The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-18
DEVASTATION MARKS TRAIL
 OF RUSSIANS
Letter to Bridgeport Physi- clan Brings Graphic De- tails of Immense Waste of Property.
Half Billion Dollars Is Esti mate of Loss Due to Burn ing of Towns, Destruction of Wells, etc.

Immense destruction of property marking the trail of the Russian re- treat through Poland is detailed in a letter to Dr. Herman Duesing. of this city. from his brother, Dr. Carl Dues ing, a professor of mathematics in K1eI University.
 In order to leave the invading Ger mans without any resources other Chan their own. <he Russians are Burning everything in their wake. It follows;
 KieI. Germany. July 25.
 My Dear Brother: During their retreat from Csa1icia the Russians have burned and destroyed hundreds Of Villages and all the wells of coal oil and naphtfaa in Eastern Galicia- The damage in GaIicia amounts to half billion dollars The Russians are doing the same now in Russian Poland and in the Baltic provinces Wherever they retreat. they are de- Etroying and burn all the villages They burned in the government of Radon 200. Of LubIin roo villages They take along the whole male pop uIation Of 15 to O8years, and many girls, leaving behind only old men and women and small children. The Russians burned the cities of Win dau and H1itau in Coprland. Evi- dently they are repeating what they Ck1Q5 III 1S4 1ouL %&lS N1S4 A4tcs4AS VI 1915 are smarter than Napoleon. EVervthfng, what is German, is get- xiIae persecuted and destroyed in Russia, since the Knowledge Of the Russian defeats cannot be kept away any more from the people And what is the effect Of all this burning of provinces Russia is hurting her. self immensely; she is acting as if she wanted to commit suicide. One thing is sure, the state of Russia will be bankrupt after the war. It will take 50 years before she can re- cuperate. Not even the forests were safe. They. too. were burned Throughout Poland and Couriand-
 The Germans defeated in I 0 days Battle, July 14-24, the Fifth Russian army south of Riga. The victorious Germans captured 27,O00 prisoners, z5 cannons. 40 machine guns Further the Germans conouered the tusk on the Narew river. northern Poland. In this neighborhood they captured from July 14-24. Al. Q %. gunH Further he army of Macken- sen took 5O,oOO prisoners in southern Poland. near Lublin, from July 14- This makes a grand total of 11ss 900 prisoners which were taken from July 14-24- Germany and Aus tria have now, July 25, a total of 1.5OOs 900 of Russian prisoners.
 The French army has lost as pris- cners 1, ,009 men and 116 officers in thet Argonnes from June 20 to July I6 We had 257. .000 French prison CTS In Germany on July 5. In the. battle of Arras, northern France, the French artillery shot. 3o0,O00 gre nades 4n24 hours. That means just as much as the German field artillery fired during the whole war of lS70- 71z In this world war everything is
 
 total loss of the French army in the battle of A1ras was 78, 100 men.
 The Italians have lost two cruis- CTS The cruiser Amalh Of 10. 400 tons. was sunk by an Austrian sub marine. Cruiser Giuseppi Garfba1di of 1850 tons was destroyed near Ragl1sa.
 The Turks won a. big victory over inc English in Asia along the border of the Euphrat river. This battle was fought on July 19. One thousand English soldiers. their commander in cfuded died on the battle field.
 You have sent me a clipping of the Journal Of the American Medi- cal Association in which it is stated that the German soldier gets daily 1.793 grams of beer and 20 grams Of whiskey. This statement is false The German soldiers do not get regularly any beer or whiskey Some
  for change There was given one half liter of beer to each soldier in Russha and Ga1icia on Christmas day. Further, on bitter cold days in Russia each German soldier received 100 gramras Of rum. with the direc- tions to Saa.ke a. hot punch. Whiskey has neTer been given to any German soldier, regularly, not exceptionally But each soldier has the perfect right, to buy at his own expense, whatever he wants Beer is very dear in all the occupied countries, SC the soldiers buy beer only on rare oc- cas1ons. The temperance rules which are very good in civil life can- not be kept up in war time Our Kaiser, the government and all the generals are against the use of al- cohol. On the other side, it is a fact that our greatest temperance men now, that they are fighting at the front, take a glass of beer once fn a great while. All this have found out from authoritative sources My the way, the production of beer and whiskey has been restricted very much The sale ow hfskey has been forbidden totally on Sunday and on week days after 6 o'clock throughout Germany.
 It proposed in Germany to boy itr every American factory which slls ammunition to the Allies.
 have in my possession broken piece of an American gradade which Q friend has picked up on the battle field It has sharp edges and corners. Such a splinter can certainly tear flesh and bone in pieces and means sure death. This piece should be ex- hibited to the American public in a show window
 In the military hospital at KieI is an injured soldier. whose head is shaking continuously. The shock of an exploding shrapneI paraIyzed cer- tain nerves.
 GerTnan s4EorkingInen, who work in American factories Of ammunition will De prosecuted for high treason