The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-11-26
SHOT FROM THE WAR ZONE.

SHOT FROM THE WAR ZONE.
Alpine climbing, the favorite sport
OF the Italians, has been put to good
use in the army by many members
of the Alpine and Ski clubs. Lieu
tenant Marco Elter. who. in the past,
has made many perilous ascensions,
lately took an important Austrian en-
trenchment, and post of observation.
climbing barefoot with three Alpine
guides from the mountainous neigh
borhood OF the Valley Of Aosta the
face OF an apparently perpendicular
precipice from which he let down
rope over twenty yards long with
which he pulled up two platoons of
less agile soldiers who were at the
bottom. When they fell upon the
unsuspecting entrenchment Of the
enemy and took II by storm the
Austrians thought they must have
dropped from the clouds as they said
that II was utterly impossible that any
human being could have made his
way up the bare wall of rock which
they described as "as steep as the
side of house"
The Association of Publishers and
the Union OF Medical Publishers have
joined in a petition to the Prussian
and Saxon war ministries for the re-
vocation OF the prohibition OF the ex-
port of German medical books and
other publications. These may not
now be exported even to neutral coun-
tries. Tie petitioners assert that
German medical literature stands at
the head of the worlds literature on
medical science, and that. through the
export prohibition. II is menaced with
the loss of its position. at Is also to
be considered" says the petition,
'that IL the fruits OF German medical
science are withheld from enemy
countries, the wounded and sick Ger
man soldiers who have fallen into
captivity there will have to suffer
from it."
New devices for smuggling contra
band into Germany are being continu-
ally brought to light by the Dutch
frontier officials. The latest discov-
cry is that train load of concrete
building blocks bound for Belgium
contained several thousand gallons OF
gasoline. The blocks were hollow.
each one providing receptacle FOR
eight gallons OF oil. A week ago. a
shipment of tombstones required for
marking the graves of German SOL
diers was examined and II was dis
covered that the tombstones were
hollow and filed with benxine. Sew
eral wagonloads had crossed the
frontier before the trick was un-
covered.
The valley of the PEEK. In Northern
Serbia, which the Germans occupied
early i'm their Serbian campaign, may
one day rank with the Klondike. for
most Serbians believe that II is rich
In gold. Though the main deposits
have never been located. the peas
antry for generations have made
slender income from paintings OF wash
gold, coming. II is believed, from a
rich quartz reef far up In the hills.
The total output Of gold from the
smaller placer workings has averaged
about $4,000 year for several gem
erations. Occasional nuggets of con-
siderable size have been found, and
there Is evidence that the Romans
drew gold supplies from this region.
Owing to strict preservation, eagles
are increasing rapidly in numbers
among the Scottish highlands and
nearby islands. As many as Ave
eagles have recently been seen at
once in Sutherland. while in Ardchat-
tan, where none of the birds had been
seen for a generation, several have
been observed within the past few
weeks. In the Island Of Rum. the big
birds are so numerous that they have
repeatedly Numbered into traps set
for rats.
In the death of Standish O,Grady.
which Is annousced from Hale. Ches-
hire, Eng, modern Irish literature
loses one of it's most brilliant repre-
sentatives. As poet. essayist, and
historian. O'Grady's work is general
~ regarded as the starting point of
the so-called Celtic Renaissance o..
Grady was In turn lawyer, journalist
and author. He was native Of Tip
perary and sixty years Did 7
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Picked whale nieat is being sold in
a butcher shop In Burg. near Magde-
burg The meat can be stewed or
roasted. and Is becoming popular for
its chsapness. costing but sixty Ave
pfennigs pound. about half the price
Of the cheapest and poorest meat OF
any other sort.
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