Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-02
One Detail of Military Sys-
tenn Is Charting Fight
ING Ground.
MEN SEND PAY HOME
Field Postofficc Does ThliV-
ing Money Order Bus
mess.

CHICAGO, May Make your
widest guess as to the number Of
maps the German government has is
| sued to the army since the way began,
| says dispatch TO the Chicago
! Tribune describing conditions and
/ warfare in Poland.
/ Making 1t liberal perhaps YOU Will
| say 10000
Making it lavish, perhaps you w6ll
say 100000.
Hut, going as high as YOU dare GO
You probably won't come within miles
of the answer nor credit the answer
when it is given.
II $4,000, 600,
That means all kinds Of maps, large
and small, Of cities. towns, villages,
roads, provinces and departments in
the parts Of the encmy'S country now
occupied by German troops, the parts
Of Germany leading into the enemy
country and the parts Of Germany
now occupied by the enemy. These
| last are not considerable now.
Lowicz Mapping Instance.
The mapping of Lowicz illustrates
| the system and the extent of II,
!. This Russian town. containing less
than $4,000 population and distant
| lll'l & llll NNll hN"bH 'N l''' l''''i ''''
lin, has been charted and diagrammed
down to the last detail essential TO the
| guidance of PruSsian major, TO
whom its twists and turns are utterly
unknown 10 minutes before his ar
rival there.
Fifteen minutes later hooknows it as
Wen as ne KNOWS / ''9u"Il' = lca' . ~ III
dl'aieu 10 nm On !" 'IIv"I S'tt,.
OF slazeu paper pA IIVhys III ~ ~
are dhe iINcr' lne '''iN"S Hnos' .''. ~,
slree's' 'uG SqudItS' 9he ,No i"'IW az
S'auvhS' 'le IHluH'Iy puICau' lnc
| HoSll,'LS' w 'Iul ny |i.V 'uC ~ 80
Q9S oI IroWIc%' on I"e @ @nn,,t map a,,,.., ~
LoWICH ucIort me ,o"'' '"''''
sharply Indicated polnlS'
| lney are
me cohlmandahl =.
The north railway S,auon'
me me SCUM ral'Way way S''5'o"'
Inc provision uJp"l'
me assembly place lor guns, am .
munltl9n, tlC'
me Iazaret.
Ihe Information bureau lor
wounded
Inc telephone CAcnahFe,
Inc postal SortlhE station
Inc olIlceIs nome
49, Inc casino
Inc guard
Streets Named for \ivtors.
The long narrow street that CON
meets tho. two has likewise been
named i'm honor Of the victor Of
Tannenher. Another main thorough
fare has been given the name of Gen
eraI Won ATackensen. For convenience
merely n third is called Railway sta
Itiono street Highways running OF
from the euvirons TO important towns
i'm tho zone of hostiIities are carefully
<utro A l,iIomctcrs. SOchacZcW. %
iliIomcters. Rolinoyy. II Nlometers:
Sl,iernicwice 81 lliIometers. LODI. 60
kilometcrs. and SO on to all pOints of
tbc comnass
An This was worked ont ON q scale
Of TO 10000 centimeters and the
first issuo of the Lowicz map
amounted 70 600 sheets
on tbe army nav days which are
the 1st. the 1lth and the 21st of each
month the postal station of the town
docs n large money order business.
On the last nav day the few hundred
soldiers pcrmancntly garrisOned in
T.ovicz scnt 10000 marks back TO
= their families i'm GERMANY
), A curious fact of the occupation is
that i'm certain sections of I,owicz the
Germans have made the town grow.
Rcyond the urincfpal railway station
there now are rows of houses where
before were vacant fields. These
houses are tho famous decker. or
nortable barracks. made of asbestos
panels set i'm frames of wood and
metal Three complete houses with
their fittingso can be TRANSPORTED in
one railway car.
They cost a. 600 marks each and are
now used principally for the housing
and care of dhe wounded each house
ri, s;44;,rc
tains nartitions. oiled floors. smoke
mines yentiIators. stoves and hanging
iamns
The whole o contraption can be
. hooked and screwed together i'm seven
hours even hy inexperienced men,
while men who have once set up the
doekcr can work much raster. lh9l
that. ANY number or houses can ne