Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-02

will develop into a milk famine.
Berlin, April NAVAL authorities
have given out the following letter
from a wounded reservist as an ex-
ample of self-sacrificing patriotism:
las ! am unable at the present to
serve my country, being iR the hos.
pital, l respectfully donate my last
two pay instailments toward the con-
struction Of a new 'Em5den.f
should like to inform @the imperial
headquarters that at home have a
copper wash boiler in good condi-
tion, which i gladly place at the dis.
posal of the beloved Fatherland, and
out Of which the imperial naval au-
tnorities should be able to make a
good boiler tube fer the new Enbden
Please inform me where L. shtll send
the copper boiler. With Eincerest
wishes that l may soon get back tc
the front, and in the hope that COD
may preserve our aFtherland, am.
Z Respectfully, b
fs & SReservist .... Curassier."
Frankfort, April 1.-The simple and
inexpensive flashlights with which all
soldiers are equipped are proving, in
conjunction with empty cigar boxes
excellent and effective X-ray ma
chimes for the detection OF fractures
and iron splinters in the hands and
feet.
Dr.. Heuar, speaking before the va,
clinic of the University of Frankfort
declared that enc of the lamps, held
in an injured hand in a dark 0
or inside a cigar box, was brilliani
enough SO that it illuminated through
the fingers and even the middle o.
the hand sufficiently to show just
what and where the injury was. 5
Dresden, April 1.-The penalty
fer sending money to any Of the coun
tries now at war with Germany is sc
were and is imposed regardless Of cir
cumstances. Karl Friedrich Schmitt
an S~1-year-old business man, has just
been fined 1900 marks for sending tc
his sou in ,Ma7seilles 1000 francs
through a third party, and for tele
graphing 900 francs for the support Of
the sons household. Heinrich Voss
Of Dulken has been fined loco marks
for sending a check to pay bills in
England. as. II ~ @M I'D. H3a
London, April members of the
House of Commons who have beer
investigating recent labor troubles ir
various parts of Great Britain, have
received several complaints from
manufacturers that the extremelg
high wages paid by the war office is
one Of the great difficulties with
which they have to deal.
In q question put to the War Of.
flee, one of the members gives details
Of such a complaint. He states. that
mcrIy earned from $3.50 to 1925 a
week are 0 getting wages which
average nearly $40, and that while
the standard weges for carpenters is
from $3.50 to $40 a week, the War
Office is paying s2l.50. " .....
The war bonus,' an Increase in
wages which was awarded first 10
railway men and miners, is now be.
ing extended to various other depart
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ployment. A sliding scale of bonuses
to employees of the Londan subways
has just been announced, to continue
until the end of the war, and the
London Folice Commissioner has no,
titled all policemen that the govern
meat will give them a war Bonus of
~ cents a. week commencing from
March Is, bringing their miniHum
wage up to $1O.75 a week.
London, April With the Stock
Exchange year coming within, a fort
night, there is much speculation as to
how many members intend l., resign
or to suspend their membership for a
year. Various wild estimates have
been given, ranging from 500 to 500,
but the only figures published so far
at the Exchange show that IA mem
bers are falling out, 52 authorized and