The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-04
RUSSIA HASN'T BEEN so COLD
 IN HUNDRED YEARS, REPORT IN
 GERMANY, SAYS PROF. DUESING
School Children Frozen At Roadside and Hardy Men
 Overcome, He Writes To Brother Here President
 Wilson's Protest On Mail Seizures Has Excellent
 Effect. @

Since President Wilson's protest to Great Britain against holding up American mails from Germany, per sons in this city have received com munications from the other side with greater despatch.
 pr. Herman Duesing of 1169 East Main street, received another letter yesterday from Professor Carl Dues ing, his brother, at Magdeburg, Ger many. It contains many pieces of Information that will serve to show the German view 9f recent occurren- lces. The letter is dated Jan. 4. It follows:
 been recorded during the last two weeks Our small cruiser Bremen 1900 tons, was sunk by a British sub- marine in the Baltic Sea, Dec 19. The Allied army was forced to give up An aforta at the Dardanelles on Dec. 20 The victorious Turks captured eight heavy and two light cannon, thousands of tents and much ammunition.
 The Allies occupy ndw only the most extreme point of the peninsula The British in Mesopotania were defeated at Christmas and retreated south ward. Three adventures of the Brit ish haye<ended in i'll luck. They are the adventure of the Dardanelles, of Sa1oniki. and of Bagdad. The Brit ish stuck to them in spits of i'll luck,
 
 seThe Russians have started a new offensive against the Austrian lines in GaIicia and, along the Strypa, river. Since Chfi5tmas the Russians are at tacking the Austrians daily on a 100 liIometer front daily So far all att tacks have been repulsed. The ground in front-<of the Austrian trenches is strewn with thousands Of dead Rus sians.
 This mornings newspapers contain a London telegram, that the British mail steamer, Persia, was sunk yes terday in the Eastern Mediterranian
 Civil physicians. working in Ger man military hospitals, get a salary of IS marks daily. If they serve be- hind the fighting lines they get also ] free board and table board.
 N "One of our submarines sunk the British cruiser Natal of 13,6O0 tons j near Havre, December 30. suppose i that the London cablegrams have kept the location of this event secret.
 ssWherc is the British Navy2'' you i might ask after reading the following. On Dec. g the chief of the Admiral staff of the German Marine published this statement:
 Parts of our navy cruised last week in the North Sea to find the enemies; after that they cruised on Dec. IT and 81 in the Skagerriak for the su- ipervision of commerce. During these actions we stopped and examNed 52 ships; one of these was taken into a German port on account of contra brand During all this time we have not seen one single ship of the Brit ish Navy
 .sThe blockade of Germany has pro- duced different inventions in our in dust-iez Our factories of amnu- rlitionss do not use any more cotton in the manufacturing of explosives. Ger tain tissues of wood have been found to be even more suitable than cotton lint This means, that after the war eur factories of ammunition will not buy any more cotton from America Saltpeter is now made from air The fertilizers for farming are made also from the atmospheric nitrogene. Many factories are producing today these fertilizers; this years crops will be raised with artificial fertilizers. We expect to be able to export soon this war-product to the neutral neighbors. We also manufacture artificial cam phor to be used in explosives Years ago we bought natural camphor from Japan; later we made camphor from American oil of turpentine- Now our chemical factories produce this valu- able material by synthesiS. In future Germany will save immense sums of money by not buying cotton from America, sa1tpeter from Chile, turpe- tine from the United States On the other hand Germany will export after the war artificial fertilizer and sal peter. So you see, that the blockade of Germany does much harm to the neutrals, who still appear to be hypno- tfzed by the British Navy.
 The British submarine-war against German commerce in the Baltic Sea has been stopped by torpedo boats. During the last two weeks 1,2oO ships have sailed from seven ports in the Baltic sea to Sweden or Denmark Their total registry was 62O00O tone. This shows how much business we still do with neutral na- efons
 .eThe Bulgarian government pre-