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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
LIFE ONE LONG HORROR
IN B0NBARDED TOWN
Effect of Shells is Terrific, and Moth
ing Can Withstand Their
Devastating Force.
HOUSES ARE BLOWN TO ATOMS
British Sergeant, i'm Letter to Par
ents. Nividly Describes Effect of
German Fire-Eats His Mince Tart
With Feet Resting on Dead Man.

Especial Cable TO The Times -Disuatch ]
LONDON. May 22.-Wishing TO i'm
press on his parents the horrors OF
war. Sergeant II. J. Pursey, of the
Second Wessex Royal Engineers.
writes as follows:
II am going 10 try and describe wha,
being in bombarded city is like In
the place I refer ,o-which | must not
mention-all and every particle of
glass has gone west, and whole houses
are blown TO atoms.
The effect OF the large shells is
terrible. While going along the street
you hear Il funny whistlinr. and then
you hold tight In second the shell
pitches, and then the crash is terrific
have seen a smell bu.s, and send a
piece 200 yards. which in its turn has
made another hole five feet in the
ground. The actual shell makes nice
little hole about the size of our front
room nj home.
The people get absolutely panic
stricken, and old women of eighty
years are 10 be seen carried TO the
hospitals wounded, and also dear little
children.
by Cd, if some OF the people in
England could see the awful misery.
there would never be any more strikes.
One shell pitched in a square where
several civilians were settings things
10 the troops. and ii blew seven of
them to atoms. Nothing can stand
against il. and the noise is deafening
Il think our papers said the Gcrma MS
we're running short OF ammunition
Well. hope this is so. but have failed
to notice it. Although heaps of the
people clear out and go TO England
there are heaps more who stick to
their homes. Then one day n she'll
comes along. and those who survive the
explosion can only see a heap of bricks
where their homes once stood"
In later letter he writes:
What price the war? Rather slow.
eh: But I guess if you could only
see how some OF the trenches are sit
uated YOU would understand how i'm
possible il is to gain ground In
places have seen the German trenches
only fifteen yards from our lines. Then
II is case of both sides mining and
blowing up their opponents.
II was in firing trench n few DAYS
ago which had in turn belonged to the
French. the Germans and the English.
In some places in this trench there
were showing the feet OF both Ger
mans and French dead. They had been
killed, and buried where they fell
one Frenchman had been buried
about five months ago. his grave being
marked by little cross. shell came
along and blew the Frenchman and his
cross in different directions.
why that mince tart that - sent
me was eaten by me in the trenches
with my feet on n dead man. because
J could not move at the time without
being shot"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
HOW CENSORSHIP WORKS
Some DctnIIs Given out In Response to
Inquiry by Lord Bryce.

LONDON. MAY 2o-Sone details of
the working Of the British censorship
have been given out in the House OF
Lords By the government in response
10 an inquiry from Lord Bryce. former
British ambassador az Washington
There three branches OF the
censorship" said tho government
spokesman. "All arc under one genera!
system and closely co-ordinated.
The cable censorship. which is under
staff. deals with. rouehly. 10000 tele-
cable censors in the United Kingdom
OF the empire.
The postal censorship has stan
Of about SOC mainly civilians For OBJ
v!ous reasons. IL is Impossible to give
a list OF persons whose letters arc not
liable TO censorship, but may men
zion that all letters addressed TO either
Iious" OF Parliament pass uncensored.
The press bureau proper is under
tho control Of the soloc!tor-gencral. and
there are abou; nifty assistants. naval.
military and civilian. The censorship
IS carried on in accordance with in
structions from the War Office the
admiralty, the Foreign Office and other
public departments.
"A white paper will later be issued
dealing with the censorship.
III is contrary TO the desire of the
government that anything in the ma
turc Of criticism. either OF the govern
ment or OF the individual members OF
tho government. should ne suppressed
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
BRAVERY OF PRIESTS
ONE OF WARS FEATURES
They Have Shown Remarkable Cour-
age in Fighting for
France.
MANY OFFICIALLY MENTIONED
Servants of Paris Hotel Who Went
to Front Have Gained Glory on
Field of BATTLEFRONT Filled With
Trophies.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch ]
PARIS. May 22,--Lieutenant T..
the cure Of a small village in Cham
/ payne. has just been mentioned in the
orders Of the day for the brilliant man
ner in which he led bayonet charre.
The colonel of the regiment has made
a special report on the priests valor
1T is pity we cannot keep him in
the army after the war is over" he
says.
Questioned on the suggestion that
he should remain a soldier. the priest
declared: IF ! perform with JOY my
duties as a soldier. I do not forget that
my dear little parish will need me
when the war is over. In February I
passed by my closed church hope
10 open 1t soon and say De Profun-
dis for my dead soldiers and after
wards a TIE Deum' of thanks for vic
tory
The courage of the French priests
in battle has hcen one OF the features
OF the war Many have been mentioned
in dispatches. and one, by clever ruse.
brought in fifty German prisoners
single ha nded.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
US. Trade Advisers
Stop Conferences
Suspended Because ofMisapprc-
tension in London as to How
Far They arc Binding.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-Thc in
formal and unofficial conferences he
tween the commercial adviser of the
British embassy and the State Depart
mcnt trade advisers TO expedite hand
ling of American cargoes were sus-
pended to-day by the State Department
because OF the apparent misapprehcn-
sion in London Of how far they bind
the United States government.
Suspension Of the conferences was
announced by the department in the
following statement:
In view Of differences which have
arisen in the informal and unofficial
conferences between Sir Richard Craw
ford. the commercial adviser OF the
British embassy. and Robert T.. Rose
and W. -. Fleming, the trade advisers
Of the Department Of State, who have
been in personal capacity represent
ing the importers OF the United States.
Mr.. Rose and Mr.. Fleming have de-
cided that they cannot continue these
conferences until certain Of the din J.
cultics have been removed. and they
have. therefore. made Il full report of
what has taken place 10 the Depart
!Hent Of State. and will await its ac-
ton"
Recently the British government ex-
tended from June TO June - the time
in which i, would permit goods bought
in Germany before March TO he brought
out in the face Of it's commercial block
AIDE Of all Germa n made products. The
American officials arc understood 20 ob-
ject 10 what they feel Is an effort on
the part OF the British government to
limit the movement Of America owned
goods too CloscI,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
Second News Section

Industrial Activities of
Richmond and tho South
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
.BERNSTORFF REFUSES
TO BACK C0UNTRYMAN
.He Will Not Guarantee Accuracy OF
Dernburg rs TO German
War Loan.
NEGOTIATIONS FALL THROUGH
When Facts Become Known. Purely
American Subscriptions Are With
Held, and Many German-Ameri-
cans Abandon Idea of Subscribing.

Especial Cable 10 The Times Dispatch. ]
LONDON, May 22-British official
circles have just learned the reason
for the failure of the energetic en-
dcavors of Count Won Bcrnstorff and
Herr DcrnburG TO secure subscriptions
IN the United States to the latest Ger
man war loan. y group of American
houses were willing to take up a con-
siderable block if the Imperial Chan
ccllor. Or. Won Bethman- Hollweg,
would either give guarantee OF the
accuracy of Count Won Bernstorft' s
many statements, or allow n represen-
tative of the group to make personal
investigation in Berlin into the actual
state Of financial affairs.
After much temporizing, both courses
were refused. with the immediate re-
suit that not only were the purely
American subscriptions withheld, but.
on the facts becoming known. many
German Americans abandoned the idea
of subscribing TO the loan
SOCIETY Is FACED WITH
CRISIS IN THE WARDROBE
That part OF society which is not oc.
cupied in the trenches or on war work
is faced with crisis in the wardrobe
Orders for new rament are not being
placed so freely as in recent years
hut, nevertheless. so freely that the
West End houses anticipate having to
refuse many orders as the season be.
comes nearer.
The tailor trade generally is engaged
almost entirely on military work, and
orders for the government and officers
going TO the front are still pouring in
at rate in excess OF productive
powers. Some houses are refusing pri-
vate orders altogether. and conccntrat-
Ing on the making of officers outfits
an action not only patriotic. but profit.
able.
On the drcssmaking side the problem
is also serious, but not perhaps quite
so acute, because, though a large pro-
portion OF the workers are engaged on
war contracts. women with n knowl
edge OF dressmaking are easier to OBJ
tain than tailors.
BRITISH INTERESTED
IN EFFORTS OF JAPAN
British manufacturers are displaying
special interest In the steps which
Continued on Seventh Page0
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
BOATMAN RECEIVES PAY
AFTER SJXTY-SIX YEARS

ROME. May 22.-SiXty- six years ago
Antonio Bolgaro. 4 boatman. rowcd
three German tourists across Lake
Maggiore at Laveno. AT the end OF
the trip the Mayor OF Laveno met them
with much ceremony. and in the shuttle
the three forgot TO pay the ferryman
their cents each.
Antonio complained to the Mayor
who offered to pay him. but when the
boatman was informed in whisper
that his passengers were the Emperor
Francis Joseph. OF Austria. and two
aides travelling incognito. he refused
Throughout his life. therefore. An
tonic has been known as the Emperor's
hoatman. He recently celebrated his
Continued on Seventh Page)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
BREACH IN PANKIuRST
FAMILY STILL WIDE

The breach in the Pankhurst family
of British militant sufrragettes con
iinues. Miss Ghristabel Pankhurst
finds it necessary 10 write a letter 10
the Temps in which she explains that
while her young sister Sylvia" took
part in The Hague women's peace con
Eress. she and her mother disapprovcd
1t is my mother and myself who
direct the policy OF the suffra gettes OF
Great Britain." says Christabel ''my
sister belonging TO distinct ana sep
arate movement.
My mother and | are enthusiastic
supporters of the Franco British al
lance. which We believe to be infinitely
valuable for our country and for
France"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23

CONTINUED on Seventh Pago.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
FINDS OPIUM ON SHIP
customs Inspector Scizes SI.5O0 Worth
of Drug.

NEW ORLEANS. May 22.-Cus,oms
Inspector E. L. st. Ceran reported to-
lay that he had found $1,000 worth Of
,moking opium on the Dutch steam
,hip Ares, in this port. 1t was in
twenty-five tins. and was found in the
quarters of the Chinese crew. The
irug was seized, but no arrests have
seen made.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
PEOPLE ANGERED
BY CENSORSHIP
Complain That Nation Is Kept
in Ignorance of What Army
Is Doing
POINT TO FRENCH EXAMPLE
Government of Ally Has Won
Confidence by It's Absolute
Frankness.
POINT TO FRENCH EXAMPLE
ny PHILLIP EVERETT.

LONDON. May 22.-Once more there
is strong wave OF indignation. not
only in the press. but among practically
all intelligent people here. against the
ahsurditics Of the censorship. which
Keep the nation in constant ignorance
'' what is happening in the war.
Time and again il has been said that
whenever we get any Information Of
value in regard to what is happening
10 the English army in FLANDERS. we
get II from the French official COM
innniques or the French papers. The
English people object TO being treated
like children
Nobody here yet knows exactly what
happened AT Neuve Chapclle. which
might have been an important victory
h!d have relieved the city OF Lille Of
me presence OF German troops. II
tom"oody had not blundcred. Ru, who E?
Even Sir John Frenchs reports arc
carefully doctored and edited before
'Aey are published, and as everybody
h7""s this. they arc Of no value. be-
cause people here always have the i'm
preston that something may have been
covered up.
Blu, nobody knows how TO force tho
government TO taxi tho people into It's
confidence, as the French gtvcrnnlcn,
has consistently dpnc ever since III,
beginning .! the var win the rra;i-y-
inE results tina. the Ioople of France
nave implicit trust in their government.
while the English arc under tho i'm
preston that Official rcd herrings ere
continually being dragged across the
trail.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
ANTITRUST LAW ATTACKED

supreme COuFt ANked 10 HMIe on COn-
stitutionnlity of North Carolina statute.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-The consti-
tutionality OF the North Carolina anti
trust laws was attacked in an appeal
lodged in the Supreme Court to-day
by the STANDARD Fashion Company.
The North Carolina courts have held
that the company could not collect in
that State for patterns sold to certain
customers there. The company con-
tends the North Carolina statute MS ap-
piled to interstate transaction Is in
valid.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23

One hundred and twenty-five mem
hers of the solely French personnel OF n
Paris hotel were modified. or these
four have been killed in. action. fifteen
have been wounded, FOUR are prisoners
In Germany. and nearly n dozen have
been mentioned in dispatches. one Of
them having received the military
medal.
Almost every one of the hotel staff
AT the front has sent To the hotel a
souvenir Of the fight. One sees Ger
man helmets. portions of German kit
fragments OF shrapncl. even a part OF
gun carriage. and actually a piece OF
a zeppelin. Each trophy is labeled
with the name of the hotel servant who
sent it to the hotel. and with the his
tory OF the circumstances in which II
was found. The collection is shown
in one OF the rooms of the hotel
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-23
THOUSANDS OF BELGIASS
ARE ACTUALLY STARVING


In spite OF tho Sritndid generosity ~
America, there is no doubt that thous-
ands OF Relgians who have preferred u
stay at home in heir devastated coup-
ry are now actually starving, because
the German army OF occupation refuses
10 iced them
he chiefs OF the neutral commission
Ha!ch is distributing An,rica's g!rls
Of food declare that unl-Gs more h.ip
Is speedily forthcoming the number y.
People who are actually starving -viil
very soon run into many hundred
thousands.
Al least 100000 Belgians are now
destitute. and with the rapid eXhaus-
ton OF meat and vegetable supplies.
there probably Viii be before harvest
time $500, 600 people in Belgium who
must be fed and clothed solely By
:har!ty. while the remainder OF the
population. some 5000 will get
.hetr pitful daily allowance Of bread
from the neutral commission and pay
Tor IL.
In Licge alone, at the present mo-
nert. 10000 women. old men and chill
!ren are daily lining up TO get their
nal. pound of bread and their pint of
soup" tho report of the commission
says in Malincs. $4,000 out OF 10000
are entirely destitute. and in Brussels
nearly 10000 Belsians wait every day
/ Tor their bread. while the babies are
( barely being kept alive for want OF
milk
Z Preaching in a west end church the
,ther day. the Bishop OF London strong
Is emphasized the necessity OF patience
and .ort!tude during the war.
1T is no use pretending" he said
That everything is going very smooth
Is to-day. We have had enough OF ia
,.!e optimism. We want facts. We are
I'D against the biggest thing We have
ever faced in the history OF the nation.
That great. long battle line is where 1t
was in October. There is a standstill
IN the Carpathian Mountains; we do
not know what is happening in the
oardenelles What the nation needs is
.ortitude: wha, the sergeant at the
'front.' calls stick it
I When was preaching on something
Il this kind at general headquarters, a
,ergeant wrote home and said: i was
setting fed up with the war. but the
bishop has been here, and he has told
is to stick IL, so | am going 10 stick
H.
we will never give up this contest
for the freedom OF the world-the
Christian principles of the world: the
freedom of our nation and national
honor We must never give up. We
must have fortitudc to bear more casu-
,lty lists, day after day, 10 hear more
,nxieties. more ships go down. more
oeoplc dead or wounded in the great
.ause. and go on.
Take the men in the trenches. What
10 YOU suppose my own brigade has
lone since October? They have never
lad a battle and never yet been at
lacked. All those days since October
,illets, trench. port. reserve; bil!ets.
french. port reserve. All those five
months through the long winter those
brilliant barrsters who never thought
hey were going to be soldiers nj ALL
,ut have offered their lives for their
country, men who were making their
thousand pounds year in London. day
,tter day, stick it for their country's
,ake-forty-siX killed, seventy wound
ID, 2l5 invalided home-they have
stuck it right enough and shown for
itude"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-29
w. N. IT,, MILWAUKEE, NO. 26-1e15.
FEW CAN ESCAPE NOSTALGIA
All Glasses and From Every
Variety of People.

German sailors on steamships which
are held up in New York are said to
have, several of them, gone mad. Idle
ness and inconsistencies are the causes
hospital authorities say.
Inconsistencies finds strange victims
Army surgeons know that sometimes
1t kills. Often 1t is the man without
a regular home who is most subject
to nostalgia. This disturbance Of
soul, mind and body settles down upon
the phlegmatic, the hurly, the thick
skinned. 1t takes them under sunny
skies amid the earth's best loneliness
and they moan for dirty streets where
they played in childhood.
Idleness breeds inconsistencies and
active diversion cures it. 1t Is akin
to melancholia and comes in mystic
rious ways. Probably it arises from
the biological impulse intended to an
Choir man in one place long enough
for him to take root. It's opposing In
stinct is the wanderlust.
Explorers have confessed that the
worst inconsistencies they have known
was in the first few hours and days
of their return. In familiar surround
ings the marks of times memorable
progress were painfully apparent.
Changes, small and large, tortured
them by reminders of the precious
past. Some have turned in respondent
revulsion to take up their roamings
again.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-29
Coalition Ministries.

. Since the formation in 1852 Of the
famous coalition cabinet which went
to pieces during the Crimean war, but
served it's purpose admirably for two
years, there has been no such radl-
cal change in a British ministry as
that of recent date. That ministry
was created, like the new one, with
out the formality of general cleo
ton, and it included, with the excep-
ton Of Lord Derby and Mr.. Disraen,
every man of genuine ability as
leader in both the great parties. Pal
merston's war cabinet, which succeed
ed it, in the excitement caused by
Roebuck's charges of army misman-
agement, was wholly tory. The coali-
ton, in later years, of the liberal un-
ionists with the conservatives was
not of so great political significance.
The so-called liberal unionists who left
the party of Mr.. Gladstone and the
Duke of Devonshire because of their
opposition to Irish home rule have
never since had a separate political
existence. The cabinet of the Mar
quis of Salisbury, to which they be-
longed, survived all the political OPP
position engendered by the mistakes
of the Boer war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-29
MUSTLOWER FREIGHT RATES
The Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Ordered Roads to Haul Coal
at Less Cost.

Madison.-The Wisconsin railroad
commission ordered the Milwaukee
road and Chicago and Northwestern
to establish a connecting track be-
tween their two lines where they cross
hear the southern limits of the city
of Waukesha, which shall be long
enough to hold ten cars. The commits
sion ordered the Northwestern to re-
duce its rate on hard coal from Green
Bay to Wausau and Marathon City
from $3.50 to $1.40 per ton. The Green
Bay and Western railway company
was ordered to reduce it's rate on hard
coal from Green Bay to Black Creek
from 81 to SO cents per ton to lola
from $1.25 to $1.20; Amherst Junction
from $1.25 to $1.20; Arnott from $1.35
to $1.3O; Plover from $3.50 to $1.3O,
and Stevens Point, Meehan, Coyne,
Barron, Grand Rapids, Walker and
Elm Lake from $3.50 to $1.4O. The 500
company was ordered to build a new
depot at Dwight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-29
BUY THE BEST BINDER TWNE PLAN TO SPRAY VEGETABLE:
Machinery as Necessary for Garden
as for Orchard-Liquid Should
Be Put on In Fine Mist.

spraying machine is as necessary
for the garden as the orchard. Some
folks use a common water sprinkler
for applying spraying mixtures; but
this does little good, because it is not
only a great waste of material, but the
plants are not fully covered in this
way
The liquid should be put on in a fine
mist, not as heavy rain. To apply
paris green in water various cheap
hand sprayers are on the market now.
They need not be of copper for
this purpose, as paris green will not
corrode iron any more than does wa
ter; but when bordeaux mixture is
used as carrier for the arsenical
poison (and we would strongly urge
that this be done In every case, as It
must be done If we put our potato
growing operations on a safe basis)
then the sprayer must be made of
copper and brass-iron would be eat
en- away in a short time.
The modern knapsack sprayer, which
possibly is the best implement for
spraying smaller patches of potatoes
up to three or four acres-cucumbers
or other vines, and for general use
as sprayer machine in the garden
and small vineyard, will involve a
first expense of from $12 to SIS. but It
VIII pay in any large-sized garden.