The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-19

That Serbia will very shortly make @vertures for separate peace with the central Powers is the prediction made by Prof Carl Duesing of Made burg, Germany. brother of Dr. Her man Duesing of East Main street, this city. Prof. Duesing further says the German advance into Russia will be continued no further but that it will halt on a line of intrenchments now being established and will be main staaned there for the remainder of the winter s8
 The professor also says that per sons writing from Germany to- neu- traI countries may not write more than two pages about family or other affairs but they may write as much as they like provided such matter is lfayorable to the German cause This censorship is applied to prevent code writing on the part of spies
 The prof ofessors letter follows
 Tn my last letter T. spoke about the cannonade, which preceded the E@Teax French offerlsive. It lasted 72 Shours- not 50 hours, as I had report ssed- German military experts make the following statements about it. The cannonade happened-on a stretch lsof our lines. l 5 miles long in the ] lFChampagne It started on Sept 2z z lat m and continued day and night until Sept 25. when it stopped llabruptfy at A cannon shot Twas fired every second for each 5 l feet of our trenches that means B. lil600 shots in one hour, s86.oO0 in 24 h ours Altogether 65f million cannon shots have been fired against the first lGerman line on 2 stretch of 5 miles. w hat grand expectations the French i11a5d from this ofrensive can be learn led from the fo1Iowing
 ssOn October f1S, there was found in the pockets of a dead French of isf1cex of high grade, whose body was 1yine in the xeconduered German wfAa pT9Ned be "a secret lated t reads.
 General HeadquarteHs of the East
 General stan of the Bureau No
 Sept z1. 1918.
 Order for the northern and rnid- ale groups of the army
 E The immense power of the attack which the French and English armies lwflI execute, has to be explained to all the regiments in the following way
 For the operations are destined
 ss divisions with General de Cas- te1nan
 divisions with General Foch
 8 English divisions
 Af *16 divisions of cavalry 6 Of 4ha@s are En g1ish- J
 ealdes these are ready at a mo- xnnn&H n0kfessS 1s4
 TIE divisions Of infantry and the Beas4an army
 fourtns of the totaI French army will be engaged in this general battle. They w11l be assisted by 2. .0O0 heayT and 3.0O0 fisfd guns. vtRfcn  than khey had at tho be ginning Of the fgvar>S All preparations for success h&ve been made. especially if we re- member tE1aE In onr last offensive near Arras only IS divisions and soc heavw guns have been engaged
 igned. T. JOFFRE' 7
 You hare sent me a clipping about Chau4aazqua meeting in New York sta1A Miss Jane Adda1ns Of Chicago reported in her address. A German MeafenAa19 fold me that before an attack his men get a dose Of sul- Dhzr1c etzler to stimulate them to the 6loody work with the bayonet.
 This as silly have interviewed dozens and dozens of wounded soI- ) d4ern and oss1cers of the Nadeeb1r F. ] hospftad@- They all answered that they had never heard about such a l thing But on the other side they { all claimed that they had seen mary zntoaacated French soIdfers at the ;! tdnae Of tlae last offensive. That some { had 1n their sidepockets a bottle of wine and one Of whisky. that some were So drunk they had dfmcuity in runnfnK
 An American war corresnonder,f who has retarned from tour ] through western Rglssfa, reported in ! a a 4OpsnhaSexa newspaper, that he has seen 1-z millions of Russian reft,- 9@n4 57 M Ktew and srno1ensk. They had Iest praeSlca4Iy all their possessfons
 He states that all the railroad ds were 0veferowded. that he had to walt more than once three days to l5e a Die to get aboard train from one caly to the next. The American traveller adds the statement thai m orle can have any idea Of the suffer- 1AEs of these refugees
 can give you a few points abaV,t En81aSh .1iatHaan1ty.. ss4s A IT. A ,,zf,-is.,3 ssS zAs7AEdAa sunk the Ex g1fsn trans- psaA Raaaasan on Sept is, in the Aegaean Sea The stea I,1xzss xsT,ss : llsh crew and officers left the steau.g,. ln the boats and drifted away. The 4 AIzstFiafls toFBedsed the Ranaasse,,s fhdzl1sdns that not a soul was on beavd Suddenly appeared osl deck 500 In- d1aA soldiers, who had been locked up DSleW deck and had broken the dooTs in their mortal fear. The Eng 2 lish had Left with all the boats. The Ail4E tzasas eoA1d not take them ar boaEd on aecO8n 0f their Z s.s1alIs crowded space in the submarine. So the s00 E1ndus had to die.
 Another episode: After the naval battle in the bay of HeIgoIand on August 2s, Is1 English od1cera and 5 men fred their revo1vers at the ship wrecked German soldiers, who were swimming for their lives in the hey yzatched with smiling zaS#s Of tn 6 dying Ger Tlasaszs Tn 2 ngf1sh officers and raan acted similarly after the naval battle. at t11s Falkland Islands, Dec. 8. 1914