The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-20

has to save as much money as. possible. London, newspapers are full of com pIaints about this and letters from the public advise small entrance fee to the parks to maintain this beauty of London and Hampton Roads.
 '"The submarine war is affecting the London prices of flour. At present a sack of four costs 55 shil1ings, best | quality 59 shillings. The same amount
 of flour cost January I, 1914 2S shiI- hngs. Manitoba wheat was sold in London for "A shilIings on February ] 22, 1916. In contrast to this I can
 report to you, that the price of flour
 has been lowered in Germany. To- day you can buy 220 pounds of wheat
 flour in Berlin for S7 marks and the
 same amount of rye flour for S4 marks. At retail one pound of rye flour is six cents, of wheat flour seven cents. On March l, the following prices of
 meat prevailed in Berlin: One pound 1 of beef, 4or45 cents, veal 45 cents,
 mutton 4S-k9. cents, pork 34 cents 1 One pound of butter costs 65 cents
 l 0 pounds of potatoes 10 cents and one egg 6 cents.
 1 .eThe German congress for internal
 medicine will be held in Warsaw May l 1. Only military and civilian physi-
 clans of the German Empire and it's allied countries will be admitted
 Physicians of neutral and the enemy s 1 countries are excluded. On Easter
 there will be held in Berlin a congress l of the German Association for the Care of the Crippled. Professor Spitzy of Berlin is the director of a great orthopedic institute. It consists 1 of AZ barracks, each having 100 in vaIids. Here the war cripp1es are in
 strncted in music, mechanical drawing : mod cling, etc.
 "A Swedish war correspondent visit ed Verdun March 5 and reports the n1l inl in hn1 nj n The Germans on this date were bonn Ebarding methodicaIIy the surroundings of the bridges and the railroad sta ton. The city of Verdun wasC empty
 did not see any civilians. nor any soldiers Only the fire department has remained and it was busy ex- ltinguishing fires. Twenty-tWo thous- and persbns have closed their homes and fled The city was not damaged
 much. Only a. few houses were de- is in ruins. Only a few grenades
 fell into Verdun during my presence.
 The London Times printed on March 1, that so far the total French casual ties near verdun were 6S,0OO men.
 ."The present gold reserve of the an increase of $274,750 over last week.
 War correspondents on the Russian front state unanimously, that the loss es of the Russians in their new offen- sive are appalling. On several occa- sions Russian artillery directed a cur tain of fire behind their own advancing troops in order to push them forward. The correspondent, of the Frankfurt CT Gazette quotes a Russian prisoner of war, who stated, that their officers
 employed brutal methods to compel
 them to move to the fighting line. Of one regiment barely 250 men returned from fIaA attack The first SihariaY n
 corps may be said to have ceased to exist.
 @One ton of coal is listed at $50 at Athens, Greece, with none to be had even at that price, for whenever coal does reach Greece, it is snapped up by friends of the Allies, to heat their houses and factories Therefore the Greek navy lacks the coal to enable it's ships to police the Greek territorial
 waters against violations of neutrality.
 ssThe Hungarian government has
 built modern Sanatoriun in the foothills of the Carpathian rnountainS''