly their underground workings a $cavo caved and closed up. The an- c !tiquity of these works is seen from a :the fact that all the instruments • "whieh ]nave been fo+nid in these art- i i tient mines are made either of coppe or hard stone, showing that they wer unacquainted with iron. The Chud mince guided the Russian pioneers in their search for metalli- ferous clepoaits, and at first all the workings were begun in those local' ties where the Chud had formerly ex- tracted their gold, silver, lead or cop- per, Siberia, being the richest gold country of the world, is also favored with deposits rich in silver, lead, cop per, zinc, tin and every kind and class of mineral value, The iron deposits of Siberia are known to contain thousands of mil- lions of tons of high-grade ores Alongside or near are great water- falls for power and immense coal fields of coking coal exist. Oil fields and timber belts cover vast acreages. Is it any wonder that the majority of Russia's citizens, who care for the upbuild of their country, are looking to and praying daily for assistance to again set together, establish a firm and sound government and place the entire country in order and drive out the German invaders There are now many crimes of daily occurrence, and no man or busi- ness appears safe under the present acting government. The Allies must make definite arrangements of not only cleaning up the German Empire of its insane military leaders and es- tablish a proper German Government in Berlin, but must keep on the march into Russia and also establish a sound government therein, or no real peace can result with the job but half done. PASS SUNSHINE AROUND. r1�{1s TO ]'or Our Dead. ") LEASE GIVE ITS BRRAD, j e SIGHT RESTORED Y O I I'nr you, our dost!, bcyoatl the sea, I .. ' FOUR SEAPLANES RLI )ED SOLDIER Who gave your lives to hold us free, ` 13y us, who keep your memcry, What eau be said? t• We can not sing your praises right Faultfinding Fails to Accomplish Tts Object and Paralyzes !Action. Some man in a place of power does not walk just as we think he Amnia. Down comes the big stick over his head. The skulls of many men who are trying to do the best they can are sore from top to bottom, And it doesn't pay. No man was ever made a stronger man or a better man by being found fault with con- stantly. That sort of thing paralyzes and brings defeat. Helpful criticism is a good thing, but mere faultfinding doesn't get us anywhere. Sun- shine warms and makes crops grow. The farmer has had to come in for his share of the criticism in the past, and it hurts him more than any other one thing that ever FIRST COMPLETE SIIELL-SHOC'I CURE ON RECORD. * host heroee of the endleee fight; Whose souls into the lonely night, Too eoon have fled. We can but honor, cherish, Mees, Your sacred names; no words express The measure of our thankfulness, To you, our dead, Operation at 'Washington on Austra- lian Soldier Results in Restora- tion of Sight. The gas cloud," the bayonet thrust and the bullet wound have cause many a repetition in the war of th familiar story of the "Light Tha Failed," But among the thousands o combatants whose blindness will eve through their lives prove a poignan sacrifice is one who almost mirncu lously has recovered his sight. And as an inspiring sequel to the story o his physical rehabilitation, the victim has announced his intention of goin back to the trenches. It was in the fierce fighting befor Gallipoli in 1915 that Thos. Skeyhill a signaller in the Anzac forces, wa instantly blinded by the blast of a exploding shell, Following a terrific bombardment from the Franco -British fleets that succeeded in silencing the Turkish forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles thousands of Irish, Aus- tralians and New Zealanders, with British and French, landed in an effort to sweep past the defenses of the I Peninsula and take Constantinople, The world knows the story. For nearly a year the Allied forces strove vainly to take defense: that proved impregnable. Thousands of lives were sacrificed, and many bodies were maimed by the withering fire that came from the foe's positions on the hilltops. It was in December, 1915, just about a month before the Allies carried nut their splendicdly successful evacuation that the light was taken from Skeyhill's eyes. Noted War Lecturer. a e God, t You sweep a room or turn a sod, eiAnd suddenly to your surprise ✓ You hear the whirr of seraphim t' And find you're under God's own eyes -I And building palaces for Him. ' There are strange, unexpected ways f Of going soldiering these days; It may be only census blanks g. You're asked to conquer with a pen, But suddenly you're in the ranks e' And fighting for the rights of men. s' Germany As It Is To -day. n The German empire, better known as the German vampire, embraces .208,830 square miles, but not a single square meal, says The Brooklyn Eagle. It comprises four kingdoms, six grand duchies and 3,976,531 grand goosesteps. In outline and inclination it is highly irregular. On the east it hounds Lenine, On the north it is hounded by the Allied fleets and on the west by General Foch. The principal waterways of Ger- many are the seize and the Kiel Canal.' The high C's now under its control are confined to the opera house. The Kiel Canal is used for exercise by the bottled ships on pleasant Sundays. The sea board, greatly restricted like' all other kinds of board, is known asp the high cost of living. The country' is not entirely on the level. It has, in 'the interior, a large table land, en- tirely empty. There are also deep de- pressions in all parts of the nation. Berlin, the capital, was established in the thirteenth century, on the Spree River. It has not yet recover- ed. The inhabitants are divided into two main classes—junkers and junk- ed. The present feeler is Kaiser Bile: lions II. His principal occupation is looking for a place in the sun. There is something warmer than that in store for him. It sounds something! like Helgoland, The crown prince is 'the barely -apparent. The national ,motto is "Spurlos versenkt." • Nature's Gigantic Zoo. No military operations on a large scale were ever carried on in wilder, more difficult, or more interesting country than British and German East Africa. The country is domin- ated by the mighty peak of Kilima N,jaro, an extinct volcano 19,200 feet high, and although almost on the Equator, producing one of the biggest glaciers in the world outside the Polar regions. The country all round the mountain is full of wild beasts, lions and leo- pards being as common as spaniels, hippos all over the place, troops of os- trich and bok wandering about, and' monkeys making night hideous with their chatter. Throughout this difficult country motor roads have been driven, and processions of cars run backwards and forwards with great speed where Liv- ingstone and Stanley toiled through impenetrable forest and jungle. "The place," exclaimed a cockney motor -driver, "is a blighted zoo, and they forget to lock the animals up at night!" He had nearly collided with a hippo! How Can I Serve? There are strange ways of serving i I happened to him. There is sunshine enough to go' round, if we all let it shine. The trouble is not so much that we want! all the sunlight for ourselves as it isi that we keep it from shining on the other fellow. If we only knew it, the grand and the best thing any of us could do would be to say to our fel- lows: "Come on out here, Old Man! There is plenty of room for us all to stand in the sunshine. I believe in you; you believe in me; and we both know in our hearts that this is a good old world." If eve did this eve would all get our shoulders together; we would lift more and kick less. And that would Ong the glad day for which we have all been looking, when trouble will take wings unto itself and fly away. "SPOTTING" BAD EGGS. Use of the Camera in Determining Age of the Hen Product. Bad eggs are unfailingly detected by the camera. This has been de- monstrated in France, where experi- ments are being conducted with a photographic egg -testing apparatus, The idea of utilizing the camera in- stead of the human eye for candling is not a new one. So far it has not been carried past the laboratory stage, but even though obstacles prevent its commercial utilization at present, it is of more than passing interest. Eggs are held in a half dozen oval holes provided in a metal plate. Their large ends point toward a common centre, While intense light is passed through them they are photographed. A power- ful lens is used and an exposure rang- ing upward to three minutes is made. The result is a picture that shows the size of the air chambers in the eggs. A transparent gauge consisting of concentric circles crossed by six lines radiating from the centre is placed between the negative and sensitive' paper in printing. The presence of these lines in the finished photograph' aids one in comparing the size of an! gg and the air chamber within it, which gives an index to its age. GOLD AS A SUBSTITUTE. I I Platinum is Practically Unobtainable for hypodermic Needles. The war has upset many old stand• ards and set up new ones. One of the urious results of this upheaval is that gold has been reduced, in some cases, o the role of a cheap substitute, for Cher metals, Hypodermic needles, or inatance, were formerly made of latinum m• platinum -iridium, two metals now ` practically unobtain- able. The increased war demand for. these needles led to many experi- i menu with other metals and alloys in the hope of finding a good substitute, A manufacturing concern, making a pecialty of tempering precious met- ` els, has recently perfected a hypoder- mie needle of specially tempered 14- arat gold, which offers many ad- antages. The metal has almost the ardnese and regidity of steel, is not c ttaeked by steam, boiling water or. h heroical aolutions used for sterilizing, n lid the needles are much cheaper t than those of platinum or platinum- s ridum, 1 t binnths of service had given Skey- hill a deep insight into the motives that had induced his comrades to sac- rifice gladly their lives. IncBparitated for further fighting, he sought to preach the gospel of the Allied effort from the lecture platform, and through the press. Although barely over his majority—he enlisted at the age of nineteen—he soon became known as a powerfully effective lec- turer. His speeches were instrument- al in rallying hosts of Australia's man -power to the colors, and his verse, published under the title of "Soldiers' Songs of Anzac," caused him to be popularly known through the Antipodes as the "blind soldier poet." Recently he left Australia, where his name had become a household word, to come to America for a series of lectures in the interest of the Red Cross. His first addresses at San Francisco were heard by more than 150,000 persons. he met similar suc- cesses in Reno, Salt Lake City, Den- ver, and finally at Washington. Although suffering from his physi- cal disabilities, Skeyhill announced his intention of inaugurating an indi- vidual drive with the object of raising a million dollars for the Red Cross. He had been afflicted with violent headaches for more than a month. In San Francisco he had been obliged to go to a hospital, in Reno he had been bled nearly to death from hemor- rhages, and in Washington he suffered greatly from pains in his neck. Effected Wonderful Cure. A Washington specialist found that the vertebrae at the base of Skeyhill's necle had been dislocated in three places, presumably by the shock that had blinded him. A simple osteo- pathic operation was undertaken, and as the vertebrae were snapped back into position the sight returned to the soldier's eye. It was explained by the physician that the displaced bone had impaired blood circulation and nerve connections with the eye centers of the brain. As the realization came to Skeyhill that the darkness that had hung over him for more than two years had been dispelled, he became seized with an ecstatic joy that nearly unhinged his mind. His mind became a blank concerning the years that had elapsed since his injury, and he imagined him- self back in the bayonet charge in which he had been wounded. His con- dition became so acute that he was re- moved to a hospital, but after a night's sleep he regained his mental poise, Skeyhill immediately after the op- eration was able to see obects with perfect clarity, but for several days! was afflicted with color blindness. This I rapidly is disappearing, and his sight! is expected to be as good as ever in a short time. His case is believed to be the first in which a complete cure of shell shock has boon effected. The soldier -poet will complete his+ work in the Red Cross drive and then will try to rejoin his Anzac comrades n the trenches overseas, '•io Time to Rock the Boat, "These are few of us who do not I think that we could give the Canada • Food Board some valuable pointers, , As no one group of men can have any monopoly of wisdom, perhaps we ould. But the Canada Food Board; as the information which we have ot. and which they are not at liberty; o share with us. The shu.ation is' erious and this is no time to rock. he boat. Follow directions," i How Krupp Started. There is no doubt that this country started Germany on her industrial way, showed her the ropes, gave her the wrinkles and generally treated her as the good apprentice; blt it is not generally known that Krupp him- self, the man who has enabled the Kaiser to hold out so long, and who led him to believe that he could smash his way to world dominion, got his first capital here, Bays an English writer. Alfred Krupp mime to Birmingham in 1840 with an introduction to a great .English firm of electecoplaters from Dr. Siemens, and offered them an in- vention of his own for rolling the metal "blanks" from which forks and spoons are made. For once a Ger- man invention—for it must be said that the Germans have been good at utilizing but bad at initiating—turned out to be of use, and Krupp got ten thousand pounds from the firm for his machine. With this money he returned to Germany, went to Essen, and there t laid the foundation of the gigantic business which has since become a menace to the whole world, and which employs an army of workmen, .�. ea— .. Watch Fora Blister Beetles. Blister beetles occur almost every year and cause considerable anxiety to the farmer and gardener from their habit of appearing suddenly in large a numbers and feeding on potatoes, beans, beets, carrots, corn, tomatoes 1 and other vegetables; They are soft - bodied insects—slender and cylindri- cal, and about half an inch In length, Spraying with Paris green or amen- p ate of lend will eontrol blister beetlee but in some outbreaks it may be n°- t eessary to repeat the application be- cause the beetles. which are !tilled aro e soon replaced by others. �. ountltem Children Are Begging h'emu Door to Door en Vienna. A picture of conditions in Vienna is drawn in a despatch from The Hague to the London Times, reproduced from the Arbeiter Zeltung, It says: Every Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock there comes a modest tap at the door. A little boy and girl stand outside, tiny, pale, as thin as shadows. They shrin into a corner and if you ask them what they want, a little voice whis pers anxiously, "Please give us on small piece of bread." The children knock at many, roan doors, and yet only three wretche little scraps of bread are to be seen in their dirty little aprons. They get the same answer every- where: "We haven't bread enough for ourselves, here's a kreuzer (about half a cent) for you," The little chap shapes his head en- ergetically, and plucks his little sister back. "No money, father. won't allow it' Doubtless it es hard enough for him to see his children go begging bread and if he were not ill he would not even allow this, but they are hungry and they beg for what is their good and three times sacred right as chil- dren—they beg in order to be satis- fied. Unfortunately these are not the only ones who go from door to door begging bread in order to obtain the least that man can ask for, and which nevertheless has become so costly. The old newspaper woman who brings the evening paper, rice woman who Comes to check the gas meter, the locksmith's boy who has to deliver a key, the scissor grinder and the pretty postwoman—they all say more or less frequently, "Please give me one small piece of bread." For they are hungry and filled with the very right feeling that it is no shame to beg for bread --at least no shame for these wino must bog only because of those whose fault it is that bread has become so scarce. These beggars are all people who work honorably and hard. Even tired, sad women who come on Sun- days, and who have worked to ex- haustion during the week and in re- turn for this they have the Sunday pleasure of saying, "Please give me one small piece of bread." BIGGER RETURNS. FOUGHT NINETEEN A TERRIFIC BATTLE OFF THE JUTLAND COAST. k British Charged the Fleet, Fought for Seven Hours, Sending Down Two e and Damaging Five Others. In the fight off the Dutch coast on d June 4 five British seaplanes of the largest type outfought 19 German sea- planes. One of the enemy machines was sent down in flames and another driven out of control, according to a description of the fight written by Ensign K. B, Keyes, a naval aviator. Previous to the encounter one of the British machines had descended to make repairs, and the Germans r set upon the four other machines protecting the injured one. Ensign Joseph Paton, another American aviator, was on the injured machine, ,and he was subsequently interned in Holland. "Ensign Paton and I were two Americans among the crews of five flying boats on a North Sea patrol," says Ensign Keys. "West of Ter- schelling Paton's machine had to alight on the surface owing to engine trouble. We stood by, circling in the air and waiting for him to repair the damage. "Soon five German airplanes hove in sight. We took battle formation and went for them. I was in the front cockpit with one gun and .four hundred rounds of ammunition. In the stern were three more guns and their operators. Tlie Germans fled at our approach, but I had the satisfac- ttion of getting several rounds into them, although it is impossible to say ' whether there were any effective hits, Enemy Circled Back. "After a time the enemy came circling back, but instead of five machines there were only four, one small scout having been sent land- wards, presumably to bring help. "Soon afterwards we discovered ten hostile machines coming up from an opposite direction. They were not high in the air, but close to the wa- ter, and were joined almost imme- diately by five more, making 19 in all. The enemy scouts were painted black, while the tutu -seaters were sea -green and very hard to distinguieh from water, "We four swung into battle forma - of and charged into the middle of the enemy fleet. When we were nearly within range four planes on the port side and five on the starboard rose to our level, while two of the en- emy machines passed directly beneath us, shooting upward. Firing 'Was Incessant, "The firing was incessant from the beginning, and the air was blue with tracer bullet smoke, and the Germans used explosive bullets. "I devoted my time to the portside, where four planes offered fine tar- gets. Once I looked around. I no- ticed my commander was in a stoop- ing position. I thought nothing of it until a few minutes later, when I loeked again and saw ire was still in the same position. Then the truth dawned on me that he had been hit, and, looking closer, I discovered his head was in a pool of blood, but for the moment I could not leave my post. "We kept up a fine running fight, although our machine was cut off from the rest and surrounded by seven enemy seaplanes. We fought for ten miles until we drove off seven Germans, sending one down out of control, and crashing another in flames from a height of two thousand feet. The five other ma- chines were severely punished by our gunfire. During the last few minutes • our engine began stopping, and the en- gineer reported that the petrol pipe had broken. Meanwhile I had laid out the commander in the cockpit and taken his seat. "The whole engagement lasted n half hour, and I think we did very i well. After my machine descended on to the water, where repairs were made, and then we returned to our i port, The whole fight lasted seven hours," RUSH TO JOIN BRITISH GUARDS,' All Classes Eager to Enlist in Crack Regiments. The glamor of the Guards has ap-. pealed to men of all classes of society! and a vacancy in these regiments either of commission or in the ranks has seldom needed hours to fill, says., a London despatch, At present these regiments are open to recruiting, with the result that there is a positive rush among ,young mon to enlist. The hundreds of young miners who have been released under' the combing, out order, especially men ' from the northern districts, are come n ing to London for the purpose of en -I listing in these crack regiments, and h the recruiting authorities aro work-' ing night and day. The men are all oil splendid phy-1 eique and show by their action that b they hnve not gat over the good old 1 fashioned English dislike of waiting until they aro fetched. I e The majority of the men are enlist-itnie for the full army period of sor-f rice and not for the duration of tho cat'. lb Teach the Boy and Girl the Value of Individuality. In the same family two sons are born. They have the same parents, they receive the same home training, they go to the same schools. One of them makes a million dollars, becomes the most successful farmer in his Province, or perhaps writes the great- est book of the century. The other lives from hand to mouth throughout his life, and dies, known only to his neighbors—and to them merely as a shiftless, unsuccessful farmer. What is the difference between the men? Individuality, we answer—that mys- terious, indefinable quality which makes a person what he is. - But individuality is not confined to men and women. Seed from two ears of pedigreed corn from the same field, planted side by side and cultivated preodsely alike, yielded, one at the rate of 95 bushels, the other at the rate of 17 bushels to the acre. Individual- ity again. This is a big idea for a boy to grasp. When he has grasped it, he has got at one of the great secrets of life. Why not give the boy an acre of ground on which to make ear -row tests of the corn that you have select- ed for planting. Let the boy discover the patriot ears and the slacker ears, The results of the test will be of big value next year in the corn -plant- ing on the farm. Even more import- ant than that will be the enthusiasm that the boy will have acquired for farm matters and the insight he will have gained into that strange, vitally important thing—individuality. Kill the Slugs. These soft -bodied molluses are de- cidedly destructive in vegetable gar- dens, They are likely to attack any kind of plant. They are nocturnal in habit, hiding during the day beneath stones, clode of earth, etc. As they come out to feed in the evening an excellent remedy is to spread broad- cast over the soil before nightfall, freshly slaked !line. This adheres to their bodies and soon ]tills them, Three applications on consecutive evenings are advisable. Shingles, placed here and there throughout infested gar-, dens under low growing plants, will attract many slugs, for they will form suitable shelters :for the little crea- tures and, incidentally, will lure them o their doom, Forgiveness. To forgive before. there be repent- ance, is to encourage sin. Christ tells us, "If he repent, forgive him," One evidence of repentance is a burning desire to repair the wrong done. When Germany and Austria show this desire (and the most paeifle Pacifist ould not claim that they have), and when voluntarily they act according - y toward Belgium, France and Ser- bia, it would be unchristian not to meet them halfway, Until then -- whether the war continue or whether oliticians concoct a "peace" -it would be a violation of every Chrie- ian principle to treat an unrepentant Gormany or an unrepentant German i 'wept as a foul and shameless crim- mal, SALVAGING BOATS ELEGTECALLY A NEW METHOD FOR RAISING SUNKEN VESSELS. Electro -Magnets With Buoyancy Chambers Reduce the Cost of Salvaging Steel Ships, Information has retched this main- ent that a large salving company has been organized in Germany which plans to engage in raising the steel ships now lying on the ocean bottom sunk by their submarines, Two American inventors, Pard Ger- hardt and Theodore Ahlborn, of Chi- cago, have invented a salving scheme which they hope to forestall this en- terprising German move. They mean to begin work in the immediate future —before the close of the war—and re- cover the millions of dollars' worth of property now disintegrating in the mud of the ocean's bed. Raise Steel Vessels. The invention is intended for tho raising of vessels having metallic. hulls sheathed with steel or iron plates. Former methods of raising sunken ships have had several disadvantages, the work requiring divers to attach raising devices to the hull of the ship and powerful hoisting apparatus in- stalled on a large number of barges or pontoons capable of raising the submerged weight of the vessel. The need of divers for attaching the raising apparatus limits the util- ity of the method solely to ehips sub- merged in relatively shallow water. The need for extensive hoisting; ap- paratus on pontoons or scows involves great expense for equipment and a large number of employes. A difficulty that has heretofore been experienced is getting the power for raising the ship. If it is attempted to raise the hull by mean; of (tables and windlass the wave motion upon the ship or pontoon bearing the wind- lass has tended to impose uneven stresses upon the cables and to snap them. Works at :Any Depth. The proposed method obviates these disadvantages in that it is capable of use at unlimited depths. Only one or two small tugs or salvage steam- ers are required for operating the raising apparatus. This invention provides for a num- ber of buoyancy chambers equipped with electro -magnets to attach the chambers to the metallic hull of the sunken vessel. These buoyancy chambers are sub- merged by allowing them to fill with. water. They are then towed along the sea bed in the region of the sunk- en vessel with the electro -magnets energized. When the several chambers have become attached to the hull of the sunken ship, they are exhausted of water by a pumping device in the chambers themselves, or on the sal- vage steamer. When the water is expelled the chambers possess sufficient buoyancy to raise and float the vessel. The sal- vage steamer furnishes the current for energizing the electro -magnets. To Trap Submarines. The salvage steamer performs no part of the actual raising operation and thus need not be of any great size. Moreover, work can be done in spite of heavy seas, as there are no taut connections between the sunken vessel and the salvage steamer. These buoyancy chambers may be submerged to any depth, thereby avoiding the necessity of divers. When the electro -magnets are energized they will attract the Buoyancy cham- bers to the metallic hull, even when the chamber is eome little distance away. Because of this attracting charac- teristic the inventors contemplate us- ing the buoyancy chamber, for traP- ping submarines by towing them sub- merged in submarine infected waters or sinking them adjacent to an ob• served submarine. Lloyd George Among -Them. In proportion to its size, Wales has given to the world more famous mon than probably any other part of the United Kingdom, The name of David Lloyd George, for instance, will live in history side by elle with that of Palmerston, of Disraeli, and of Gladstone, The late Mr. Pieepont Morgan -- once described, and not without truth, as .the most important individ- ual in the world—was of direct Welsh origin, his grandfather, a working miner, having migrated from the Taff Valley to the Pennsylvania coal re- gions do tho early part of the last century. So, too, was the late Mr, Yerkes, rho magnate who electrified London's underground railways; and Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of t e Southern Confederate Stetes of America, also hailer! from the land of he Kelt Then there was Fir, "Reggie" Her - ort, prince of sportsmen and atll- etes, who introduced polo into Bri- tain, founded the Ranela.gh, and stare- d the Coaching Club; David ei lohn, he champion boxer; A. 1 Gould, the MOUS Rugby football player; and many others. Welshmen all of them, orn and heed!