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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

istry of Munitions handles 50O00,000 articles per week and sends abroad 60O00 consignments per week. In ad- dition to over ninety national arsenals, Great Britain has now 5,046 govern ment controlled factories, all working day and night on munitions and sup plies. Women do 60 to 70 per cent. of all the machine-work on shells. fuses and trench warfare supplies and have contributed 1,450 trained mechanics to- the Royal Flying Corps. In one way or another about 100000 British wo- men are working for their country in her need, many of whom never worked in their lives before.
 Turning to the fleet, what shall I say, what can say that will be at all adequate to the theme, of the work done by the British Navy? It would be almost ludicrous in a review of Britain's share in the war to dismiss in a sentence the absolutely vital part borne by the fleet did not feel as- sured that every intelligent man and woman in the United States knows as well as if not better than I that the civilized world owes it's existence to- day to the unparalleled services rem dered by the Navy.
 And, alas, how can deal with the aid given to the motherland by Can ada, Australia, India and South Af- rica? The requisite tribute were 1t to be rendered adequately would need volume.
 No review of our four years fight can omit brief reference to that ill., onened word KuItur. According to the Hun, the whole quarrel hinges on the refusal of the democracies of the world to accept KuItur. Very well. What is Kultur? I have here table of the worst forms of crime committed in Germany and England during the ten years 1S97-1907:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

word I have written would be stult- fled If you did not realize that I am proud of my own folk-has lost the flower of her manhood, just as you, my honOred friends in America, will lose a stock hard to replace if the mil
 lion of your magnificent youth in
 France and the other millions you will put in the field until there are enough dead Germans are fated to show a cas- ualty list comparable with that of Britain. But do not misunderstood me. My faith in the destiny of our joint races is supreme. Are not our dead the best warranty of the past and the brightest hope of the future? They are our very own, flesh of our
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
Per Cent Per Cent of Aruaod of CoS

I do not apologize for reverting to the casualty list. It is essential that these statistics should be made known. It is difficult in a short article to con- vey any fair picture of Britain's work in other fields. In heavy guns alone she manufactured during the third year of the war twenty-seven times as many as in the first year and two hundred and twenty times as much ammunition. The expenditure of rife ammunition per week is now sixty-fve times greater than the average weekly expenditure during the first ten months of the war. The output of ma chine guns has increased thirty-nine times. Two thousand miles of railway track, one thousand locomotives and many tens of thousands of wagons have been shipped abroad. The Min
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
TOUR YEARS or THE WORLD WAR;
 GREAT BRITAIN'S GREAT SHARE IN IT

kin in every cline where the English tongue is the speech of the people. We have dared all We shall gain all.
 So if you have read into this preface the meaning have striven to convey you will understand that in the re mainder of this brief essay shall tell of the glory and the immensity ot Britain's achievements in this war not to fiaunt her deeds in the eyes of the world, but as an earnest of the self same sacrifices and ideas that shall flow from this great nation of the West in an ever-increasing and ire sistible stream. That is my purpose, and 1 want to declare 1t now. Britain has done much and, though weary and blood-stained, will do more, but the measure of her heroic effort can sure ly be applied to the determination of the splendid country in which l write these lines. Why, to mix with you Americans on the days when the news seems bad, when some disaster at sea or some reverse on land chills the blood and adds fresh burthen to an overladen heart, is the best of all tonics for an Englishman. l have gone out to address audiences of an evening when my soul was heavy within me. when each mouthful of food in a well-appointed club or hotel had almost choked me by contrast with the privations better men than were enduring with steadfastness. But the first sight of an American au- dience, the first ringing cheers evoked not by my oratory, but my theme, brought healing and a strengthening altogether Divine in their efficacy, for here, indeed, in the truest sense of the phrase, the voice of the people became the voice of God.
 Well, the record has many items. Let us begin with the worst, the ir- remediable, the tax levied by death. It is a sad showing. The British cas- ualties in officers and men are as fol- lows:
 August, 1914. to the end of
 1915 ................... 55O,OOO In the year 1916. 65O,O0O In the year 1917............. SOO,OOO In six months of the present
 year (estimated). ......... 100000
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
5OO,OOO
2,5OO,OOO

Of these at least one-fifth must be counted among the dead. So half million gallant men of the British En- pire are lying in their graves all over the world or hidden forever in the terrible and mysterious depths of the sea, while more than another half mil lion are % maimed and broken that they can never again be counted as useful citizens of world wherein a man must work if he would eat and therefore live. New York and many other great, cities in the United States love procession, and it is startling fact to note that if the dead and who'll ly war-shattered youth of the British Empire could march down Fifth ave nue in platoons of twenty men in rank the pallid host could not pass
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

itS prime ministers, it's secretaries of state, its judges, it's governors of far of lands. its parliamentarians, law yers, professors, scientists. its un- doubted leaders in every branch of human thought and endeaVor. That is part of the price asked of us for choosing to support Right as against Might, and it is heavy impost in it. self. Again. we have lost nearly every officer and man of that small but su- perbly efficient army which we threw into France early in August, 1914.
 It has been estimated that Britain has fought on seventeen fronts during the past four years. One can readily enurnerate most of them, for her troops have been to the fore in Belgium, France, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Russia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, China and North, East and West Africa, to name only the main theaters of the war. She and her Colonies have raised 100000 soldiers, and of this total England's (not Great Britain's) pro portion Is 60 per cent. In this regard I must remove a misapprehension, or, to be candid, nail down a Hun lie, which has found credence in some quarters. I shall not labor the point. It should suffice if I state with abso- lute authority that one man in every seven and a half of the population of England is in the army. The same ratio holds good of Scotland. Wales has contributed one man in every ten and a fifth, Ireland one man in every twenty-six and a third and the over seas dominions one man in every ff- teen. Those are the cold, hard facts as to man power in the army, while , the following table tells its own story and refutes another Hun lie:
 Relative proportions of men in Brit ish forces and of casualties suffered by each part of British empire, exclu- sive of India, Africa, etc, to NoVem- Der, 1917:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

flesh and bone of our bone. They are
 at once our tribute and our inspira-
 ton. We who gave this holocaust must be worthy of it. We who are left must be more resolute, more knightly, more grandly indifferent to loss or sui fering, than those who have gone.
 How can 1t be otherwise? The cross they bore, the sacrifice they made, is all the lighter for US because of their example. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church of Christ? The blood of our dead is the seed of a race
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
DAY SAT RDAY
TATE OF CONNECTICUT, DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT, ss. PROBATE COURT,

Estate of James Roy. late of bridgeport, in said district, incom- Ietent person.
 The ccnservator. having made ap- llieation for an order authorizing him D sell certain real estate belonging to aid estate, as per said application on De duly appears.
 Ordered, That the said application b heard and determined at the Pro- ate Office in Bridgeport. on the 5th ay of August, 1918, at 10 o'clock in he forenoon, and this court directs a1d conservator to give notice to all ersons interested in said estate, if hey sec 0ause, and be heard thereon, ly publishing this order once in a cwspaper having a circulation in said lstrict on or before the 3rd day of lugust A. D. 1918. and return make the court of notice given.
 Attest:
 PAUL L. MILLER |ep Judge. --
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

keep on killing them till they cease to plague mankind. have no concern for Germans. You Americans have a frontier proverb, "A good Injun Is a dead Injun!" Until Germany casts out the devil of Kaiserism end goes back a hundred years to the race which produced some decent and use full members of the body corporate I shall believe most firmly that the best German is dead German. What does grieve me most profoundly is the
 knowledge that Britain-and every
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

from Central Park to Washington square in ten long summer days. Amer lea is proud, and very properly proud, of the great army she has poured into France. It ss ] million, in round num- bers, million of first rate fighting men carried in British ships with ab- solute safety across perilous seas.
 But Britain has already lost a mill lion in dead and grievously wound ed, while two and half millions have been smitten by the pestilence called Germany. l have not exaggerated
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
JUDGE GAGER GOES TO
 THE SUPREME COURT.

Judge Edwin B. Gager of Derby, has completed his term on the Super iior Court bench and on August 30 will take his place on the Supreme Court bench in the place of Judge Milton Shumway who will retire on reaching the age limit.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
wYNKooP SUCCEEDS ROONEY

John B. Wynkoop has been ap- pointed clerk of supplies until James lJ. Rooney who has entered the naval reserve returns. MT. Wynkoop is the assistant secretary of the Board of Education. MT. Rooney left Thurs day for Paris Island where he will begin training at once
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
Total .... 209, ,667

People of America, you fathers and mothers, wives, sisters and sweet hearts of the men you have sent to France, I ask you to study that table. Kultur should be known by its results, and if benighted England can show such a case against enlightened Ger many is it not worth four years, or, if need be, forty years of war to keep your country and ours clear of the virus of Kultur? The answer is being given today wherever the Hun stands up against our soldiers. It is being dinned into his ears by high explosives and driven into his carcass by keen hayonets. When he needs we VIII quit, and not until he does heed-on his
 knees.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

President Wilson called on Secre- tary Baker and Acting Secretary Polk. The Russian situation was dic- cussed, but no statement was made.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The government is going to take over 300 or 500 bungalows on Graham Beach, Staten Island, N. r., for win ter quarters for soldiers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The names of 15 Americans ap- peared on the Canadian casualty list Ten were gassed, one killed in action one i'll and three wounded.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

To increase the supply of soft coal, the administration has adopted a plan which is expected to double the pres ent output.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

Lieut.. Eddie Rickenbacker, former American automobile driver, has been cited for bravery by the French gov ernment.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
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| The following account of Great ] < Britain's participation in the UaS ! < was written by Louis Tracy, @ i < member of the British War Nils !
 < sien, to commemorate the fourth ! < anniversary of our ally's en- ]
 < trance ito the war. MT. Tracy ] Y is widely known throughout the j -~3 United States as a novelist, be- j ps ing the author of "The Wings of ]
 < the Morning" and some forty ] < other novels. j
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
T. E. WARREN
Real Estate and Insurance 179 Golden Hill St.
 Tel. 24l7

Bluff, Cal, was killed when he jumped from his airplane when it caught fire at Dallas, Tex.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The American steamer Poseidon was suynk in collision with an American tanker off the Delaware Capes last Wednesday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

Provost Marshal General Crowder has issued a call for 1,OS4 registrants of Hawaii qualified for general mit- tary duty.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The destroyer McDermut will be launched today at the Fore River Shipbuilding plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
< 8 H o U R WE FIX
WANTED

Girls for power presses aRd in- pecting.
 Men for automatic b1anking presses. Good wages and steady employment 'uaranteed.
 Apply Employment Office THE WARNER BROS. co.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

Gen. Dudendorff is universally be- ing blamed for the defeat on the western front. It is reported Field Marshal von Mackensen will succeed him.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The corn plant in Nebraska and Kansas and other states is reported badly in need of rain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

Under an order by the Chief of Ordnance, service in the enlisted per sonne1 of the ordnance department, except in the arsenals and proving grounds will be for men only who are physically disqualified for general service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The Public Service Commission an- nounces that hearing will be held on Aug. [, as to the financial and operating condition of New York sur face railways.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The Duchess of Marlborough has been accepted as a progressive candi- date of the North Southwark Division of the London County Council.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION

MANDOLIN, Guitar, banio-mandolin and violin, private lessons given by Prof. Louis Conson, 91 James St. Phone Barnum 3559. L3 aI+
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
TO-DAY'S WANTS

book No. 41021 Me chanics' & Farmers Savings Bank. Finder return to bank as same has been cancelled and new one issued.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

laeute.Robir-op D. .Bird~ell of West
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

The General Motors Corporation has obtained a large interest in the Doeh1er Die Castings Co.,, operating plants in New York, Newark, and Toledo.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

AN AMERICAN WIDOW wishes posi- ton as housekeeper fo- elderly people or widower; not more than
 two in family. Call or address. be-
 tween and o'clocK Saturday evening, Mrs. Stevens, 7S0 Tranistan avenue, city. References. asp
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03

FOR SALE-Temperance cafe 2066 Seaview avenue All bar fixtures, wine tables, portable air pumps, washing machine. a+p
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-09

but apparently having trouble in maintaining its depth, for when about 200 yards off I saw streak then at a depth of about feet It uived and from the stern. Soon after heading away from the submarine we picked up an abandoned life-boat two points off the starboard bow. The submarine had been lying near the lifeboat, and on seeing us approaching had headed off to assume a position for attack on our port side probably expecting us to pick up the lifeboat and thus miss seeing him. Fortunately, however the oil slick was sighted first.
 ''The old hands among the gnnners paid no attention to the torpedo, but made every effort to get the guns on the target, which was the subma- rine's periscope."
 A voyage of another steamer of this same service veried the program by a lively exchange of shell fire after the following fashion:
 "The first report that submarine was in sight came from the after gun one of the crew shouting, submarine broad on the starboard quarter, about 3 miles off.' The lookout and the bridge sighted it at almost the same moment. The captain put his glasses on the craft and looked at it for four or five seconds. Before he could feel certain that it was submarine two flashes showed at either end and fire was opened on the ship.
 Fifteen or twenty seconds later the shells dropped. one just short of the ship on the starboard beam and the other just astern.
 "A third shot passed by forward the funnel, under the radio ariels. The captains theory as to why the subma- rine held the range so perfect was like this; She was observing the ship and saw it pass about two miles off. As the ship was zigzaging the Ger man commander thought he could get in a better position to fire his torpedo, and so he ran submerged to reach, the chosen point. On coming to the sur face again he discovered that the ship was not where he expected it to be. It was too far away to fire his torpedo, so he let go with his guns
 "The ships battery got into action
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-09
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To M. D. McCumoer, your heirs.
 executors, assigns or personal
 representatives.:
 You are hereby notified that I have expended in lSocr and inn provements, the sum Of one hundred dollcrs eacn year for the years of 1903, 1909. 1910, 1911. .1912. 1913 and 1914 on the Protec- ton Association Placer mining claim situated on Coffee creek in the Koug- arok Recording Precinct, Alaska, note of location of which is re- corded in Vol. 53, page 1s7 ot said precinct Records.
 The above amount has been ex- pended in order to hold said claims under the provisions of the law con- .cerning annual labor upon mining claims, being the amount required to Told said clcim.
 \ And you are further notified that if within ninety days after the last publication of this notice you have failed to contribute your portion of said expenditure, your interest in said claim will become the pro- perty of the undersigned your co-owner, under section 2324 Re vised Statutes of the United States.
 ADOLPH J. MUELLER. F Co-owner.
 Date of first publ, March 22, 1918. Date of last publ, Ju"e 21, 1918.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-09
AMERICAN GUNNERS ON MER- CHANT SHIPS GIVE "SUB"
 PIRATES THEIR DUES

At 5,000-yard range navy men on cargo boat end career of one Ger man underseas menace; told by officia, records.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-09

at once and evidently discouraged the submarine. which fired between thirty and forty shots without a hit, and then vanished. She was near enough while fighting to enable us to distin- guish the men grouped about her guns"
 (To be concluded tomorrow.)
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-04-09
MRS. R. VT. sEIDLER
Has Opened First Glass REpAVRTNG EGTARIISHAFEN

REPAIRING ESTABLISHMENT FRONT STREET. Next door to The
 Emporium
 We are here to please old and new patrons. We do the best CLEANING, PRESSING,
 ALTERING & REPAIRING. First class workmanship. GeUt- iemens and Ladies Clothes.
Putnam patriot., 1918-01-18
OBITUARY
Mrs Edward Phaneuf

Mrs Edward Pheueuf, 66 died at her home on Providence street. Sun day. She had been a resident of Put nam for 25 years.
 Mrs Phaneuf was born in St. Ros- alac, Cana4a. July lst, 1851. Her maiden name was ENime Brodeur. She was married at St simon. Cana tia. Feb ea lSSl The family re- moved to Putnam twenty-five years ago, and Mrs. phaneuf Was employed at the mil of the Putnam Woolen Company for seventeen years.
 The funeral was heli at St Mary's church at o'clock Wednesday morn ing. Rev. Charles F Bedard otficiat- ing Burial was in St Mary's eeme- tery. The bearers were Paul Auger. Joseph Dupre. Nareisse LeClair and Alphonse Boureier
Putnam patriot., 1918-01-18
ALDERMAN PADGETT VOTED
 WITH DEMOCRATS

In it's account of the common coup- eti meeting, last week The PArRI of stated that those who voted asalost che motion to go irto eNeeu uNe session were Aldermen Padaett. Johnson and Dean. republicans. m fiutt4u. democrat Mhitc Alderman f.g'.et voted aemnst the motion. as stated. he voted as democrat and met as tepuhliean as he Is the dem eaaue representative of wand one ia=f =fae- council
Putnam patriot., 1918-01-18
GOT BACK AT MAN WHO BEAT
 HIM IN INDIANA
Dr Frederick I Baldwin Beat. $
 Parker al Billiards


 rherc Vas u unheraaeA ad yertfsed m3 a8a; eHHrH match i0 tFe Arcmam club hs ra aay afternoon The vrIy reason it uas unattended was because Il was aaa54ert zed' Many who G4e s1ee he4td If t veulj have lked ta A4Ne been iH If the Killing when pr Pred efrk r Baldwin toob the measure of R < Parks. who trimmed him in Newcastle Indiana. Yeaf ago
 Vixen the doctor WAS in Newcastle en | horse buying trip wear ago he VHlea away some slowly dragging hours in billiard room His oppon ent Was the said Mr k $ Parker. with whom the doctor struck up an acquaintance There was not much talk about the game when the doctor arrVed home. in fact there wasn't any more noise about t than one would ho8 in deaf and dumb asy hum But like m all things, there WIS reason the Doe" didn't buns home the bacon
 When tht gentlemen parted t was llrged ih5t ii return match should be played M the Nutmeg state should inc opportunity ever offer itself. So. Nben the smd Mir k $ Parks landed ln shgs lt5.e Iage. last Friday. the hrst thne be dad was to call up the aeetet and asa if he aas en. .Surest tmng you Nnow" says Che Doe. and Jumped lnto hi~ aRver and aiv Vered town Little gjme was lost in Ereetnes. coats We're of. the chalk set io wefh ana Che game was on.
 As before stated the match was not witnessed. so tbaL the game can not be reported inning hY inning The final outcome is known and the trav cling man vii not do any more talk ing about this second meeting than i Doe" had been doing about the first. because he was trimmed and trimmed right as the doctor says Two fifty point strings and old Indiana didn't get look in.
 The deciding match has not been arranged for but'it wili probably De ] played on neutral territory. possibly ~ Be-'lH [ the war doesn't last over taeats wears