The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-20

z6 feet apart, rom Riga to 1IOuIla- | mia, protects the German eastern | front according to Prof. Carl Duesing of Magdeburg, Germany, who has writ ten a letter to his brother, Dr. Her
 man Duesing in this city
 The machine gun "fortif1cat1ons
 have been effective, according to Pror- Duesing All the Russian oHens1Ves 1 have been stopped early in the rushes by a hail of bullets from these deadly | weapons
 Matters of common discussion in Germany are contained in Prof. Dues
 ing's letter, excerpts of which fol- low:
 "The fourth war loan has been sub scribed with 1O.6 billions of marks so far In this sum the subscriptions l in foreignsscountries and at the front are not counted. Altogether the Ger ment in four war loans 36.5 billions t of marks to conduct the war.
 l. .tLieutenant Boelke has shot down already 12 aeropIanes of the enemy. Lieutenant Inme1mann felIed 10. | During the war German troops cap tured i38 flags from the hostile armies. The very first standard used by the l French was captured by a Jewish sol dier in the battle of Lagarde, Aug. 8 in French Lorraine. All 3S banners may be seen in the Berlin armory. 1 During the first three weeks of | through the German lines in North lern Russia This offensive was in vain. Russia had a. total casualty llof 140,O0o men. General Kuropat- kin is supreme commander of the northern army General Everth of southern Russian army. The whole l eastern front from Riga to Roumania, | is 825 miles long. We have station ed 2 machine guns for each 25 foot 1 at the whole front; that makes a total of 173, ,25o machine guns ready to stop any offensive.
 ..After the war each German soldier who returns from the battlefield crip- pied or seriously injuretd, will be pre- scented by the nation with tax-free | homesfead. Each one will get as a present a bungalow of four rooms with 1 a garden in the rear. These one story houses will be built in the su- burbs of the cities and in the villages to suit the different tastes. No crtp- pIes will be conspicuous after the war, because each crippled veteran will be i presented with an artificial limb.
 ttYou read in February about the great Russian victory at Erzerum in Asiatic Turkey, when they took this fortress, 100000 prisoners and 1,200 cannon The truth about it can be seen from the following official Turk ish report. For military reasons our army retreated without any loss to the west of Erzerun, kiIometers from the forts. which we destroyed. | Fifty cannons, which could not be ta- 1 ken away, were exploded There has tbeen no fight or battle in the surround Iings of Erzerum, In reality this city 1 is not a fortress, but an open city The report of the capture of 80,o0O prison 1 CTS and 1000 cannon does not coincide 1 with the truth The London Daily Mail printed lately, that according to diplomatic information the Russians captured at Erzerum only 5000 pris- oners and that the Turks had moved away all their field guns.
 s'Everything is quiet in Montenegro The Austrians have taken there alto gether 314 cannon, 50 machine guns and 50,000 rifles. In these figures I are included the weapons, which were given up voluntarily by the Montene- l gri1as at the conclusion of the arnis- tice. How sick and tired they are of i the war can be seen from the fact. that General Martinovitch was mur-
 dered by his own Montenegrin soldiers, | because he did not want peace, but tried to stir up more hate against I the Austrians. We have read about this murder in Italian newspapers
 During the four months from Oct. h, 1915 to Feb. 1, 1916 there were Innany aerial fights at the western front. We had a total loss of Is. the Allies of 63 aeroplanes. Our losses were: seven aeroplanes destroyed in
 fight, eight shot down, one missing The allied losses were: forty -one de- stroyed in aerial fight, eleven shot down, eleven missing.
 There is scarcely an occupation nowadays in which one cannot find a woman. The employment of wo-
 men as street car conductors is all ready familiar. You may even see
 women motornen in the busy streets
 of Berlin, also women tacioab chauf- feurs. During the construction of the
 the sandy underpinning of the streets.
 Women clean the streets and carry coal into the houses from teams. In
 the Berlin subway women work as ticket choppers and guards. When it was found that their dresses got caught in doors, the company ordered I the women to don bIoomers. The steam railroads have, employed many women at the stations since the begin ming of the war, but lately they install led women even as track walkers, switch tenders and track layers. It
 is admitted, that women conductors
 are about 50 per cent. efficient as
 men. In all Germany there are 15,-
 900 female employees in the street car service; in the city of Leipsic, 1900 alone Thousands of women are em-
 ployed in metal trades. which are
 booming on account Of the need of ammunition.
 up to March 1, the casualties among German physicians reached :, 1,164. Of these 264 doctors were kill ed at the front and 130 died of dis
 eases; 76 physicians are prisoners in
 the enenay's countries and 14S are se- rious1y wounded thirty per cent. of all the physicians of Greater Berlin
 are at the front.
 For Tubercu1ous ex-so1dfers it costs
 about $600,000. There were 36,3 ty-four per cent. of these were taken l care of by the mother
 How the war affects English life } can be seen from the following: Every
 public museum has been closed. There