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Photos by American Press Association.
1 Polish recruits leaving for front to
fight against Russians. 2. German
soldiers dividing food with poor Bel
gians. 3. Polish Russian Jew ref
ugees on the road. 4. Shows traffic!
regulations on road in Belgium; on
right, troops; in center, automobiles;
on left, transport train. 5. Group of
German sailors on Bravo fountain,
Antwerp. 6. German marines pack
ing shoes which Belgian soldiers left
behind fleeing from Antwerp. 7.
French prisoners of war gathering
cabbages at Wynsdorf. 8. Belgian
aeroplane captured near Antwerp by
Germans.
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TUKJFS drallnf; Tilth different
pliHsps of Tar in Kurope are
reaching tins side by mail and
from arm ins tourists. Re-
rrnt efnts proc that there Is a -woeful
"missing' list and that exalted
rank. .Treat wealth and powerful ln-fluenr-L
has been of no aail In secur
ing the release of prisoners or aliens
iletained for prudential or retaliative
ieaon!
In tach of the countries in arms are
thousands of prisoners of war. Many
of them became so as soon as declara
tions of war licfran ftins last August.
Letteri and telegrams to relaties at
linme neer reached their destination
in many ca"es. Travelers from Eng
land. France and Russia In the domin
ions of the two Kaisers were complete
1 isolated for awhile hr the censors of
their oun countries The season at the
German and Austrian watering placei
was at Its height, but the censors took
no regard of the hardships Imposed
upon even their own countrymen by
shutting them off from communication
from their native lands.
The agony columns of the London
Times soon filled up with inquiries for
the missing, couched in dignified lan
guage, brief but no less eloquent.
In Petrograd the bulletin boards In
the railroad station and the high walls
on Avenue Morskaja, near the foreign
hotel', were plastered with frantic in
quiries. Exalted rank, great wealth and inti
mate acquaintance at the courts of the
enemy sovereigns were of small avail
in getting prisoners of war freed. The
czar's only niece. Princess Tousoupoff,
the daughter of his sister. Grand Duch
ess Xenia, was in Berlin when the Mus
covite and German armies started
against each other. An overzealous po
lice officer quickly seized the oppor
tunity to become famous by imprison
ing a personage so closely Identified
with the hated czar, and the princess
was not allowed to proceed. A tele
gram to the crown princess of Germany
for relief brought no reply perhaps
was not delivered.
The little princess, a bride of only a
few months, might still be an unwilling
guest of the emperor if the Spanish
ambassador, belonging to a neutral
country and therefore immune from
surveillance, had not unexpectedly en
tered the hotel when the officer's back
was turned. Immediately grasping the
situation, he whisked Princess Yousou
poff into his automobile and raced
across the frontier, depositing his fair
burden in the arms of her grandmoth
er, the dowager czarina, who awaited
her there, a courageous knight like
those of 'old, but aided by the latest
methods of transportation in succoring
a woman in distress.
Foes Only When Battle Is On.
When a battle is not in progress the
best of feeling appears to exist between
the French and German soldiers, who
for weeks have faced one another on
the long line between Nieuport and
Belfort.
So close are the camps to each other
that it Is possible for the two forces to
exchange words They indulge in
friendly contests, shooting at spade tar
gets, with no Intention of hitting any
one, and competing for hares, which
run between the lines.
A French soldier writes of these
amusements:
"A target is painted on a spade and
moved through our trench In such a
way that it shows about two feet above
the ground. The Germans shoot at It.
With a stick we Indicate the results of
their fire, and when one hits the bulls
eye he Is rewarded with the waving of
a French flag.
"There Is another sort of target prac
tice which la very popular. The region
around us is full of cabbage fields and
the cabbage fields are full of hares and
rabbits. These hares sometimes cross
our own private meadow. Immediately
both trenches are all aflame. Long
sounding volleys follow the poor little
beast. He makes a graceful somer
sault, throws his ears up in the air and
falls a martyr to Europe's militarism.
"Then comes the time to divide our
spoils. If Br'e'r Rabbit expires on the
German half the custom of the country
prescribes that a German may leave
the trenches and get the prize. That
day the German cave dwellers eat
'hasenbraten.' If the animal dies on
our side we delegate a man to fetch
him and we eat 'Lievre farcl." But if
he should die most Inconsiderately right
on the line then there is trouble. We
both rush for our meal while a terrific
Are is opened, and we run the risk of
being killed by friend as well as by
enemy.
"The other day we did not know on
which side of the line a hare had died.
We looked out of our trenches and the
Germans fired. The Germans peeped
around the corner and we fired. Final
ly a court of arbitration took the mat
ter In hand. A loud German voice call
ed out 'tobacco.' We thought that the
proposal was fair. One of our men
showed the Germans three packages of
cigarettes. Then he climbed out of the
trench and walked to the dead hare.
He deposited his cigarettes and took
the hare. Then he returned. A Ger
man came and took the tobacco. Five
minutes later the Germans were smok
ing, and w e w ere preparing our stew."
The camps frequently entertain each
other with singing. And perhaps a few
moments later the efforts of both sides
will turn to whistling bullets about
one another's heads.
"Like Fourth of July."
Mme. Slavko Grouitch. whose blrth-
f place was Virginia and whose husband
was charge d'affaires at the Servian le
gation until more Important duties call
ed him to Nlsh at the commencement of
the war, gave a war correspondent a
graphic description of the important
par, played in the Servian Red Cross
work by the American hospital unit.
Surgeons and nurses from the United
States were the only ones who ventured
into Belgrade during the Austrian bom
bardment. They still are there, and,
so far as Mme. Grouitch Is aware, they
are safe, although all about them sol
diers and civilians have been killed
and buildings demolished by sheila
from the siege guns across the Save
river.
It Is understood that representations
were made by the American embassy at
Vienna, asking that the military hos
pital occupied by the American Red
Cross be spared, and apparently the
Austrian general staff complied with
the request.
"When the mls!on from the Ameri
can Red Cross society, comprising three
surgeons and twelve nurses, reported
at Nlsh they at first were assigned to
a base hospital near Nlsh." Mme. Grou
itch said, "but they clamored to be per
mitted to go to the front. I didn't sug
gest It to them because of the great
danger Involved, but I told Dr. Ryan,
head of the mission, that conditions
there were terrible. Those In the
American unit simply laughed when
reminded of the perils of bombardment,
and on Oct. 8 we arrived in the out
skirts of Belgrade. I accompanied the
party as a guide. As we were pro
ceeding into the city shells began
dropping In unpleasant proximity to
our carriages. When one burst less
than 200 feet from us I looked anxious
ly at Miss Gladwyn. the chief nurse.
She smiled and said calmly. It sounds
like the Fourth of July. I couldn't be
gin to tell of the splendid work of these
men and women In our battered capital.
They were magnificent-'
Jam of Nawanajar Joins the Allies
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JAM OF NAWANAGAR AND TYPE OF INDIAN TROOPS.
VARIED. Indeed, are the types
of soldiers who go to make
up the Indian native army.
Representatives of a thousand
tribes, of scores of races and sub
races, a wonderful heterogeneous col
lection, affording many a tangled skein
M for tho ethnologist to unravel should he
feci Inclined. Men of the north, the
east, the west and the south, varying: In
complexion from lighter olive than that
of the Spaniards to a brown so deep
that in certain light 'twere difficult to
distinguish it from black. Tall and well
built some, others of medium height
-.H Ktrencth. and ct others ithurt
thick and compact, like Japanese, and
the diversity of features even more
marked.
The latest member of Indian royalty
to .Join the allies on the firing line In
the European war is Prince RanJIt
slnhjt, the Jam of Nawanajar. The
prince visited' New York about fifteen
years ago as captain of a crack cricket
eleven.
Prince Ranjltslnhjl Is a graduate of
Trinity college, Cambridge. As a crick
eter he came Into prominence first as
a member pf the Cambridge eleven in
1S93 He represented England In 1S9S
ami wus x member of Mr. Stoddart'a
Australian eleven In 1197-S. He has
played for Sussex since 1S9S. In writ
ing of the "prince C B. Fry, the crack
Sussex cricketer, said:
"His great fame as a batsman is due
not only to his success as measured In
runs, but also, and in chief, to the
originality and peculiar charm of his
stjle. Nothing Is as effective as a
striking result produced without any
apparent effort. There are many bats
men who make some one stroke with
such wonderful ease and effect that all
their other strokes receive In compari
son but scant appreciation.
"In KanlUsluhll's cas everr turn of
his bat has this appearance of extreme
facility to such a degree. Indeed, that
his style seems almost casual and care
less. The distinctive trait of his cricket
Is an electric quickness both In the con
ception and execution of his strokes.
Thereby is he able to do such things
that a slower eye and wrist dare not
attempt. In making the ordinary
strokes he differs from the run of bats
men in that he Judges the flight of the
ball about half as soon again and can
therefore shape for his stroke more
readily and with more certainty. At
the same time he need not, owing to his
marvelous rapidity of movement, allow
himself as much margin for error as
others find necessary, and it Is this
quickness that enables him to take,
even upon the fastest wickets, the most
unheard of liberties without fatal re
sults. "Who, for Instance, but Ranjl can hit
across a fast straight ball without
either being bowled or making an ap
palling miss hit? Yet Ranjl finds not
the slightest difficulty In doing so. This
hook Is perhaps his roost notable stroke.
He has a miraculous knack of timing
the ball accurately from the pitch and
flicks It round to the onslde with sup
ple yet terrific power. He meets the
slightly overpltched delivery with a
similar hit, reaching right out so as to
clip the ball before It pitches. There
never has been a greater master of cut
ting and leg play. In cutting his facul
ty for quick and accurate timing gives
him the power of varying and placing
his stroke, as well as of making It with
force and precision.
"His leg strokes are sometimes called
'glances,' but they are really wrist
strokes, as the ball does not merely hit
the bat, but it is turned aside with a
.like forcing movement His forward
play is somewhat unorthodox, as he
i walks out to the ball as he hits, but It
. is. none the less strong- and safe. He
ItfiTi jip4va flnAlv In all Alretlnn wtin
In the mood; Indeed, at his best, ho can
use every stroke In the gams.
"He is a beautiful fielder In any posi
tion. He excels at point or In the slips,
where there is scope for his quickness,
but as he can pick up a ball very clean,
catch anything and throw well, he is
almost equally good as extra cover
or In the long field. His bowling Is
somewhat underrated. He rarely goes
on without getting a wicket or having
a catch missed off him. Ha bowls me
dium pace, keeps a good length, makes
the ball break from the off and has
plenty of resource. He is the keenest
of cricketers, very observant, and is
also a' first rata Judge of the game."
WILLIAM SCOTT,
Tuberculosis Fight Nation Wide
THERE are Indications that the
coming year will be the big
gest ear in the history of this
country In the fight against
tuberculosis. Six years ago there were
but two open air schools where the
great white plague was systematically
fought. Now there are more than five
hundred. The Red Cross seal campaign,
which opened on Dec. 1. has been very
successful despite the added demands
due to the great war In Europe.
Wherever the fight against tubercu
losis is waged the name and praises df
Dr. Robert Koch are sung Dr, Koch
was one of the pioneers in the syste
matic campaign against the dread dis
ease. He lived to see some of his pet
projects carried out. He visited prac
tically every civilized and uncivilized
country In the world on behalf of the
German and foreign governments In
search of the causes of and weapons
against epidemic diseas. He was
awarded the Nobel prize of $50,000 for
his discovery of the antitoxin of tuber
culosis. His discovery of the germ of
the white plague won him distinction
throughout the world.
One of the leading physicians of the
country recently defined the two factors
In the perpetuation of tuberculosis as:
"First The individual's makeup or
constitution or a temporary state of the
body, which makes him either continu
ously or at times susceptible to the dis
ease. This Is called disposition.
"Second. The presence of the bacil
lus In his surroundings, which. If he
cannot escape it is his compulsory
milieu this is Included in the term ex
posure. The sources of Infection to
which man is exposed are other tuber
culosis human beings and tuberculosis
food."
He outlined the regulation of dwell
ing houses, the protection of workers
In factories and elsewhere against dust
and other mediums of danger, the regu
lation of the hours of labor and the
enforcement of the greatest possible
cleanliness, as means of limiting "dis
position while diminishing "exposure.
He also touched upon the safeguarding
of the food supply, especially milk. and.
meat from the tuberculosis bacilli,
upon the necessity of the general Im
provement of the nutrition of the peo
ple at large and the power of the gov
ernmental authorities to minimize the
danger of Infection In schools and pub
lic buildings and to Increase the ability
to resist the disease In lndivldualsby
subsidizing mivat efforts to
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DR. KOCH AND OPEN AIR SCHOOL.
life in the open air, by establishing
workmen's gardens and by providing
public baths and places where ath
letic games and gymnastic exercises
may be enjoyed. He deprecated alco
holic abuse, nervous baste and the neg
lect of rational rest on Sunday.
"But in dealing with a scourge like
tuberculosis an antituberculosis educa
tion Is necessary, starting in the family
and the nursery and pursued intelli
gently In school and in civil life. he
conflnue'd, "In this respect efforts must
center in the education of women for
h duties at w! - -
"I wish to lay special stress on thl
phase of the fight against tuberculosis
because its importance is unfortunatel)
too little recognized by -the educated
classes of society. It Is my opinion
that among the civic activities of wom
en and men and women's clubs and as
sociations, none is more Important than
that which takes this for the starting
point and has for its object to educate
our young women to become thorough
housewives and thereby efficient guar
dians of the public health. Women caa
help the fight wonderfully."
WALTOri WILLIAMS.
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