The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

l been stocked as general store The proprietor of a Glovno departmental store l Is opening a clothing department. The German military authorities sent gen darmes to inspect the settlement and to establish order. The mayor of the un- derground town. NJ. Liakhoff got the Germans to recall their gendarmes. He offered to keep order himself. The colon
 ists elected Liakhoff and 10 other mem , bers s government, and gave them mag l isterial power.
 Robbers were to be put to death. Fear l ing trouble with the Germans, Lakhofi 1 refused to execute the first robber whc
 was condemned. The robber was put un. 1 der guard in a dug-out. The villagers overcame the guard and lynched the cul- l prit. Glcvno, underground town, has it's own | taxation system. There Is no money, but | goods are paid for in kind Public works | have been begun. The first was the bet | ter draining of the trenches and gal. leries. and the provision of brick cooking | stoves for use in common. Every Il families have stove Refugees who have no food are compelled to work Beggars are logged. Where the dug-outs are toe small they are being enlarged, and when the inmates are cold they burrow fur ther under the earth. Some of the dug outs have been extended so that they en- brace three rooms, with doors. The one trouble is lighting. Wisniewski says that | the health is indifferent. but not much
 worse than the health of Petrograd It is
 no worse to live under frozen soil than to live on piles in smelly swamp" Wisniewski says that between Lodz and Warsaw, wherever there is no fighting,
 there are underground settlements, and he found one on the edge of this town. This was on the Mokatow field to the south. The police interfered and amid | subterranean grumbles which sounded to the people overhead like an earthquake, the colony was evacuated.
 Will Europe come to live underground Afansieff thinks 1t may. This depends on the length and the extension of the war The Belgian professor, Romain, estimates that 750,0o0 homes In Belgium and France have been destroyed. A quarter of mil lion have been destroyed in Poland Ga licia, East Prussia and Alsace, so that | a. least 5000.000 persons have lost tbeii homes That is in six months of rela- lively immobie war. If the war (as some expect) lasts another six months and i1 1 it sways backwards and forwards. 100. | GOO 600 men and women may be homeless and If 1t lasts % years, as Premier As | their homes Nobody rebuilds houses dur | ing war. Now that warshps bomba I'd l ports and airships scatter bombs, the l rate of destruction will be increased. And ] if Italy. Roumana, Bulgaria and Greece | come in? Ruined Europe will take more and more to living underground. Chil- 1 dren will be born underground, men and womer welded underground, and old peo- | pie buried overhead, Underground there l vii, be everything necessary; later there l will be comfort; later, perhaps, luxury 1 The new subterraneans will be warm
 safe, protected from snow and rain. and
 from the suns painful glare. Shells will whiz over their heads in vain Only fool sh people will stay in battered houses
 and convicted criminals will be sent UT on top
 l Underground Europe-the universa i cat atacomb-wil be an accomplished fact