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GET IN THE WAGON AND RIDE
DESCRIBES FIGHT
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
ANTWERP, Jan. 26—A story told
by a Berlin school teacher confirms
what may have been said about the
bloodiness of the fighting which took
place in the streets of Dixmude.
The teacher, and two other Berlin
landwehr men,—a lawyer and a pub
lisher—were entering that little town
In Flanders with other German sol
diers by some of the main streets,
when they heroine the prey of Turcos
in hiding. They darted from narrow
sidcstreets and houses, nnd as eye wit
nesses relate, sprang upon the heavier
Germans like so many tigers.
The three Berlin landwehr men had
just rounded one of the corners of
the city hall, when they were seperat
ed from their comrades by a rush of
Turcos from the fire station. There
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into a door opening, and here they
tried to keep a large crowd of yelling
Turcoa at bay. What happened next
ia best told by the teacher, who now
has the leBa exciting job of doing sen
try duty on one of the local wharves,
for which detail a rather large wound
In the thigh is responsible.
“The Turcos went at us with might
and main,” he said. “I can still see
their rolling eyes and white teeth.
They seemed to literally thirst for
our blood. But their yelling and
shouting was worse, perhaps, than
their efforts to finish the three of us.
Every time we put a bullet into one
of them, or jabbed the bayonet home,
the awful racket the fellows made with
their leather-lined threats Increased.
“But we kept on shooting into the
crowd, delaying the end which seem
ed all too close.
“Finally one of us three, the pub
lisher, went down with a shot in the
head—skull fractured. The Turcos
thought that now they would put an
end to the business. So also thought
a French officer, who went down a
second later with the bayonet of the
lawyer sticking in his chest. Then
the lawyer went down. I was alone
then, and thought it was all over.
"Just then a large flash rose from
the ground before me. The explos
ion which followed the voices of the
yelling Turcos. Then I went down—
with my thigh split wide open by one
of the splinters of the shell.
“The spot was a sight, when I re
gained my sense. Dead and mutilated
Tureos everywhere. We were found
about eight o'clock that night, and
none too soon. My comrades are still
in the hospital. They are men over
forty and not quite so likely to re
lperate rapidly."
All three have been given the iron
cross second class.
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INCREASED COST
LIVING IN ENGLAND
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Jun. 26—Commenting on
the sharp manner in which the war
has affected the household budget of
the laboring man, the Citizen, a labor
newspaper, makes the following com
parison (between the average Eng<
lish workman’s food expenditures on
July 1 and January 1. The figures
are for a family of five:
July 1 Jan. 1.
Meat, 1% pounds .$1.61 $1.87
Milk .87 .87
Bread .41 .48
Flour .06 .08
Tea, % pound.25 .27
Sugar, 7 pounds.34 .61
Biscuits, %pound _ . . .07 .08
Klee .06 .08
C.olden Syrup.13 .16
Prepared Oats .11 .12
Cheese, 1 pound .15 .19
Eggs, half dozen, storage .12 .18
Butter, pound.31 .35
Potatoes, twelve pounds .18 .18
Cabbage .08 .08.
Fruit .48 .48
Coal, 250 pounds.64 .77
Matches _i. ,08 .04
$5.90 $6.78
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Today's news in today's Daily Times
DELEGATE WILL COME
NORTH NETT SUMMER
That James Wickersham, delegate
from Alaska, will prohahly spend the
coming summer In Fairbanks, Is the
word contained In a letter from the
delegate to his brother, Rd. Wicker
sham. The delegate, however, also
states that if there Is an extra session
of congress, he will be comi>elled to
remain In Washington until it is over,
which would curtail the length of time
he would be allowed to remain north
It Is understood that Mrs. Wickersham
will accompany her husband north.
Other advices received are to the
effect that the delegate will first go
to Juneau where he will be In attend
ance nt the nesslon of the Alaska
legislature. It Is presumed that he
will then go to Fnlrhanks.
Since Delegate Wickersham was
first elected to represent Alaska In
congress In 1908, he and his wife
have spent but very little time In
Fairbanks, their residence there be
ing interspersed with long periods of
absence on account of the delegate's
official business at Washington.
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CONGESTION CLEING
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Jan. 26—The newspaper
charge that choas exists at the Lon
tlon docks, with the implication that
high wage* have caused the dock lab
orers to drink instead of work. Is de
nied by J. O. Broodbank, chairman of
the dock and warehouse committee
of the port of London authority.
Mr. Broodbank admits that the con
gestion has at timbs been severe
since the outbreak of the war. but the
improvement toward normal condi
tions Is rapid and a few weeks ought
to see the wharves fairly well cleared.
The real trouble is due to the fact
that the needs of the army and navy
come before those of the merchants.
Military and naval shipments are en
ormous. Although the war called
away large numbers of reservists from
the docks, there are 6,000 men em
ployed this month as against 4,000 at
ihe same time last year. In addition,
the London port authorities have had
to send something like 1,600 trained
stevedores to French ports, particu
larly Havre, to help handle the mili
tary shipping there.
To mention some of the additional
burdens that war has thrown upon
the port of London, the year’s sugar
supply purchased by <he government
has to come through here; about 160
army transports ply In and out of the
Thames; merchant ships are diverted
to London which ordinarily are berth
ed in other ports now closed for navul
reasons; and all of the various sup
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plies such ns Australian wool, lately
held up by the exploits of the Em
den, are beginning to arrive.
BERLIN SCROOLS NOT
AFECTED BY WAR
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
BERLIN, Jan. 26—War has made
very little change in the aspect of the
310 public schools of Berlin, which
continue their educational work with
out interruption. Of the 5,000 men
teachers a large percentage was called
to the colors and of them over 100
have been killed or have died of their
wounds. Their places in the schools
have been taken for the most part by
temporary substitutes, many of them
women, but in some cases it has been
found necessary to combine classes.
The high schools and the University
have been more severely affected, as
1,500 university students were of mili
tary age and many high school boys
enlisted as volunteers. The totul
numeber of students entered at the
university for the current winter term
was 8,035 instead of over 10,000 as
in times of peace. Women students
number 900, about the same figures
as usual.
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KJnney bus a corner on Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wishy wishy kind you have been
buying aud nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards tvill convince
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The best meals in town served at
the Windsor grill.
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
BONBON, Jan. 26—The wireless
World has received from Berlin a copy
of a communique recently published
by (he Oermnn Colonial Office, describ
ing the serious loss suffered by Ger
many through the destruction of her
chain of wireless stations. The com
munique says:
"Soon after outbreak of war all com
munication with their colonies by sea
was broken, and all German trans
marine cables were cut by the Eng
lish, so that even telegraphic com
munication with the whole of our col
onles was rendered Impossible. The
only remaining means of communi
cation was wireless telegraphy, but
the first warlike measure of the Eng
lish were directed to depriving us of
this means also. On August 12 fell
the wireless station Yap. and soon af
. u. auniKniiij
(Samoa) fell on August 29. and Bitap
aka, In New Pomeralna. on September
12. During the night of August -24
the great station of Kamlna, in Togo,
had to be destroyed by us to prevent
its capture.
"So vanished all possibility of fur
ther direct communication with the
African Protectorates, which hitherto
had been able to communicate via Ka
mina. As a matter of fact, there had
been from the very beginning a dis
turbance of the system which pre
vented us from receiving any reports
from the Governor of East Africa af
ter the outbreak of war. And so the
material which we have here collect
ed, and which, in the main, reached
Berlin by circuitous routes and very
late, and Is mostly derived from pri
vate letters or from enemy newspa
ers, must necessrily remain fragmen
tary, and some of it must also be re
garded as untrustworthy."
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GERMAN SOLDIERS
SEND PAY HOME
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
BERLIN. Jan. 26—That tne German
soldier has carried with him into the
war his well-known habits of thrift is
shown by the amount of money that
ho is sending home to his family. A
post-office official of Dresden has re
the amount of money sent home by
cently shown in a public addres that
soldiers for the Dresden district in
November reached $550,000. Assam
ing that the like ratio prevails for all
the rest of Germany he estimated that
'he soldiers sent home $24,000,000 in
November. This sum appears ail the
more striking when it Is recalled that
the pay of the German private soldier
is ouly 12 cents a day. The amounts
sent through the postofllce are often
less than $2.50, and not a few cases
less than one dollar.
A Socialist paper commenting upon
these large savings remarks: "This
large sum of $24,000,000 reflects the
sobriety of the German soldier, his in
irinsic decency and his strength of
character: even in the wildest, turmoil
of the bitterest struggle of history
he does not forget the good habits of
his home which he formed in times of
peace. Among the laurels that our
troops are winning before the enemy
It is also a high title of honor that they
use their petty wages economically
and do not forget their families or to
look forward to times of peace.”
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Firemen to Meet.
Special meeting of the Cordova
Volunteer Fire Department Thursday
Feb. 11, for the discussion of the
Ministrel Show to be given on the 24
of this month, and and the good and
welfare of the department. The meet
ing will be called at eight o'clock in
the gymnasium.
Found—A Muff
After the dance Saturday night a
lady’s Astrakhan muff was found in
Engle hall. Owner may have same
by calling at the Times office.
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CLOSING OUT Two dozen l^adie's
Sweaters at $1 and $160 at S.
BLUM & CO.
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