The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-18

Duesing of Magdeburg, Germany, con- tains the assertion that recently, Jap anese spies were captured in Bulgaria.
 A description of the starting of the first train from Berlin to Constantine pie, is included. The letter follows:
 "Since wrote my last letter to you, three important events have been re- corded. The evacuation of the Brit ish army from Gallipon, the capture of the Lowcen Mountain and the Mon tenegrin capital of Cetinje, and Monte negro's offering of peace. The Brit i ish claim that they have given up their positions in GallipoH voluntarily. i But, if they did, why did the British i leave cannon, tents, ammunition and flour with a value of 10,000,0O0? The | truth about it is this. There was a l three days battle before the evacua- 1 ton between the Turks and the Brit ish and the big Austrian SkOda nor 1 tars decided the battle in favor of the | Turks. The British, fearing annihi- l 1atfon, were forced to leave
 1 '"The capture of the Lowcen noun | tain at Montenegro's shore, shows how l brave the Austrian soldiers are. The | Lowcen mountain is an immense, l steep rock of limestone, which rises from the sea shore and dominates the ] upper part of the Adriatic sea. It 1 took many days to storm this noun l tam, which was covered by deep snow. Never was a fortified mountain in any war stormed under so many adverse l circumstances. The Lowcen is an ev- | erlasting monument of Austria's bra very For hundreds of years the school children will hear about this taken in the capital of Cetinje, 8,750 grenades, 45,OOO bombs, 2,00O rifles, etc. This afternoon extra papers pub lished the official news, that Monte negro has asked for peace and accept ed Austria's first condition, the surren- der of all firearms Do you remen1- Der, that predicted Nov, 15, that the first peace would be signed in the Balkans? So it has happened. The small enemies will be the first ones to ask for peace.
 stOn Jan 15, the first through ex- press train left Berlin for Constanti- nople. To witness this momentous event left Magdeburg on the morn ing express and arrived at the Berlin station, Friedrichstrasse, at a.. m. The famous train was scheduled to leave at 8:15 a. m. Thousands of people were standing on the platform, in the waiting rooms and down below in the street, to see the departure ct the train. On the sides of the cars was painted in big letters: Bal kanzug Berlin-Konstantino The train runs twice weekly, has six cars; through ticket costs $67 in the 1st class, $44 in the second class. The first train had about 50 passengers on board When the stationmaster gave the signaI for departure to the ensin- | eer, aeep silence fell over tho i'm mense assemblage as if we were in church.
 Everybody took off his hat. But when the wheels of the locom otive turned we all started to sing our national hymn Deutschland, Deutsch- land neber a11es.' With tears in my eyes, I watched the last car of the Balkanzung disappear around a curve t'The Austrian pioneers have built a permanent iron bridge across the river Save near Belgrade in two months. The bridge is 460 yards long and runs in the path of the old railroad bridge, which was destroyed by the retreating Serbians. Three | Austrian and three German compa- nies of pioneers did this remarkable work On December 30 the bridge was ready and given over to the mi1- | tarv authorities Across this bridge the Balkan train steams into Serbia on 1 it's way to Turkey.
 ssBelgrade looks like a Apeaceable city Thirty-six thousand refugees have returned to their old homes, have opened their stores and busi- ness is going on almost, like it was l before the war. The civil population i of Serbia suffered very much during the short campaign in October and l November. Seven hundred and fifty i thousand refugees wandered with the | retreating Serbian army towards AL | bania and Montenegro. - Thousands Of these died of cold, exposure and 1 starvation thousands were killed by hungry wolves Most of the fleeing of dead horses and cattle. Two hun 1 population lived from the carcasses
 dred and fifty thousand Of the refu- gees gave themselves up into the arms
 of the Austrians, who returned them
 to their villages.
 Interesting for Americans is the T following story: Bulgarian patrols
 caught in December repeatedly, Japa-
 nese spies near Dedeagatsch and Port
 olagos. They claimed that they had
 arrived recently from Greece and were
 looking for work. The Bu1gar1ans
 found in the clothes of the spies, sew
 ed in, on secret spots, suspicious notes
 and military maps of Bulgaria.
 '@,The Russian princess Wassiltschi-
 koff was arrested in Petrograd, be-
 cause she agitated in court circles for
 a separate peace with Germany She
 had asked the president of the Rus
 sian Duma, MT. Rodzsanko, for as-
 sistance On orders of the Czar the
 police arrested the princess and tran
 sported her to Southern Russia, where
 she will be kept in seclusion during g
 the rest of the war.
 'HThe American Red Cross hospita
 at Munich, Bavaria, is educating
 bind soldiers in reading. writing and
 new occupations. Two thousand
 pounds has been appropriated for this
 purpose. Up to Christmas time 361
 German Army surgeons have been
 killed, 142 severely wounded, 388 less l severely wounded 102 have been ta-
 ken r4soners, and 90>ar missing.
 ''The total casualty list among Ger
 man physicians is 1.0s4; Germany had 900 army physicians at the begin
 njne of the war. The British Poya
 army medical corps has 9,62G physt-
 clans. Th5 Austrian Red Or s; has &4u e..T1i.als with 95,0O0 beds throughout the country. AustCia has
 IIte ,,5 sent d Fed Cross expedition :o
 Bulgaria. which consists of 25 hoGp:-
 tai cars and a laboratOry; ony.Il-
 ct1nS and 76 nT3l ses were the pes
 r,ei of tnis relief train.
 The fam, II" University oe VI-l-