The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-18
General Of The 10th Century May Never
 Even See His Army
idea of Modern Warfare Fur nished by Recent French
 Army Maneuvers.


 what a modern land battle Is like was obtained during the French army ma ,noeuvres. when General Nicolas Cho- r,er. commanding the 6O,OOO men of the Southern army, did not see a. reg1- raent during the five days nor on the final day of the battle did he hear a gun
 The Generals headquarters on the last day were in pleasant Wayslde tavern. twenty-five miles behind the firing lines, which extended about the same length. A large scale map OF the region was spread upon a table, a rSzv of telephones like that in a New York brokers office was on wall In the dining room, the tables of the held telexraphers were on the other side or the room, and wireless instruments cracked in an outbuilding- On the meadow adjoining military aero planes arrived and departed, adJutanCS taking the reports of the aviators.
 EThree coIonels of the staff collated' the telephonic telegraphic, and wire I6ss reports and the airmen's obserya- ticns moving coIored broad-heaoeo rsfns on the map, thus indicating rom moment to moment the relative posi- tfons of their own and the enemys troops
 General Chomer studied the map at tantfveIy Now and then he gave an erders concerning the movement or his trooDs or discussed with his chief of stan the significance of the tnforna- ton just received
 General Paul Pau the commander iu-chfef of the rival Northern army, under much the same circumstances, sat some fifty miles away, sending his brigades and divisions into action, with no more of the tumult of war than is heard during a cable chess match -- -y~--z
 x1..4+o-s +o +ba Prafect-,ra of inc Department of the Seine are always handled with gloves for, according to a peculiar and ancient custom permission to enter the Prefects room room cannot be obtained unless the caller wears gloves.
 As soon as glove1ess person enters the reception room,, the usher re- marks: ''Your gloves, pIease?' If the visitor replies that he has no gloves, the official says: Then I will find you sone's He keeps a large box filled with gloves of every size and shade, from which he provides the visitor with a. new pair, for which he is expected to pay the equivalent of fifty cents
 The Budget of the Prefect of the Seine for 1914 is estimated at an euufvaIent of $s5, 5,SOO,OOO, or $2,6O0,- O00 more than this year. Among the suggestions for raising the revenue is that a special tax shall be placed on 1OEElEn ed on the rental of their houses apartments The American colony is very strong in Paris, and if this rec ommendation were to be adopted, 1t would affect two Or three thousand families.
 The success of Roland Garro's re- cent daring flight across the Mediter- ranean Sea has caused the postpone Inent of a. play which was shortly to
  The whole plot of the piece appar- ently hinged on the impossibi1ity of flying from France to North Africa, which is now shown to be easy. The Atlantic Ocean, 1t is stated, is to be substituted for the Mediterranean but this will entail the encouragement of so much of the play that it will hot be ready for some time.
 wireless telegrapny has enabled the French and American authorities to determine within the one-hundredth part of second the difference in time between Paris and Washington, but experiments are still in progress for the purpose of eliminating all errors.
 The French government has sent a commission to Washington to renew Jointly with the American officers at Arlington the exchange of wireless signals with the EiffeI tower. It is composed of Martial Si1noRin, an as- fIFOnOmer or the observatory or Paris, Capt A Carrier, of the Colonial In fantry, and Naval Lieutenant Gignon. Prof Henri Abraham, of the Sor- bonne, sailed later to join the party, with the object of studying with pho fogra p11ic registration wireless signals and experiments in the velocity in the propagation of wireless waves. Later in the year the first party returns to Paris, and will be replaced by Eloi lV1ennet, an astronomer of the Obser- vatory of Paris, and P. Auverny, an ensign of the navy, who have been working in the EiffeI tower.
 The American Navy Department at the same time will send an astronomer from the Naval Observatory in Wash .ington and one or more officers, with the same objects, to Paris.
 The officers of both navies will thus work first on one side and then on the other, so as to eliminate as far as pos- sible the errors arising from the per sonal equation. The astronomical instruments used in the observations will also be employed first on one side and then on the other to correct isuch slight variations as may be due Ito mechanical imperfection.
 Lisbon. Portugal, Oct 1s.-Just about three-fourths of the Portuguese people can neither read nor write &C., cording to the latest official census, which shows tha tin Portugal, Madei- tT2 ana the Azores there was total population of 5,e60.056,- of whom A. 4Ts.0 were totally i1Iiterate. There are 2,s2s,691 men and 3,131,365, wo- men
 The Americans living in Portugal 1,645. outnumber the Italians, o1 whom there are 547, and the Ger mans, who have e69, and are nearly as numerous as the French colony with 1,S3z.
 The population of Lisbon is 4s5. 1858 and Oporto 194,009.