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New Britain herald., 1916-08-01
CHy Mems

Dancing at Bungalow tonight advt.
 Henry Gray has severed his con- nection as foreman at the New Bri- tain Gas Light company.
 Aaron G. Cohen of Curtis street has purchased a summer home at Wood- mont-on-the-Sound
 Officer John J. King returned to duty today after having been off a. couple of days with illness. Saturday evening Officer King suffered a slight nasal hemorrhage.
 Councilman Lincoln Odenkirchen will leave next Tuesday for Boston to attend the annual convention of tho New England Association of Paper Box Manufacturers, which will be held in the Hub August and g.
 The recent warm wave has had it's effect on the municipal ice, with the result that about three sections at the plant are now used up. A local mer- chant is now negotiating for the pur- chase of one more section.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-01

in regard to the life or position they are in at the front and I do not like to break the rules myself in telling of the conflict.
 1T think the Germans may be able to get an undersea boat through from time to time but while the supplies thus obtained will be useful there is no doubt as to the outcome of the war. The Allies are now up to full war strength and it is only a matter Of time when the outcome will be decided"
 MT. Purney left for Shelburn this m orning where he will stay until the time for his return to active service pr. John Purney accompanied him and will spend several days at his old home.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-01
CANADIAN REGULAR TELLS OF SERVICE
Willard Purney, Home to Recuper-
 ate, Gives His Views

For the last few days Dr. John
 Purney has been entertaining his ] brother Willard Purney of Shelburn,
 Nova Scotia, who is home recupera- ] or the Canadian battalions and has
 seen service since November, 1914 on l the western front. MT. Purney's own ! story follows in part:
 1 With the ten months ending in
 June I was in active service in Elan l ders and the last two weeks of the six l took part in the battle of Ypres ] During this period the German ar- ] ti1lery fire was the heaviest on any ! front since the beginning Of the war 1 and one of the bloodiest Without l doubt the Germans are brave soldiers and excellent men with their artillery hut the Allies are in control of an in exhaust1ble supply of men and muni- tions and the tide has already turned in their favor. The Allies s1owness in advancing was partly due to the fact that their supply of artillery was low
 and now that a full number Of guns
 has been sent to the front the advan-
 tage has shifted.
 1T was shot on the evening of the
 third day while we were holding the
 front line of trenches The Germans
 opened the battle with high explosive
 shells and shrapnel which scattered
 in all directions. I was forced to
 enter a small signal station near the
 front lines in order to talk with the
 rear. These stations are a number
 of feet square and each contains several men who phone to the artil- 101- +l,z
 direct them on the position to place their guns. I was just handing the phone back to one of these men when a howitzer shell entered the station and when I recovered from the effects I discovered that all my friends as well as one on the outside had been killed. How I escaped I l will never know and will always con- slider it a miracle
 When I fully recovered I crawled 1 from beneath the debris and two | minutes later while directing opera | tions I was struck by three shots from shrapnel bursting overhead. Two of these shots struck me in the breast i and the other in the left arm. This time my life was saved by the contents of my pocket which included a heavy | steel shaving mirror. My arm wound 1 proved to be worse than was expected | and that night I was advised to leave | the front. I was passed from hospital l to hospital the last one being in London from which I was sent home. The severe concussion of the bursting shell in the station seriously affected my nervous system and left me an in valid.
 Tn regard to active service on the front l would say that 1t sometimes takes several days for news of battles even a few miles away to travel. Many times one could see the action start and If 1t were night the entire line would be a mass of star shells that are used to light up the sur rounding country. These same shells are thrown like rockets to guard | against surprises and to discover what the enemy is doing. The display of | lights on these occasions is beautiful beyond description.
 ''The country of Belgium has been to pieces and there is a broad 1 belt from the sea many miles inland | where once stood pretty villages beau
New Britain herald., 1916-08-01
THANKS FROM KAISER.
Stay at Homes Doing Their shs
 Emperor Says. X

Amsterdam, Aug. 1. via Londs 11:15 a. m.-A Berlin dispatch sss that the German emperor has sent telegram to the minister of N thanking "all who at home are cea. lessly laboring in loyal fulfiIlment their duty to produce war mater Of the highest perfection to enal the army and navy to fulfill shs gigantic daily task, all who either intellectual or manual work give tn, best to maintain the nations arm hard as steel and impenetrable, al all women who have undertaken t hard work of men apart from tn, nominal duties"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-01
IMPOSSIBLE TO FEED ALL.
That Ts Why Germany Transfcrr
 Inhabitants Of Lille.

Amsterdam, Aug. 1, 11:20 a. m.- The transfer by the Germans of son thousands of the inhabitants of Lil and its neighborhood to other plac is explained by the Norddeutsche A legemeine Zeitung as due to the in possibility of feeding them in ove crowded localities.
 The paper says that the nativi were sent to places where the distr button of food was easier and at th same time where regions with sma populations could receive the nece sary working power. It adds that ti transferred people were we'll treate
New Britain herald., 1916-08-01
'. M. |. A. ID HAVE
 CAMPS AT BORDER
State Association to Take Up Ac-
 tive Work Among Soldiers

New Haven, Aug. 1.--The Young Mems Christian Association of this state Is to begin at once active work among the Connecticut soldiers who are doing patrol duty A number of secretaries will be sent into the field to look after the details, and the f1- nancing will be done on the voluntary rlan, the state executive committee working In this respect through local members of the committee In obtain ing funds. Money and other ma-
New Britain herald., 1916-08-01
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ter1al assistance already has been promised. The announcement made today follows:
 "A meeting of the Connecticut state executive committee of the Young Mems Christian Association was held yesterday to consider the question of sending secretaries to work among the Connecticut troops on the border.
 "This action was taken at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
u. S. Orders 1000 ViCkers
Guns: Cost Is $5,500,W 900

Washington. Dec. 19.-ln accordance
with the original recommendations OF
the special machine gun board, the War
Department to-day let contracts for
1000 Vickers machine guns and scces-
series. at a cost Of s5,500,0O0. 1t was
announced that additional contracts
soon would be let which would bring
the amount TO be expended on such
weapons for the regular army and the
National Guard up to about S9,5OO,OoO.
The departments decision was con-
strued as finally disposing Of the suR-
gestion that the Lewis machine gun, IN
vented by an American officer and used
bv the thousands BY the British and
Belgian forces, should be adopted as
The army standard. In announcing the
award the department let IT be Known
that the machine gun board had been
reconvened 20 consider the Lewis gun,
and after holding extensive hearings
had adhered to it's original recommen-
dRtion.
The board recommends that all funds
available for the purchase of machine
guns. except about s1,5O0,ooO, should be
expended for Nickers guns and aces
series. The reserve sum Will be held
pendine further tests Of the various
types Of guns, several OF which may be
nurcbased for experimental purposes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
.BATTLE-CRUISERS
CALLED U. S. HOPE
Captain Sims Tells Con-
gresS Canal and Doctrine
Are in Peril

Washington. Dec l9.-The United
States Navy will never be prepared to
meet an enemy feet on equal terms
until il is fully equipped with battle
cruisers. Ship by ship It will be
picked off and destroyed. American
commerce will be swept from the seas
and the Panama Canal will be wrested
from American control il this provision
is not made.
Such was the declaration made be-
fore the House Naval Affairs Commit
tee to-day by Captain William S. Sims,
commander of the battleship Nevada.
These assertions he backed up by ref
erences 70 details Of the naval battle
Of Jutland, in which the British feet
proved its superiority solely by the
use of swift battle-cruisers.
The United States could never con-
template entering into war with a first
class power" he said. unless her navy
was in shape 20 meet the enemy at sea
and engage him, and We cannot be in
shape until we have battle-cruisers-
in sufficient number and with sufficient
speed and power 20 keep in contact
with the enemy.
Suppose We stopped building battle
cruisers and other countries built them.
We could not catch the battle-crulseI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20

will make America safe. Unfortunate.
ly. soldiers have always thought that
way: TO do so is part Of the one
track functoning Of the trained mill
tary mind. And equally unfortunately
the soldier has. like Napoleon, Ike
William H. like the British Lords OF
the Admiralty. generally succeeded IN
plunging the nations he spoke for INTO
war. bankruptcy, into the very disss-
ters which he sought TO avert. or
thought he sought TO avert.
History. in its caussl stages. means
nothing TO the army mind; trade rela-
tons and the psychology Of peoples
and the logic of events do not exist for
the army man. lie only begins 10 take
note of human events and conditions
when they reach the stage when pow
der is burnt. That war comes. that
millions Of combatsnts and more mill
ions Of non-combatants are killed or
die because the military mind can see
TO way 10 avoid war except By pre-
pairing for war. is a truth that is the
common property Of humanity; but il
never comes home 20 the trained SOL
der. .,
To-day history is repeating itself
General Scott and the army clique are
doing for America what the General
staff. a militarist government and the
power preaching professors did for
Germany a decade ago. They are SOW
ing fear and hatred of other countries
and warning the people 20 get ready
20 fight them. That this propaganda
if successful, will mean that Europe
that England, will fear us and prepare
10 fight US, just as much as we fear
and prepare TO fight them, does not
never has, occurred, 20 the military
mind.
The real FOOLS paradise is 20 mag
inc that you can long escape war by
immense armament. Perhaps II Is 100
bad TO have TO make problem OF
defence more arduous or complicated
than the military mind can deal with
pn4 u is more arduous and complicated
N;nfnitely so. and more demanding OF.
s+s+esmanship and broad intelligence.
There are no conditions IN the world
.o-dav that places America in a posi-.
tion where such extreme measures or
defence are necessary, according 10 the
Rev. John Haynes Holmes. He sald
that the whole programme OF the Amer.
;cso Union Against Militsrism, OF
which he is a member. would be devot-
ed this year to opposition to universal
training. He severely condemned Cen
eral SCOTS references to the posi-;
bilitv Of war between the United
States and England, with Japan as an
ally.
"A statement OF that kind ought 70
call for a rebuke from every citizen IA
this country. A responsible govern
ment official who makes such state.
ment should be court martialled and
shot"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20

They would command the sea and
sweep commerce from H. II your enc
my builds any war machine you cannot
match you must take the consequences.
The United States Navy will not DC
prepared for three or four years sue,
cessfully TO defend the Panama Canal
against a reasonably formidable enc
nv" Captain Sims replied 70 CUES
ton by Representative Farr, OF Penn
sylvanis
Ho told the committee Great Britain
had solved the problem Of submarine
attack.
Submarines cut no ice" he said. so
long as feet controls the surface.
If we had 800 submarines they would
count for nothing if the enemy had
ships and scout boats 70 hold the sur.
face. They must keep out OF sight OF
the scouts"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20

authorize the Federal government 70
purchase commercial stations, would
Permit government owned plants to be
opened for privst. commercial bust
ness and in the interest of national de-
fence would throw restrictions about
the participation Of aliens in the con
troll or operation Of American wireless.
Every private concern operating IN
the United States would be required 10
bring at least two-thirds Of its stocks
under American ownership and TO have
two-thirds majority Of Americans on
rs boards Of directors. No alien would
be licensed as an operator on Amerl-
can territory. II might seriously AZ
feet several plants now partly or wholly
owned by aliens.
The bill was introduced in the Senate
bv Senator Fletcher and in the House
BIZ Representative Alexander.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
Voluntary Military Not
Adequate to Defend
Nation, He Says
DENIES HE FOUND
MILITIA LACKING
Favors Compulsory Train
ing-SayS Munitions
Are Ready
From Ths rs1Juns Bureau. ]

Washington, Dec. 1e.-While avoid
ing the words universal training"
Secretary Of War Newton .. Baker, in
testifying before the House Military
Affairs Committee to-day, admitted
that some system OF obtaining soldiers
besides the present voluntary plan
would have 70 be adopted TO provide an
adequate defence for the country.
Questioned by Representative and
Senator-elect Mcclellan, Of Tennessee,
Secretary Baker said he had not made
up his mind whether compulsory mill
tsry service or system of selective
CONSUMPTION was the best solution 20
the country's preparedness problem.
"The needs Of the country will be
best served. think" said the Secre-
tary. "by method Of selection Of sol
aiers not voluntary"
In line with the statement Of Presi-
dent Wilson at the newspaper con-
ference yesterday, Mr.. Baker declared
that he had not decided by any means
that the militia had been tried in the
balance and found wanting.
Shifting Of Responsibility
Committee members commented
afterwsrd, however, on the apparent
attempt Of the Secretary to shift the
responsibility Of the LIBERALIZATION Of
the National Guard from the Admin
istrstion TO Congress. He spoke Of
"the experiment which Congress
directed in its liberalization Of the
National Guard"
This experiment, he said wa, in its
middle stage"
II do not know the outcome" he
said, "but ] think and hope that the
present border service will strengthen,
popularize and make more efficient the
National Guard"
Mr.. Baker added that the whole ex-
perience in mobilization on the border
had been very encouraging"
Speaking Of the impossibility OF re-
cruiting the regular army up to the
strength authorized by the Hay reor-
ganizstion bill, Secretary Baker said
he would like TO have the pay of the
enlisted men increased from s15
month 10 s25 month
II was brought out that would in
crease the average cost Of maintaining
a regular soldier from about 81 900 a
year to about 81 ,l2O year.
Secretary Baker sstonished the Mill
tary Committee, following a question
from Representative Tilson, OF Connec-
ticut when he expressed satisfaction
with the amount Of reserve arms and
ammunition in the country.
There are plenty of arms and am
muniton in this country for an army
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
BILL INTRODUCED TO GIVE
U. s. CONTROL OF WIRELESS
Would Aid Defence Plan by Restric'
lions Placed on Aliens


Washington, Dec. 10. - First steps
toward the ultimate government con-
troll of all radio communication between
the United States and its outlying pos
sessions are proposed in an Admins
tration bill laid before Congress to-day
providing for sweeping revision OF
the laws regulating wireless stations.
The proposal IS IN line with plan
worked out nearly year ago by navy
wireless experts and Endorsed BY Ad-
ministration officials in an informal
suggestion 70 all OF the American re-
nublics for uniform government wire
less control throughout the Western
Hemisphere.
As ar initial step the measure would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
FIREMEN HUNT BLAZE
IN HENRY CLEWS HOME
Only Flames Are in Crate, Butler Tells
Visiting Workers

Somebody saw sparks roeketing ifo"
the chimney Of Henry Ciews's house g.
27 West Fifty-hrst Street. about :
o'clock last night, and telephoned me
information 20 Fire Headquarters. ~
three minutes Engine Company 20
bearing extinguishers. lengths o. hose
and other formidable looking parapher
MALTA, swsrmed up tho bankers ron On.
steps. 81
Mr. Clews's butler met them cour-
teously. but not efusively.
There is no fire. he said or a.
least none except that in the CRATE!
He was absolutely correct, as - tne
irritating habit Of buffers. The hre-
men retreated and the sparks sailed up
ward unhindercd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
Unheeding Man Killed by Train

The Pittsfeld Express struck and
killed an unidentified man few hun
bred yards south Of the Hawthorne
station, on the Harlem division OF the
New York Central, yesterday. The
man was on the tracks and paid no at
tention to the engineers whistles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
London Wool Auction

London, Dec. 19-At the wool auc-
ton sales to-day ZOO bales were Of
fered. There was a good selection Of
fered and secured merinos were active
and firm. Queenslands realizing As.
6iad. and Victorian crossbreds 81 Sd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20
Militia Called for Protection

w. Baker declared il had never oc-
Cured 20 him that the idea OF military
training Influenced 20 the slightest
degree the call for the troops to 90 to
the border. The important point. he
said. was 10 protect lives IN ieXas, Ne"
Mexico and Arizona.
Tho Secretary advocated an increase
in tho personnel Of the ordnance de-
partment. declaring that forehanded-
ness in this branch of the service was
prime requisite Of national defence.
Until there is some fundamental
change that will either supplement the
National Guard or replace II with com
pulsorv military service. which means
universal military service, or selec-
tive CONSUMPTION" Mr.. Baker said, in
answer to a question about the Platts-
burg training camp, these summer
camps will be very valuable.
II believe that IL the United States
were in major emergency, 80 per cent
of those who attended the Plattsburg
encampment would enlist and be OF
very great value in the defence of the
country. They would beat the rest of
US TO enlistment
Scott Continues Testimony
Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief
Of staff, was again before the sub-com-
mittee to-day. urging universal service
legislation, and submitting the report
on the mobilization Of the National
Guard for border duty compiled by
Colonel ". c. Brown from all informa-
ton available at the War Department:
The conclusion OF the General Stan,
General Scott said, that no adequate
defence could be built up under the
present volunteer system, was fully
substsntiated by the report OF depart
mental commanders, inspectors, instruc,
tors and others. included IN Colonel
Browns compilation, and which dis
closed vital and inherent faults IN the
National Guard system which could not
be passed over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20

OF 100000 men for = years cam
paign.' he declared. lie said there
were plenty Of rifles. and that more
could be made very quickly at govern.
ment and private factories, though, OF
course, provision would have to be
made to maintain the most modern
equipment at all times.
More Guardsmen 10 Return
The Secretary also admitted the pur-
pose of tho Administration to bring
raore OF tho National Guard home from
the border in the near future. This
was IN answer 10 an inquiry as 70
whether 10000 men would be main
tanned on tho border until July /. made
by Representative Kahn. Of Cslifornia in.
An attempt was made by Representa-
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tsry 10 criticise General Scott and
General Wood for their condemna-
ton Of the militia, but Mr.. Baker took
the. position that these officers were
taking the right course in presenting
their own ideas 70 the Congressional
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Secretary thought II proper. while the
National Guard was being tried out, for
high officers OF the army 20 conduct a
propaganda against the militia.
"It is my belief" replied Mr. Baker,
that high officers OF the army owe a
duty TO Congress and 20 the country
10 speak frankly on such matters, and
for that reason have allowed any
member OF the military establishment
10 speak without reserve before Con-
gressional committees"
What was the purpose in calling
out the National Guard" inquired
Representative Dan Il. Anthony, OF
Kansas.
ITO defend the Mexican border" re
piled Secretary Baker. Mr.. Anthony
retorted that II it had been proposed
TO destroy the National Guard no bet
ter plan could have been evolved than
calling the Guardsmen into the Fed
eral service down on the border and
then keeping them idle.
Mr.. Anthony inquired il National
Guardsmen could be trained better IT
desert camps than in more comfortable
places. "as apparently The National
Guard WAS only ordered there for the
military training"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-20

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