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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1914)
r-c TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY HKfc: NOVlUltttu a, 1J14. FRENCH FORTS' QUITE WEAK Uoit of Them Old-Faihioned and - Easily Crumble. GFNS ARE ALL SHORT-RANGED IIBr Weapons inr rally Oat dlataaevd by the More M4fr x Pteree of le Oeranaa lTi4rra fCorrespondence ff thWSseoriated rreiw ) THE HAQl'E, Ort. 31. -A word Inr to recent reports In the German press, not all the French fortlfk-aticna are an strong as aa been believed. . Several of those whlrh have been taken bjr the Oermana re said to have been antiquated, little effort to modernise them having been pent on them. A noteworthy example of thla, and one which la rather typical of what the Germans assert they have found. Is the rase of Fort lee Aj vellea. which, located almost due south of Me-tlercs-Charlevtlle, ' guarded the bridges and fords of the Meufte In that locality. Inscribing what ha saw In the fort after It had been occupied by the dee ms n. Henry Binder, war correspondent of the Berliner Tageble.tt, saya In the Issue of that paper of October 9, among other things: "All French forts along the Belgian border have been constructed with such carelessness that one can easily deter mine the degree to which the French depended upon their Belgian neighbor. Generally he forts werj left In the state they were when built, and since the plan of their construction antes back to fifty years ago the strategical weakness of several, or most of them. Is plain enough. Kaaatale of Weakaesa. "A typical example of this la Kort I-.ee Ayvelles. which 'guarded the bridges and fords of tha Meuse south of Meilerea Charlevlllc, and which was shot out of the ground with too shots from our twen-ty-ono-centlmetre mortirs. The fort wss built In 178 and was armed with forty pieces. . ts main armament were two batteries of six gun each of nine-centimeter caliber, dating from the years 1R8 and 1RA0. and which had a range of only four kilometer (The' range of even' the smallest German . alt-go piece is never less' thsn eight kllomotrcrs.) - ."In ' addition theYe wore found In the fort several twelve-centimeter bronie una which had been cast in is I, while ili the canements we found several mit railleuses and five-barrelled revolver guns which had been Intended to sweep the rooata. In trie fort wera also found several old mortars from the year 1MJ old muxile-loaclers with tha typical pyra mids of round cannonballs beside them guns of a iypeHvs use In our villages to fire salutes. 1 "The fort showed neglect everywhere. Not alone was Jts armament antiquated and primitive, but the management before and during the attack must have been defective. The road to the fort had been blocked merely by' felled, trees and an occasional barbed-wire entanglement, and trees before one- of the batteries of the forts made it - necessary to replaoe it after j our troops had arrived. To do this t winch had to be uaed) But they sue eedejl only in getting one of the pieces $to position- This gun was Intended to irrve'egalnst aircraft above the fort, and an effort had been made to give It the accessary high-angle elevation by - dig ging a trench around It In which the Um ber rested, liven at that 0 elevation secured waa insufficient Artillery lWr Freds. "Our artillery bombarded the fort from northwesterly direction and worked with a precision that would be hard to eiul. One of the batteries In the( fort had been put out of action' by a bull's-eye shot for each piece, 'and in other cases the barrel of the gun had been torn from the carriage, leaving a scrap heap of barrel, wheels. Umber parts and masonry. One of the barrels had dents four centi meters . deep where fragments of our bursting shells had hit It. "In this 'helpless cage' a jrarrteon of about 900 men had been stationed. It Is understood that the men fled as soon as fire was opened by our artillery. Instead of placing this force In trenches, they de pended upon this poor position, with tha result that their defeat waa complete morally and physically. '."There Is the grave of the poor Com mandant who witnessed the f otlle atrug glo and then saw his men utterly routed by a numerically superior enemy. The poor nian ended his life. Klmple German soldiers have honored this deed by u massive cross of wood upon which tliey Poluted In good lettering the words: "'Here lests the brave commandant. He found It Impoealble to survive the fall of the fort in his charge. R. I. p, With this simple cross of wood the Ger. man soldier honors In you the hero who did his duty.-Seoiid Landwehr-Ploneer Company VIII A-K. September. 1914.' i CO-OPERATION WITH FARMERS Maay Fa Ha re la the Past Offset by the Wareesa of Preaeat Pay. The American farmer has not been noted for his ucc ss as a co-operator, and many farmers' co-operative orftanl rstlons have met with failure. Such fall urea were generally attributed to tha highly "Individualistic" nature of tha American farmer which disinclined him to work In community, or to over-sTihitlous plans. That farmers' organisation are an entire s'lecess when not attempted on too large a scale is Indicted In an article In the Forum by E. E. Miller, mho calls attention to many examples of successful co-operation. The Southern Produce company, an organisation of truck growers, was or ganized In 170, end now has a member ship of 4"0. It handles most of the truck grown In the vicinity of Norfolk, Va., soiling the produce and buying seeds, fertilisers and other - supplies for the members. It has bought and equipped an experlmentel farm, turning It over to the state to run, and lately has erected a stx-story office building In Norfolk at a cost of 1135,000. The Hood River apple growers and tha California citrus fruit growers have equally successful . organizations. These rrganisations are formed with the one purpose of selling the fruit the members grow f The members' crop belongs to the association, and is picked, graded and packed as the association directs. De tails of cultivation and spraying are also looked after and the organizations aro said to have brought about a uniformity or distribution "which has resulted In a lower recall price to the consumer and rives a larger proportion of .the retail price to the producer." A Texas fruit and truck association dues a business of tl.SOO.000 annually, and Colorado has an association which does a thriving business. Florida citrus grow ers claim to have succeeded in raising prices to the producer remsrkably and western North Carolina fruit growers and Georgia pen eh growers have successful organisations. Creameries and cheese factories seem particularly amenable to ro-operatlve management In 1911 2,1:0 out 6f a total of ,2M creameries In the United States were conducted on the co-operative plan, and tut of S.S4S cheese factories JM were co operative. In Minnesota n tut of t3t creamerle were Co-cperatlve. ' a nit in I Wisconsin UT out of l.ooo creameries were co-operative and Uf cheese factories out of 1,74. In 8vea, Minn..' the farmers are said to oo comiuciing successfully a co-operative creamery, a co-operative grain elevator, a co-operative telephone company, 'a co operative etore. a co-operative Insurance company, and a co-operative stock ship ping association, and a co-operative bank is In process of formation. Huch organisations do not necessarily raise the price f produce to the con sumer; In some cases they have lowered the price, and Mr. "Miller. think. h. . i. addition to being financially beneficial. nave quicKened the moral and In tectual life of the communities Interested. BOY TREED BY BOLD COON Searching: Party . Hoists Lad ass lie Kills tha ' . " ' Aalaaal. wawtmowMiwii iinmiiVy 3 Harry Dickinson. 15, of W,t tjvlnf--ton. N. J., went Into a tree clump re cently and began to pull himself up a big trunk looking for. butternut Hal way aloft ha had to put his foot Into a hols to raise himuif i . h.k " "'ner There was a snarl anrf - boy looked down to sea an angry rao- COAn liika r-t rt ar .a .aT l ... , ,: ". me noie, baring Its Harry began to flgiA, on how to de oend. The only . way was past the coon' nest Darknet. e.m. ..... , . " - tj, UUL SllU the raccoon kept at ita rn. i.. showing vreenlsh. The luA-. LL... L oame alarmed and searched a pond tor ...... men may sent a pUM through the woods, firing guns. A party found him at i..t .. - ------ - svava, am, a, gr go., JJ, ixt ty. Thry threw a m. 4 . . . " "' w mills attached a shotgun to It and he blew ..... coon s neiui orr. Then he descended The animal proved to have been guard ing la family of babv in the tree. New York Tribune. Work for All. town. roai in Tarry- Mr Rockefeller, on the occasion of hla wife a seventy-fifth birthday? said a? L"f"',.' "-.. to the rVndf-hlldr sainsren rounu tna great white hlr.i,... Cw".kx:n1e.":' 535? "ChlKlren. remember this. success WHY IS OMAHA? POLXOW any of her 17 railroads 100 miles and X you have the answer. It's the rich farmim? ter ntory from Chjcago to the TTockies and from Fariro to Kansas City with its educated farmers, high priced farms and bumper crops that have mad Urnana. 1 . These farm homes buy immense quan tities of all advertised jyoods and they are easily susceptible to Advertising. 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' .-. i ' Cop I s a Mo osier' for O maJina Estate Much of the property, placed on the , market in re cent years was acquired a long time ago as a specu lation by men who realized that the time would come when the natural growth of the city would make their holdings worth fortunes. develops slowly, When these prop- F : m . : rr it v 1 Property under such ownership . however, and in most cases not at all. erties are offered for sale, thev are bouerht bv a thriftv. ambitious people who set about to building homeg, beau- x tifying the grounds and in all ways making the property a credit to themselves and the city, as well as enhancing its market value. The Omaha Bee is interested in the man who owns his own home. It is interested in seeing these unde veloped properties made into comfortable, modern homes for the sort of people who are making Omaha one of the most desirable cities in. the country to live in. Most of the properties offered now are worth every cent the prices asked and in numerous cases much more. There are no "inflated values," and yet these prices rep resent very satisfactory, profits to the owners, and in a v few years the buyers will be able to figure their own profits at comfortable sums. , J. V ' ' ' . These conditions can be verified by anyone who takes the trouble. Omaha real estate is a splendid investment for the large' or small investor alike. It is made especially easy for the home buyer, who is offered monthly terms well within his reach. If yvou are interested, there is a large number of prop erties offered for sale today and we publish the de scriptions in the Real Estate columns of the classified section. When you investigate you will be as enthusi astic as we are. V . Telephone Tyier 1000 THE OMAHA igBlKj E Everyb ody Reads Bee Want Ads