Evening journal., 1914-09-11

100 miles by rail east of Paris. The
present town was built in 1545 by
Francis l.. TO replace the older town
burned in the previous year by Char
les V. II manufactures cement and
decorated wares, and has a population
of about 5000.
VESOUL-A town OF eastern
France, situated between the La
Motto hill and the river Durgeon, 35
miles from the Alsace border and 236
miles east of southeast of Paris by
rail. Its medieval walls of the Thir-
teenth and Fifteenth centuries still
exist on the northern side. Distilling
and the manufacture of files and ta-
piOca are among the industries. The
town suffered greatly during the wars
of religion and the Thirty Years
War.
ELBING An east Prussian seaport
town, 49 miles by rail east of south
east of Danzig on the Elbing a small
river which flows into the Frische
Haff about five miles from the town.
It's population is about 60000 In
1898, and again 1908, it was seized
by the elector Of Brahdenburg as a
security for a debt. Charles XII. of
Sweden held It for ransom, and the
Russians captured It In 1710. In 1872
il fell to Prussia through the first
partition Of Poland AT the great
Schichau iron works in Elbing are
built most Of the torpedo boats and
destrOyers for the German Navy, as
well as larger crafts, locomotives and
machinery. In addition, Elbing has
important iron foundries and manu-
factories of machinery, cigars, lac
quer and metal ware, fax and hemp
yarn, cotton, linen and organs.
LIEGNITZ-A Prussian town in the
province of Silesia, 40 miles north
west of Breslau, on the main railway
line to Berlin. In 1910 its population
was 66.620. It's principal manufac-
lures are cloth, wool, leather tobac-
co, pianos and machinery. During
the Thirty Years War Liegnitz was
taken by the Swedes, but was soon
recaptured by the lmperiallsts The
/ Saxon Army defeated the Imperial
/ troops near the town in 1884; in 1860
| Frederick the Great gained a decisive
victory over the Austrians; and in
/ 1918 Blucher defeated the French in
/ the neighborhood at the battle Of
/ Katzbach. In 1906 the German au-
/ tumn manoeuvres were held over the
scene of these great battles.
LODI Lodzia)-A town Of Rus
sian Poland, 80 miles by rail south
! vest of Warsaw and 60 miles from
the Posen boundaries. Chiefly owing
to a considerable immigration of
German capitalists and workers, LODI
has grown with American-like rapid
ity. II consists principally of one
main street seven miles long II has
a population of about 400. 900. The
city manufactures cottons, woolens,
chemicals, beer, machinery and silk.
WILMA (Wilno)-A Russian town.
43G miles south southwest OF st.
| Petersburg, and 10 miles from the
Prussian frontier, at the intersection
of the railways from St. PETERSBURG
10 Warsaw and from Libau to the
mouth Of the Don. It's population in
1910 was 1S4 5S2. II is an important
center for trade in timber and grain
and is the seat of many scientific So
cieties wilma was united with Po-
land in 1447. The plague Of 1888, the
fire in 1910 and the wars between
Russia and Poland. which began in
the Seventeenth century, checked IFS
growth. The Russians took wilma in
1855. the Swedes captured It in 40:
and 1905, and the Russians regainet
Il in 1888. II was finally annexed te
Russia in 1895, after the partition Of
Poland.
CZERNOWITZ - Austria's eastern
most city, 420 miles east Of Vienna
and 1G4 miles southeast Of Lember,
by rail, on the right bank OF the rive
Pruth. In 1910 II had a population
Of SIPS. The city's industries
rot we'll developed. consist chiefly il
corn milling and brewing, although
an active trade IS carried on in agri
cultural products, wood, wool, cattl
and spirits.
RIVER SAN-Rises in the Carpa
THAN Mountains, at a point near III
center southern border-line Of Call
cia. It's course 10 the Wstula car
ries II past Sanol. Przeinysl an
Jaroslau. From the latter place
flows northwest 70 the Russian Pc
land boundary line. where Il mark
the boundary for ten miles. Frol
thence II flows into the Vistula.