10 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 12, 1916. MAT RUSSIA HAS DONE TO ITS ARMY Military Leaders Transform Disorganized Hordes Into an Efficient War Machine. OBDZB SUPPLANTS CHAOS (CrrMpoMlMC of Tha Aaaoclatad Praaa, ) At the Front with th Tenth Rus lian Army, Sept 23. It is only at the active front, well removed from the inaction and pessimism which poinson the outlook from the large cities in Russia, that one it able to form a fair estimate of what Russia has accomplished during the past year in transforming a poorly equipped, inadequately munitioned and conse quently dispirited army into a well ordered machine, from which every trace of disorder and inefficiency has disappeared. It .s at first almost im possible to realize that the present organiration, which compares favor ably with that of any army in the field, has been built out of the wreck of last summer's disaster, and that the tame commanders who were then -occupied with the difficult task of leading their Crippled forces into a position of safety, are now confi dently and eagerly speaking of an advance into the territory lost to them in last summer's campaign. A general who took part in the retreat from Warsaw and who commanded one of the divisions which heroically atrove to delay .the German advance, was asked by an Associated 'Press correspondent to compare the condi tions which prevailed in the army a year ago with those of today. -:. Fit Fighters Now. 'There it no comparison,'' answer ed the general. "Last year we had ao ammunition, and we were in no condition to withstand the powerful nd well-organized offensive of the enemy.- Only a small part of my division survived the continuous shell fire of the enemy. But tod we are equals. It is the difference between chaos and order." r On the broad lawn which flanked the divisional headquarters, a reserve 'regiment, which had been given a half holiday, were expending' their excess energy in games of leap-frog, blind-man's buff, three-legged races and biazarre Rutsian dancing, done to the music of an impromptu sold iers' chorus, who sang the strange, half barbaric chants of their race. Although this regiment had just been relieved from work m the trenches the day before, the men were all in fine physical condition, and were well clothed and well fed, and showed ao trsce of having experienced any greater hardships than that of living in tha - open air and eating three wholesome meals a day. At a short distance from headquarters one could tee the white tents of the soldiers gleaming through the open spaces cleared in the pine forest, which covered a knoll which had been chosen at the best drained and most healthful spot for the sleeping quarters of the army.- Faint ttreaks oi smoke curled upward from . the outdoor kitchens where dinner was being prepared. On returning from the trenches, each soldier had been given a bath and fresh linen, while the clothes he had been wearing were put through a disinfecting machine and laundered. The Rutsian soldier lives better, cut ; more and enjoys a much more contented frame - of mind than before the war. The army owes the great part of the comforts which have been pro vided for it to the, Zemsky ,Soyu, or union of town- councils, which hat been the chief manufacturer and distributing agent of all military tup pliet. . Through the gigantic ttridet in organization and output which thit union hat made aince the beginning of the war, it hat been able not only to assist materially in the manufac ture and purchase of gum and muni tions, but to tee that every part of the army is plentifully tupplied with hotpitalt and medical apparatut, bath houses, clean linen and all of the comforts which mfw surround the army. After visiting numerous points along the western front, the corres pondent found that the model con dition! which at first might have seemed to belong only to a few ex ceptional localities which had been chosen for the purposes of exhibition, applied universally to the whole front. It is to these tangible improve ments m conditions that the less tan gible but equally important morale of the Russian troops is due. The Russian soldier, illiterate and Ignor ant as he generally is, it not unre sponsive to the currents of confidence or depression which run through the organism of an army. Last summer he was quite aware of the unfortu nate circumstancei which made re treat inevitable and impaired the effi ciency of whatever unit to which he belonged. But he hat now had an opportunity of teeing conditioni re verted. ' He knowt that he it backed Tip by an organization in which no detail hat been overlooked, and he is eager to display his new-born effi ciency. Russians Write Germans Suggesting Surrender - Torraapondsnca of Tha Aaoelatad Praaa.) Damaschewitschi, Russia" Sept 28. -The entrance of Roumama into the f the tignal for the Russians kll along the line to tend over placarda calling upon the Germans and the Austrian! to surrender and give np the war as hopeless. The placards in each case were carried over to points near the German trenches by prowling w, c uuiisg me nigni, ana were t the most part written in mis-spell ! for lied na ungrammaucai oerman. , , Th. fir.t nl.r.-J A.. A I... . K..v.iw mhw,cicu ujr IMC Uermans waa at a point almost due. ' the wi vmaicnewii9cni, ana read: . . NOTICE. Today, the 28th of Augutt, Ron. mania declared war on Auatria, Germany, Turkey and Bulgaria. '"'i nui snowing m oraer tnatv j" y oie 10 turrcnaer. tl. n . me Russian uommanacr. , German Actor's Chest Loaded With Iron Crosses CnrMvondenu of Tha Aaaactataal Praaa.) Berlin, Oct. 2. Carl Clewing of the Royal theater, now at the front, hat . jtut received hit fifteenth decoration in the Iron Cross, and ia in conse quence one of the most decorated actors in Germany. Only two others, Ludwig Barnay and Sigmund Lauten burg, are aaid to have more than' fif teen orders. The majority are not war medals, but decorations for histrionic art - .. SCHOOL ON WHEELS FOR RAJLWAY WORKERS CHILDREN A school on wheels is operated on the rails of the Southern Pacific company where construction work is under way in the west. As the construction gang moves from place to place, so does the school car with the workmen's children, who never miss aday's attendance. - tl'V" r '.'fl "J' "ty'yyfT f"J"!""l1 v ' fin '4 i RAILVAY "SCHOOL RUSSIA'S STATUS - HOTAT ALL BAD Demand for Luxuries in Musco vite Kingdom Can Hardly Be Satisfied. WORKMEN ARE PAID WELL (Con-Mpondanc of Tha AaMclaUd Preaa.) Stockholm, Oct. 10. There is much inevitable hardship in Russia, a pres ent or threatening scarcity of many essential things and a very general and unpleasant lack of organization, but there Is also another side to the picture. Everybody who wants work can get it, and wages are so high that the tremendous increase iij the cost of living has been nearly offset by them. Mushroom fortunes are grow ing up over night, and the demand for luxunca im wo grcac trial u can Wlin difficulty be met ' , Thit is the report made to a corre spondent of The Associated Press by one of the best known members of the American colony in Moscow, who now, after teven yean retidence there, it returning to America. Hit activities during that period kept him in touch with most parts of the great empire, and he declared that condi tions in Moscow are typical of what ia to be found elsewhere, so far as prosperity is concerned,, but rather worse in matters of housing and trans' portation. .. e . Homss at Premium..' Moscow had roun'dlv 2.000.000 in habitant! I" fore the war. Thit num ber, he be..eved, had been increased about 50 per cent, making the popula tion 3,000,000. One of the immediate retults hat been tuch a tcarcity of rentable houses that it is not at all unusual to find advertisers offering bonuses up to 500 rubles for anyone finding them a suitable dwelling. place. There, are certain restrictions against increasing renta to tenant! already in occupancy, but these rettrictions do not apply to new renters, and natur ally such persons have to pay high prices when they do succeed in find- iga nouse. The number of cabt hat been re duced to a fraction of the ante-bellum number, and a contiderable number of ttreet cart hat alto been withdrawn from service. Cab prices have in creased to a point where many per sons formerly addicted to the cab habit have given it up, but without finding an adequate substitute, the street cars being continually jammed to suffocation. So there is nothing to do Jut walk, and Moscow it a citv of imposing distances. JThe one really teriout problem which the city facet thit winter, ac cording to the informant, it the ques tion of fuel and light wood, coal and petroleum. Wood which cost from 8 to 10 roubles before the war now costs as much as 50. and the aupply is most inadequate. To be aure, there is wood enough in the empire, but transporta tion facilities are lacking. Indeed, one of the fost unfavorable things in Rus sia today is, declared the American, the extreme disorganization, or per haps better, Woeful lack of organiza tion of transportation of all kinds. Coal and petroleum are both dear and scarce, and the outlook it not for any immediate betterment. , . Nobody Hungry. There it a great tcarcity of lard and other fatt, and the meat aupply it plainly becoming rapidly lett. T he informant declared that not only have the herdt of cattle and twine been unduly reduced by excessive slaughter, but that great numbers perished last winter, either from cold or hunger, due to insufficient care. Of ioodsturtt ot other sorts, however, there it no tack, and, there can be no quettion of anybody going hungry except the unfortunate Germans and Austrian! yet in the empire, who find great difficulty in getting work, and whose numbers are so great and their colonies scattered over such vaat ex panses of territory that jt hat been impossible to prevent all distress, even with the best efforts of the Am erican diplomats and consular offices, who have undertaken the distribution of the German and Austrian relief funds. He declared that talk of a possible revolution in Russia was preposter ous. , "The Russian people," he said, "never were so prosperous as they now are, all the way from the laborer up to the highest classes." The great est furrier in the city told me that he had never done tuch a business as in the last few months, new au tomobiles appear daily in the streets, and the laborer is eating more and wearing better clothes than he ever did. . Soldiers Are Happy. "There is a great longing for peace among the civil population, but the soldiers were never so well fed, well clothed and happy in their lives. They art now sure that they are winning and nothing can stop them, and they are well armed, in striking contrast to the first months of the war, when many had no arms at all.'1 "The prohibtion of vodka," said the American, "by no means banished drinking or drunkenness. The Rus sians in Moscow, at least, and in the great district in which the city lies are drinking wood alcohol, and the result is many deaths, lamings, cases of blindness, etc." "It was a great mistake," lie con tinued, "to abolish vodka at one blow without giving the vodka-drinking classes something to take its place. Light wines and beers would have prevented the present conditions. The Moscow 'beer saloon was in peace times one of the most orderly resorts in . the world. One rarely or never saw a drunken man there, and there were no quarrels or disturbances of any kind. It was a pity to try to change all this at once." $30 for Shoes. The narrator named some surpris ing prices current in Moscow, such as 45 to 60 roubles ($22.50 to $30) for a pair of shoes, the latter being de manded for American-made ' goods. The suit he waa wearing an ordinary business suit cost 150 roubles. Food firicet, however, are in many instances ower than those prevailing in Berlin and far below prices asked throughout jtnuum.via. various euorts nave been made to establish maximum prices, but it hat been found impossi ole to enforce them. The 'two things which made life most unpleasant for the American in Moscow were, he said, the difficulties of getting about the city, owing to the inadequate street car and cab service (and the deamest of the latter) and the "uppishnest" and general inde pendence of the servants. "It ia getting all but impossible to find good, polite servants any longer," he said. "They are all making so much money in factories that they either will not go into service at all or, if they do, ask such high wages and comport themselves in tuch a manner that it is intolerable. I saw a girl last week in a munition factory who, the foreman told me, was mak ing 85 roubles a month. Before the war. very well indeed if she made 15. Munnition Workers Strike; . Foreman Not Introduced (Corraapontlanoa 0f xha Anoclatad Fran.) London, Oct. 2. Several hundred munition workers in a London shop went on strike recently because a new foreman was not formally introduced to them. They were out for nearly two days and twenty-five of them were -summoned before the military tribunal for leaving work. One of the defendants, a man named Burgess, told the court that in thirty years' experience he had never heard of a foreman being appointed without n't being introduced with the remark: "Mr. Blank, thit will be your foreman in future. The manager of the workt said it would be impoisible to introduce a new foreman to more than 4,000 men. Burgess said they did not expect the manager to introduce the foreman to everyone in the factory, and espe cially not to the young women. The court agreed that it would have been much better if the men had been properly informed of the new appoint ment, and, to the accompaniment of loud cheers, dismissed the proceed ing!. Thomas Mott Osborne's Ideas in Philippines CeiTaaiHndTfca of Tha Aaiaclatae Praaa.l Manila, Sept. 29. An experiment In criminology has been gradually attain- J ing a brilliant success in the 1'hilip-! pines. It is the Iwahig colony, to i which long-term prisoners are sent i from Bilibid, the central insular I prison, as a reward for annd At Iwahig, under proper aupervision and guard, the prisoners manage their own community and except for the necessity of not straying from their hornet, they are free men. Their fam iliet are allowed to join them and life is made far pleasanter thai, it was in prison. Many of them "graduate" from Iwahig into positions of prom inence and distinction in the backward communities which they call home, England's Airmen Claim Kecord Feat (Corraapondenea of Tha Aaaoclated Pran.) Ismailia. EevDt. Sent. 30. British aviators claim a record feat performed during tne recent raid on the 1 urkish aerodrome at El Arish. During the raid one of the oilots was forced to land several miles west ot tl Arish, his machine having been damaged by shrapnel. While t trying to repair his engine, he was discovered by another British machine, carrying a pilot ana an observer, which landed beside him to render assistance. It was found that the damaged machine was past repair and the aviators burned it to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Turks. The problem then was whether the rescu ing aeroplane would be able to carry the three men away. All three climbed in; the rescued man crowding in on top of the observer. Several attempts were made to get away, but the ground was bad and the load too heavy. Finally one of the aviators found a stretch of hard ground to which the machine was taken and finally it got into the air with its big load. Ninety miles across the desert the three men flew until they reached saf ety at Kantara. It is claimed that no two-passenger machine has ever be fore flown ninety miles with three people aboard and that the rescue is ope of the most unusual since the be ginning of the war. The El Arish raid also resulted in another unusual feat. The Turks were attacked by British machine gun fire from a height of 200 feet and one Brit ish aviator descended to within. 100 feet of a Trukish aeroplane which was standing on the ground surrounded by seven or eight mechanics, and dropped a Domo which Mew machine and men to pieces. . Locusts Threaten Rice v Crop in Central Luzon Corripondnca i Tha Associated Pren.) Manila, Sept. 30. The promising rice crop of central Luzon one of the best in years, is threatened with anni hilation by swarms of locusts. As rice is the principal staple food of the Filipino, the locust invasion is fraught with grave xonscquencei. The bureau of agriculture is watching the situation closely and appealing to residents of Bulacan towns to fight the pest. Already ten towns and thirty-seven neighboring hamlets have been attacked by the insect army. k A One81dd Argument, A pwnltent-lookins; mart wan on trial for vnrnry an dlitur bancs of th peace. Tha judge Memed Incllnad to ba lenient with him, "What waa tha prisoner dolnv when you arrested him?" ha said to tha policeman. "He waa havlnp; a vary heated argument with a cb-drtvr, your honor." "But that doesn't prove that ha waa tha worse for liquor," tha Judge said. "Many sober people have arguments with cab rlvera." "Ho they do, your honor," said tha police man, "but In this case there was no cab i driver." New Tork Times. I SOLD BASE BURNERS " For the Stove Coal Hods, hut ...35c Flro Shorels ; 18c Stor Polish 15c Nickel Polish ., 20c StoY Pip 15c Store) Pokers , 10e Stov Boards Mica Dampers Liftora Flu Stop and Pip Collar IBTOEV! UullaSONS CO. DUTCH CELEBRATE PACT WITH BRITAIN New Fishing Agreement Gives Freedom of North Sea to Holland's Smacks. ONE "FORBIDDEN ZONE" (Corraapondauca or Tba Aaauciated Preaa.) Scheveningcn, Netherlands, Sept. 24. Flags are flying from fishermen's homes all along the Dutch coast in celebration of the agreement with Great Britain on the herring question. When England's blockading war ships some months ago began to take the squat Dutch smacks and luggers into British ports, on the ground that 90 per cent of their catches was pre sumably destined for Germany, pop ular resentment in Holland rose to a high pitch. Fishing in the North Sea for a time practically came to j stand still. The relief felt at the solution of the difficulty is great. The hundred or so detained craft have already been re leased by the British authorities, and the entire Dutch fishing fleet of over a thousand vessels is to be entirely freeto again carry on its operations in the North Sea always with the ex ception of the "forbidden zone." Germans Get Some. Britain's conditions, stipulated with the Dutch fishing interests the Neth erlands government had nothing to do with the negotiations are that from September 1 until the end of the war the catches shall be placed Sh the open market as heretofore, but that not more than 20 per cent thereof shall be sold to Germany. Home con sumption will take another 20 per cent while England reserves the op tion to purchase a further 20 per cent at prices ruling for Dutch buyers. The remaining 40 per cent may be dis posed of to any and all countries not at war with Great Britain, and the British authorities bind themselves to pay the substantial subsidy of 30 shil lings per barrel of 115 kilograms thus sold, to compensate for the higher prices that might have been obtained from Germany, reserving the right to do( this in treasury notes of a year's term. Further, the owners whose ships were taken in are compensated for any damage incurred to v.ets and boats during such operation, while permis sion is again given to draw from Eng land all the nets and other fishing gear required. Look to America. One of the indirect results of this settlement is that the Dutch hope to recapture the American market for Dutch salted herring which had been lost to them owing to the fancv orices which German bidding had created. Betore the war the United States was. next to Germany, the best customer, taking 14,517 tons of herring in 1913. In 1915, American herring imports from Holland had dropped to 1,593 ton and during the first seven months of 1916 only eight tons of Dutch herring found their way across the Atlantic. German buying conroetition will now be excluded so far as 80 per cent of the catches is concerned, and it is hoped that the British subsidy, which is sometning like the entire value of the- product in normal .times, will enable dealers to find a big overseas market at moderate orices. desoite the high freight rates. It should, however, be added that outward freights have not risen in anything like the same proportion as those to Europe. In tact, almost hrflf of the ships sailing from Dutch Dorts 'to transatlantic destinations are if ballast. reading tisnery interests in this country estimate that from now on until the end of the herring fishing season, some u.UUU tonsof salted herring will be shipped to America under this arrangement. This is fig ured on a basis of 30 to 35 ner rent of an estimated total catch of 500,000 Darreis. , As regards the fresh sea fish branch War News An Army of Cleaners is in Action See 'em at Dreshers busy working upon the suits, coats, frocks, furs and the like that have been sent here at the, last moment. A bit of. winter starts 'em off folks are in a hurry they say: "Clean that" "Press that" "Repair that." And they invariably say: "Hurry it!" Then we have to hustle. That's why it takes an army of 100 ' workers here. Dresher Brothers. Cleaners j 2211-2217 Farnnm St. Phoiyo Tyl.r 345. IlilllilillliWIIlilM QUICK-MEAL RANGES RADIANT HOME OAK STOVES BASEBURNERS AND RANGES ON PAYMENTS IF For th? 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