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'-'i -• '•***¥**’*«*»••«• > v|r _ *— ' f t BASMWELL SKNTIMXL, BJUUtWILL. SOUTH CAKOLHU % > hir 7. ■; ■ Policing Waf Work Is a Patriotic‘ Service Open to Men, Women and (piildren Everywhere / X ■ f - . ' ■— t ■' : .<*■ ■ r~. It Is a wartime duty of every citizen to be a policeiriaa for Uncle ,Sam under the “sabotage la" ;" to keep eyes and ears open for attempts to injure or destroy \vur material, wnr premises or war utilities. Offenses covered by the “sabotage law" can be tommitted by the indi vidual alone'and unaided anywhere—in factory and shop, storehouse, grain ’elevator, village garage, blacksmith shop, .railroad yard, at' a country rail road crossing or on the farm, as well as in shipyard or munition plant. Hence the ucod of many eyes to watch for them. The seWousnes^-of these offenses is indicated by the penalties: A fine up to $lU,(Hj(). jmpriMniment up to 30 years, or ,both. They are of two general Classes: ; ' 'v', V• ~~ r ~ • » • . v ;' •- 1. Wilfully Injuring or destroying, or attempting to Injure or destroy, any war material, war premises or war utilities. r > 2. Wilfully making of causing to be made in a defective manner, or attempting to make or cause to be tmlde in a defective manner. *any war material, or any tool, implement, machine, utensil or -receptacle used iu makiiig, producing, manufacturing or repairing war/material. To get an idea of the "widespread possibilities of “sabotage,’’ note the definitions of “war. materhil-;,'’ “war premises," ,and “war utilities," damage to which is “sabotage:" ^ • . x r - T . “War material" includes; Arms, armament, ammunition, live stock, cToThing-, ...final,*]fbod’stufl\s ’ and' fTTela No supplies,—-munitions and till other articles, or anyTm»rt or-ingtedtent thereof, intended for, adapted to, or suit- alde' fnr"Trse 111 life. ootidirlT of the war. « ^ *•> “War prehyf*t*s" includes: All buildings, grounds, mines, or other places-phere w ar material is produced;manufactured, repaired, .si bred, mineM, extracted, distributed, loaded, unloaded or transported, together, with all machinery and appliances therein contained; also all..boats, arsenals, navy yards, camps, prisons, or- military and naval stations. “War utilities” includes; All ra+lways. electric lines, roads of .every de scription,- railway fixtures, canals, beiks, duns, wharfs, piers, docks, bridges, buildings, structures, engines, ' machines, 'mechanical contrivances, ca.rs, vehicle's, boats, air cruft or any other means-pf transportation'; all dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, water and gas pip« s. s toKiious.es. ah<k buildings used In connection, with _wat* r-Triid, g; >■ works, all electric light and power, steam or iHiiuiiUiitie power, telephom^and telegraph plants and poles, wires,’fixtures, buildings or structured .. ciuim-cted with them. > • Keep eyes a’nd ears open and report suspicious acts to The nearest repre* senfa ti v.* < ^TTf 1 ted" *t iW -gorcrtr;m»»t’-op wf-■ t frr”?tntc eouiicit wf jdefense. - p Gamcness Is Requisite to Successful Pitching, Says This Brawny Right-Hander : FOR THE POULTRY I - GROWER The difference between a successful and ’ an unsuccessful major framm pitcher is oftehti’c- s shown in a dis position to let v do\viV'Jfn Dtp pinches. Decorative Wall Paper First Appeared in Europe V During Seventeenth Century Anvong many other and useful oeau- tiful things for which we are indebted to the (Chinese, wall paper is not the least, notes a writer jin tile Pittsburgh Dispatch. This decorative’'paper'.for walls'seems to have tirst appeared in Europe toward, the eud of the .Severe teenih century, lt^was brought/to ’ France by. overseas * trader^ and the French immediately perceived.the pos sibilities thus offered. The paper di'd not conn* in rolls, as^we have it today, put in sheet's about three find one-half feet wide by ten feet in length, Some of tho finest grades vfere printed by hariff gnd tno cheaper grades from wohden 'blocks. The patterns represent ed animals, temples, warriors and all the other familiar figures of Chinese art The French called these new wall coverings "pagoda papers," and it sqon became the fashion to have at least one or two rooms' in every home of any .proton*:mis finished with “pagod a pa per ■. ■ ■ -- '■ ■- —■ Throughout the eighteenth century the custom gradually sprpad. Bofh In France and, England there were adap tation;- of the Chinese idea. There is a record of wall paper in England as far liaeTT as the time of Henry ,VIH, , w]..>:i the inventory of a i lonastery In cluded "chamber hangings of minted papers.*’• There arc now in existence , examples, of English wall paper from tin* reign of Charles II. Some of the. early -attempts in the manufacture of wall paper are highly i«h-resting. Tapestries were the ele- g:i:?t wall coverings through the renais sance, as thev'ridve been during the middle ages.'- But ijinestries were ex pensive and heyoud the*reach of ordi- < nary persons. So a good citizen of Rouen mtlned Francois hit upon the idea of imitating tapestries. He had fanciful drawings made in t*K» tapestry . style on large pieces of paper pasfed together iu about the size of a tapes try. Upon these-drawings Le Fran- *qis spread a kind of mucilage and then sprinkled the mucilage with pow dered wool in different colors. “Fa- pier volute," as’ it wus called, then came into general usage. GENERAL TRAUB AND HIS STAFF IN FRANCE W**' 7/r:""—-r- / 4*y >:*. 7 ■ '% Brig «h;n. i'ejer E. Trauh and stall, U. S infantry, in France. A Frene| ( Jlaison otfieer Is seaten at the right. CAPTAIN TELLS HOW HE HALTED ITALIAN FUGHT New York. F,r.< ; k of the •IllCi fg**.r **f- | “F*'i’tim ficinl disjmt.h auiuiuncing t In* a w: ini i i-|rrvrjT rl by tlic Italian government- of its sil- he 1 0 ver J!ied:d for valor, .virtually the high est militaio recognition that ;ni eeinc to in •••••••••••••••••••••••••a Fowls, like pigs, do the best ,and make the most rapid growth all ,— i - " t.:i r ry Cheney, the big right-hander of i through the summer se'asoh, if plenty OilT MdP NOW B3ttlillQ HlJfl '•*. f,,r >•>"1.1 ay teniicr im fo,..i i., prtT)<i^..»«y*i yVill B^Welcomed Home by Veterans of Previous Wars is certain that some of the Alner- enn soldiers now battling the *Hun statement, and I.arty has been under a writer. Even in towns and villages the big t*-n* long enough to know. j where there r is plenty of space, this l “l’itehers make their mark in the green feed can he provided in ubuh- blg , league Itecause they refuse to ! dance for the poultry. It is. however, waver in the pinches. The man who on—the farms, both large and snuil lets down is a gone coon, for it only and where large flocks of fowls kept.' that this green feed should be provided. * As the fowls are. or sjufiild be, ex cluded from the gardens and truck patches at all season^ shme .other spot -must be used for'provlding the gri'en feed. The t>vo crops to sow tavrowb tpally arog^ipe and oafs. Many poul try UrvA^M-rs providf* these, but make onljXaie ?owing and .that*about April May.. Repeated sowings for a regular succession of fresh, tender stuff is recommended. T 1 will he still living.in the year 2<HX). What world changes they will have witnessed, observes Philadelphia Tele- ! graph. - ,r>v. . James Pnrton. thp historian, says that In 18S8 he talked with two Eng lishmen who had fought against iien- eral Jocks.»n at New Orleans 73 years before. •There are still living, ahout f*00 vet erans. according to the pension rec ords. who were To" the; Mexican • war, which ended 70 years ago. Eleven survivors of Bunker Hill btvard Daniel Webster speak 7o years As the tally sowing of both oats flf((>r that h1s{orlc battle ; ’ Since 2MO.OOO Union suldiers of our Civil war were only sixteen years of and rape is now growing scarce and getting tough replow the ground and resow again in August. Hie larger (vr y aun per. it is not surprising the young chickens get. the more they j tha ^ sco ' rp8 (lf thousands of Grant’s “Bovs iii Blue" still enjoy vigorous ! will eat of such tender green feed and as it is J.nth cheap and healthful, the more expensive feeds are saved. The idi a is to produce niaturi* poul try and an abundance of eggs at . the mininimn of expiqlse, and the w<Vrk of providing green feed must he be gun early and continued all through the growing season. health' 53 years after Appomattox. The last soldier of Waterloo lived more than Ikl years after the fight. soldier, is mc'-rff—t-hr- most tbrillicb and rnmfiotie Tqiis'tnr^s' 7iiT~T : h>’" I’ lif ’ff A' ar :' o!n<> w iiiciv. in fa<-u may lu^said to liyiA<• TiTrd - a distinct and deflnite -bearing upon the -uu’cess of tin* Italian arms. Tin* cab!*- tnc--ai:>‘ titmpunclng the fi\v;trd. and which was published in America a .few days ago, read . “Awai ib'd 'to'Fit'st l.ifitt. (lie latter r«'e<*iv»*d‘ .tils captaincy! Francesco Marie Guardehnssl of . 1’erugiu. while nil file staffef tile ( otyuiffliTlei;, of divi sion. Energetic en • • j• ■rat^M' of the. high command <*f the disi>ion. 1 ir-sf I.J'titepant < fuardtibnsst gave an- a'd- mh'able proof of dl‘t<-nnina! i<hi, energy and bravery in'a very difficult eireutn- staft's* during the drrve from the t'ar- so to the Fmve,.firmly eln.-ekimva sud den and threatenlne panic aroused among t-he troops, (.’arso-'raglianiento., Brld&e of I.atisnna, ’_***> Oe‘to|»er lbj-7." . ('a]>tain (then firsr lieutenant) Gnardabtissl, by bis action, -prevented the Itiilir.ti retreat from the Carso to the Finve from becoming a disorderly rout and transformed it into an or derly rettretheiit. whicb e^nibleil the Italian forces to reform and to^nake tb -ir po.-ition on .the 1* :**»un!npr'.'giia- • Me. It vvtis Gj»|ittrtTrGiis rdahassi wbh. standing virlitstIIJ* alone on the bTblg**- hend of laitisana, inspired the troops | of the Third-army to.hold their ground v. le'!, overwhelmed with, fear and panic Is Here on Special Mission. Gapfaiii Guardabassi, .who at the time was aid de camp -of General IV- (illo, t|ivisiotV:d •onirmiuder in the .Third army .of Italy',.in the last few Jii'iqllis has become a fatniliar figure in Ndw York. Following lii^ aebieve- alcly: ’in) general and I w ere a cry important cros--itig^of i.mento. the bridge at Lttlls- aim. At irshcs were on every band. In t'| alily fliere were two bridges, a rail mad In dge and one for foot pass; n ; *A’fs;. Soldi,-r- and jieople lucre pour-. aTfer: Tf^.'s <« r r» T rr nmrning. The rain- tilled with a >Vnse of and of gloom, -At any n were likely to break t'Tt 2 * 'ot o'clock» ill till driven, air wa> ' ll'e-Jin« Apei''ii*d iimiiiijit our in *jmp. ] i;j n ic. • . - "Suddenly from out of nowhere, dofvn the rails, came a loeoniotive, a .locomotive alone, crowded with sol- diem.' ThVT WTU-f Waving and yeljing. There vvas.iio >ign of a train. I never imagined so itnativ men could get on. ti loirnumtive heft,re. i Cry of Austrian Cavalr^ Raised. "Tip* locomotive shot oyer the rail road bridges. It disappeared, leaving behind a great uneasiness and added depression. Then the cry arose. ‘The Austrian cavalry.’ “Thai cry increased. Everybody took It up. it spread through the ranks of hurriedly marching soldiers. i‘ it swept through the disordered groups of country peojth* crowded in among tin hi ; it was hafffnelieved, then he- j lieved. tlteti it grew to he a cm-tainty. Nobody ktiew, and tli*v doubt ttiade the . fear. Tim* panic began". "I did not know whether the A us-' ti’hm citevalry was coming or not, !At.t I did\knovvvjhnt this panic must he checked , and at once, j' I sprang for- ! trian r-avalty is.aml cutuihg. That is. a Iii ,". I had . to be believed. I had ; .to tutike them hetieve me. -’"•F took . hours, t vo, three, nearly four-. I never R*ft the bridge. I 'sipvt 1 ted and shouted. It was forcing air-idea through the heads of a hun dred thousand men. "Why the*’sold lops find the country people did not sweep tne down into the liver, tr.'ipiplc me kill me in their excitement. I do not know, * All I knew was that tWpatdc nnpat he stop- . pi d. . And it was. Before the morn- * ing was over-the troops were .moving iii an lirdeHly way. ■ : ■ Proud of His Silver Medal. "That was why the government gave me a silver medal. I am proud of it- more proud than I have ever been itiythlng.” ... •Gap! iti Guardabassi Is a member of the Italian Grenadier guards.''com posed of six footer's and recruited from the best families of Italy. SiUheavy luiveHmen the losses of the Grenadier guards (Kat they have been made over three times. Gnptaln GunrduhftSKl l* one of the very few survivors of the first detachment of the Grenadier guards that at the beginning of the war wept Into n«Mio’n. He began hi* military career us a private; was quickly promoted- to corporal, and within four months became a second lieutenant. I J • Previous to the declaration of war by Italy on the central empires. Cap tain Guardabassi was' an artist and had a studio'In Paris which wa* fre quented by many prominent Araeti- , cans. At the-outhreak of the war he i Immediately closed his studio, Hla knowledge of America came to him both from the riiiinv Americans he met , in Pnris during his fatw as an art- isf and also while a member of the ward through the soldier^ aud ran to j Metropolitan Opera cuuipany here. He the front of the bridge. I has been in America many times and " ‘You fools,’ J yelled out. and again enjoys the friendship of the most and again I said it, waving my arms. 1 prominent figures in the social life of 'You fools, get Info-line! The Alls- New York. r 7 ” 500,000 CAPTIVES ARE FREED w?" * Larry Cheney. takes the hoys about two games to get on to some of your little weak points. If'they know that you’ll, let .'down, they’ll stand. In there and wait for your soft one, and then—good-night. “Some pitchers are unlucky. Wheez- er Dell vyns one of those fellows, lie hod a lot of stuff with us, hut it never got him anything. He’d pitch the Salaries Paid to Principal Officers of United States \ wrong sort op’bnll sometimes—just do Iti-and so it’went. Being in a hole' tloesn’t bother me. If I had five wild pitches in a row I’d take the sixth rather than send a naked floater up- to. the plate.” : hat Inspired Student to Compose the Hymn “America” The well-known hymn The salttries of the principal officers of the United States government are as. follows: Tin* president, $7.”>,000 a year; vice president. $12,Q(K); members of the cabinet, - $12,000;. representatives in congress, $7,r>00; speaker of the house, $12,000; United States senators, $7,- 500; chief justice of supreme court, $15,000; each associate justice, 414.500. In the-diplomatic service twelve am bassadors ure each paid $17 v 500 a year; five ministers are each paid $12,000, anff 23 ministers are each paid $10,000. An authority says: "It is a matter of common knowledge that certain posts, especially in the diplomatic service, en tail expenses so much in e\cess of the salary paid that they can be accepted QBj.y by men of wealth. A recent sec retary of state Avhrr'did not maintain beginning [ a n elaborate establishment, said that *••••••••••••••••••••••••• f AIRY SQUIBS ; • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••»• Profitable One. “1 know a man who sticks to his business, although he has had noth ing hut reverses since he entered It.” "What does lie do?” “Turns somersaults in n vaudeville acrobatic team.” ^ • 7 s —: Wings. “Riches, have wings.” remarked t h e jeady-made philosopher. “Yea,’’ .replied Mr. Dustin Stax; “and I might add that they can be useful in many ways in liands of a skillful aviator.” nients on tin* called to Kotin whl<* knowledge leans, >v;is s.*nt Tnglinmento In* was and. because of his of America and Amer- tn tin* Unlt**d Shite? Berne. Mon* than 500,000 nrisoir«*rs, X \ j-. \ictiin> of tin* war, were exchange/! and relumed-to their home binds op to the s V on a special mission from tin* Italian middle of last month b.\ tin* interveu- government. Gnptnin Gnardtihtissi t.ioti and good'offices of Switzerland, was-persuaded to tell the -Voi.y <,.f Imw"i s i>ys the Build, the mouthpiece of the he won the decoration. It i< best told 8\vb In Ids o\vn words: ' ; generous and redproejil treatmeift by "You can lttuiglne the spirit of our tin* belligerents. arniy—Lpu J mtober." saPT In*, "when-*; After tin* war had begun Switzer our gehefals of the Third arniy an- h«»d organized an intermitional bureau -notineed Jlint we with to fiiH hack. We had worked so—hiiid to establish ■ orrr line nn tTip TatfTliiinento, and we | were so proud. Now the orders entne that we were to get hack on the- Fi nve.* ’There were no finer fellows in. the world than In t he Third'armv. but a \wnve of discouragement swept Jjymigh. the ranks Were we'to" he beaten ? • vj •*—- - "The Fii'.ve line was stronger---lt was otir* natural I line. There*we could which would preclude their ever join ing, the army again. Also tuberculosis prisoners, those clinically cured as well as those still needing treatment, .were to- he. repatriated. Following this the-scope of the re- go,\enmn*nt, in a plea for a more pnfriutinn program was vastly extend ed when France, Germany and Bel- giuuwigreed to exchange all prisoners of war forty-eight years of age and older w ho had been interned more than eighteen months. This applied to pri vates’ and noncommissioned officers of information tor prisoners of war, wlth Tts seat at Geneva. This bureau forw^itrdeTT’information fertile relatives of prisoners of war un<l shipped food and ./JeHe-ueies to the prisoners thetn- '-el \ cs. - 1 As early as October. 1914, Switzer- , land suggested to. the belligerents the exchange of prisoners severely wound-: ed. The pop** became Interested . In j this matt«*r and supported the efforts I ■of Switzerlaml. In February, 1915, an only. T'bmmissioued officers - were to be Interned in Switzerland. And lastly another agreement waa brought about-by the efforts of the # Swiss government. It still further ex tended the scope of the exchange con ditions. All civil prisoners were to be, freed. Many Return to Home*. The freeing and exchanging of these hold off tin* Austrians coming down , mgrecuicut wus aeuehed regarding th** 1 prisoners has heett in progress for some omlitions of exeltange. Switzerland time. Long tfnins filled with these for- ‘My country^tls of thee" and knoxvn his four years in office cost him $40,000 by the name of “Ameri^af*- was-Avrit- ten by the Rev. Samuel Francis Smith He was horn jn Boston, October 21. 1806;-. was t located at Harvard and studied theology at Andover ;• was for many years a Baptist minister and la- •£ ter did otlier church work. In a let; * hn in excess of the ’salary \ftilch he re ceived.’ • For Meditation. , • —rr-7— . • _ , , Fools may rush in where an- ^ ter CMicereiDg the poem the »Whor I • ei „ s f( . ar to „ut observe- * said: It was wnttep „t Andover tor, . tlon . Ienchl , 8 us 0l , o f#oU . lot! my attldent tfe there and wav Arid i * ,, (rR th „ onRS wh# „ re dr ,, ft ev „ 4 . J sung publicly ut a Sunday school cel- f ebration, July 4, at Park Street church, Baston. I had in my possession a numher T of song books front which I was selectimr such music "ns pleased me.' afliff finding ’God Save the king,’ I proceedecLt-to give lit the ring of Amer ican patriotism.” Well-Known Landmark. One of the best-know n landmark* on. the Mississippi riter is gone. A 4all sycamore- tree that stootl on the Ar- ‘ktinsas shore near Memphis, and which for more than fifty years served a* a irnrrk for*river pilots, ha”® h* en nnd**r- minetl hy-the notion of the water atpt fallen, into the river ^ -ers. • • J \ The trouble with some men i$ ,K~ • that they are always expecting * • somebody else to make a good • 2 job forxfhem. J <t , . It’s ,the> exception that keeps ^ • The ,divorce courts busy. The * • majority of people make matn- • m mony a life contract. * • 2^—Failure is always waiting 2 <i around the corner for the man *5* ? who thinks himself toff wise to J • fail. ' * “ J • -•5 •*7- W9 ■ - k * * , Whati.000 Girls Do. Nine thnn*-anff t glrl^ of all ages in the Mark T” nin "I stat** ot Washington p’.slfeed them- wax one of the famed pilots who peld.| selves to spend the *uinmer in planting the packs!aff of hla boat on |he tree, i ar.Xha'.dIii.g’c>ops. - - * * ■: 1 TJz. - ^ Two-Thirds. “I ordered a< beefsteak smothered in onions." _ tew*: “Whtn. did you get?" •“I got two-thirds of the order; the hill and the onions." His Little Joke. “The use of adjectives sometimes ob scures the meaning of a speech.” "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. “Instead of bejng a. nrodlfie'* an ad jective may be a muddyfler " * Agreeable Coincidence. Creditor — : Y-ou v c o u 1 d n ’ t / r 1 d e around In your nne automobile if you paid vour hon est debts. ; Debtor — That’s so. I ni glad you look -at it in the same light tha.UT - do. i from Ih»* north and prevent Hi» ir j breaking, into the Italian plains. It i was only 40 miles hark vet jour army, none of jis, rouiTi realize this! It^was more <lifflcult to k****p up the soldiers’! moral**, to hold them together..- j ‘ The Third army numbered 100,000. |. It was j’.*(i,itc**<l during th** campnign ! from 400,000 to 70.000, hut that was.its size when th** retreat Was ordered. There wen* complications in the re- ; treat, for down from th.* northwest I began t. -eotmrdetachments from the Second nrmv, mingling w ith onr men. ■funding to'.produce diso-rder. Rain Makes Retreat Difficult. “I shall never, forget how Jt rtiined during those days. The CnrsO-Tagllit n'tmdo region is a marshy country. placed the hospLtal trains of its own army at tin* disposal of the belliger ents for the -Transportation of th** wuufided-. . .. 'l’h** agreement w as first-entered into mer soldiers- arc passing through Switzerland every dajv in both direc- tions, taking these unfortunate victims, i back to their old homes. I’p to the middle of last month more Their Clasv “Were there spirits «t the seance you attended?" “Yes. sir” - ’ “Good or had spirits?” • “Very bftdrsir.” r- “Why, did you see theraY’ ' “N0j_ I didn’t see-them, but I couk! smell ’em “ T'. Gen**va, succeeded in imlucing the hel- Wherfg we were was not-, far from th** Hgerents t.K ^gain aspect the interna by France and Germany. Later Aus*| than 500.000 prisoners‘ of w'ar had passed through Switzerland on their i way tqjjberty. Sotfte of these soldiers j were in a uiost pitiable state. The peo ple of SwifrejuUmul played the [ia.rt of the good Samaritan by feefllng.^cloth- ing and consoling these i>oor suffbrers. In addition Switzerland has been th® connecting link in mail communication between belligerent countries.' ^Jp t® the first of June Switzerland without charge, transported 19J796.000 letters and'cards to prisoners of war, 457,000 parcels weighing no more than tWo pounds, 414,079,0110 letters and cards fria and Italy ti<•< **}tfe*I tie* same terms. Early iti P.Ufi the Swiss federal coun cil. aided by. the- pope, succeeded. In bringing ntx.iit, mi agreement permit ting the internment of severely wound ed ..ml sick prisoners of war. civil as well as military, within Switzerland. The Swiss undertook th manage this vast work of charity. Agreement Is Reached. Later the Swiss federal Council, aid ed by tin* international Red "Gross at see In the retreat we had to keep to , * • the r.*ads. This made our falling hack all the harder.^ T could never hav** done what I had ti<>TinI agreement regarding hospital ] in transit, HT520.0IX1 small parcels in ami sanitary field workers. International law demands the im mediate discharge .of m,«*ml»ers of sani- tarv detachments \Tfi**n taken prisoner.. to do had lt;rTot been for my general, and the fact that I t This law was disregarded by belllgyr ents, hut Switzerland’s entreaties and General Ffftilh*. was his’ aid-d*>-camp. Remember that, besides the hucri**dl.v retreating adinpiiit-nnis put- a stop to the practice soldiers. {touring .ajetig the k road*- ev- A'ffffTeSf t<> th** liberation of these prfs- er\ where. «fishenrf**ned astd fearful, the --oner*.- country people by 111..11strode v,er>* re treating. Nobody knew what ..might "happen. The feeling Avas growing that th»* w ar-w as lost. That w e would soon Tntfke rr new otrtnd nod a hritltatit one nlopg 'th** Via ye mid later retrieve **v- Flriujly the agf eni.tit to exchange transit, G,3fi4,(XX) parcels contalnlof ■bren*l sent to . Germany and Austria. 78.816.dOb parcels Weighing qp to tea pounds and 9,489,000 money orders transmitting an aggregate amount of $35,000,000. ■ ' * , ' Slqce the beginning of 1916 Switzer land has been harboring continuously from 20,000 to 30,000 interned prison ers of war needing medical treatment eryfliTng n<>l...d> rea'lz***!. !».»i lutye told them that, ^fV- - . '’ Y«»u th** jM*rm»n.ntly tllsyble*! was reached and hospital care. Lately their num- i n S\ Teh of last .y.**ar. Efforts of the her ha> ti ever "been less than 30,000. Swiss federal council led to the ac- All these interned prisoners were vls- agreeuiein l*y Fran«-e. j. itftl by. their relatives, adding 40,000 Germany and,Belgium. It np*iint th }>eople on the average to the number repatriation <d all -prisoners of war | ot consumers, or about 1 per cent Tsruinneiitly Tllsuhled to an extent the. domestic population. _ ; - * -v- *»u ■-