The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-08-05
news OF THE WAR;
SCATTERED ITEMS GATHERED
ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT
Big news in SHORT SPACE

Interesting Pointers About the Signi-
can Things Which Oftentimes Es-
cape Attention-War Goes on in
Many Fields Of Activity-What the
Various Nations are Doing.
About 33,S5S pounds Of bombs
were dropped one day last week by
French aeroplane squadron of thirty
| nve machines on and near the rail-
road station established by the Ger
mans for strategic reasons at Wig
neulles-les-Hattonc the station
serving the region of the Calonne
trenches and that of the Forest Of
Apremont. The squadron, working
In the face of a forty-mile an hour
gale, dropped, according to the Off
cial report, III bombs of 80 kilo-
grams each (about 1913 pounds). The
Germans have been assembling large
quantities of military stores at the
station. The bombardment started
several fires. All the aeroplanes re-
turned to the French lines.
| British troops are now in Serbia
| lighting with the Serbians against
the Austrians, so it was stated at
Liverpool on Thursday by Crawford
Price, the British eyewitness with
the Serbian forces. He said that the
British army authorities now per-
mitted him to make this announce
ment.
Shells have been dropping into
Arras for more than $50 days. When
the war began the town had q popu-
lation OF $4,000; in December the
population was 1000; now it is
1000. A few score of the inhabi-
| tants have been killed or wounded
while the rest have left, under per-
suasion Of the military authorities
Those who remain sleep in cellars.
The streets are overgrown with
grass. A few underground shops are
doing business.
| American travellers who have
reached Greece from Turkey state
that the native Christian inhabitants
| of the Ottoman empire, the Arhen-
ians and Greeks, are being evicted
fro mtheir homes by tens of thou
sands, driven to distant places, and
given the choice between accepting
Islam or being put to the sword.
Their houses and property are seized
by Turks. Able-bodied men are be-
ing drafted into the Turkish army.
| Many Armenians, who are faring
somewhat worse than the Greeks,
have been massacred.
Gold Is flowing into the Bank of
France from private boards, in re-
sponse to the request of the French
government. In two days more than
1000 persons deposited gold. The
certificates given for the gold state
that the exchange was made for ma
tional defense"
Cholera Is raging in Lemberg, re-
Gently captured from the Russians,
and the Austrian and German troops
have been withdrawn in consequence,
so reports from Petrograd state.
Civilian refugees are pouring into
Russian territory. At Kiev the Lem
berg cabmen are plying their trade.
The British Navy League is urging
the government to seize all German,
Austrian and Turkish ships detained
in the ports of the British empire "as
a set-off, In some measure, against
the destruction of British merchant
vessels without warning by German
lsubma rines."
| Plans are being made in Germany
for the formation OF central body,
acting under the direction Of the I'm
perial government, and composed of
equal numbers Of producers and con-
sumers, to improve the economic war
machinery during the next harvest
year, especially in regerd to the fix
ing Of maximum prices and the con-
troll of the food supply. The govern
ment plans to establish a systematic
control OF prices of all goods neces-
sary to the conduct of the war, TAX
ing all matters of this kind out Of the
hands of the individual states.
Nearly $4,000, 1000 has been
subscribed by the people of Great
Britain to the war loan, this being,
in the words Of Chancellor of the
Exchequer McKenna, "by far and
away the largest amount subscribed
in the history of the world" The
tota, number of subscribers through
the Bank Of England was $4,000,
their subscriptions being $780,
100000, while $4,000 persons have
subscribed 100000 through the
post office, with more subscrip-
tions through the latter channel yet
to come.
Reports from Rome state that over
$4,000 Turkish wounded from the
Dardanelles are now in Constanti-
nople and that the streams OF wound
ed which keep pouring In from the
front are having a most depressing
effect on the spirits Of the Turkish
troops who have not yet been sent to
the firing limo. 1t is said that an in
fantry division which was recently
sent to the Dardanelles from Smyrna
marched through Constantinople
weeping.
The Russian minister OF finance
has issued an order prohibiting the
export OF gold.
i Sir Robert Rnrdnn- nramier of