MONTENEGRINS
USING BURLAP
FOR CLOTHING
MKSICH, Montenegro, Via Paris
May 25 (Correspondence of the Asso
ciated Press).—Montenegro is in a
pitiable state. The inhabitants are
destitute. Dwellings are burned or
smashed by shellfire. The young men
are gone. There are no tools to work
with, no seeds to plant. The city
dwellers have no livelihood. Each day
the American Red Cross gives every
one a kilo of bread of two quarts of
thick, meaty soup. American nurses
-visit the sick from sunup to sundown,
each nurse attending to about fifty
sick persons daily.
Before the war most of the clothing
worn by the Montenegrins was made
toy the women at home, either of linen
or wool. Only a small number of of
ficials and tradesmen used imported
cloth. During the war no clothing
was made and now the home supply
is cut off because there is not enough
labor to produce food and no one can
spare time for spinning or weaving.
As a result Montenegrin men,
women and children are clothed in
burlap sacking. There is not enough
sacking to go around and the moun
taineers huddle in their huts during
inclement weather. When one of
their number, generally a child, is
sent after the Red Cross rations he
or she is supplied by making a round
Robin collection with sufficient sack
ing to keep warm during the journey
to the relief' station.
Malaria and tuberculosis are com
mon and the children suffer much
from the itch, due to the genral filthi
ness of conditions in the mountains
and mountain towns. In the former
residence of Prince Mirko, son of
King Nicholas, near Podgoritsa,
American doctors and nurses main
tain a fifty bed hospital and treat
daily about eighty patients. The sur
geons’ principal work has to do with
bullet wounds.
At Danilorgrad the Red Cross main
tains a dispensary. Here in Niksich
the Red Cross feeds twelve hundred
persons in its soup kitchen, making
no distinction between royalists and
those who favor the Jugo-Slav state.
The Red Cross also cares for three
-Tiiuiflfred peOplb hotwefr tn the »ix
rooms of the local “poor houses”
whose condition is most wretched.
At Cettinje the Red Cross feeds
three hundred people daily in its soup
kitchens and maintains a hospital.
Owing to the hostility to foreigners
shown by Montenegrins almost the
only foreign element found in tee in
terior towns are American soldiers
and officers and workers in American
Red Cross uniforms. The American
army trucks and ambulances are
driven by chauffeurs largely drawn
from the ambulance service in
France.
BIG BOXING MEET AT
HANSAS CITY ON FOURTH
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 28 (by
Associated Press).—In a boxing car
nival here July 4, Mike Gibbons of
St. Paul and Jeff Smith of New York,
will meet in a ten-round bout, and
Johnny Dundee and Harvey Thorpe
will mix in a 15-round affair.
Abe Attell, former featherweight
champion, wil referee.
Besides the two main attractions
there will be a ten round go between
Charley Arenson, a Rainbow division
fighter, and Joe McGowan, champion
lightweight at the Great Lakes naval
training station. Jack Sheehan, a wel
terweight “champ” of the 35th divi
sion is scheduled to meet Jaca Kush
in an 8-round bout.
TRAP SHOOTER WHO
MADE SOME RECORD
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (by As
sociated PresB).—Here are some of
the records made last year by Frank
N. Trosh, Vancouver, Wash., trap
shooting expert:
Traveled 27,000 miles. Shot in 15
cities in 11 states. Won singles cham
pionship of Washington, tied for in
ternational singles* championship, won
national doubles championship, won
doubles championship of the United
States and Canada and tiie interna
tional doubles and the all-found and
open championships of the United,
States. Onoe he broke 181 straight!
targets and fifteen times broke 100 Of
more straight.
No one should be without an elec
tric plate, especially the kind with 8
different heats. Northwestern hard
ware company.
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thereon direct to the Government.
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