The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-08
COUNTRY swept BARE
BY PASSING ARMIES
Correspondent Returned From Front
Tells OF Desolation Wrought
by Waves of Troops.
WEALTHY BEG FOR FOOD
Position of Jews Pitiable, as Many
Towns Are Closed to Them, AL
though 300, 900 of Their Brethren
Fight for Car.

{ Correspondent OF The Associated Press
LONDON, October ga correspon-
dent returned from the scene of the
operations about the fortress of osso-
vetz. and the watering place OF Drus-
kieniki, reports that the ravagcs made
by waves OF troops, both Russian and
German across this region, chiefly In
habited by Jews in the villages and
Poles and Lithuanians :n the rural
districts. have, for distance of 100
mi1cs swept the country bare Of any
sign OF crops.
Trenches. pits, dugouts. embank-
lnents and mounds are everywhere
scattered over the fields are remains
OF property of every description. Rarely
can a sound tree be found. practically
all bearing the sign OF shrapnel and
other shell fro. Houses and nuts are
in various states of ruin and the fields
Uttered with the wreck OF transport
trains. wagons. harness and remnants
of barricndes. and the country side re-
minds ono of n Kansas district raw
aged by cyclone
1T Is no uncommon sight to see a
man owning 100 acres of fertile soil
begging for food Rovno, which I'm
normal times has population Of aO.-
900, now shelters 10000, 40 per cent
OF whom arc Jews. and 90 per cent of
these are old people and children. The
position or these Jews is all the more
Ditiful. for, under Russian law, all OF
the governments east and north of the
governments Of Wilma and Warsaw are
closed to them, notwithst landing the
fact that 100000 of their brethren are
lighting In the Russian army. twenty
SIX Of whom up TO the present date
have been decorated with the St.
,Gcorges Cross, tho equivalent OF the
In no lh
FUND BEING RAISED
FOR INDIAN FORCES
Earl Roberts is raising fund
which VIII be devoted exclusively to
the use of the Indian forces IN the
present war. Already he has received
$250.000. and within two weeks he
hopes to have enough money to equip
a Bpccfal hospital In the south of Eng
land for the care OF the sick and
wounded Indian soldiers.
The fund will also he used to pro-
vide warm clothing, especially suited
to the Indian troops. Rations Of the
English army are wholly unlike the
customary diet of the Indians, and spe-
cial dishes will be provided for them
out of the fund. Indians are especi-
ally fond of sugar. spices and ali sorts
OF sweets
Princess Mary and her advisers are
making special preparations 10 send the
especially appeal TO them IT is likely
the gifts Will take the form of boxes
of candles and other. sweetmcats par
tIculariy relished by the men from the
Far East.
PURCHASED BY ENGLAND
At OUrBREAX Oh WAR
The three British monitors, Severn,
Humber and Mcrscy. which bomharded
the Germans on the Belgian coast, were
purchased by the British government
on the outbreak OF war They were
Originally intended for Brazil. and are
Peculiarly adapted for river work, and
this particular bombnrdment on the
Belgian coast, having only liz feet
draft.
For small vessels they are heavily
. armed with n few but powerful guns.
Two six inch guns are mounted in one
throwing "a l00-pound projectilc with
velocity ut the muzzle OF 5000 feet per
second, sufficient force 70. penetrate
IS lie inches OF iron. These guns can
discharge nine projcctilcs per minute
each. Two 4.7-inch howitzcrs are also
on upper deck weighing five tons. and
can throw a 35-pound projectile with
velocity at the muzzle of 1900 feet per
second. In addition, there are four
3-pound guns and six rifle calibre guns.