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The Danube aa a connecting link between the Teutonic and the Turkish forces was considered of such great
Importance by the Germans that every effort was made by thorn to keep this waterway clear. After the passage
Into Bulgaria had been openod, the connection by water between the Teuton forces and Constantinople was Imme
diately used with good purpose In sending war material to the Turks. The photograph shows the passage of the
first two vessels laden with war munitions consigned by the Teutons to the Turks at Constantinople. v
NEW TANDEM HYDRO-AEROPLANE ; BEING, TESTED . ,
Aviator D. R. Van Kirk trying out the Immense new Richardson tandem flying boat on the Potomac near Wash
ington. The machine has a lifting surface of 822 square feot on Its double biplanes and Is driven by two 100-horse
power motors. ,
ADVANCE ON A MOUNTAIN POSITION
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This picture of Italian troops charging up the slopes of a snow-clad moun
tain against Austrian defenses on the summit gives a vivid Idea of the dllll
culties of fighting in the Trent region.
WAR BABY OF GERMAN ' ROYAL FAMILY
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The Duchess Victoria Lulae of Drunswlck. only datizhter of the kaiser.
.1 her Infant son. Ernest AugUBt Georg, born at Brunswick, March 18, 1914.
e youngster was but four months old when his father, Ernest August, duke
I RrmiswU'k, joined the German forces, and since then has seen his father
little that he can be truly called a "war baby."
MAY WED PRINCE OF WALES
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Princess Marguerite of Denmark, it
Is rumored, will become the wife of
the prince of Wales. She Is shown
here In her confirmation dress. The
princess is a niece of Queen Alex
andra and a daughter of Prince Walde
mar of Denmark, who In 1886 de
clined the throne of Bulgaria. Her
mother was Princess Marie of Orleans,
daughter of the duke of Chartres.
OLDEST BRITISH RECRUIT
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Charles Farmer, a veteran of the
Crimean war, who had boon out of
the army for H years, and who Is
seventy-eight years old, Is the oldest
Engllnhnian to respond to the ap
peals of Lord Derby for recruits. In
spite of his age the doctors passed
him, declaring him sound of wind and
limb, and he was enrolled. Private
Farmer Ib a native of Shrewsbury,
and a Joiner by trudo.
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STILL HOLD OF BELGIUM
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About all that Is left of the country over which King Albert held sway ran be seen In this picture. The Ger
mans hold all of Belgium except a small corner In the northwestern part of the country. The picture shows Bel
gian troops coming down to the beach to rest after a long vigil In the trenches.
BIGGEST BOY IN THE WORLD
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Glanf sign, more than fifty feet high,
erected near the City Hall park, New
York; to help tho Boy Scouts of
America raise $200,000. The boy had
a movable arm, which registered the
amount subscribed.
SAVED FROM SPY'S DEATH
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After months of Imprisonment In
an English prison, where he would
have been executed as a spy but for
the activity of the state department
and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Kenneth
VV. Trlest, the young Princeton stu
dent. Is safe at borne again. The
youth had left his home and his
studies about a year ego In search of
adventure. He went to Canada, en
listed on a transport and finally land
ed on a British battleship. He wrote
some kind of a suspicious letter which
got Into the hands of the censor and
young Trlest found himself tn prUon
on the charge of being a spy. Colonel
Roosevelt and the Btate department
interceded on the boy's behalf, on the
ground that he was mentally unbalanced.
. All Have Tasta for Alcohol.
Jlntoxii:atlon Is not unknown among
animals, and they may easily be stlm
uluted to crime by alcohol. Ants,
when .made drunk, are paralyzed with
the exception of the jaws, which they
use with remarkable efficiency. It Is
claimed that coffee was discovered
through the fact that the goats In
Abyssinia bcame intoxicated on the
coffee borry, thus calling attention to
Its properties. Cows can be made dan
gerously mad by giving them a mix
ture of hemp and opium. Dogs and
horses have boon given a confirmed
taste for alcohol.
AMERICA'S. FIRST REAL "WAR BABY"
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Baroness Nadlne de Allefuss-Proctor and her newly adopted Belgian
"war baby," who was temporarily hold up on her arrival lu New York be
cause she was not accompanied by parents or guardian. Little Jeanne
Marie, who Is only fourteen months old, was permitted to enter the country
under bond .and has been legally adopted by the baroness, to whom the baby
was given by Its dying mother In Flanders.
PORTABLE STRETCHER USED BY FRENCH
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This Is the latest form of stretcher adopted by the French for carrying
the wounded from the front. It is made so it cau be placed on wheels.
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Photograph taken recently along the Isonzo front showing one of the
numerous mountain batteries protecting the flanks of the advancing. Italian
army.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
The State Board of Pardons an
nounced that It had refused to grant
rehearing on the applications for
commutation of the death sentences of
Roland S. Pennington and George H.
March, who are to be electrocuted in
the week of December 27 fw a murder
committed In Delaware county, and
had refuspd the pleas for clemency for
Caliper Marturana and Thomas Chick
erella, Cambria, whose counsel claimed
that they had not committed murder,
but that men who hud fled the country
were to blame.
Stockholders of the Drlggs-Seabury
Ordnance Company, Sharon, voted to
increase the common stock from $2,
000,000 to $10,000,000. Of this amount.
$fi,500,000 will be used to provide for
the recent purchase of the Savage
Arms Company, at Utica, N. Y white
a considerable amount will be used In
making improvements at the Shaion
plant.
The Borough of Camp Hill has en
tered a plea of "not guilty" in a $10,000
damage suit brought by H. W. John
son, a Harrisburg contractor. Johnson
was arrested for digging up the streets
without a permit when residents and
the Riverton Consolidated Water Com
pany were engaged In a controversy
over rates. He charges fake arrest.
Charles E. Armbruster, superintend
ent of construction for the Western
Union Telegraph & Cable Company, Is
stringing a new telegraph line between
Easton and Buffalo, having finished the
line already as far as Falrvlew. In
creased business warranted the new
line.
Louis 1'. Miller, sixty years old, for
thirty-five years a Central Railroad of
New Jersey engineer, fell dead as he
was about to begin work In the South
Bethlehem roundhouse. John Resel,
fifty-seven, of Northampton Heights,
fell dead Just as he reached home from
the Bethlehem Steel Company.
At the annual meeting of the Ladles'
Auxiliary of the Reading Y. M. C. A.,
the following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. James Baker; vice
president, Mrs. J. G. Willlts; secretary.
Miss Catharine I Young; treasurer,
Mrs. Minnie Rummel; financial secre
tary, Miss Mabel Helfelflnger.
An attendance which far exceeds
previous figures for enrollment at the
Pennsylvania State College Is shown
from the official registration. There
are 2,302 students In the college roster,
exclusive of the summer session. In
cluding the summer students, Tenn
State's total enrollment Is over 3,300.
To further encourage the formation
of athletic associations among their
employes, Pennsylvania Railroad offi
cials today granted the use of the
second floor of erecting shop No. 2, lo
cated In the midst of shop buildings
where 5,000 men are employed, for a
gymnasium.
The evangelistic campaign, conduct
ed for six weeks, by Rev. Dr. George
Wood Anderson, Scranton, evangelist,
closed at Easton with a Jubilee meet
ing. There were 4,705 conversions.
The collection taken for Dr. Anderson
totaled over $4,800 The taberr.acle ex
penses were $12,800.
At a meeting of the Bucks County
Holsteln Fresian Association, In
Plumsteadvllle, It was decided to se
cure dairymen with 600 cows to form
a society known os the Bucks County
Cow Testing Association, to hold their
first meeting at Doylestown, January
15.
The Barrett Township Supervisors.
Rufus Snow, William Brush, and Wil
liam It. Brower, were found by a Mon
roe county Jury criminally negligent
In failing to maintain the Goose Pond
Road In a fair passable condition. This
Is the first conviction of its character
In the history of the county.
Mrs. Polly Dietrich, of near Kuti
town, mother of Clerk of the Quarter
Sessions Lawson O. Dietrich, had her
nrm so badly mangled In a corn husk-,
lag machine that It had to be ampu
tated. Her dress caught In the ch.'s.
Judge Brumm appointed Mrs. Isa
bella Gibbons, of Tumbling Run, cus
todian of the ballot box In that dis
trict. When 'net in use, the box will
remain at Mrs. Gibbons' home.
James Cox, sixty-nine years old, and
George McFeake, forty years old, were
killed at West Conshohocken by a
Reading Railway flyer. It Is said that
the men crawled under the safety
gates and were struck by the express
train and hurled seventy Ave feet up
the track.
The will of Mrs. Ellen C. Hughes,
of Washington Township, Lehigh coun
ty, gives her farm to her husband for
llfp, with the proviso that if he re
marry; it be sold and the proceeds di
vided among their three daughters.
Julius Blase and. Arthur Caverill'
were In a brast st the Susquehanna
Coal Company's Scott Hhafts?!mn.lln.
mining coal, when the former opened
a safety lamp, causing a terrible ex
plosion of gas. The men were burled
to a gangway, where a rescuing party
found them.
No mure examinations will be held
for teachers for continuation schools,
according to reports. It Is believed
that enough teachers have Hen secured.
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