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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-02-26, Page 51 , 1.,,1,,,,n,,,,,,,,,,,,„,,;rr,,,,;rrrra�,,,�„1,i,rI5m ACTIVITIES 01' WOMEN ; I ml n , , , ,,,,,ua,dnn+,nn.. A 'RIF. FOREST S4:'l;rel„d tti 1,t)li18:'rlvj: DURING. W .tA It 'N`t 3I E. l odern \,t' trfare Is a Different tyro- ii4D5i1100 •From -.Fotane' '1'iiucta, If anyone wants to see a gu.,tic rri army it is•nu use vi•itrngtli;> theatre of war. The only place to gu is to ,a t'lneauttograpii Show., ri'llereyou ri]1 ilial troops marching and figlit- ing in a manner you never Fee ,ad the front. "hare been motoring ,about hor'ra.ine fur three days, Write I.. Ashmead Bartlett in the Londe,: Daily Telegraph. I. have leen the German 0utpuets, and in the distance the great feta cess .,f Metz. 1' have been to the front 'French lines, or rather these lilies have been pointed o'ut t.1 alio. But 7 have never seen Iitor'e than two. or three soldiers ;et a time, 1 have seeu small columns of smoke rolling itpit agile ft: ern the srrow,clad fi,rest , and untie I *aught a .glimpse u£ what: looked like a green Indian wigwam in the very ou'takirts of a woad. and' that is all. Yet these same weeds E contain thousands and thousands: of argued warriors, ever on the look. out, tkhu are gazing' .across the frontier at the other woods, which conceal countless thousands of sol- diers of the Kaiser. 1 once walked on what looked Like a firm ground strewn with branches of trees. and very nearly fell into a pit. On looking down I saw the grim muzzle of a gun. That is all I sa:w of the French artillery. I am now speaking of the troops actually holding the 'front; lines fac- ing the German positions on the other side of .the frontier. In the villages behind these lines there is plenty of life :a,nd animation. Here one sees the French Reserves mak- ing themselves as comfortable as cirournstances will permit, amidst the ruins •of what were once the homes of a large and prosperous peasant population. Here let me sa.•y that never before have I seen such an. awful state of desolation as prevails over the whole of this im- mense track of country over .which the armies fought in ,tlugust and September. Devastated. Lorraine. Belgium is bad enough, but -French Lorraine looks exactly •ws if ib had ;been devastated by a gigantic earthquake, . wibioh has 'Shaken down all the towns 'and villages into a mass. of ,sliape]:ess,.smoke- blackened ruins. The civilian pop- ulation has ,almost entirely disap- pea.rc• d. They are soaatte•red all over France, staying with friends, or in centres provided by the Govern- ment. Many of these villages were destroyed byartillery fire, or in the course of desperate hand-to:hand fights for their possession ; but the majority are the •deliberate work of destruction. Apart from the .absence of the civilian population and the destroy- ed towns and villages, the whole of this part of Lorraine presents an extraordinary ,spectacle, because pxaetically every yard of it—at least of parts we visited—has been abso- lutely shot to pierces by the c011 - e ntrated fire of the French and Geimnan guns. There are great ehell holes every- where. The Shells remain exactly where they fell in this combat of and to drive the French army -tato giants. The deserted land has not tthe,fortrees of Toul. BOSS THE BOINERoq INES 11. WHAT 3S(aO1.1�t +t>l`` (ONy uC O G13,..1"i T11L S THAT WE• TH THE MUTES:, • Latest 11(alr1)e4ni11gs In Big Ilei) Condensed for 'Busy` UALLY AND 1:• ry•• •1 (Citi. ;IVIU CA. UCK. rHis The Crimean, War Gave Ris NL,mber of Familiar - Tit! ea, :Reader's. Sprue of the .i000t famous of t ;lithe;, Itujewskit banged humself at. 13ritisli regiment,: MOW' battltng , the fact?+lin(,'-of his sister tit Bnf'tel+ . Franco and Beset= are far betty:' Buffalo foghorn ie to be muffled known throughout Groat Britain, an at that only tht' lakes get its bent- to the world at large, by their niel fit. • aerates than by their official title: 1 Missouri seems* like lye to sanction !'Heir o floia;i -taxes in many instance; "a bill to eluse hotel bars daily at 9 leached, would convey ' nothing to tb li,in. t.erage person, says the New Tor A. buy liauk rubber at H„ustott ,Times - Many Pen',” in many cauntriea, fc Tera mete shut fleeing with $5,000instance, liar*e heard . of the Mae A Ship Which net the Hidden Death and Was Saeed by Beaching. The effect of amine upon a, steamer, which met it in the North Sea, is graphically illustrated by this picture. -It was through the'resour.ee'fulness of the captain that a total loss was prevented by the quick beaching of. the vessel. The hole in -the bows is roughly a, 12 -foot square, and it is difficult to imagine how the strip reached shore. .The floating trines with which the Germans filled the seas around the Bri- tish Isles,at the beginning of the war have done more damage to merchantmen, fishing boats, and warships than the Germans could" do if:: they had a large fleet at sea. i bouts Penny lunches were served to 38,- i.07e New 'cork school children last week. eta lurk city civil service coni- • rnissi„gars are to be fired for irreg- ulai :tic's. (hia:atu High school teachers are prohibited from flirting in the insti- tutions. Fur giving cigarettes to a boy J. Wetzel of Waynesboro, Pa., was fined $100. ” Ten Thousand in Wheeling, -West Virginia, were thrown out of work by the floods. In New York City last year 2,362 persons were fined for cruelty to animals. • Cleveland estimates the war has brought $17,000,000 to its factories from Europe. The net revenue per mile on 147 U. S. railways in December de- creased $41. Representative Adair of Indiana wants a secretary of peace in the U.S. Cabinet. • The new series of counterfeit $5 bills flooding the U.S. are probably of Buffalo origin. Michael Fallon, of Boston, got 18 months for smuggling his niece from Ireland illegally. Walter J.. Keating, of Brooklyn, left $20,000 to found a nursery to aid working mothers. Washington State Senate hasa petition to make a, new State of Lin- coln. in the West. Two dashing Mormon women "converted" 66 Bsooklynites to their faith in January. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale testi- fied at Boston 'that five persons can live easily on $17 s, Week. . 'West Virginia, has a bill; to're move those highway weeds that. bring ha.y fever to humans. Joseph Findura, aCleveland gro- cer, shot a 16 -year-old boy to death for stealing a loaf of bread. Over 66,000 unlawful absences from school in 1914 are reported against Philadelphia pupils. Lester Willard, a Troutsclale, Ore., sheepgnan, was fined $100 for sheep shearing in December. Experts at Albany said systema- tic food distribution in New York would save $200,000,000 a year United States authorities have bought $635,000 worth of beet sugar seed in Germany as a precaution. A pet chicken pecked the eye of Mrs. Helen McKeever, of Queen's, vearmuccuicamosegs pregnable hill or wood. This is 's4tere, you are told .sadly by the of - floor who is acco•mipanyi•ng. you, a great attack failed- In one low- lying the vee lying valley 700 French gra, in. ra ,spade 200 yards wide .andabout fifty broad. This regiment attack- ed the Germans derapg a fog. They were given away by a'•sipy, and were ano•wed.down almost to a mail. The wounded had to be left just where they fell, and most of thein perished from athirst and starvation. In another small wood we were shown the trees absolutely mowed dawn by the Frenchshrapnel fire. It looked as if it had been swept by some whirlwind. A tSaxon Brigade, whieh had tak- en the trenohes in front, attempted a further advance in open forma- tion 'fol'lowed by close columns. They were allowed to .advance some distance when suddenly forty-eight of the French 75's were turned on them. They were swept in hun- dreds. The inen lost their heads and Tan round in oinks, .and then broke for cover to this wood. Here they were caught in a death;trap, and over 3,000 dead bodies were in- terred here alone. These are only a few of, the inci- dents and Beenes tivhioh were re- peated, everywhere during •this aw- ful effort of the Germans tobreak through the 'Trou'ee de Hiirecourt since been ploughed, and ib is easy to follow the various phases of the, battle as the tide of invasion ad- vanced or recoiled, by tihe. deep ' holes made by -the shrapnel and heavy artillery. Everywhere the ground is serried with trenches, now 'half filled with lee and •snow. You ',see some of these in regular formation, where the French and German infantry oceu- pded an advanced position, and had time to dig themselves in,. Others - are mese sheites trenches, thrown up hastily during some attach ;when the advancing inafantr;y eould make no further progress, and merely tried to ahold their own on the F'round thus stained. The mare gruesome relics of this ;gigantic battle are 'the innumerable little Mounds 0!i earth, some surmounted by crosses of wood and the kepis of the fallen.. Names scrawled in peri, - on ,these eroases are now rapidly lsa peaaxin under the stress of. 1.1 g wind, rain tants entre, Elsewhere are huge nameless graves wiliichare. Oiled nit true uxrknawn henget, Where !friend and toe lie side by side. Deadly Spots Mailted. T ,a aroyl(; iter?4tble and motInntul iglrts are those akere you Uri hurl. e4s of (vows ielogamobItabed du very. u,II atete,A1 frontofvotn.efait- Trees Mowed By Shelly. Nothing shows more clearly the devastating effecats of .modern artdl- lery.re than the way the trees have been swept clear of their baancahes by the ,passage of the shells. The roads of Lorraine are lined on both sides ;by aspens. These are now in a melancholy state. Some han'e all 'their upper brandhes swept away; some have escaped alto- gether. and hold themselves proudly in strange contrast to their ;batter- ed neigihbor,s. Most of the main roads were half destroyed by the holes made iby the. shells, but those have been fillled in to allow of the passage of transport and motor Cars. W;hen,'walking ever the ground over whicth ,sore partieularly des- perate fight 'has-been waged, yon have to keep a sharp lookout, other- wise you will very ;likely fall into a Bole some flee -feet, deep made by one of the great howitzers *Molt has beoorue ailed up with drifting snow. tlla�l.,ixi its winter mantle with an icy wind .shivering through you, and deserted rby all except; o0c siona. bands of soldiers, quart- ered anlidet„ the ruined houses; and by the faw • peasants who still cling to theft^ Dollars, the wtholecountry presents Itb the eye an indescrilta able spectacle of misery and ancholy. Metz Cannot Be Taken. Standing on the .summit of the bill of St. Genevieve, I hada. splen- did: view of .;the ground . for males' andmiles around. UnfortnnatelY, the day was not clear, bu1>•in the distance twenty miles away, T eould just 'discern the . outline of Metz. To the north, towards the Argonne from the Bois Le Petre, the great guns were thundering away, for from this position the French artil- lery has already oommmenced to bom,ba,rd the outer works of Metz. But it must not be imagined that anything in the nature of a siege has .commenced or ds likely to e,rm menee. Metz will fall when peace is signed. It would. require too great an army and would lock up toe many men to undertake a regu- lar siege :at this stage,.when the Germans can •still put formidable armies in the field. n1e1- RAINBOW UNIFORMS. Experience Shows Zebra Effects Are Least Visible. The experience of this war niay lead to the trial of soldiers' uniforms striped like the zebra or banded by the colors of the rainbow, in the opin- ion of some military observers. who have serious doubts es to the effec- tiveness of khaki, blue -grey, or any of the other colors now In use. Irl In- dia and South Africa, where khaki got its reputation as a uniform cloth, ft fitted well into the background of brie landscape, but in the different atmos- phere and landscapes of Europe both - the khaki and the blue -grey shore up conspicuously in mass. Nature, the color experts now say, did not stripe the zebra by way of otr- nan1eut, but as a protective measure. It Is the 'Unbroken mass of color no matter of what shade that <latches the ' . Only 26 per oent. ofthe popula- tion of South Africa are avpnien. All babies born in Brussels are now registered as German subjects. The Michigan Central railway now ,employs women as dining -Gar waitresses. Over 80,000 women are employed in the steam laundries of the United States. Violet is the color of the .dlothes of those who. are now in mourning in Turkey. Queen Alexandra receives an an- nuity of $350,000 from the British government. lies. Anna M. Walker Penfield is the largest woman ;personal pro- perty tax payer in Philadelphia, be- ing credited with over $3,500,000. As a reward for her valor while under fire, Sister Julie Rigard, a nun, ,acting as a nurse in the Paris military hospital, has been decorat- ed with the Legion of. Honor by Pre- sident Poineare of France. One of the oldest ,schools for girls on the American continent is the C:olegio de .la P•ez in Mexico City, ,which was founded by wealthy Spaniards in 1732 for the benefit of the children of the poorer classes. There are several villages in Rus- sia; where shoeing horses is an everyday task for the women, as the whole village is engaged pe•r- inanenttly in blaoksaniiiihing, and the women do exactly the range work as the men. Woanen's dress abroad is now be- ing influenced by the war, and the latest craze is to wear veils decor- ated ,. .. -ated with black silhouette's of aero - wa,telr; comparatively few have hear of the Foriy-second Highlanders; ye the names are of the same regiment !'lazy fteecd body, the oldest of ',Highland regiments, gets its nieknant from its tartan. When the regimen' was fir et 'fi i aped it was used eisLefe to suppress sedition in Scotland, tt. enforce= the disarming act, and to dia pot;s a eau lacrized assemblies. spe ins s a, groin which all brigh colors were eliminated, was designei. for regimental nee, and this fact, to gether with the police nature of th< duties of early days, led to the name • 13lack Watch. On many fields, many parts of th-e world, have soldiers of the Black Watch the glory of this great regimes' The Scot Greys, as famous annals of c: avalr•y as is the Black in infantry records, begat. career as the Royal North 'L.. Dragoons. In 1742 the regiment - v a landed in the Low Countries. Oa their disembarkation the Stadtholder, seeing that they were without mounts, ordered his own, guards to turn, over their grey chargers to the Seotc"hmen. And the Scots Greys, with grey mounts, they have since been, al- though they held the official name of the Royal North British Dragoons down to the time of the Crimean War, "Coldstream” Stuck. The Coldstream Guards, who also have won laurels on scores of battle- fields, get their name from Cold- stream, in Berwickshire. In. 1660 Gen- eral ]Monk marobed to London to aid in seeuring a free Parliament and the restoration of the Stuarts, bringing with him his own regiment of infantry from Coldstream. The regimental legend has it that when the troops met Charles at Black- heath the Monk regiment kept some 'of the disaffected soldiers of other units from mutiny, and the King, on learning wvhenoe the regiment ha% come, addr'eseed them as "My Col stream Guards.” The name Stuck:: "The Thin Red Line of ] ingland" long lived in song and story, the nit being applied generally to British fi forces It is declared by experts, he', ever, that the name properly belongs to the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers, in commemoration of their remarkable repulse of the flower :of the Russian cavalry at Balaclava. Volley after volley of rifle fire was poured by the slender line of scarlet coats into the masses of charging Rus- sian horsemen, until finally the attack was abandoned despite the compara- tively slight numerical strength of the British. The "Fighting Fifteenth" are the Fifteenth King's Hussars. They won their title in 1794 in Flanders against the French revolutionary troops. They were serving with the Austrians, N,Y., and the eye will be blinded. t and in operations near .Landrecies, New fork City has sent enough mei. were ordered to rescue thee. Emperor of Austria, who bad been cut off from the main army . Two squadrons of the Fifteenth with a feir Austrian Hussars, tk whole body not numbering more than 300 men, found themselves, through, a mistake, facing an. entire French. army corps•. They attacked part of. the corps so fiercely that the Prem. thought themselves opposed by a gr force. The Hussars rode thri the outposts, charged the artin killed 1,200 men and took three g,. The Fmporer was rescued. He 1:.; decorated the officers of the regimes... tetanus antitoxin to European bat- tlefields to immunize 250,000 men. A Pottsville, Pa., negro wants to wecl a white woman, but cannot get anyone to perform the ceremony. Thirteen cousins are fighting for the $9,000,000 estate of the late William. L. Gulick of Springfield, Mo. John Young, convicted of Pitts- burg bank frauds, died in the pen a month before the date of his re- lease. Prominent educators will enlist 20,'000,000 children in an army of help to suffering in U.S: and Eu- rope. gold nugget of ten pounds. The Die -l -lards. The "Die-Har.ds" are the Fifty. seventh Foot, the Duke of Calla- bridge's am bridge's Own Middlesex, Regiment. �4.'t worth $3,500, was found in Becl' Albuera, in 1311, the regiment. foetid Rock Can;rnn, Mojave, by Dave itself pressed by a great force. lt "Dib e hard, m men, die bait!" was t y Bowman. Baltimore wants to name its ! of Colonel Tnglis to his troops. Backe t i•e children after Ito the wall, tlis soldiers did die har+ schools for colo d i hemi were 140 survivors out• of 6711 eye in the distance, Col, Maude, a o ' �a, lodiir shells, n•„n a ria, r,,ew, .and is horf a,f . T ineIu . well known expert, recounts an in- p.liaaies, Zelrp..lins, e. ,p g f,.... u. g , who began the fight, the dread d stance itt India, when his party, ale. soldiers' heads and other military fates eaily. ling Inglis. preaching a parade sued from lis- emblems. Ether was successfully used tr, §•t' bikers -eau, where the regiment t twice, were unable to see but ens of Sarah Bernhardt, the famous &sea, file identity of n. toting was almost wiped out, Captain Stetiia three battalions until coinpartoively French actress, received $30'000 for Hirt;li4ii selects rvht, 1.r5t hFx ntenr ley i'niseti life ory, Dial attic rernenra close up. The troops all ware searlet ,r+;�in • in the Pilin rnoine .neon E.t.a- New York. x !" h regimen aro in , X t p I Oi Et' * 1 beg 1lbiiera And the jackets, But two battalions wort., ,trade about six wee'ke' 1.. Jour) Pa.. temperance 1 again made good its name. abeth. Iit required invisiblebywhits pipe clay belts and workand isprobably the largest forces published the navies of the The Corniaught. Balargera were oI cross -straits, which broke the masa of iginolly colied the "i evil's Own" be calor; white the conspicuous body suns ever paid a legitimate star for signora liquor liceliaF applications. oarrse of their rascality, but t'lai, had dark straps, which blended in such work, It. was effective. superb lighting in the Pfsaid Ft?a l with the red. Tigers, leopards, birds; Prancers Slia),mside a well- Mrs. T. Volk;?