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DEATH TRAIN
ANDITSCARGO
OF SUFFERER!
VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 5 (Correspon
dence of the Associated Press ).—
American Red Cross agents have beei
vainly trying to induce Transsiberiai
railway authorities to halt a “deatl
train” on which 800 persons are beini
sent back toward Samara, after the;
had been shipped from that city on i
4,500-mile journey across Siberia ii
midwinter. Many of them are ill witl
typhoid fever and they have only sucl
medical attention as can be given a!
stations en route.
They are part of a group of 2,10C
war prisoners, inmates of the Samara
jail and other alleged “offenders’
shipped out of Samara by the Czecho
Slovaks on October 5, after they cap
tured that city.
On the way from Samara to Nikolsk
near Vladivostok, 750 of them perished
of disease, starvation or cold. Theii
sufferings make a pitiful tale of hum
ger, disease and death. Cooped uf
on forty freight cars, fifty or sixtj
to a car, in tiers of bunks which left
only a small space of standing room
in front of one door, they were forty
one days crossing Siberia from Samara
to Nikolsk. Of the 2,100 who started
the terrible Journey, only 1,335 sur
vived to end it.
Red Cross representatives removed
hundreds of them from the train and
sent the most serious cases to an im
provlsed hospital at Nikolsk. Eighi
hundred were reshipped back toward
Samara in a fresh train of box cars
by whose orders is unknown. Rudolpl
Bukeley, one of the Red Cross repre
sentatives sent to Nikolsk to care foi
the refugees, delayed the departure ol
the train until the stationmaster ai
Nikolsk said he was in danger o:
court-martial if he persisted in dis
obeying orders. How far the trail
has proceeded no one here knows
Examination of the prisoners at Tsit
sihar disclosed that fifteen of the 80<
who started back for Russia had diet
after leaving Nikolsk, and that nearlj
every one of the others were ill. Thera
were three or four women antWig then
and their condition was no better thai
that of the men. There were forty
two cases of typhoid fever on the train
At Manchulia station lW&/&fifbrtcaT
railway operatives raised a subscrip
tion and purchased food for one daj
for all on the train, and General Fugi
the Japanese commander there, sup
plied some medical attention and foot
for two days, after which the trait
was sent on toward Chita.
There is said to be little chance ol
any permanent relief at Chita, and ii
is feared the unwelcome refugees wil
be passed along from one station t(
another until the last victim has died
Many of these people had been trav
eling in box cars since October last
most of the time packed in clopei
than herrings, according to the de
scription of one of the Red Cross work
era. Among them were a number ol
inn ncpnl nnrann a who haH hoon im
prisoned by the Bolshevik!. One was
a woman doctor who had been doing
Red Cross work with the Red Guards
Another was a girl of 18, formerly a
typist and bookkeeper in the mayor’s
office at Samara. Many of the refu
gees were clothed in rags or clothing
ill-fitted for the rigors of a long jour
ney across Siberia in midwinter.
Their train was in charge of a joint
guard of Czechs and Russians, who
also were dependent upon charity. The
result was that the train descended
like a peJt upon the towns and vil
lages en route, and it was the bus!
ness of every station-master to get
rid of it as quickly and with as little
trouble to himself as possible. De
mands for food were made upon the
station-masters, who could not comply
because they had no funds to purchase
the supplies. The native population*
along the line responded to the best
of their ability, but their best was fai
from meeting the necessities, and foi
days at a time the prisoners were com
pelled to go without food.
It is reported that several similai
trains were sent eastward from Sa
mara, and that they were scattered
along the line from Omsk eastward
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POPULAR GOVERNMENT
IS URGED FOR JAPAN
TOKIO, Feb 6 (by mail).—Reform
of the election law Is the greatest do
mestic problem facing this country
and second only In importance to the
result of the peace conference, say*
the Orodzu. The property qualifies
tion for voting now limits the suf
frage in Japan to 1,422,000 voters. The
home minister has announced that, .the
■ sulfrnglS fcystflm wtoftfe'scitevised a*
. to promote constitutional government
INVENTIONS OF
BRITISH WHICH
I HELPED TO WIN
LONDON, Feb. 3 (Correspondence
- of the Associated Press).—One of the
i most successful devices invented by
l British naval experts in the war-time
i was known as a “blister," and served
; to protect ships against torpedoes. It
is an outer steel casing fitted to the
, sides of the ships. All of its technical
i details of' construction have not been
revealed, but naval evperts assert that
ships equipped with “blisters” run no
greater risk from undersea attacks
than from surface fighting dangers.
In the war the Germans torpedoed sev
eral “blister” ships, but in every case,
it is asserted, the vessels were able
to reach port and be repaired.
Sir E. H. T. d’Eyncourt, director of
naval construction, invented the blis
ter, which was first attached to four
old cruisers. Patiently the navy wait
ed for a test for two years, and then,
in June, 1917, the cruiser Grafton,
while steaming at ten knots, was
struck amidships by a torpedo fired
from a German submarine only thirty
yards distant. The blister, which
wi*v 1IUIII uic l/l UIOCI O Blue aUUUL
fifteen feet, exploded the torpedo, and
the Grafton steamed back to port with
only a slight list.
Improvements were made on the
blisters and they were fitted to the
sister monitors Erebus and Terror.
Both these vessels, mounting 15-inch
guns, bombarded the Belgian coast
for months. Both were torpedoed
within a week, and but for the pro
tecting blisters they would have been
sunk. Three torpedoes struck the Ere
bus, two, hitting the fore part of the
monitor where the blister tapers oft.
As a precaution the Erebus was
beached, but it was afterward fou.id
that she was less severely damaged
than had been thought, and she was
subsequently repaired. No ship ever
before survived three torpedoes.
The navy now has about fifty blis
ter ships in .commission, including
some of the first battle cruiser squad
ron. The new dreadnaughts Rodney,
Howe and Hood are being fitted also
with blisters.
A self-propelling projectile charged
with 500 pounds of TNT was perfected
by the navfel experts only a short time
before the armistice was signed. It
Is believed to have strengthened ma
terially the power and effectiveness of
the British fleet. The projectile can
be discharged without concussion
from small boats or a light platform,
exploding on the cohtact, or when fit
ted with a special device, below water,
thus serving the purpose of a depth
charge.
An apparatus for throwing a dame
for a distance of 240 feet, as water is
thrown from a hose, was rigged on
one of the vessels that took part in
the raid on Zeebrugge. But before it
could be used a shell from the enemy
batteries put it out of action.
Another invention is a gun to fire
signals from submerged submarines.
It sends a star shell 300 feet into the
air.
Several kinds of smoke screens were
invented, most of them for the pur
pose of baffling the U-boats. A power
ful flare equal to a million candle
power was an achievement of the na
great effect against enemy subma
rines waiting on the surface at night
to attack merchant ships. These flares,
suddenly ignited, turned night into
day, and in the Strait of Dover alone
seventeen U-boats were caught by
their aid and sunk.
The work of developing these in
ventions was carried on by the Royal
naval experimental station, near Lon
don. The staff comprised twenty-five
officers and 1,050 men, all experts
either in research or constructional
work, most of them being chemists or
engineers.
CUBA IS WITHOUT
MINISTER TO MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 (by mail).—
Dr. Luis J. Santamarla, who has been
serving here in the capacity of charge
d’affaires for Cuba, has gone to Ha
vana, leaving that republic without a
diplomatic representative in Mexico.
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