News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-04-12
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Kindly answer the distance an up e
date rifle used by both national guards
and United States army will carry
also at what distance could it hit tt
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The carrying power Of the United
States magazine rifle, caliber 80, with
which the regular army and militia
troops are armed, has an estimated
carrying power of about 1000 yards.
The arm Is effective at about two miles.
How and when was the autonomy Of
Belgium established?
The treaty guaranteeing the neu-
trality of Belgium was signed in Lon
don, April 10, 1889, between Prussia,
Austria, Great Britain, France, Russia
and the Netherlands.
Kindly give the rules of war as prae-
ticed by the United States applicable
to such cases as that of the English
nurse executed by the Germans in
Belgium.
"Rules of Land Warfare" Washing
ton, 1914.
Section 2O2 All unauthorized or Sc
cret communication with the enemy is
considered reasonable by the law of
war. Foreign residents in an invaded
or occupied territory, or foreign visitors
in the same, can claim no immunity
from this law. They may communicate
with foreign parts or with the inhabi-
tants of the hostile country so far as
military authority permits, but no
further.
General orders 100, 1868; article 1O2.
,The law of war makes no difference on
account of the difference of sex con-
corning the spy, the war traitor or the
s war rebel.
Section 203. A traitor under the law,
or a war traitor, is a person in place
or district under martial law military
government who, unauthorized by the
military commander, gives information
of any kind to the enemy or holds in
tercourse with him.
What is the correct pronunciation of
bomb?
Authorities are not quite agreed.
Webster, the Oxford dictionary and
the Century dictionary give bonn or
bum; Worcester gives bum only; the
older English photographers, as Walk
err and Smart, give bum, and that pro-
nunciation prevails in England. There
is sufficient authority for either pro-
nunciation.
What is the proper address of the
president of the United States? Would
it be proper to say "his excellency"
The address of the president is sim
ply "The President of the United
States" In the first congress there
was debate over title, and it was pro-
posed by some members that he be adj
dressed as Ibis excellency' and by
others as "his highness," but q COM
mittee reported that cit is not proper
to annex any style or title other than
that expressed in the constitution"
Please tell something about the Sa-
bine women. What did they do that
was worth mention2
The story is one of those vague leg
ends of prehistoric times that cause
some moderns to regret the passing OF
the so called classic period. The Sa-
bines We're an ancient tribe of Italy,
supposed to have been named from
Sabus, one of their deities. Little is
know of their history except that. there
was chronic war between them and
the Romans AS the story goes, ROM
illus, the mythical founder of Rome,
endeavored to increase its population
first by making it city of refuge for
criminals, and, secondly, by inviting a
lot of Sabine women to banquet and
then Selling and distributing them as
wives among such Romans as were
inclined to matrimony, but were too
busy making war to prosecute matri-
monial schemes in the usual way. SO
the Sabine women who attended the1
banquet were seized and handed out
as prizes. While there is no reason to
suppose that the women were a party
to the plot for their seizure, tradition
says they accepted the situation grace
fully and soon adjusted themselves to
their new surroundings. In the fresh
outbreak of war which followed such
an event some of them acted as peace
makers between the Romans and the
Sabines.
What is the total available tonnage
of tungsten in the United States?
The production of concentrated lungs.
en- ore in the United States in 1913 was