The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-28

pr. Charles Pancoast of Camden, N.
 s-.. 1z-s received an appointment to the
 tai In Sofia. This is according to a
 received to-day by pr. Her
 man Duesing. 1169 East Main street.
 from his brother, Prof. Carl DEesing.
 at Magdeburg, Germany.
 Interesting details of the war as
 seen from the German side, are con-
 tained in the letter. part of which ; follows:
 s'By the time this letter arrives in
 Bridgeport, you will have learned , that the Germans have taken Douau-
 mont It took two days to capture the fort. On the first day we made 5000.
 one the second day 1000 unwounded French. prisoners. On the next day ' the French tried to recapture Doual-
 mont and lost $. 900 more prisoners.
 This makes Is, 900 French prisoners
 in three consecutive days. Already
 the French have lost territory of
 S6O square kiIometers in the region
 in France quite a bit Officers, re-
 tIirning from the front, claim that
 our. losses are below the figures tat
 would be expected.
 ..The Austrfans took Duraggo, the
 principal port of Albania. Nearly all
 Albania is now occupied by the Cen tTaI powers The Entente Allies have
 100000 French and British soldiers in the fortified port of Saloniki and
 wait in vain for the Germans to open an attack against this formidable for tress. What would the French give, if they had these 100000 idle troops in the neighborhood of Yerdun?
 .sIn the next few months. two small books by Captain Muecke of s'Emden'' fame will be published in New York. These brochure tell you in detail the story of the 'sEnden' and the +Ay- scha-p I: reconnend them to every American as exceedingly interesting. Later they. will be sold in New York in German language also.
 II have received last week from 8 Professor of the New York University a letter with peace proposals. The sender, Native American, who begs to keep his name secret, read my ad- dress in New York newspapers, when the letter about Japan was published. Ia certainly appreciate the sincerity and inpartiaIity of the Professor. I have already translated and forward ed his peace proposals to the proper authorities in Berlin.
 e4ssI am going to send you by mail a printed brochure about the treat ment of German prisoners in France. There you AcaTl read, what Swedish war correspondents have seen.
 tHGerman savings banks gained in deposits last year at least $500. 000,- 900, not taking account of the amounts withdrawn for subseriptions to the new war loans Depositors withdrew less money for ordinary purposes than ever before. The number of bank books increased by s4.T per cent, Z whereas the greatest increase pre- I vteusly recorded was ..1 per cent. Bulgaria and Turkey have adopt ed the Gregorian calendar.5 So fart Bulgaria. used the Julian calendar, which is now 3 days behind and still | legal in Russia.
 Il stThe Gregorian calendar is also off, hciaI in Russian Poland. The Turks | will start their fiscal year March i, new style. instead of February 2s, | which is the equivalent of March 13 | new style The only difference be- tween the Turkish and Gregorian cal- endar is, that the Turks count this year 1884, because they reckon from the beginHing of the Mohammedan re- Iigfon.
 Germany has now 1,5oO, 900 war prisoners. It takes daily 500 head of cattle 900, 900 pounds of bread and 3yO0O,0O0 pounds of potatoes, to feed this army of prisoners. Each prison camp has it's own bakery and slaugh- terhouse- Meals are prepared in 9 central kitchen, where you can see kettles which hold 500 quarts
 Each prisoner gets one-qIarter of a pound of beef at dinner Mondays and Fridays, one-third Of pound of nsh The cost of feeding the pris- Oners per day is 66 pfennigs for pri- yates and mark, 40 pfennigs, for officers.
 We have now about 12o 900 crip- pied soldiers. Each blinded soldier a yearly pension of 1850 marks A blinded officer gets 4OOo marks pension per year. Two million seven hundred and fifty thousand x<z Ha1 for the blind invalids. Besides this each blinded soldier gets 150 marks yearly by the National Insurance act. On April 1, when the war will be 20 months old, you can figure, that about 100000 German soldiers on land and on sea have been killed so far. France admits 80O,000 French soldiers killed. Austria,s mortal losses are 45O0OO Russia has lost in killed about 1, ,500,-i ,0O- Serbia has also suffered fright uI losses. Prince Alexander of Ser 1ia states, that nearly one million of serbia's 5. 900 .oool populatfon has met ieath in this war by starvation, on he battlefelds or in the recent typhus ,pidernic.
 The German arrny's medical service las now at it's disposal 1 ,460 autono- oiles 425 cars for transporting the wounded, 137 ambulance trains, S7I hospital trains and 1 z boats for tran portation by water. Creosol is pour d over the bodies of killed soldiers. whenever the burial of the dead is an The general health of he war prisoners has been good. On-l y six cases of smallpox have appear ! d among them. The only trouble Te had, was the spotted typhus For y-one thousand cases of this disease ave developed last year among the russian prisoners with mortality of ight per cent. The epidemic hasI 4 Jed out.
 tEThe French military hospitals con- ain 500. 900 beds Their daily ex- ense 1s 9z56, ,0oo. The French Red 1 X ross Service maintains 1 BOO hospi- ais with 11S, 1000 beds; 6s.000 nurses ake care, of the wounded French sol iers., It has cost 16 million dol | ITS to build the 1,500 Red Cross hos a iA-.I- l. A : :