The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-23
OUR FOREIGN LETTER

Barcelona, Dec. 23-At the request
 of the Federation of Operative Bak- ers which has set itself actively to
 the task of stopping night work in
 the bakery trade the Institute of So-
 ciaT Reform has been inquiring into the condition of the industry and the
 of the workers. The, result of the in
 quiry shows that in the worst cases where the bakehouses are unhealthy and the working hours undulys long, forty per cent of the workers are af- flicted with consumption. The Feder- ation is demanding Government ac- tion.
 St. Petersburg, Dec. 23-Dissatisfied
 with the results of the recent Duma elections, the Governor of Baku has
 been trying to restore his credit at St. Petersburg by dissolving trade unions. The petroleum workers union, enbrac- ing some 5000 workmen has been dis solved by gubernatorial decree with
 out any trial or inquiry and leaders
 who resisted or even objected, have been sent to Siberia. The printers and Photographers union at Riga has also been dissolved without rhyme Or req son, except that the printers strike prevented the publication of the news papers for a week.
 Paris, Dec. 2s-A 1aborer working on
 a farm at Junas, department of Gard, received news that an uncle of his
 had died in South America and left forming him Of his good fortune en- closed a check for S1OO and an invita-
 diately, but the 1aborer ahas so little
 idea of the value of the legacy that
 he anShAnces that he will work his
 way Rio de Janiero in order to
 Vienna, Dec. 23-An idea of the
 financial mobilization of a war may
 be had from the estimate Of compe-
 tent military authority here, who places the cost of war between Aus
 tria and Servia at not less than S4,- oOo,ooo day Or $12o.000,ooo month for
 Austria-Hungary alone. This is ex-
 elusive of naval operations. In the France German war it cost Germany
 an average of $1 a day for every man
 in the field. In the Turkish
 war it cost Russia $2 a day per man.
 Austrian military experts figure that it will cost the dual monarchy an av-
 craze of $1.60 per day per man for the 2,500, 900 men that will be mob ilized if it comes to blows with Ser via.
 Berlin, Dec. 23-That Field Marshal Baron von der Go1tz-Pasfa, who reor- ganized the Turkish army some ten years ago, stated in his then laid de fensive plans for Turkey, that it would take 9 besieging army three months to capture KirkkiIisse which the Bulgarians> took in three days, is the charge made by Dr. Franz I4ipp in
 a local publication Lipp claims to be in possession of a copy of the plan of campaign in event of a Balkan war | against Turkey. drawn up by Won der Goltz-Pasha. He also aserts that dur ing the TripOH war last July the ItSI- ian Minister of Foreign Affairs San CziulianO appealed to Imperial Chan cellor von Bothmann-HouWe to stop the Field Marshal from writing news paper and ma gazine articles in defense of the Turks. As result of the pub lication, it is said that the aged Field Marshal will begin an action for libel against pr. Lipp.
 Paris. Dec. 23-Fishing by telephone 1 is the latest sport in France An in | ventor who has patented the device 1 had discovered that fish when swim ming produce certain sounds that ear be detected by the telephone. His ap- paratus consists of a receiver and :. detonator, which are sunk in the wa l ter and connected by wires to a pos | of observation on the river banF | When fish in any number pass the re | ceiver a sound is heard by the watch CT, who has only to press a button tC | explode the detonator Fish killed by | the dstonator come to the surface and are removed with a net