The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-01
PROF. GUESSING SAYS EXECUTION
 OF MISS EDITH CAVELL WAS JUST
Brother of Bridgeport Physician Declares English Nurse
 Maintained "Undergroun Railroad'' for the Allies

Declaring that the execution by the Germans of the English nurse. Miss Edith CavelI, was just and a matter of military necessity, Prof. Carl. Due sing of Madeburg, Germany. has writ ten his brother, Dr. Herman Duesing of this city. Prof. Duesing declares that it was proven that Miss CaveIl
 maintained an underground rai1road
 to ship wounded BeIgianS and other
 soldiers through the German lines into the camps of the allies. This system organized by Miss CaveH her self. was similar to the Underground d railroad" operated blythe Abolitionisrs in this country prior to the Civil war. Prof. Duesing also calls attention to the fact that the French, months ago, executed two German women at Pa rts who were suspected of furnishing g Information to the Teutonic allies He says Miss CaveQ was tried by a. court under the civil law and not by court martial His letter follows:
 '-Our offensive against Serbia makes rapid progress Bulgaria, our new aI- 1y, does great work shall give you happenings on the Balkan theatre of { war: Oct. 2, Bulgaria nnobi1izes; Oct 10. Occupation of Belgrade; Oct IS, Bulgarians take Knazewac; Oct 24, Bulgarians storm Neskueb; Oct 27, First communication of the Bulgarian ' and Teutonic allies; Oct. 28, BuIga- rians take Tajevar; Oct. 29; Russian Black Sea fleet bombards the Bulga- rian port of Varna; Oct. 30, Bu1ga- r-ians storm the fortress of Pirot and surround the Serbian capital Nish; Nov 1, Germans take the strongest Serbian fortress Krakuyevac, and i. capture an immense war. material; | NoF 3, AustrianS take NJeyac. The pop Nulation of Macedonia receive the vic Eor1ous BuIgarians with the greatest fraxy mi have a1 Sa1onika 5O,O0O French and 28,O00 British troops; Nov. 6, Bulgarfans take .S the capital Nish after a 8 day battle; :, Nov. 6, GeDmans storm the fortress of KraIjervo, 130 cannon were captur- ed; Nov 7, Germans take Krusevac, { Union of the German and the Bull gaFian army; Austrians break through the fighting lines of the Montenegrin
 k'The Italian armies started their third great offensive movement | against. the Austrians dufing the last week of October This theatre of | war can be divided in two parts, 32o,- 900 Italians with 1,4S0 cannon, at tackled the Austria1ls on the plateau 4of Doberdo, near the Isonzo river; ITO, 900 Italians. with 800 cannon stormed against sthe trenches of the AI1snians at the fronfierl of -Tyro1- In i the fighting of gthese two weeks only $ S, 200 Italians were captdred as pris- { oners But their total list of 4ca-' < sl1a1ties was over 15o, ,O0o.. This is characteristic for trench-war. Few prisoners, but many dead and wound ed It is conservatfvely estimated, t that. the Italians have lost 100000 men killed. and 40O,0 wounded. And the Italians have not advanced in five monfhsI
 EeThis worId-war consists sofs 29 diff fereut, special wars: CD The Central Powers are fighting: Germany against eight counties; Austria against nine countries; Bulgaria against sixScoun-5 tries, Turkey against six countries. s(29 Of the Entente Allies fighting Great Britain is against four coun-| tries; Russia against four countries; Belgium against two countries; France against four countries; Monaco against1 two countries Italy against three I countries; Montenegro against four countries; Serbia against four coun- tries; Japan against two.
 esn you add the figures of either one, you will find, 29- This means that g different wars are going on at the same time.
 asIn clipping of the Bridgeport Farmer read, that on the monu- ment of Frederick the Great in Berlin the statue of Marshal Keith, the Scotch soldier, has been removed, be- cause the Germans hate "an things British I can assure the esteem same yet, as it was before the war, and that it will stay the same for- F ever.
 IT read in. another clipping of the New York iStaats Zeitung, that the German reservists in foreign countries will be called in after the conclusion of4 the war. There is not a particle of truth in this. The Swiss newspa- per, Lucerner Vaterland, reported on October 22. that so far during the war $500 French Catholic priests have been killed at the front, 2.30O killed students of theology, the so-cal1- ed seminarists, have to be added to sthe former figure. The explanation is the French law, which forces priests to. active military service
 s'Six army physicians of higher grades were arrested at Paris in the last days of October, charged with graft For the consideration of D. 900 francs they declared certain re- crufts of influential families not fit for military service. Dr. Lombard was the soul of the enterprise. He sent these young men to his hospital in Neui11y, where they were. kept in bed as patients. Altogether 300 arrests were made in this case
 s.Another military scandal came to light in September, French army sur ge@ns noticed an epidemic of yellow 5aundice among the privates in the trenches. The sick soldiers had to be sent to the base hospitals by the hun dreds At last the doctors found out the cause of this disease. The soldiers had taken small doses of pie rio ~acid for weeks daily, to produce yeIlovish stain of the skin, hoping to fool the doctors and so to get re- Iieved from military service. But the army surgeons got wise and-stop- ped the new disease.
 s~The French recruits of 1917 will be called in on December 1. 1915. Ger many has called in only the recruits of 1915 last Easter. They are now at the front The French army has g. 000 military physicians at the front 3, ,O0o is the corresponding number on the German side.
 .Iondon Medical journals estimat- ed the total loss of life in. the British army and navy up to October Is, at 150se00.