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PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916.
NO. 10.
GREAT BRITAIN!
IS VAST ARSENAL
Besides Government Plants
There Are 4,000 Controlled
Munition Firms.
3,500,008 ARE AT WORK
High Tide of Output for War Purposes
Not Yet Reached Is Now Armory
for Allies Work of the
Scientists.
Ixmdon. The enormous stride made
by Great Britain toward solving the
problem of munitions was made clear
In the course of a speech recently de
livered by F. Kellaway, parliamentary
secretary to Doctor Addison (natlla
mentary secretary to the ministry of
munitions). Mr. Kellaway said the
most prominent fact of the war was
that the price of victory was unlimited
munitions.
"The British army In early days,"
he said, "was so out-munitioned that
the British soldier ought to have been
beaten before the fighting began. But
he proved that he was a better fighting
man than the German. What he lacked
in munitions he made up in devil. In
initiative, and In endurance.
"I do not think anything that Ger
many has ever done equals the work
this country has accomplished in the
way of Industrial organization during
the last twelve months. Great Britain,
which has throughout been the treas
ury of the allies, has now become their
armory. There are now scattered up
and down the country some 4,000 con-
MRS. "JACK" GERAGHTY
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Mrs. "Jack" Geraghty. after several
years out West, has returned to New
port for the summer season. Mrs.
Geraghty Is a niece of Mrs. Elsie
French Vanderbllt She was formerly
Miss Julia French and gave society
quite a shock several years ago when
she eloped with "Jack" Geraghty, then
a Newport chauffeur. The Geraghtys
live In Minneapolis, and they have not
been In Newport for some time. The
photo was taken at the dog show of
' the Rhode Island Kennel club at New
port, R. L She Is shown with her dog,
Gron Farm Lassie.
AUTO FALLS THIRTY FEET
Took Cow It Struck Down the Bank
With It Does Considerable
Damage.
Lawrenceburg, Mo. A cow In the
middle of the road ai the foot of the
state line road hill, near this city, 6ent
- an automobile driven by Miss Grace E.
Drewers 30 feet down an embankment,
snapping off a telephone pole, smash
ing down a fence and finally crashing
into a tree, where the car was turned
'' on Its side.
Miss Drewers and her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. McKlnley
Drewers of Farmer City, HL, occu
pants of the car, were only slightly
hurt.
When the machine struck the cow
the animal was thrown down the bank
against the fence, and as the car
crashed Into the fence It struck the
cow a second time, throwing her 30
feet Into a creek.
A woman is the Inventor of a sand
glass that rings a bell when the time
that U mark's expires.
HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE AT THE FRONT
Though' Von ilindenburg is in supreme command now ot most ot the
Teutonic armies on the east front. Archduke Knrl Francis Joseph, heir to the
Austrian throne, still rules over his part of the line, In Gallcla. tie Is here
seen with one of his generals planning a new move.
trolled firms producing "munitions of
war.
"The vast majority of these previous
to the war never produced a gun, a
shell or a cartridge; yet In ten months
the ministry of munitions has obtained
from these firms n number of shells,
greater than the total production of all
the government arsenals and great
armament shops In existence at the
commencement of the war.
Increase of Arsenals.
"Speaking In the house of commons
last year Mr. Lloyd-George startled the
country by saying that eleven new ar
senals had been provided. Today, not
eleven but ninety arsenals have been
built or adapted. Our weekly output
of .303 cartridge Is greater by millions
than our annual output before the war.
There is a certain machine gun being
produced by the hundred every week
in a factory ordered, planned and oullt
during the past twelve months. The
output of. guns and howitzers has In
creased by several hundred per cent.
"We are not yet at the full flood of
our output of guns and shell, tf the
Germans cannot be driven home other
wise, our army will have such a supply
of guns that the limbers will touch
each other In a continuous line from
the Somme to the sea. France, Rus
sia and Italy have been supplied by
or through Great Britain with nany
of the most Important munitions of
war. Many thousands of tons of steel
have been and are being sent to
France.
"Our contribution toward the equip
ment of the Belgian army has been
continuous, and the Serbian army has
been re-equipped and restored to a
magnificent fighting force very largely
by the workshops and workers of the
United Kingdom.
"The labor situation has been to a
considerable extent saved by our wom
en. There were 184,000 women en
gaged In war industries In 1914. To
day there are 634,000. The total num
ber of war workers In 1914 was 1,198,-
e00. It has now increased to 3,500.000.
There are 471 different munition proc
esses upon which women are now en
gaged. s The women of France are do
ing wonders in munition making, but
our women munition workers beat the
world."
Work of the Scientists.
Referring to glass Mr.. Kellaway
said :
The problem facing the. government
is, first, to discover the formula of
glasses, and having discovered it, to
REMEMBERS $10 TOO LATE
Farmer Put Bill In Pocket of Over
alls and Gave Them Ho
Tramp.
r
Topeka, Kan. D. R. Bantav a farm
er, living near Tecumseh, .spent the
afternoon recently, accompanied by a
policeman, In search of hoboes. They
visited the railroad yards in quest of
one particular tramp. .They did not
find him.
Banta hired a tramp to work for
him -on his farm. The tramp was In
need of clothes and Banta gave him
a pair of overalls to wear. He then
sent the man to one part of the farm,
while Banta worked at another. While
at work the farmer remembered that
he had left a $10 bill In the overalls.
He hastened In search of his new
hnnd. The man was gone, but the
overalls, minus the $10 bill, were hang
ing In a tree;
Insure Against Melancholy.
Employment and hardships prevent
melancholy. J ohnsoa.
n imihiim il - - n w mn ii ir- - -mhiBiimmmmh "'"-'-inwiiiirW-
establish the Industry. It Is fortunate
that in this crisis we have available a
few scientific men who have been
working for years almost without rec
ognition, and we have also Institutes
such as the Imperial college at South
Kensington and the National Physical
laboratory 'at Teddlngton.. The gov
ernment went to these men and asked
them to discover the formula used by
the Germans in their productibn of
optical and chemical glass.
"These British scientists, after a few
weeks experiments, discovered many
of the formulae, and It then became
possible to ; begin manufacture 'on a
commercial scale. The result was that
within a year after the outbreak of
war the output of optical glass in this
country was multiplied four and a half
times. It has now Increased to four
teen times the output previous to the
war, and there Is good ground for say
ing that by the end of the year it will
have multiplied twentyfold.
The ministry of munitions hasbullt,
or Is building, housing accommodations
for 60,000 persons, and canteens and
mess rooms In munition works uow
provide decent accommodation where
500,000 workers take their meals every
day. '
"For a long time our antiaircraft
gunners have been crying out for an
improved - height finder for Zeppelins,
the existing height finders being slow,
clumsy and having a margin of error
of hundreds of feet. You will realize
how that handicapped our gunners in
their attempts to bring down Zep
pelins.' "Three men set to work on the prob
lem, and In two or three months they
produced a height finder which gave
rapidly and exactly the height of a
Zeppelin. It Is an Important, discov
ery, but the problem is only one of
hundreds which are continually crop
ping up."
Finds White "Blue Jay."
Junction City, Kan. An albino blue
Jay, the first one ever seen here, was
found recently in the Presbyterian
churchyard by A. W. Davy. The blue
Jay was half grown and Its feathers
were perfectly white. Its unusual
color had apparently not discredited
the albino in the eyes of the parent
birds, for It was fat and gave Indica
tions of having been well cared for.
The first known use of asbestos was
In the manufacture of cremation robes
for the ancient Romans.
COYOTES ATTACK A FAMILY
Three Rabid Ones, After Biting Anl
mals. Tried to Get Into
a House.
Iteno, Nev. George Dugan, who re
turned recently from his ranch at Hot
Creek, tells of a raid by three rabid
coyotes at the ranch of L. L Wattle,
12 miles above Hot Creek. o
A Mrs? Belle Boston, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wattle, was visiting the
ranch with her two, 'children, when
three coyotes arrive.;.;.
They bit all the unfitials -tbry could
reach and attacked the children, who
were playing some distance from the
house.
Mrs. Boston took tbs Iltt ones In
the house, the coyotes J oil owed, and
attempted to get In through the screen
door. Mrs. Boston grubbed - n urup
gun and fired several shots through
the window, killing one of the animals,
when the remaining two decamped
The coyote that was shot. It wa
found, had his jaw covered with foam
and blood.
MERCY WORKERS
IN WAR DOING
GREAT SERVICES
All Countries Striving to Improve
Conditions Surrounding
Wounded.
WORK OF AMERICANS LAUDED
Motor Ambulance Service Does Inval
uable Work in Transporting Wound
ed Soldiers French People
Touched by Volunteer
Work of Americans.
London. To no one race In this war
belongs exclusively the work of mercy.
France, Russia, England, Germany
and Austria have each striven bard to
improve the conditions surrounding
the wounded In their armies.
In the Ottoman Red Crescent, a Ma
bommedan equivalent of the Red
Cross, even the Turks have a corps of
mercy workers, to render aid to those
Injured in battle. But not only the
belligerent nations are occupied in the
field of mercy toward fallen fighters.
America, with all the cheerful optim
ism which characterizes her people,
has worked vigorously to alleviate the
sufferings of the wounded soldiers in
France.
Distant Abyssinia, too, was one of
the first neutral countries to establish
a place of succor for the injured near
the firing line. Indeed, the Anglo
Ethiopian hospital at Frevent, pro
vided with funds supplied by the Abys
slan crown prince, did great service
early In the war. Japan, representing
the far East also sent a wonderfully
equipped Ambulance corps which has
ijlnce occupied the Hotel Astoria,
Paris. Dainty women and Intellectu
al men have given their time and their
services eagerly In the Cause of hu-irianity.-
' -
The ladles of the Russian court,
self-sacrificing in the extreme, have
been trained for hospital work In the
field. They have performed duties at
which men might shudder and they
have performed them well. So It Is in
France and England and In the other
countries, both in and out of the war.
That the majority of the workers have
been vblunteers is to the credit of civ
ilization. Mercy, so often beaten un
der In the actual conflict of the bellig
erents, has survived gloriously among
those whose function has been to re
lieve, where possible, the victims ' of
shot and shell.
Automobile Great Help.
Like the aeroplane, the automobile
is a new departure, a' very important
one, in warfare. Since August, 1914,
It has played, many parts. Armored
cars, transport lorries and other vehi
cles directly and Indirectly contribut
ing to the success of the different arm
ies In the field, have established a
fresh reputation for the motor indus
try. But It is largely owing to the
motor ambulance that the noble work
of mercy has been possible. ;
So far as Great Britain Is concerned,
the motor ambulance service owes Its
existence and Its triumph to Lord
Derby's brother. Hon. Arthur Stanley,
M. Pn chairman of the British Red
Cross society, and also to the Royal
Automobile club. Soon after the out
break of war, in September, 1914, Mr.
Stanley, quick to see the possibilities
of the motor ambulance, was given a
permit to send one or two out to the
front by the late Lord Kitchener.
"The actual permit." said Mr. Stan
ley, "was In Lord Kitchener's own
handwriting on half a sheet of note
paper. It Is now one of the most
treasured possessions If not the most
lovers reunited by wari
Officer of an Interned German Ship
Finds Girl He Met Years
Ago.
Harrisburg, Pa. Tobla Voskuhl. an
ofticer of an Interned German vessel
lyin" at New Orleans, has married
Miss Albertine Dehnr. n Steelton girl,
for whom he had Aeen searching 14
Voskuhl met theUi of his dreams
when she was sixteen, and he was a
petty omccr on u Uner plying between
German ports uncft the United States.
The girl, whose mother had died, was
on the way to Steelton to live
' The boy and girl lovers became en
gaged, but the sterp old German uncle
refused to countenance the match, ami
when hisjiiece Insisted that she would
wed Voskuhl. he sent her to other rein
tlves In Germany and refused to give
rhe young ofilrer Her nddress.
Believing Miss Albertlne's love affalf
wus dead the uncle sent for her again
and she has beenj living with him foi
teu years. UeceiltlY sb saw ner ,ov
er's name and write to hltn. The wed
ding followed.
treasured. In the archives of the Red
Cross society.
"One of the first things I did on re
ceiving the necessary permission,"
continued Mr. Stanley, "was to get to
gether half a dozen volunteer motor
ists, all members of the Royal Auto
mobile club, to drive the ambulance
cars which we were sending to France.
Our position was curious. The motor
ambulance was then practically an un
known quantity so far as actual war
fare went, and the military authori
ties stipulated that our drivers were
not to wear uniform, nor, under any
circumstances, to go near tho firing
line. There was to be no Red Cross
on the cars. Truly, the mission of the
motor ambulance was to be extremely
limited. They were simply to go about
far behind the firing line and pick up
wounded men who could not be car
ried to the field hospitals; men, for
example, who had crawled for safety
Into abandoned cottages and barns.
Proves Its Worth.
"With the possible exception of the
American ambulance cars at Neullly',
ours were the first motor ambulances
used In France. But the value of a
rapid service for the transport of
wounded soldiers was quickly recog
nized, and now, of course, wherever
there is fighting there are motor am
bulances." Here is a typical Instance, as told
by Mr. Stanley, how the motor ambu
lance proved Its worth In the early
days of the war?
"Late one evening one of our ambu
lances crept up close to the firing line.
They met an officer, who turned them
back 'because,' as he said. It Is so
dark. It Is no use going further.'
"They went back to a farmhouse and
to bed. In the middle of the night
they were awakened by the same offi
cer, who told them that a wounded
soldier, shot through both legs, was
lying almost in the German lines. It
was so dangerous a mission that the
officer wouldn't order the ambulance
to go I He just told them where the
man was, and left them to decide.
They went. They crawled, without
lights, along an unknown road In the
darkness; got almost within the Ger
man lines, where they found the man
and brought him back to safety. That
wounded soldier had lain there for
days and would most certainly have
died had he not been rescued that
night
"In this modest and voluntary way
the motor ambulance came Into its
own without one penny of cost to the
government I
"Today," went on Mr. Stanley, "there
are about 1,600 motor ambulances and
cars at the French front alone. An
other 1,000 are scattered about with
the troops An Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sa
lonlkl, Malta, East Africa, etc We
have three ambulance convoys each
one consisting of some sixty cars and
a radiographing convoy working in
Italy. We have a number of cars In
Pjetrograd and on the western Russian
front, while we recently sent a small
convoy as a present to Grand Duke
Nicholas In the Caucasus."
"Up to the present," said Mr. Stan
ley, "we have collected over $20,000,000
for the Red Cross and St. John's Am
bulance society. . The money comes In
at the rate of about $5,000,000 every
six months. This shows the public
appreciation of the work. Our support
comes from all sections of society."
"As an instance of the diversity of
our work, It may be Interesting to note
that we arranged the other day to send
motor boats to Mesopotamia and
'Charlie Chaplin' flliiys to Malta, this
latter for the amusement of the con
valescent soldiers I
"One of the outstanding features of
our organization has been the splendid
work done by the women.
Mr. Stanley mentioned, by the way,
the excellent artificial limbs for
maimed .soldiers produced by Ameri
man manufacturers, both in the Unit
ed States and especially at a factory
established near London, where many
disabled men are themselves employed.
While the women of all nations at i
PRISONERS BACK OF
Gertimu pnutiei tukeii in the XUti
held back of the English lines.
t 1 1 iiiu i i JV-aiiS8i ni.min .iiMijinnnwnin i m i m"
war have been working courageously
in aid their men, American women
also have come out brilliantly In the
labor of mercy. At the commencement
of the war a group of American worn-.
en, nearly all married to Englishmen,
met together to consider how they
might best render assistance to the
soldiers of the king. The result was
the birth of the American Woman's
War Relief fund, of which Lady Paget
became president, with Mrs. John As
tor as vice-president, the duchess of
Marlborough as chairman and Lady
Lowther and Mrs. Harcourt as honor
ary secretary. Other women closely
Identified with the work were Lady
Randolph Churchill, Mrs. Whltelaw
Reid and Hon. Mrs. John Ward.
Work of American Women.
The American Women's War Relief
fund began by sending a motor ambu
lance out to the front "Friends In
Boston subscribed for another It
was actually the seventh which was
duly presented to the war office" in
London. Down in Devonshire, at
Palghton, near Torquay, there Is an
American woman's war hospital, where
thousands of wounded soldiers have
been nursed back to health. Not con
tented with these activities the Amer
ican women In question have opened
workrooms In various parts of the
British capital to enable girls thrown
out of work to learn other trades, and
so to become self-supporting, In spite
of the war.
Americans are busy helping In
France as well as in England, and the
American Relief Clearing house, In
Paris, Is also an institution of very
considerable value and importance. It
represents the American Red Cross,
and Its distributing committee has al
ready apportioned more than 4,000,000
parcels, from bales of cotton, clothes
for men, women and children shoes,
hospital accessories, surgical Instru
ments and countless other useful
things. No less than 2,000 hospitals
in France have been fitted from the
American Relief Clearing house, which
has Joseph H. Choate for Its presi
dent
Modeled somewhat on the lines of
the organization over which Mr. Stan
ley presides. Is the American Volun
teer Motor Ambulance corps, yet an
other body of mercy-workers. In Sep-
tember, 1914, Prof. Richard Norton of
Harvard university saw for himself!
the pMght of the wounded French sol
diers, who suffered additionally
through Inadequate means of trans
portation. Consequently, with the co-
oDeratlon of some of his friends, he
started the American Volunteer Am-
ouiance corps, wmcn quiCKiy wiaeneo
Its field from two cars to seventy-five.
Originally composed of American and
British members, the corps has, while
always working in conjunction with
the French army, been placed under
the British Red Cross owing to ques
tions of American neutrality.
The volunteers of the American Mo
tor Ambulance corps have given their
time and their services uncomplaining
ly to the attainment of an excellent
object . Under the chairmanship ,oft
the late Henry James, the novelist
who directed matters from London,
many young college graduates freeljf
entered the corps to work strenuously
without pay or preferment Professorf
Norton, Ridgely Carter, Sir John Wolff
Berry, Jordan L. Nctt John Dixorf
Morrison and many other well-knownf
men are members of the London coun
ell. Mr. Norton and several of thd
men have been awarded the Croix da
Guerre andthe Croix d'Armee, the for
mer ranking high in the honors of war
ring and republican France. Work
ing close up to the firing line, th
American Motor Ambulance men hav
brought relief to many thousands o:
wounded and sick soldiers. Som
times dashing about In country ex
posed to German artillery fire, the car
have not Infrequently come througl
a hail of bursting shells, but so far
without the loss of a single life.
The American Motor Ambulanctl
corps has been "mentioned" for It
discipline as well as for the high stand
urd of its members generally.
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