Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-16
HOW RURAL GERMANY
GETS ITS WAR NEWS
In Towns Where There Are No News
papers. Reports Come to
SchoOimaSter.
CIRCULATED By CHILDREN
Admirable Organization of Govern
ment Extends Even to Simple De-
tail OF Letting All Its People Know
What Soldiers at Front Are Doing.

BERLIN. August l5.-The splendid
organization" OF which Germany boast I;
covers even the distribution OF war
news in the rural districts All sue
cesses gained by the armies OF the en-
pire in the east and and west become
known within a few hours in farm
houses that are miles from the nea rest
| telegraph or telephone station.
This is accomplished ny n vor. sim
Irle system. The schoulmasterg OF all
small villages which have no news
papers arc informed by telegraph OF,
telephone whenever 4 victory has been
won somewhere. After telling their
classes what has happened. the rural
educators dismiss school, and the ru .
pills run home. shouting "hurrah" and
telling everybody the glad tidinrs
During vacation time the boys come
to the schoolhouse once or twice day
TO get the news the teacher may have
received.
AS rule. this system works adj
mirably, but sometimes II causes funny
incidents. The children get the re-
ports mixed up. or in their patriotic
zeal they so enlarge upon them that
their stories become rs fanciful as the
reports of the British or French war
correspondents.
In a little village OF Mecklcnb,irc-
Schwerin the schoolmaster the other
were badly defeated in the Argonne
forest and that Hindenhurg and Mack
ensen had captured 10000 more Rus
slams. a small boy whose geographical
knowledge does not 20 very very far
beyond the limits of his native town
joyfully reported at home: Tho Rus
slams are now in France: they have
licked the French in the Argonne and
captured 10000. but Hindanburg and
Mackenson are after them"
The population of another Meckien-
burg hamlet was thrown into a fer
ment last week. when the "hurrahs''
OF the schoolhoys echoed through the
streets even more joyously than on for
NOR occasions. The youngsters sang
and danced, and when questioned the V
glcefully announced. "Hurrah our
schoolmaster has been called to the
front"
$4,000 JEWS ARE
DRIVEN FROM RUSSIA
The "Juedische Rundschau." the most
widely circulated Jewish paper of Ger
many. publishes the following descrip-
ton OF the suffcrings of the Russia n
Jews in the war zone:
Events which are lastly becoming
catastrophe are reported from Rus
STA. Our brethren arc subjected to
prosecutions which even in the empire
| of the Little Father had been un-
heard OF before the war. The condi-
| tons prevailing in the Western Rus
sian provinces are described in = re-
port which has been smugClcd across
the border
In June all Jews by order of the
Russian military authorities. were OK
| PEELED from the provinces of Kowno
Courland and Suwalki. In most cases
the unfortunate men. women and chill
dren driven from their homes were
| only given time to pack up a few OF
their belongings. Even women who
had Just given birth to children or
were expecting confinement. sick poo
pie cripplcs ana the wounded Jewish
soldiers in the hospitals, doctors and
nurses had to 20
From the Province of Kowno alone
$50, 900 Jews were expelled. and 100 00o
more from Suwalki and Courland. The
unIoftunateS We're transported to the
eastern Provinces of Chernigow and
PoltaNa in long trains OF filthy freight
cars Many OF the trains consisted OF
hfty or seventy cars. Human beings
were packed together with cattle, their
! household goods and freight of all
kinds. The sick had no care Whatever
and the trains were not allowed to
stop at any station.
Thousands did not find transpor-
tation on these special trains and had
to flee on farmers wagons. The
owners OF these conveyances demanded
I in most cases so to 100 roubles, and
there was nothing left to the Jews
but to pray.
"A committee OF wealthy Jews
fastened TO PetroErad to demand pro-
lection for the property OF the en-
PEELED families. The delegation was
| received by the Prime Minister, Gore
mykine. who promised TO look into the