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view: 1 CITY E NTT Y NAT bed;- .froMvTie E t -.y-.'j.-y.. 88 'A - mi. i & 3S ass?; i m Pi if 4 JERUSALEM RSJQiC.mi CVaZL TURKISH reverses; .Special Dispatch.) Li)XiOX. Saturday. ! 'ii rist ia:is !i! rjoicinu r ;;i i:ir .Ien!:i!o;n 1.-)S snatjcbcU ; ,,; ! ;ni -pc:,k i'.'c Turk, i-i: :;..". :0 y'!!r .Fit ::!c;n .has ii. !y 'ity to Jew, I hnsiiiin or Mus :. .an. It succssivciy lias boen thr . of Assyrians. Y i Lylniiians. Greeks. .,:.;. '!Yi-i.!:is. Ar;i!s and Turks, was 'MR' I the m anv crusades that i : ci ., in i iic .Mi. Idle Apes to restore 'i:y. aiui !'.'! ;i few brief rears. TJ 'l. v. ::s i '''d lv - a German ";' ri k II. ; i; ri-:iii;i:!y was I'rusaWm, com- ' il'.c II. ! i. v wt.Is moaning '"City ." ' . i- ir w: s flu re that Abra ! ,; M" ':'zc'.'i:. Kins of Salem, met 4 and arranged peace for the Jews. That is the first mention of Jerusalem in his tory and that mcctins; occurred o,500 yeal During the fifteen hundred years before Hie time of Christ Jerusalem 'was con-,i;i-r: .1 and looted many times. After King David had wrested Jerusalem from the Jebusites he built a castle on Mount Mo riah. a part of the city, in which he placed the sacred "Ark"" of the Coveuant. In a flrer.ru he saw the Lord stay the hand of the Destroying Angel who was about to , , , . , . , , , legun, and his son. King Solomon? noted ouiici a gnvir lemnie in unun to seep cue;-. J . . iut ins -I. ark. and employed many thousands of men for fifteen years in carrying the great cedar timbers " from Lebanon to Jerusa lem. Solomon's Temple isdom and his many "wives, built the famous temple. From the fact that the temple, in which .Mount Zion, end to both has been a holy place. The temple was hardly completed before the riiillistines and the Arabs, in alliance. was kept the Ark of the Covenant, was ! conquered Jerusalem and looted thetem built on Moiyjt Moriah that promontory ! pi". Then followed a succession of tribu- became known throjighoiit the Jewish ; bit ions for the ;ty. Sometimes a hundred David fliod before thf temple really was , wva nild tiuM1 , the Christian world as! roars would ehipsn without a new pos sessor, but usually there was a war-every few years, in which some new king w:ould come into power. Toward the end of the reign of King Horod, who held sway under the power of the Roman Emperor Augustus, Jesus was bom at Bethlehem, just south of Jerusalem. A few years later, beginning with the en try of Christ as a child to the temple, which had been rebuilt by Herod, began the most interesting incidents of the his tory of the Christian religion. Immediately outside the walls of Jeru salem is the Mount of Olives, where Christ often taught his religion of truth and mercy, and where he prayed the night be fore he was crucified.? Nearly every incident in the life of Christ centres about Jerusalem. Calvary, where lie was crucified, is a small hill just north ot the city. The streets he traversed in Jerusalem are practically the same now as they were then, as is the Holy Sepulchre. .-" f ' Persians Follow Romans. Following the life of Christ, Jerusalem continued to be held by the Romans, al though Hadrian and Titus had so pillaged the place that many of its noblest struct ures were destroyed, until the Persians captured it in the seventh century. The Caliph Omar built the Mosque of Omar on the temple, and it stands .there now. The first Crusaders to reach Jerusalem believed the Mosque to.be the Temple. of David, made a church of it. The first Crusaders to reach Jerusalem, in 1009, undo Godfrey of Bouillon,' estab lished the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. which remained in existence with smal;. . ; ? power and surrounded by the Pcrsianrf&iHl Turks until 11S7, when Saladin the Groat - took Jerusalem. , Frederick II. obtained Jerusalem by-.' treaty while the Fourth Crusade was on , its way y. and. he controlled it" as a German , . dependency . until in 1244 the Emir of , Karak conquered the Holy City, and sincr then, until, General Allcnby forced the surrender Monday, it had remained is Mussulman hands. v For hundreds of years, probably due to . Turkish maladministration and persecit-f ; tion of the Jews, Jerusalem has waned' in ' commercial importance, but has increased;-. as a shrine for the religious. ' For scores of years there have been .piV - : grimages of more than 30..00( Greek Oat"!;1- -olics alone to Jerusalem each year. FoV fifty years, or since ocean travel v.-a.i made comp'aratively safe, thousands Z ' American Christians have pThne to .7ev . ; salem to see the Holy Sepnh 'ire, I( ''- hem, Calvary, the Mount of Olhcs raj the site of, the Temple. ' .-; Under Turkish rule the placr became un clean and there have been many epidemics of disease. Efforts had been made hy ' Christian nations to obtain Palestine,'1 or at least Jerusalem, from Turkish control, in the hope of making of it a great shrine.. ; but the Turks always repulsed such efforts. " - " " Yankee Officers Willing and Apt Warfare Pupils, Says a British Observer n Pr.use from English by Modesty and High Mental Quali- interest in Fiftieth Birthday of Queen Maud of Nor v:iy, Sister of King George Other. London Jottings. 'Mai riigpi f nh t General Kaledines and the Bolsheviki Written By A. J. SACK, Director of the Russian Information Bureau New York Cityr 11.-: At th- ':l ' M u - LO.N'bOX, Saturday. ner at the western front was '. : experiences the other even- t. il tn his meetings with some .-to who are learning their m var;.")U:-' part' of the fightinp t to ;mpart spr-Cial instruction i- they n i'ive. The troops . -.1 I hrouli the s.ime processes ii' ir.in',' for trench warfare a ; - L.'ts of attack as the Brit i .uor.o tliro'.ish and as every ' i Is not actually fighting goes -1 1 .Vi v.-. r ; : r; ' :i! ! Xor ' i to 1.. .. .!,. s TV tlm , f'T 1i. . Finr, !'! p.l i v much Impressed not only ti.y.-ir-i qnd mental standard ii"an officers, but also, he f-treme iriodesty. rojr.e to learn, not to teach," are deeply impressed by t i ! 1 1 n --r ! they have to learn, and I' I. i nee between war as ?t Is ''J.annel and the conceptions of ! in 'iipir own military schools, 'li'if .-ittitude is that of pupils, 1 r ind apt. but amenrble. These - bavf endeared them to the staffs 1 vi rvliody with whom they are r- i hoy lxave made a very fine i"H Th.-y are keen for the most 'd hflpful co-operation in the j ' i t opr-rations. So are ours." v.ho rrmember the youthful vi uun nergy of Kin? George's r in London can hardly '' ' --hp has entered upon her ''it The anniversary of the . f '.cieen Maud of Norway wi'l v -rid new material for a book ke-eps. a book of press clio-j in nor consort and herself '"M.iiis We Have Xeither aaid fossihly the volume includes programme at the time of 0,1 'i' :i. when she nvas expected to ''y '.' ,t to Trondhjem in her heavy 'd not trudge, but insisted on I short route. - ' of tiie child heinsr father to lirtle Support in the career I. fir! Reading. One of his s i ( c ords that he was one of fTst of boys from a teacher's ::i7-hy r- tKf.r, '..1 : " Pion. who . Iniin..;- th : rul. , ti..n 'if- ' ft unlearnt, classwork he r"iscl)ioT was bis only diver rl " raid the teacher, "my liim is always of a mis- '"ig imp with sparkling eyes. : ai.'.;iys in disgrace or being 1 va!'al was ever rnerrv anJ -fine Secundas, you will go "to I' " prognostication, oft re- S' lioalmaster. but the devi! ' ! s. N..r.i came to him, and was v.oi-d. or a wor( -which, If not 'll-'isll ll'tl'.ll.. .rr, "ri.i-l-O ii,. iP..'v., K '''''''" 'I o young men who. hav (.;:nti "' n ,n thp status of "children" n-., wir,t thev are called on enlist- mseives in unirorm unaer ' 1 ' - flying school. When they are ') I rn, r,V,,,l . ... - .k.ul in n macnine a iew "i'"o or less, above the ground Inoner ? "literally descriptive, save e tJrticlaV for these querkS."Dr the HIS. ' vi!.' v-: Vi-V.., of ' ; .1 'I: A r,(:v thr majority of them, do learn to fly where the true "querk" never-does. The "qurk" is arr -Australasian bird, with the rudimentary stumps of wings. nt ifc hops off the ground as if to, use the wings it has not. developed, end nevei wUl develop, and flops about and cornts to earth again. It is its destiny to do that and with an entire, futility; but it is a destiny cut short by the ferret, which has found the pastime of destroying it more attractive than, that of rabbit hunting. So the "bird" lives on in the aviation school' over here, and is affixed to a new order of biped.. When a youth gets his ticket he cefc to be a "querk" and Becomes a pilot. If anv one calls him a "mierk" after he hats ma'de his first flight, there is trouble. It -is to ' be hoped that there is some lexicographer at work collecting the new xords which this war has brought forth. The schoolboys whQ have poured into the service since 1914 have enriched the lan guage greatly. So have the boys irom me dominions, who have a slang of their own not less peculiar than that of the public school boy. But most important of all, the boys from the. United States are bringing unfamiliar terms and idioms in many cases bring ing back to the old country uncut gems of speecTT which the English lost in the sev enteenth century. m If enemy submarines are having a bad time of it, so also are whiles, sea serpents and other monsters of the deep. A huge whale was cast up the other day on a cer tain coast, having evidently come to grier from an explosion under the water, prob ably caused by a charge dropped from air craft other than the iamiliar seaplane. The higher an observer is above tn water the further he caji see into its. depths. Anything moving through the water which' is large enough to set up a trail or "cause any other visible commotion mav be a submarine, and it receives an explosive timed to discharga at a given depth below- the surface. But the dis turbance may be a whaie. wnaievern.. ,f. within a certain radius of the exp.osion ..i. n di,'.- xt-iiioh innanacritntes. Ix a sut)- marine it rolls over and over and sinks. " a whale its life is done. But what, one ma ask, if the submarine Is -one of our own. There is an answer to-.that, but it is left to the imagination. Anyway, allied subma rines arer safe against" their own. aircraft searchers. But whales are not, greatly to the grief of those concerned in the frhalingjnust-rv. . - For the last twelve years, since the Rus sian revolution of 1005, every average American, citizen has known-at least one Russian word the word "Cossacks." I have Jtist'ended a speaking tour through lut the United States, and after address ing, during-the last fiv weeks, fifty-seven meetings in thirty-two States, with an ittendance of about 63,00T, I have leaired aiat'"" every average American cilizen itnows now at teast another Russian word. Jiq word "Bolsheviki." The Cossa-cks, !rd :-yr General Kaledines, areV' fighting the bolsheviki. who endanger the very exist ence of the Russian Republic, and the pur pose of this statement is to interpret for .he An-.erican public the real meanin significance of these two factors in Rus sian .life. . ' 1 will begin with an explanation about the Cossacks. People in this country haye been accustomed to consider the Cossacks a counter-revolutionary power. The ground for this presumpticui lay in the . . . . . . m . - . i i ,i noss and gave them seats among the pre iuin officers. - K1rfliis. the "Rnssl.m Tank.'' All the Cossacks of Russia now follow General Kaledines, whose name only re cently became known in this country. In F.uss':i K: iodines' name hec&nte well not in the sense of fraternizing with the enemy, not in the sense of deserting the post of duty, disobeying orders- or- de mandingr that the government do the im possible, the. Cossacks ap'beal to all the progressive forces of the country to unite in their labor and self-sacrifice for the -Jke of saving the country and establish- "lO&OQiOOG Gigantic Pans . Being Beaten All at Once His Idea of Shell Fire known d'i? Jng the war. as the commander ' ing a democratic rmiblir-" '' the Eighth Army. General Kaledines j These words were greeted 'by boisterous setc--3 then against the Germans in the ; applause from all factions of the confer s?mv manner as he is now acting rgainsl i -3nce. Kaledines continued: he I3c.Mw?viki. He is always very slow. ! "Tt is our profound conviction that In tVKin'rr his time to prepare a plan and th :hese days when the "gravest danger is ircessary. measures for its accomplish- .Tiiercisig the very existence of the country hit t. Put when he strikes it is almo: t i everything must be sacrificed to the nur- 'i 'v; ;r.-irt a mortal Mow. After heariiVT fortresses cf Kronstadt ano Seaborg. Thejlofation of monarchv in Russia famous rcvolufonary P-ism.g Moscow, , KaIeflinos. programme was fully CHRISTMAS VACATION AT , ANNAPOLIS TO-BE SHORT til! J'-'i ' t! -lli.-v - " Special EHspatch.) . -ANNAPOLIS, , Md Saturday.-Orders for the Christmas holidays of midshipmen have been read. The. first class men will be allowed Jeave from the afternoon, of December 24 until supper iormauon oxi Christmas Day, with, permission to .leave Annapoiis.a , v "' ... i. - All other classes-of midshipmen, will be given- holfday on December 24, from ftanr- past three untu naw-ptusi wu .jwv..-- M.,an4 all Christmas -Day until supper formatiniv without permission to leave AnnonnTffl. it " , ; T. . - Reserve officer 'etv&enta -will have; five i day' Uave.-.' f act -.that the Tsar's government had used the. Cossacks extensively for suppressing revolutionary uprisings in Russia for the last two or three decades. It must be said, as a matter of fact, that the old govern ment sent against the revolutionists not only the Cossacks but ali other units of the army as well. The entire army, as long as the Tsar's government was able to con trol -it, ''was. used in Russia as a "counter revolutionary force. The uprisings in part of the Russian fleet in -1M-3 and lS0.g were suppressed - partly by the other part of the fleet which had net joined the revolu tion and partly by the artillery at Ihe for fai in December, 1805. was i'uppr.issc d by , few' regiments of infantry which carri down from Petrosrad. . Coisrioki .Mn93 F.f volt. On "the other hand, there is a -'version that the revolution in Maryf. started in Petrogtad after a Cossack shot a poi;.-e officer Who had just before killed a stu dent for trying to raake-a revolutienary speech. Andthf. Cossacks in "Petvograd were, the first- m'Ktary-unit to join inc. revolution. About two'' we4cs. af'.c-r the evolution trio, ri-s-i ..ii-u-ussian Congress met in PetrogratL ?nii ;t !s very timely Votvi to reoa!' "the resolution unani mously adopted at this Congress: "The Cbnsress of the CoAaacks' Dele- srates. of all Russia has faith in the ad ministrative- genius of the. Russian peo ple, which more than once has rramiested itself in the darkest moments of our nn tional history The Congress firmly be lieves that.; the Provisional Government, pursuing H domestic policy based on .the consent of ' all the organized democratic harmony with the ' Allies, will he able to guide Russia into the paths of liberty and democracy. . The Cossacks of-a-1! Russia, inspired With -a' deep democratic- spirit, are ready, to render all their -support to the Provisional Government in its work of crartirntinsr anarehvi nreveTTHng .'counter revolution, and safeguarding freedom ofi election- to the Constituent . Assemoiy so that it can tie a true e?rpression Tof the popular Willi and thus be instrumental in making Russia a true democracy." . While some people in this country are still inclined, to consider - the Cossacks a eounter-rre.volutlonary force, -itlie Russian democracy, Trith the exception of the Bol ahevikt. 1 whose, opinion on this - point or f anv - other should- not be taken to , $eriT ously,f tnmK piaerwim:.vi.w Aw-twoojoii Council' of WOrkingmen and Soldiers Dele gates receivedj-the -delegation; from the Cossacks' Congress with exceptional kind- thinjrs about Kaledines from the P its--; an officers tvlio have fought undr--h!r3 T would say that Kaledines may !v ntj C"i'r! the " RiTS'?ir.T! Tnnk." His move- r.f;pts aro slow hui sure and effective i reaching the objective. It is possible that in the fight againsf the JBolshevilri Kaledines will have th" backing of . p ' 1 the "constructive forces o" the Russian democracy. There was a def ini'o report that th- constitutional demo crats arc supporting him, ni:d it is nr. impossible tf.at he ha? also the support of ail the 'soc-I.-il'st factions opposed to th 'bolsheviki There was a report that fivv secrerarie. of the Kerensky Cabinet, led I" v. tl'e' moderate socialist Proko,r;ovich. hc.ve 'joiied General Kaledines, and it is probable that he also has.th support of such prominent leaders as Plecbanov, Prince Kropotkin, Avksentieff. Mme. Breshko-Breshkovsky, TsereteUi ami others. " It must be said most emphatically that Kaledines is not a counter-revolutionary,'! and his object as far as we know, nasi nothing to flo with any scheme for the res-i ssia. uenerai po.-e of saving the fatherland. The Cos--".cks believe that to save the country it necessary, above. all, to bring the war ! - victorious end in complete harniny with the Alt!??. 7n the name of the Cos- i -v.ckr- of all R; I suggest the following J .v.-asures:-' ! The arrrv. liiust. be kept out of pol -'cs. Art meetings anu, assemblies, with 'heir r'T'ty antagonism, must be absolute : iy 3 orbiaden at the front. i Ail councils and committees in the orn;y miut be abolished at the front as : '.ve.-l -r? behind the lines, except those o tne rmrrtents. companies, 'divisions-. 'and , ."tb.-r JB'.lilary units, and their islits ayd .s r.wEi ce Rinciiy Jimitea to th . M-a-i.-'.gcnicm or me soiaiers economic .:.' i'f .lira.. . .. . . : . i& declaration of the soldier's i must "bs cvised and amplified, b.v j the declaration of 3iis duties. j "1. The discipline in the army must be i res' reo s ml strengthened by the most de ! is' - " measures. 1 I The front and the rear must be recog niz'-d as one ..whole to .Insure, the fighting oar icity of the array; and all -measures Dr. Fort Newton, Back from the Front, Gives a Graphic D scription of Bombardment "Made in Germany" Masks Didn't Please Him. ce'ired for. strengthening uicinline ct the expressed!-';'.- - - in his remarkable speech at the National J, T. -"" ' Conference iir, Moscow, and now is -the f c')mh T RVa1" fS-J time to make the people of the United - that 4hl.ch the Russian people loh& Stater, ac.uinted with this document. ;torard in their xpectationof spring neral Kaledines was one of the most!'1 'Z., lV'-H - wt-slvs-figures at the conference, -Tall :nat''?nal hTT Inean ,the 8ltu.ent i ser. bly. ,We demand that - during- new Af- the Ge :mpr m A l.rMi-.'i v ri: f-. . .--r i .AmmQnHinfiV aniphesizg every point of his declara- e?arations for. the elections, as well as j..,: ;duimg the timeof the elections to the " 'Having heard tbe" report of the provi- cs1 ituent; Assembly.- the provisional position in which Russia finds herself,' jS'd lawful and, fair elections through heean General Kaledines, "The Cossacks i oy, country, - . . - Kfl.w'0 i-hms-ty," rmn rnssacks i '-e believe, that the Constituent As .iIa rAm Trevor. Torsi- nn. I ser.- bly ' should be convoked in - Moscow. burg, Yaitzk, Astrakhan, Siberia, Amour, et.-.use ot ie cuj nisioci mipurmm Trarsbaioal. Semh-eichinsk, Enissey and,as v-e11 a3 its-central location and also in T-ssurix'sk-hail .the decision of the pro- Uie interests Vf ; thework ol T the .Constrtu ri.iAn'.i nv.ntm.t. to lihernte itself final-1 ent Assembly, which must.be carried out i mitZk f- natiflnal administration fsyst ematically ai?d uninterruptedly.. rrnm'tiiP nressiire of the various class and-J, "Vina?ly. we make our; appeal to the party organizations, which together who. other causes, have brought the country to the verge of ruin; After;a ehort ' pause Kaledines cendnued." with emphasis on every word:-r "The Cossacks s.re proud to say that there were ! no ; deserters in their ranks, that -.they hive preserved their strons organization and, with the aid of this strong and free organization, are defend ing and will Continue to defend the coun try and her liberty. ''Faithfully serving the new regime, hav ing sealed with .their blood their devotion id the cause of patriotism and always hav ing treated with' contempt the slanderoui attacks of provocateurs,' who eonstantly accuse the ; Cossack of . being counter1 revolutionary,-the Cossacks pledge them selves at this moment of mortal danger to the country, when many military units have -disgraced themselves by forgetting Russia. notr to leave their Jistoric course of serving the country. With arms on the field of battle, as. well as to flelp suppress the .treachery at home. ."Understanding the revolutionary provisional., government that in the .bitter stji ggle, for existence which Russia; is how waging Jf ' should utilize all the.Rus sinn neonle: all ' the vital :' frirees' of all claries' in Russia. . .We appeal that 4he pro-', isional goverpmejit itself : should in- clui'3 in its ranke, in this -hour of , stress, all the prominent leaders of the. country, all that our' Fatherland can give of her ene gy, knowledge, experienee,'' talehtf hor sty, love and devotion. . "ri yk-. jtinna for - 0rds: has passed. '"The pat. ince of tfie "people is being exhausted. In rder td save tht? country it is necessary to i t." -: --. - '. -; - T is is the nro--amme of General Kale dim s, the leader ol the'' movement which has as a single, purpose the salvation of the new born democracy of Russia. . At the san Rational Conference, in- Moscow the old gray" beaded Prince Itropotking, who spen c thirty-five 'years - in. exile,' expressed it aV 'his conviction "that af thifr dangerous mini ent' only one" parts may exist in l!tu3- '. - .... . u t : T-. .s. sia,-, lllii j)Uf Lj orMie aai ijuiuu ut nussia (Special Dispatch.) ' LOXDQN, Saturday Dr. Fort Newton, describing at the City lemple to-day a visit he paid to the western front in company with other Americans, at. the invitation of the War Office, said some racy things. I vve naa,' he said, "been watching a tremendous bombardment from shell, and on the way back one of our party picked up a Gertnan gas imisk. Ke at once began to swear, and he knew how to, having lived in Chicago for some time. As these masks were common,. we asked why he swore. 'Look atr the date,' -he replied. Oh the mask was 'Made in Germany, 1913." We said, 'Go on with your swearing. Is that the best you can do?' " .The bombardment, said Dr. Newton, was hopeless to describe. "Imagine," he said, "ten million gigantic tin pans being beaten ail at once very close to you and you may get some idea. r.d not one ' man was visible. I was glad it rained every' day. I Wanted to see war in its bedraggled reality, and to see what those gallant men have to put up with every day. Since-1 have, I have verjr little, patience with any com- plltD.tCny one can" make at home. The artillery men were sleeping on their'horses. swaying in the rain; and the word written over the whole scene was weariness, mo nctony unspeakable, -fatigue. Our Gen eral Sherman said that war was hell. That day I thought it was. mud sloppy, sloppy mud, measureless mud, Infinite mud. One man in the trenches gave me an account of the welcome of the Americans, containing the phrase 'The enemy now has as much chance as a lame canary at a cat show.' -"'There were mysterious signboards on the Belgian part: of the front. They ap peared every half-mile, with two words, 'Thank you.' vIt was the Belgian courtesy and gratitude to those who had come to their aid. I came away with such a. furi ous hktred of war that I cart only groan when I think of it When. I think of the stupidity and the brutality of it alM won der that God Almighty does -not strike dead : the'"- clique of criminals in Central Europe that 'plunged us'intoj it. '""The English officer is, always gentle man. vTou cannot make him anything else For any one having a sense of humor it was -enough to 'make a 'wooden man laugh to see the solicitude, the earnestness' and the eagerness with which thosex admirable tenoy''tH.tO'fnUrn-inen.fwl)b 'whose tastes and way4of,thIiking they were ;un familiar. Fnglish and Americans -are try ing to get acquainted - with one another. It must appearstrafage that two., classes of- laeings so unlike" each Other speak, the same .language, i- Emotion is given 'to' the hides, his deepest thoughts in impensra ble. reserve." War Causes Gain ot s 100 ,000 Marriages in Great Britain v (SpeciaL Dispatch.) LONDON, Saturday. Crudely stated, said Sir Bernard Mallet in. His presidential address to theStatis. tical Society1 according to " the DallJ Chronicle, the war had resulted In 200-OfH persons In th"e"umted Kingdom being mar ried between August, 1914, and June, 1911 who in the ordinary course would Aot havt married. The marriage rate for 1915 wai the highest recorded 19.4 the previoui - maximum being in 1853, which was 17.K Referring to the" marriage statistics in enemy countries, in Hungary the effect ol the. war had been that more than 600, (XX v persons, who in the ordinary course would have married had not done so. In Prus sia, Bavaria; Saxony, Hesse, Hamburg and Bremen,, six States containing mdn than eighty per cent of the German popu lation, the total number of marriages In 1813 wafs 434.103 and in-f9TfTS5.4Mf o crease- of 41.C50, or nearly ten per cent. It spite of a great outburst of war marriage! ' during the first month.of the war. '. The Birth Kate. ' The loss , of potential lives to 1 the Lel ligerent countries by the decrease in th number of children born was,-'perhaps, 'the most Important effect produced bythe'wai on vital statistics. t In births the' United Kingdom had suffered far less than Gen many and Hungary, the United Kingdom ' having lost 10,000 per millioh of the popu- laticn, .dermai:y 40,000 per million and Efun gary 70,000 pet, million. As'regard.s" infai Unortality. the rate during 191 4-1916 had beet lower both In.the United Kingdom vand in Germany than in any previpus period ol -like duration; but the summer mortality- in . 1917 appeared to have been extraordinarily high In; several German cities, and the (Ser. man rate all. through remained at som' nrty per cent hiirher.than in this country. .., ' ;, '.. ;j.Mor&oyBaltiemSir:.; " Some curious results were: noted. 7 An' al teration in the sex ratio of-birth appeared ' to be established by 1 the figure xf the-, United Kingdom, especially by those" 61 ' : England the proportion of male -birthfi v ' having 'noticeably- increased."' Contrary to '' expectation, the war had prdducei no' ef feet iipcn the figured of Illegitimate birthn Decline in suicide? was -anothec.interestina feature.;'1 w'-W "h -' Comparison between th?7Taturafincrca or decrease of thVpopulatlorm showed thai whereajs the population of. the United King. r v"" was Tiowi some wwax-greater than al-'-'' the beginningfof the war. in onto, i, losses of .life in the army and navy Aus- tna-iungary,ana uermany nan each suf fered a decrease- or some -00, 000, in addfc., tion to iossea in the field outside of these.' - . I Tus;iartKr 15 orgawzea ana.iea now oy'-,1"" -i.v. .i'k.? o;.iiiifViau-icouuiriiBei-jH(ips;-a'.ioia.i.aecrease-r at - spirit ---General Kaledines.'. r ; -; ,T ' ?- apparently suppress, me icnglishmanl least, four millions, :r. k ' , , t S 4 I
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