Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-17
Side Lights From
the European War

LOLuOll, MdICu lo.-DuIl lS lIlc JedA
of 1914 the sum raised in the church
of England by voluntary offerings
surpassed that raised in 1918 by ST.
535, 900. The, total amount raised the
past year comes to over SAL, 100000.
a M. 49, Ni +
london, March IA fragment
of the first bomb thrown by a Ger
man airman on English soil has been
presented to King George by the mem
bers of the Dover Anti-aircraft corps.
The bomb was dropped at Dover on
December "a.
London, March 16.-Thel4 relative
prices of a four pound loaf of bread
in Paris, London and New York ac-
cording to an official government
statement made in the. house of com
mons, were as follows ON February %.
Paris Is IL cents, London, Is cents,
New York % cents to SO cents.
lPetrograd, March 16.-In the Polish
front the Russians are using land
mines for blowing great holss IN
the land between the Russian and
German POSITIONS The Infantry then
uses these holesEa attacking trench
es.
A series Of explosions of land
mines placed close under the German
trenches at one point west of War
saw recently killed five hundred Ger
mans.
Venice, March 16.-Count Tisza, the
premier, has no hope that
war will be over by autumn, for he
has just issued a statement announ-
cling that the parliamentary elections,
which would ordinarily take place in
September will be postponed owing to.
the war. Il
The premier remarks that most Of
the electors are at the front, and it
obviously unfair to proceed
with any elections in their absence.
London, March 16.-Seagulls per.
haps saved a cruiser and 800 men
from a\submarine, says a British blue
jacket with the North Sea fleet in a
letter to- his family in Hull. He says
that he was standing by his gun,
when a large flock of seagulls 3ud-
denly rose from the surface Of the
water. This drew the attention Of
the sailors to the periscope of a sub
marine, which the gulls had seen ap.
pearing above the water. The war
ship turned and made away from the
danger with a zigzag course.
London, March 16.-Four German
prisoners of war, escorted by an arm
ed guard, left the prison ship Royal
Edward at Southend n day recent.
ly for the registry Office, where the
prisoners n united in marriage to
the girls to whom they were engaged
before the war. After the cermony,
the four couples with the armed
guards sat down to a wedding lun-
cheon in a Southend restaurant. A
few hours later, brides and grooms
parted, the brides to London and the
grooms to their prison ship.
Basel, March 16,-swiss mothers
have been seen to half strip their own,
children in the railway station at
Schafhouse in order to give needed
articles of clothing to French boys and
old men and women arriving. there on
their way back to France. These were
recent prisoners in German %concentra-
ton camps. The special trains bring
four to. five hundred of them into
daily.
Members of the Swiss committee
which was organized to street them as
soon as the train reaches Swiss terri.
tory, open the car doris and shout to
the travellers: "You are in Switzer-
an announcement which is
roundly cheered. Opposite to where
the German train stops, is the Swiss
train to take them to Geneva, en- route
to their homes in France. The need
of food and clothes is in some cases
Some little girls appear with
nothing but a thin summer dress to
protect them from the winters chill.